I plan to speak to my city council about creating a tool library, where citizens use their existing library card to checkout tools. To make the idea a bit more robust, I’m also planning to require citizens deposit something as collateral when checking out a tool.
However.
I live in Texas (I love Texas). Thankfully my city council is receptive, but I know they’re going to need compelling evidence before approving something like this.
So, if you guys have any advice, or examples, particularly of this kind of system working in the US, I would love to hear about it!
While I don’t know of any software for managing it at the moment, I’m a software engineer and it wouldn’t be too hard to make a site that tracks it. I was already planning on making such a site, so when I do I’ll come back here and let you know!