A "Library Of Things" For Crystal Palace ! 


An exciting partnership between Crystal Palace Transition Town and Upper Norwood Library Hub ! We want to create a Library of Things in our Library Hub located in Crystal Palace. You can borrow books and useful 'things' such as a violin, camping gear and more, and you can learn how to use them!

We want to inspire and support people in our community to spend less, waste less and share more. The Crystal Palace Library of Things will help our community to build a powerful sharing economy and will facilitate knowledge and skills sharing. It will also create an opportunity for local residents to connect and network with others.

How You Can Help
HOW YOU CAN HELP US
  1. SIGN UP NOW TO BECOME AN LoT VOLUNTEER
  • Join one of our ‘clusters’ and give us a helpful hand as we we start our CP Library of Things – help us with our marketing and fundraising plans, help us with our membership model, to design the space/cabinets for our ‘things’, support us with designing our lend engine and catalogue.
  • Become one of our regular ‘LoT librarians’ when the library of things opens up in November 2017. You can connect with local residents, loan ‘things’ to people and record all returns
  • For the experts amongst you, you can help us with Pack Testing
  • You can also run regular workshops around the ‘things’ in our library
  1. CROWDFUNDING AND FUNDRAISING
We have a campaign about to start on the Spacehive Platform, you can help spread the message about our crowdfunding campaign and ask people to pledge donations towards our project or follow our progress HERE

Please share on social media and with family and friends.   You can start by liking our page, and leave comments. If you want to donate new items, tell us about it on the platform:
  1. ‘Things’ - DONATIONS
We will be on the look out for new ‘things’ in our Library. If you know of people/organisations who are able to donate new things to the LoT, please tell them about our project or connect us with them
  1. WORKSHOPS
You can also run regular workshops/learning events around the ‘things’ in the library
  1. FACILITATE EDUCATIONAL, SOCIAL AND NETWORKING ACTIVITIES
You can help us to organise an also facilitate social and networking activities in the library hub around the ‘things’, as well as supporting educational activities for schools which visit the library hub.
If you are interested in supporting us, please return the completed slip below to info@unlt.org or to the Hub Manager, 39 – 41 Westow Hill, London SE19 1TJ