Audio Recorders to Zucchini Seeds: Building a Library of Things : Libraries Unlimited : 9781440850196 : 1440850194 : 30 May 2017 : What services libraries provide and how they function in their communities is constantly being reconsidered and redefined. One example of this is the trend of experimenting with building circulating collections of nonliterary "things"?such as tools, seeds, cooking equipment, bicycles, household machinery, and educational materials?by drawing on traditional library functions and strengths of acquisition, organization, and circulation. Audio Recorders to Zucchini Seeds: Building a Library of Things enables you to consider the feasibility of creating a specific type of "thing" collection in your library and get practical advice about the processes necessary to successfully launch and maintain it, from planning and funding to circulation, promotion, and upkeep. This contributed volume provides a survey of "library of things" projects within the United States