Nashville, TN has an amazing public library system, we’ve won awards and everything. Our libraries have everything you’d expect them to have, books, magazines, and comic books. They have other types of media as well: movies and TV shows on DVDs, and music that can all be checked out, and a ton of stuff you can download or stream. Oh, plus, paintings, you know, works of art, that you can check out and hang at home.
They have all kinds of classes for kids and teens and for adults as well. Adult classes that I like are yoga and tai chi, but they have everything, vegetable gardening, knitting, crocheting, art classes, etc.
The most amazing thing though is what you can check out of the library. They have a Library of Things.
You can check out a ton of things:
Musical Instruments — handbells, bongos, ukuleles, and other instruments.
Tools & Electronics — radon detectors, moisture meters, all kinds of tool kits.
Food & Party — ice cream makers and cake pans and stuff. (I just donated a brand-new ice cream maker, so they have several and there are still 60 people on the waiting list.)
Health & Fitness — blood pressure monitors, weights, kettle balls.
Crafts & Hobbies — you can check out sewing machines. Sewing Machines!
Activities & Games — they have all kinds of lawn games and over 100 board games you can check out.
Doesn’t that sound amazing? It is! The downside for me right now is that my library is closed for repairs all month because of damage from the big storms we got a few weeks ago. Ah well!
What’s up with your library?