UVA Volunteers Help Build ‘Tool Library’ for Community’s Benefit

Have you ever started a project, only to be stymied by a lack of the proper tools? The Charlottesville Tool Library might be your solution. “Tool libraries are part of a larger network, part of the do-it-yourself movement and shared resources and the right-to-repair movement,” said Melissa Goldman, fabrication facilities manager at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture and one of the founders of the library. “It helps empower neighbors to start a group within your community to share tools. It provides access and training … to support homeowners and entrepreneurs and blossoming makers of all sorts.”