LIBRARY OF THINGS – Borrowing Beyond Books

Obtain a Curtis Memorial Library card to borrow from our Library of Things. This collection can be browsed by category below or seen throughout our Nonfiction shelves. Oversize items can be fetched by staff and you may reserve Things for checkout just as you do a book. A listing of all kits is available in Minerva. By checking out a Thing you agree to the Borrowing and Use Guidelines.

**Some items in our Library of Things are referred to as “Specialty Items”. Speciality items can only be checked out by our 18+ patrons due to legal and/or safety concerns.  For a listing of these Specialty Items, see here.


Let us know what else we should lend, share how you want to use an item, or browse more of our community’s ideas at our registry. If an item does not circulate in a year, we give it to another library. Learn where else you can borrow items, why we have a Library of Things, how we support the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how you can do so too, by exploring our videos at the bottom of the page. We want to help. Get in touch: helpdesk@curtislibrary.com

Thank you to our many generous community members, including the following organizations: