ALoT Holiday closure & other updates
As the year comes to a close, ALoT is winding down for our end of year break. Our last open day will be Tuesday 23rd December, we will be open two hours earlier, from 3.30 - 7.30pm. We will be reopening on Tuesday 6th January 5.30 -7.30pm. If you borrow items on our final day, you can keep these until we reopen on Jan 6th. Reservations will re-commence from Thursday 8th January 5.30 - 7.30pm.
As we are in our busy borrowing season, please ensure you are only borrowing items for as long as you need them. You can shorten your loan period when you are selecting dates for your reservation.
We will be reviewing our tool loan fees in the new year. Our membership fees help us pay the rent, and cover some of our expenses, but they are not enough to cover the maintenance and replacement of our high use, high maintenance items. We want to ensure our tools are in good condition and ready to go, and when one of our tools stops working (and can’t be fixed), we want to make sure there's enough money set aside to replace it.
Seeking New Location
After five great years in our current space, unfortunately, our lease is coming to an end and our building is now being prepared for sale.
As many of you may know, we share our premises with Hackland. It’s been a fantastic partnership, and we’d love to continue our renting together. While we had hoped to stay longer, we’re choosing to view this as an opportunity: a chance to find a space that helps us grow, run more workshops, and support even more Aucklanders to build, create, repair, and share in sustainable ways.
We are asking for help from anyone with potential leads - property managers, landlords, community organisations, businesses, or individuals who may know of a suitable building becoming available.
If you can assist, please contact Amanda at amanda@aucklandlibraryoftools.com.
Click here for more information and how you can help.
Events
We had our final Repair & Share this weekend, these will be re-commencing monthly, starting on March 7th.
Our final event for the year will our Mending Circle on Friday 12th December 5.30 - 7.30pm. Our events are open to everyone, koha is greatly appreciated to keep these running and well stocked.
Not a current ALoT Member?
You can check out our current membership options here.
Want to Gift a Membership?
Did you know you can gift a tool library membership? If you've forgotten to get a gift for Fathers Day, a membership to ALoT is the perfect last minute gift! You can purchase them online here.
We have a couple of our tote bags left too, these are the final ones, in yellow, so get in quick!
