The Ottawa Tool Library (OTL) believes that creative output should not be limited by income or workspace. By providing affordable access to tools, creative spaces and workshops, OTL is a resource that can empower your inner handy person, chef, gardener, or creative genius.

With your help, the Ottawa Tool Library will open its first storefront location and make its tool inventory available to everyone – all by the summer of 2015.

Membership

Your membership includes unlimited access to all OTL tools. Each tool can be borrowed for up to 7 days at a time. We offer individual and group memberships.

Tools

We offer tools in four categories: hand tools, power tools, garden tools, and kitchen tools. There is something for everyone to tackle their do-it-yourself (DIY) projects, get the garden planted, or cook that big dinner for the family reunion.

Workshops

Roll up your sleeves and learn from community experts, passionate makers, and builders. All workshops are designed by member suggestions. These include Plumbing 101, Table Saw Safety, Planter Box Building, Batch Cooking, Paint Techniques and more.

Maker Space

Love to tinker? We do too! Our space will include workbenches, chalk boards, white boards, papers, pens and more to help you put an idea down, explore ideas and get to work making it happen!

Tools

The Ottawa Tool Library is made possible with the help of community donations of underused tools. These tools can be found collecting dust in basements, in cluttered kitchen cupboards, and long forgotten in storage units. We are a positive outlet for donors who are downsizing or dealing with the passing of a loved one. The Ottawa Tool Library is a place where their cherished tools can be put back into circulation and enjoyed by many. We are always accepting quality donations, so please consider donating by reaching out via our website.

Time

As a registered not-for-profit organization, we rely heavily on volunteers to see this initiative move forward. The Ottawa Tool Library wouldn’t be possible if it weren’t for those who continue to pick up and maintain our tool donations, those who help us write grant and funding proposals, the passionate doers and teachers that will act as workshop educators, and the desk volunteers who have signed up and are ready to greet you once our doors open.

Tender

Your financial contribution will keep the lights on, pay insurance, rent, hydro and needed tools we may not be able to receive via donations. These are costs that "time and "tools" can't purchase.

Every dollar we raise goes back into our community space and towards the success of our tool library.

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