Membership

Please take a look at our current inventory to see what we have and whether there are things that you might like to borrow.

We will be increasing our inventory steadily over time, based on your requests and donations of unused (but good condition) items.

How membership works

1. Pay one fee and borrow up to 8 items, for 7 days at a time, for a whole year!
2. Members pay an annual Membership Fee:
1. $60 - Standard Membership
2. $120 - Sustainer Membership
3. $45 - Low-Income Membership
3. Only members may borrow things from the Thing Library. There is no additional fee to borrow things.
4. Members may borrow up to 4 things at a time (8 things for Sustainers), for 7 days
1. If nobody else has reserved your thing, you can as us to renew it for another 7 days
2. If you’re done with your thing, please return it sooner than 7 days, so that somebody else can borrow it
3. Some items are in high demand! We charge a late fee of $1 per item, per day, up to the retail value of the item to make sure that things come back on time for others to borrow

How to get started borrowing items

The Thing Library uses a library management system called MyTurn to sign up members and manage the borrowing of things. To become a member of the Thing Library and start borrowing things, follow these instructions:

1. First, go to the Thing Library MyTurn site to set up your account
2. Click on Create Account and follow the prompts to set up your account. Once you have entered all your account information read and accept the borrower's policy.
3. Read and sign the liability waiver
4. Choose your membership type
5. You can now search the inventory or click on “Inventory” to see what is available to check out. Please “Reserve your item” by selecting a day that works best for you. Make sure you come on the day you selected, as we can only hold your item for 7 days.

Picking up your things

The Thing Library is located at 206 Piccadilly St, London, ON, N6A 1S1, the home of Reimagine Co’s package-free, plant-based grocery store.

Let a staff member know you’re there for the Thing Library, and they will get your item(s) for you.

The Thing Library’s current opening hours are 10 am to 6 pm, Tuesday through Friday, and 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday.

We may extend these hours once we have welcomed more 💁Volunteerings onto our team.

When you are finished with your things

• Please make sure you clean your item and bring it back during opening hours
• You can renew your things for free by emailing us at info@thinglibrary.ca (as long as no other member has reserved it). If you return your item late, we charge a $1 per day late fee.

The Institute for Community Sustainability was imagined, created, and built in the context of living, working, and benefiting from the historical and ongoing settler occupation of Indigenous lands on Turtle Island, specifically on the land currently known as “London, Ontario”. Visit Acknowledging the Land for our full land acknowledgement and commitment to reparations.