Cook Memorial Library Has More Than Just Books Available for Checkout
By Garrett Christensen on Tuesday, October 25th, 2022 in More Top Stories Northeastern Oregon News
LA GRANDE – (Information from the Cook Memorial Library) Libraries serve as local literature hubs, providing books, magazines and even some electronic formats to the community. Be it for entertainment, research or education, near enough anything a visitor would want can be found through their local library, so long as it’s printed on a page or burned to a CD. Unknown to some, however, the City of La Grande’s Cook Memorial Library has a growing collection of non-literary things on hand for public checkout. The “Library of Things” provides visitors with a mixture of items including cooking appliances, board games, scientific equipment and various activity kits, all of which can be borrowed like any library book. Emphasis is placed by the library on supporting a “sharing economy” to reduce waste and allow visitors to test potentially expensive items that they might be considering purchasing.
The full library of things is comprised of the following:
- Edmund Scientific Astroscan Telescope
- AmScope 40X-1000X 360-Degree Rotating Monocular Head Compound Microscope
- Pressure canners
- Fermentation crocks
- 21.5-Quart water bath canners
- 23-Quart pressure and water bath canners
- Food dehydrators
- Bicycle Locks
- Heritage Station Museum admission passes
- Giant right center left (Board game)
- Children’s Museum of Eastern Oregon admission pass
- Gofindit (Scavenger hunt game)
- Plugo Tunes (Music learning kit)
- Cornhole set
- Spikeball standard 3 ball set
- Jenga Giant
- Croquet set
- Snap Circuits kit
- Snap Circuits Jr kit
- 2-in-1 vintage giant checker and tic tac toe game
- Blocks rock! (Board game)
- Chromekit, including HP 14-inch display
- Snap Circuits bric structures
- Rush Hour Jr (Board game)
- Horseshoe game set
- Lawn darts
- STEM Kit Makey Makey
- Jumanji Fluxx (Card game)
- Botley the coding robot (Activity set)
- Super 3D pen
- Code-a-pillar twist
- GravityMaze (Board game)
- Slammo, an action-packed 2-on-2 Volleyball style game
- Leapfrog Leapstart 3D
- Disney Frozen II Coding kit
- Unlock! Mystery adventures, the Tonipal’s treasure (card game)
- Unlock! Mystery adventures, the house on the hill (card game)
- Star Wars the Force coding kit
- Kaer kit – Dash robot
- Kindle collection: popular eBooks
- Mobile hotspots.
Note that hotspots and chromekits are available to La Grande residents only. Library of Things items cannot be delivered to other libraries due to being too cumbersome for the courier to move. Further, as stated by Cook Memorial Library, “items are only available for checkout by Cook Memorial Library card holders. Items must be picked up and returned to the Library in person. Replacement costs may apply if a Thing is returned broken or with missing parts.” Additional information, including checkout details, can be found at Search Results – Cook Memorial Library – La Grande (eou.edu).
