JooKulele
Well-known member
I'd like to just pop in for a minute to humble-brag about my uke club's Ukulele Lending Library program! We're located in the semi-rural west-central part of Pennsylvania with club members from 5 or so different counties.
This past spring, I was fortunate enough to make an acquaintance of Louis Wu of Ohana Ukuleles who graciously donated 20 ukes to our club to kickstart our program. We just wrapped up training our 3rd county of librarians and I'm just over the moon with how well it has been received by the libraries and their patrons, not to mention the press coverage and national response
As of today, we've provided 26 ukulele kits (soprano uke, gigbag, tuner & book) to 13 libraries in 3 counties and trained roughly 20 librarians to play (the basics), maintain, and teach! We have enough kits to supply 5 more libraries, and 6 kits are already spoken for. By the end of the year, we're expecting to provide kits to at least another 14 libraries in our region.
We took inspiration specifically from the TBUS program, so thanks guys & gals for providing a template for us to work from.
This article gives a good overview of our program. If you are in a club that would like to start a program in your library system, feel free to message me - I'd be happy to share our experience developing the program
This past spring, I was fortunate enough to make an acquaintance of Louis Wu of Ohana Ukuleles who graciously donated 20 ukes to our club to kickstart our program. We just wrapped up training our 3rd county of librarians and I'm just over the moon with how well it has been received by the libraries and their patrons, not to mention the press coverage and national response
As of today, we've provided 26 ukulele kits (soprano uke, gigbag, tuner & book) to 13 libraries in 3 counties and trained roughly 20 librarians to play (the basics), maintain, and teach! We have enough kits to supply 5 more libraries, and 6 kits are already spoken for. By the end of the year, we're expecting to provide kits to at least another 14 libraries in our region.
We took inspiration specifically from the TBUS program, so thanks guys & gals for providing a template for us to work from.
This article gives a good overview of our program. If you are in a club that would like to start a program in your library system, feel free to message me - I'd be happy to share our experience developing the program