Research 
 

British Academy/Leverhulme Trust - funded research project 

Have you ever donated an item to the Library of Stuff CIC? If so, we’d love to hear from you. As part of a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust-funded research project, we are trying to understand what motivates people to make donations to the Library. Learn more here

Case Studies

August 2023 - Case Study conducted by our Funder Access Foundation for Social Enterprises 

https://access-si.shorthandstories.com/we-want-people-to-buy-less/

 

September 2022

Interviewed by Cardiff University Student doing research on behalf of the Library of Things in Wales called Benthyg titled "Research report on carbon-based methodologies used by Libraries of Things (LoT)" This research was used to help formulate the carbon initiative at the Library of Stuff.

 

July 2022

Masters Thesis "Libraries of Things: Exploring business model configurations and dominant archetypes" by Silva, Emily

The Founder Alan Dalgairns was interviewed to add insight to the Library of Things Movement and the Library of Stuff CIC.

Download here or at the publication below:-
https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9096990