Toy library set to close as council ends funding

A toy library that has provided free play to thousands of children for more than 50 years is set to close at the end of the ...
New Haven Register

West Haven 'toy library' offers toys and games that can be checked out with a library card

WEST HAVEN — These toys may travel, but they'll eventually return home to their cozy cubby space in West Haven Public Library. When Mary Didiuk and Diana Caty founded Traveling Toys in 2019, they ...
Cape Cod Times

Cape Cod Toy Library has new home, more hours: 2,000 toys, play space

The Reggio-Emilia inspired learning at the Cape Cod Toy Library and Community Play Space offers opportunities for children, ...
Buffalo Rising

Buffalo Toy Library Opens Its Doors to the Community

Creating equitable and accessible play opportunities. You’ve heard of The Tool Library – a community center where people can borrow tools, instead of purchasing them. Now, the Buffalo Toy Library is ...
The Bulletin

'Not everyone can have a million toys at home': New toy library opens at Otis Library

Though most people think of libraries as just a place with books, the Otis Library now has toys. Traveling Toys, Inc. has partnered with the Otis Library, and opened its Toy Library earlier in ...
Buffalo Rising

Buffalo Toy Library opens above Seven Hearts Coffee

A new “lending library for toys” has opened at 2929 Main Street in the new Valvaere Collective building (2929 Main Street). The initiator behind this intriguing non-profit organization, Hannah Flynn ...
Miami Herald

Toy Library enriches children’s lives, learning through toy kits that can be borrowed

Imagine libraries where children could check out toy kits, even musical instruments, to enrich their lives through play. That dream is now a reality thanks to a partnership between the Miami-Dade ...
WSHU news

Rutabaga Toy Library lets families sign out toys a month at a time

The sharing economy comes for us all, including kids. Reporter Buffy Gorrilla takes us to Philadelphia in a paid library for toys that hopes to keep playthings out of the landfill. BUFFY GORRILLA, ...
WGRZ

Buffalo Toy Library: A dream come true for families and sustainability

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Toy Library, founded by Hannah Bogdan, is a local community space focused on providing families with access to toys without the need for purchasing new ones. As a former ...
Democrat and Chronicle

Rochester's toy library is back in business. Here's how it works and what you need to know

Tucked into the back corner of the Lincoln branch library on Joseph Avenue is a room filled with a wide array of toys. There are trucks, dollhouses and action figures. Puzzles, games and musical ...
SheKnows

Toy Libraries Are Building Communities — and Keeping Toys Out of Landfills

Philadelphia’s East Falls neighborhood is now the lucky home of the new eco-friendly Rutabaga Toy Library, where members can check out playthings instead of books — and make real connections with ...