For decades now, public libraries have been more — much more — than places where you can only borrow books. Libraries’ collections now include items from baking dishes to pickleball sets and even to seeds for your garden. The Monroe County Public Library’s Library of Things (its formal title) is the repository of the almost innumerable such stuff. Lisa Champelli is the Collections Manager for MCPL and must curate the library’s veritable warehouse of things.

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