Makerspaces : a practical guide for librarians

✍ Scribed by Burke, John J

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Series: Practical guides for librarians no. 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A “makerspace” is an area in a library where users can use tools and equipment to design, build, and create all sorts of different things. It may be a dedicated room or a multipurpose space in which a collection of raw materials and resources can be utilized as desired. Projects range from prototyping product designs with 3D printers, to programming robots, to creating art out of recycled items.

This practical guide will help librarians

• develop, budget for, and implement makerspaces;
• write grant proposals for funding;
• and understand the mindset behind the maker movement in order to meet patron needs.

Makerspaces: A Practical Guide for Librarians also includes useful case studies, descriptions of equipment and new technologies, and models for planning and assessing projects.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: The library as a creation and collaboration space : an introduction --
The maker movement and building up a making mindset --
An overview of makerspace implementations --
What will patrons make in your makerspace? --
Budgeting for a makerspace --
Resources for audio, image, and video creation --
Resources for crafts and artistic pursuits --
Resources for electronics, robotics, and programming --
Resources for 3D printing and prototyping --
Resources for the unexpected: lesser known making --
Approaches for developing a makerspace that enables makers --
Re-making the library? : tracking the present and future of making in libraries --
Appendix: makerspaces in libraries survey.

✦ Subjects

Libraries -- Activity programs. Libraries and community. Makerspaces. Do-it-yourself work. Workshops. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science.