Emerging Technologies in Libraries – Part TwoMaker Movement

Sam ChadaSandusky Library@samchada

• Taking A Look Back: History of Makerspaces, Fab Labs, & Digital Media Labs

• Popularity of Makerspaces in Public Libraries• Starting Your Own Makerspace on a Budget• Let’s Talk About It

Today’s Topics

Hackerspaces vs. Makerspaces

Poll

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Hackerspaces

Hackers on a Plane Tour

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Brain_Machine_Workshop

Hackerspaces Makerspaces

Make Magazine is published February 2005.

Original US Hackerspaces

MakerBot Industries Pebble Square

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roryrory/4941788744/

Makerspaces Fab Labs

Fab lab solar house, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

Mobile field fab lab.

image: Amy Sun © 2007

Machines That Make (MTM): rapid-prototyping of rapid-prototyping machines.

image: Neil Gershenfeld © 2010

Fayetteville Free Library’s Fab Lab

Makerspaces Digital Media Labs

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Skokie Pubic Library’s Digital Media Lab

Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia

MAKERSPACES

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49175526@N00/7703105930/

Westport Public Library (CT)

http://blog.ctnews.com/woog/2013/07/08/the-library-makerspace-one-year-later/

Allen County Public Library (IN)

Content Creation Across Multiple Subjects Areas/Interests

Practices of Participatory Learning and Play

Affinity Spaces: Formal and Informal Communities of

Learning

Inquiry, Tinkering, and Messy Learning

The Unquiet Library: A Makerspace

Culture of Learning

Buffy Hamilton, July 2012

Understand your

community.

Getting Started On A Budget

Fab Lab & MakerspaceEquipment

Digital Media LabEquipment

Digital Media LabSoftware

• Windows Movie Maker• iMovie (Mac)• Audacity (Audio)• Blender (Graphics)

“By providing access and opportunity to experiences, libraries provide a pathway for

people and communities to transform their lives, themselves.”

Sue Considine, Fayetteville Free Library, Executive Director

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