Makerspaces: A Visual Perspective

Makerspaces: A Visual Perspective

Heather Moorefield-LangUniversity of SC

School of Library and Information Science

How are They Different From Library Learning Commons?

Image courtesy of Andy Plemmons

ToolsInventive Spirit Problem SolvingExperimentation

Creativity

It’s using the Learning Commons in another way or taking it further. David Loertscher

Types of Makerspaces

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Image Courtesy of Chicago Public

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Image Courtesy Of Seneca College

Image Courtesy of Andy Plemmons , David C. Barrows Elementary

Image Courtesy of Adam Rogers, Hunt Library, NC State

Monticello High School, Charlottesville, VA

Image Courtesy of Steve Teeri, Detroit Public Library

Image Courtesy of Steve Teeri, Detroit Public Library

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Mobile Maker Spaces

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Image Courtesy of Frysklab

Image Courtesy of Sparktruck

Image Courtesy of Sparktruck

Image Courtesy of Sparktruck

Images Courtesy of DH Makerbus

Images courtesy of Cynthia Alaniz, Cottonwood Creek Elementary

Images courtesy of Cynthia Alaniz, Cottonwood Creek Elementary

Images courtesy of Cynthia Alaniz, Cottonwood Creek Elementary

Projects

Arts

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Image Courtesy of Sparktruck

Image Courtey of DH Makerbus

Image Courtesy of Shannon Miller, Van Meter Community School

Robotics

Image Courtesy of Steve Teeri, Detroit Public

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3D Printing

Image Courtesy of Ida Mae Craddock, Monticello High School

Image Courtesy of Eric Maslowski , University of Michigan

Image Courtesy of Adam Rogers, Hunt Library, NC State

Image Courtesy of Ida Mae Craddock, Monticello High School

Everything ElseAnd there is a lot that can go into

Everything Else

Exploratorium, San Francisco

Image Courtesy of Ida Mae Craddock, Monticello High School

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Quotes from Librarians

Libraries aren't just about books, they're about learning and literacies of all sorts and I think that this is just a different avenue to have learning but I think its good because it exposes the teens to these newer technologies early on and if they then go on to college and there's a 3D printer or a robotics workshop or something they can say oh yea I've done that. before.

Image Courtesy of Andy Plemmons , David C. Barrows Elementary

It’s a question of does information go to your library to die or does it go there to take on new life? And if you maintain a traditional library, you're an archivist and that is where information goes to die and that's sad.

Quotes from Students

The first time we had the maker ability within the library and it sort of trickled out throughout  the school… It didn't just change the library it changed the mentality of the whole school it seemed. Instead of saying we can't do that because we don't know how, it’s we can do that, how can we figure out how to do it. 

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If you were to consider the whole library as a maker space, I'd say it's really different than pretty much any other library that I've pretty

much ever seen because it seems like it's more free and not really the 'shhhhhh' thing that's in

most libraries.

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Sure, Many Successes!

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Questions?

Heather Moorefield-Lang

moorefield-lang@sc.edu@actinginthelib

www.techfifteen.com