This Is What a MakerSpace Looks Like: A Visual Perspective
Heather Moorefield-LangUniversity of SC
School of Library and Information Science
• Collaborating, participating, helping
• Authentic and engaging inquiry and knowledge building
• Playing, creating, tinkering, building, making
• Demonstrating respect in both physical and digital space
• Experimenting, sharing, performing
• Producing, doing, constructing• Connecting, accessing, self
monitoring (Loertscher & Koechlin, 2014)Maker Workshop,
University of SC
ToolsInventive Spirit Problem SolvingExperimentation
Creativity
It’s using the Learning Commons in another way or taking it further. David Loertscher
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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.
Librarians are collectors in their most traditional role so they just want to
collect the right stuff and hope that the outcomes come with it. We need to
realize there is a lot of making already so meeting the community with what they
need is incredibly important.
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.
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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