What Is and What’s Next:Making Assessment and Opportunities.

Tod Colegrove, Ph.D., MSLIS & Tara Radniecki, MSLIS

DeLaMare Science & Engineering LibraryUniversity of Nevada, Reno

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What is: Makers!

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1 L.S. Schulman (2007). Counting and Recounting: Assessment and the Quest for Accountability. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. Retrieved 3/2014 from http://www.changemag.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/January-February%202007/full-counting-recounting.html

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An Example:

Supporting the mission/vision:

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student78%

faculty4%

staff10%

public5%

not specified2%

3D Printing Service: usage by overall customer type

(self-reported, 3D print jobs submitted 8/2012 through 8/2013)

Over 1,700 pieces printed in its 1st year:

Anthropology5%

Art11%

Biochemistry11%

Biomedical Engineering8%

Ag, Biotech, Natural Resources

3%

Chemistry3%

Business3%Economics

3%Electrical Engineering5%

Mechanical Engineering46%

Natural Resources & Environmental Science3%

Service usage by identified academic department(self-reported, 3D print jobs submitted 8/2012 through 8/2013)

What’s next?

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• Makerspace Playbook, available at http://makerspace.com

• Makespace: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration by Doorly & Witthoft http://dschool.stanford.edu/makespace/

• How to Measure Anything by D.W. Hubbard http://bit.ly/1i0eZl0

Additional resources:

Tod Colegrove– Head of DeLaMare Library– pcolegrove@unr.edu– @pcolegrove

Tara Radniecki– Engineering Librarian– tradniecki@unr.edu– @tmradniecki

Questions?