Makerspaces in Libraries

Education, innovation and maker culture in the library

Thinking together: Innovate, Share, Preserve and Access. Lebanese Library Association, Beirut, May 20 2016

About me

★ Project manager innovation Library Service Fryslân

★ Chairman FabLab Benelux Foundation

★ Cyclist and music lover

www.debsf.nl www.fablab.nl www.frysklab.nl www.jeroendeboer.net @jtdeboer @frysklab @fablab

Library makerspace?

Makerspaces or FabLabs are creative, DIY spaces where people can gather to create, invent, and learn. In libraries they often have 3D printers, software, electronics, craft and hardware supplies and tools, and more.

Book:

★ Theresa Willingham, Jeroen de Boer: Makerspaces in Libraries

Lawrence Lessig

“The importance is that technique has been democratized. These tools of creativity have become tools of speech. It is a literacy for this generation. This is how our kids speak. It is how our kids think. It is what your kids are as they increasingly understand digital technologies and their relationship to themselves.”

Cory Doctorow

“Damn right libraries shouldn’t be book-lined Internet cafes. They should be book-lined, computer-filled information-dojos where communities come together to teach each other black-belt information literacy, where initiates work alongside noviates to show them how to master the tools of the networked age from the bare metal up.”

David Lankes

“The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities”

FryskLab: Mobile Library FabLab

How did we get started?

Abstract of my TEDx talk “The library as maker and information space” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prBATZD4oh4

FryskLab MakerTour2015

FryskLab MakerTour2015

The Public Library as a Community Hub for Connected Learning

NYGREN, Åke (2014) The Public Library as a Community Hub for Connected Learning. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2014 - Lyon - Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge

http://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1014

My Makerboxes (SWE)

FabLab Zeeland (NED)

FabLab Bibliotheek Veenendaal (NED)

Helsinki Library Makerspace (FIN)

Coding Pirates (DEN)

The Waiting Room (UK)

Task Force Public Libraries

Common Libraries Makerboxes (UK)

Some recommended reading:

★ John Burke: Makerspaces: A Practical Guide for Librarians

★ Chris Anderson: Makers ★ Sylvia Libow Martinez & Gary

Stager: Invent to Learn ★ Cory Doctorow: Makers

Thank you

Jeroen de Boer Project manager Innovation @ Bibliotheekservice Fryslân Chairman @ FabLab Benelux Foundation http://www.twitter.com/jtdeboer