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This Is What a MakerSpace Looks Like: A Visual Perspective Heather Moorefield-Lang University of SC School of Library and Information Science

This is What a Makerspace Looks Like: A Visual Perspective

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This Is What a MakerSpace Looks Like: A Visual Perspective

Heather Moorefield-LangUniversity of SC

School of Library and Information Science

How are They Different From Library Learning Commons?

• 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

Types of Maker “Spaces”

Image Courtesy of Diana Rendina

Image Courtesy of Mary Morrison Holmes Middle School

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Image Courtesy of Adam Rogers, Hunt Library, NC State

Mt Lebanon Public Library

Image Courtesy of Susan George at Saginaw Elementary

Image Courtesy of Steve Teeri, Detroit Public Library

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Themed Makerspaces

CookingDigital

GardeningFarming

STEAMpunkRoboticsSewing

Art

Mobile Maker Spaces

Image Courtesy of Frysklab

Image Courtesy of Richland Public Library

Image Courtesy of Frysklab

Image Courtesy of Susan George at Saginaw Elementary

Image Courtesy of Christina Cumberland: Chase Elementary

Image Courtesy of Brad Gustafson, Greenwood Elementary School

Projects

Arts/STEAM

Image Courtesy of Missoula Public Library

Image Courtesy of Sarah Schaeffer: Dodge City Middle School

Image Courtesy of Leah Joly: Williston Schools

Image Courtey of DH Makerbus

Makedo, Roloblox, Mr. McGroovys

Image Courtesy of Ida Mae Craddock, Monticello High School

Robotics

Image Courtesy of Steve Teeri, Detroit Public

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Librarian Perspectives

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.

Student Perspectives

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. 

Image Courtesy of Frysklab

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.

Image Courtesy of Andy Plemmons , David C. Barrows Elementary

Many, Many Successes!

Messy

Noisy

Demand

Tradition

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Time for some

Giveaways!

Questions?

Heather Moorefield-Lang

[email protected]@actinginthelib

www.techfifteen.com