Part of an ALA webinar

1. Strategic Partnerships in the
Academic Library Makerspace
Edward Iglesias
Systems Librarian
Central Connecticut State University

2. Buy my Book
• http://www.igiglobal.com/book/robot
s-academiclibraries/72362?#tableof-contents

3. Who do we partner with?
• The Mad Scientist
• The Inventor
• The Computer (Remember people used to be
“computers”, it was a job title.

4. The Mad Scientist
• Dr. Thomas Burkholder,
• Professor of Chemistry
at CCSU
• Secret Project…

5. The Florence Siphon
• A very Steampunk way
of brewing coffee.
Dr.Burkholder has
agreed to do a demo
perhaps involving a pith
helmet and brass
goggles.

6. The Inventor
• Dr. Thamma Ravindra
• Professor in Robotics
Department at CCSU
• Want to stage FIRST
Robotics competitions
in library.

7. The Computer
• Dr. Robert Shumaker
• Professor of MIS
• Wants to introduce his
classes to 3D printing
and physical computing.

8. Additional Departments
• Archeology for 3D replicas
• Music Possible “build your own instrument”
workshops.
• Use committees such at Information
Technology Committee or equivalent.

9. Suggested readings

10. Online Resources
• Makerspaces in Libraries Google Plus
Community
– https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11727
4577818142707955
• Code4lib
– http://code4lib.org/
• LITA
– http://www.ala.org/lita/