This document discusses makerspaces and how they differ from traditional library learning commons. Makerspaces focus on tools, inventive spirit, problem solving, experimentation, and creativity. They allow learning in a hands-on way and taking it further than traditional libraries. Various types of makerspaces are shown including those in libraries, schools, mobile makerspaces, and more. Makerspaces provide opportunities for arts, robotics, 3D printing, and other projects. Quotes from librarians and students show how makerspaces change the mentality of learning and allow exposure to new technologies in a less restrictive environment than traditional libraries.
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55. Libraries aren't just about books, they're
about learning and literacies of all sorts
and I think that this is just a different
avenue to have learning but I think its
good because it exposes the teens to
these newer technologies early on and if
they then go on to college and there's a
3D printer or a robotics workshop or
something they can say oh yea I've done
that. before.
57. 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.
59. 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.
61. 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.