This week, in From the Archives, we’d like to focus on this excellent guest post from Rachel Goldberg. Though it’s been quite a while since it was written, Michigan Makers is still going strong and is a great model for … Read more >
Thanks to funding from IMLS, I spent much of the summer on the road, working with librarians, educators, and community members to envision and think about community-responsive making in rural and underserved communities. Here are some things I learned (or re-learned) … Read more >
Happy Labor Day to readers in the US! I hope you all get a long weekend like I do, and use some of it to make fabulous things. This weekend, fittingly enough, I’ve been following the #FairFiberWage hashtag on Twitter… Read more >
Hello all!
In lieu of a post this week, we have a short, three-question follower survey. We would love if you would take a moment or two to fill it out. Mainly, we’re interested in who you are and … Read more >
About a week and a half ago, fellow MakerBridge writer Emily and I attended the National Diversity in Libraries Conference to talk about how to work toward diversity and inclusion in makerspaces.
This is a topic we feel strongly about; … Read more >
This edition of From the Archives showcases one of our earliest posts about diversity in the maker movement. This has been on my mind a lot lately, as Emily and I just returned from presenting about diversity in makerspaces at … Read more >
As part of the Making in Michigan Libraries project, we’ve been traveling the state of Michigan this summer for multi-day professional development workshops. On the evening of the second day of the workshop, we host a small MakerFest in the … Read more >
I’m on vacation in NYC this week, and one of the things I’m psyched to do is to go lose myself in The Met for a day. Museums are mostly a record of things people have made over the years, and … Read more >
In recent weeks, a lot of articles and blog posts seem to be cropping up touching on a fear many seem to harbor that makerspaces are intended to and are beginning to take over the entire concept of a library. … Read more >
As introduced last month, we’ll be looking back on a monthly basis to some of MakerBridge’s early blog posts that you have missed. This year’s Maker Faire Detroit is coming up on July 30-31, so let’s look back at when … Read more >