On New Year’s Eve, Sharona jokingly told a friend that my goal for the coming year was to teach our entire campus to crochet. That got me thinking–what are my maker-related goals for the coming year?
We’re looking at making … Read more >
As part of our MakerBridge Follower Survey (which you can still take if you’d like to let us know what you’re interested in seeing on the blog), we learned that case studies and project ideas would be welcome … Read more >
Happy Banned Books Week! For those who don’t know, Banned Books Week is an opportunity to celebrate the freedom to read and to stand up against censorship. As the American Library Association describes it,”While books have been and continue to … Read more >
Since February, I have been running a pilot program at my academic library that involves a series of maker events and workshops. As the library wasn’t able to designate any physical space as a full-time makerspace–nor do we have the staffing … Read more >
At the library where I work (Penfield Library at SUNY Oswego), I’m setting out to pilot a maker program through a series of events that will be held during the spring semester. As I go through this process, I … Read more >
Last month, I began a series of posts intended to help with the task of making a makerspace. This week, I’d like to focus in a bit on the first part of that process: doing the research necessary for planning … Read more >