One of the themes for the Computers in Libraries (#CILDC) conference last week was makerspaces. Most of the makerspace content was concentrated into a single track on the last day of the conference, which meant that I didn’t … Read more >
I’m going to be honest: after Election Day, I was pretty convinced that there would be little interest in the maker movement from the incoming Executive Branch. So I was surprised to see that the conservative Brookings Institution has just … 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 >
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 >
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 >
I’ve seen a number of articles floating around recently promoting a pretty negative view of makerspaces in libraries. While I understand that not everyone is going to be an evangelist maker librarian, I tend to think a lot of what lies … Read more >
This guest post, part of a series, comes to MakerBridge from Terence O’Neill, Entrepreneurship Librarian at Michigan State University. We’ve been lucky enough to feature content from Terence before on our blog. Check him out on Twitter @EntrLibMSU!
There are fewer makerspaces in academic libraries than in public ones, and I believe this is due in part to the challenge academic libraries face of having to justify making as important at the level of higher education. Although public libraries … 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 >
