I have been doing a lot of soul-searching lately as a result of what’s been going on politically in the United States, as a maker, as a librarian, and as a person. A lot of the challenges we will be … Read more >
This year’s presidential election in the United States has been a particularly divisive one, and unfortunately, there has been a spike in hate speech and hate crimes targeting marginalized groups in recent weeks. MakerBridge has always focused on diversity as one of our top priorities… 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 >
As you have may have heard in a previous post, we here at Makerbridge recently had the opportunity to attend LITA Forum 2013. Fortunately for us, one of the main themes of the conference was makerspaces in libraries. We’ve … Read more >