This Is What a MakerSpace Looks Like: A Visual Perspective Heather Moorefield-Lang University of SC School of Library and Information Science
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This Is What a MakerSpace Looks Like: A Visual Perspective
Heather Moorefield-LangUniversity of SC
School of Library and Information Science
How are They Different From Library Learning Commons?
• Collaborating, participating, helping
• Authentic and engaging inquiry and knowledge building
• Playing, creating, tinkering, building, making
• Demonstrating respect in both physical and digital space
• Experimenting, sharing, performing
• Producing, doing, constructing• Connecting, accessing, self
monitoring (Loertscher & Koechlin, 2014)Maker Workshop,
University of SC
ToolsInventive Spirit Problem SolvingExperimentation
Creativity
It’s using the Learning Commons in another way or taking it further. David Loertscher
Types of Maker “Spaces”
Image Courtesy of Diana Rendina
Image Courtesy of Mary Morrison Holmes Middle School
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Image Courtesy of Adam Rogers, Hunt Library, NC State
Mt Lebanon Public Library
Image Courtesy of Susan George at Saginaw Elementary
Image Courtesy of Steve Teeri, Detroit Public Library
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Themed Makerspaces
CookingDigital
GardeningFarming
STEAMpunkRoboticsSewing
Art
Mobile Maker Spaces
Image Courtesy of Frysklab
Image Courtesy of Richland Public Library
Image Courtesy of Frysklab
Image Courtesy of Susan George at Saginaw Elementary
Image Courtesy of Christina Cumberland: Chase Elementary
Image Courtesy of Brad Gustafson, Greenwood Elementary School
Projects
Arts/STEAM
Image Courtesy of Missoula Public Library
Image Courtesy of Sarah Schaeffer: Dodge City Middle School
Image Courtesy of Leah Joly: Williston Schools
Image Courtey of DH Makerbus
Makedo, Roloblox, Mr. McGroovys
Image Courtesy of Ida Mae Craddock, Monticello High School
Robotics
Image Courtesy of Steve Teeri, Detroit Public
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Librarian Perspectives
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.
Librarians are collectors in their most traditional role so they just want to
collect the right stuff and hope that the outcomes come with it. We need to
realize there is a lot of making already so meeting the community with what they
need is incredibly important.
Student Perspectives
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.
Image Courtesy of Frysklab
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.
Image Courtesy of Andy Plemmons , David C. Barrows Elementary
Many, Many Successes!
Messy
Noisy
Demand
Tradition
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Time for some
Giveaways!
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