Makerspaces: A New Wave of Library Service: The Westport (CT) Public Library

ALA Webinar
October 15, 2012

Westport Library – http:westportlibrary.org

Maxine Bleiweis Bill Derry
Library Director Assistant Director for
Innovation and User Experience


 Know WHY we created a MakerSpace.

 Understand WHAT our Library MakerSpace is.

 Know HOW we implemented a MakerSpace.

 Understand how a MakerSpace creates a CONTEXT

for new connections.

 Know some of the OPPORTUNITIES and

CHALLENGES of a MakerSpace.


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MAKERSPACE RECIPE
MakerSpace The Community

A Space
Makers
Sponsors
Tools
Interested Patrons


Why Create a MakerSpace?


“Pop-up” Collaborative Spaces


Checking out people to one another

Internet Librarian’s Conference – Nov. 2011


TRADITIONAL
“S-CURVE”

CONTEMPORARY
“UPHILL CURVE”


Play! Tinker! Make!

Dale Dougherty
Founder of Make Magazine
One of the co-founders of O’Reilly Media


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One room school house One planet socially-networked
of the past school house of the present


Current opportunity for Libraries to collaborate
with schools in new ways to support
teaching and learning.


David Loertscher’s Joining the Conversation:
School librarians as Facilitators
Learning Commons of Learning. David Lankes
February 2012

19 Oct - 23 Oct, 2011

Salzburg, Austria


http://www.librarycult.com

Hackerspaces vs. Fablabs vs. MakerSpaces

HISTORY OF THE MAKER MOVEMENT


Commonwealth Countries


Spaces for informal learning outside of work or school.

How We Created a MakerSpace


Children’s Services:

Information Services:

Miss Lynne shares a moment of
agricultural fun with kids at the
Westport Town Farm
where she told stories

Mark Mathias
Community Leader

Created a committee
Secured a Mini Maker Faire License
Received a Maker Manual
Advertised for Makers


Brooklyn Aerodrome Plane

Trebuchet
(catapult) Homemade Submarine

David Pogue – PBS - Nova

Arduino-wired dancer producing
David Heim – Sketchup light show and music (Jade Soto)


Computer Gaming

Michael Ogrinz’s B9 Robot

Ros Liljengren - Potter


Joseph Schott – Architect/Engineer


Working on the Airplane Project

The first project, called ‘AIR RACE’,
involves the construction of two
half scale Airplanes.


Maker-in-Residence
Consultants
Other Makers
Stipends/Donations
Building Materials
Tools
Building Permits


Marketing Materials
Staff Participation
Volunteers
Press Conference


Working on the Airplane Project

Our MakerSpace was modeled after the “shed” at Kitty Hawk which was
used by the Wright brothers for their first flight.


You will receive a live link in the
CHAT section of this webinar for the
32 second video.

Please click on the link at your site to
watch the video.
http://youtu.be/iZxaIh1H1AI


Westport Library - MakerSpace


How we Created a MakerSpace.


Getting the Go Ahead
OBJECTIVE 1: Develop new service models that
transcend the traditional role of libraries.

Goal 1: Secure the place of the library as an
incubator for thoughts and ideas, a place that brings
people together and facilitates civic engagement
Goal 2: Promote the library as the place for lifelong
learning and personal growth
Goal 4: Deliver convenient and innovative library
services that respond to changing community needs
Goal 6: Provide a rich and interactive library
experience to meet the needs of underserved
segments of the community


Getting the Go Ahead

MISSION STATEMENT

The Library is committed to
empowering the individual with
knowledge and to strengthening
the community through the
dynamic exchange of ideas.


Making Space


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Makers @ The Library

1. Innovators, Inventors, Tinkerers
who utilize Technology
2. Innovators, Inventors, Tinkerers
in General (limited use of technology)
3. Industrial Arts People
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4. Creative Arts People 1 2
3


MakerSpace – Staff Committee
Notes and Ideas
FAQs – On Website


Presenting with 3D printer outside
at Music Festival in front of Library

Visitors from other libraries


Joseph Schott, Maker-in-Residence works with Boy Scouts


Building Computers
Teaching Scratch workshops
Arduino Workshops
Solar Energy Presentations and Workshops
Soldering Circuits
Inventylvania with Patent Attorney
Mini Maker Faire 2013

Creating a CONTEXT for participatory learning

http://www.makerlibrarian.com

Aaron Cohen Associates. New Ways of Learning Effects Library Design.
(online image: Collaborative Space). Retrieved from:
http://www.acohen.com/blog/?p=421

Brown, John Seely and Thomas, Douglas. A New Culture of Learning:
Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change. Cambridge,
Mass. : MIT Press. 2011.

Dougherty, Dale. Makerspaces in Education and DARPA. Make: Blog. April
4, 2012. Retrieved October 3, 2012. http://goo.gl/8UZ1I

Lankes, R.D. The Atlas of New Librarianship. Cambridge MA: MIT
Press.2011.

Lankes, R. D.“Joining the Conversation: School Librarians as Facilitators of
Learning.” (February, 2012). 39(3). Teacher Librarian pps. 8-12.
http://goo.gl/jNLNy


Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture Conference
(19Oct-23Oct, 2011.) (online) Retrieved on 4/11/12:
http://www.imls.gov/assets/1/AssetManager/SGS_Report_2012.pdf

Loertscher, David V., Carol Koechlin and Sandi Zwaan, The New
Learning Commons Where Learners Win! Reinventing School
Libraries and Computer Labs; 2nd Edition. Salt Lake city, UT: Hi
Willow Research and Publishing. 2011.

Matthews, Samuel A.. “Library Profit=Community Relevance”. 21st
Century Blog. (July 3, 2012) Retrieved on 9/12/12:
http://21stcenturylibrary.com/2012/07/03/library-profit-community-
relevance/

Megan, James. Meet Your Makers. Seven Days: Vermont's
Independent Voice. (July 3, 2012). (Online) Retrieved on 9/28/12.
http://www.7dvt.com/maker-movement-vermont


O’Duinn, Fiacre. Presentation at Computers in Libraries Conference.
Washington D.C. ( March 23, 2012).

Torrone, Phillip. “Is it Time to Rebuild and Retool Public Libraries?
And Make Tech Shops?” Make Blog. (March 10, 2011. Retrieved on,
9/26/12. http://blog.makezine.com/2011/03/10/is-it-time-to-rebuild-
retool-public-libraries-and-make-techshops/

Udell, Chad. Learning Everywhere. Nashville, TN: Rockbench
Publishing. 2012.


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