Introductory keynote panel, all-day pre conference workshop at the Internet Librarian 2015 Conference in Monterey, California. Explores the contribution to active learning, innovation, and knowledge creation libraries can make when makerspace and related services are added.
1. Makerspaces in Libraries. Why?
Tod Colegrove, Ph.D., MSLIS
Head of DeLaMare Science & Engineering Library
University of Nevada, Reno
Preconference workshop, Internet Librarian 2015 Slides at: http://bit.ly/1POOt0Z
Makerspaces, Idea Labs & Hackerspaces. Why in libraries?
Mark Twain – 19th century author and Nevada’s first Assistant Secretary of State
thoughts on schooling and education
Image credit: http://www.anonymousartofrevolution.com/2013/01/i-have-never-let-my-schooling-interfere.html
The Industrial Age needed workers who could read/write and follow instructions
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Rather than education, schooling. Repeated procedures. Insert tab A into slot B.
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Schools operate similarly to factories: down to the bells at these schools were modeled on the shift-time sounds in factories.
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What type of workers does today’s society need?
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If we’re truly serious about enabling and supporting lifelong learning, we need to embrace the realities of active learning & student performance.
Where does the old model leave off? What they read? What they hear?
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Enter “makerspace” – in libraries and museums across the country, spaces emerging that enable you to go hands-on with your ideas
3rd place that isn’t home, isn’t work…
Image credit: http://cdn.makezine.com/uploads/2012/01/makerspace-logo.png
Consider: Libraries have the most space, hours
aspirational - we want to help everyone
already pulling in from across communities
kitchen/house party
(if the campus is a house party, the library can be the kitchen)
the library brand is all about learning
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Image credit: City of Reno, http://cityofreno.tumblr.com/post/93315059068/make-magazine-names-delamare-science-engineering
Backlash against growing digital isolation… collaborative “maker” movement
“Makerspaces share some aspect of the shop class, home economics class, the art studio and science lab. In effect, a makerspace is a physical mashup of these different places that allows projects to integrate these different kinds of skills.”
Arduino Day! ~250 students + faculty + staff
Makey Makey kits – reference librarian at Minsk Regional Public Library/InfoUSA
From idea to production. Bring it home.
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