o What are the issues? The roadblocks?
o What are the solutions? The best practices?
o What’s the biggest takeaway to share with the entire Think Tank audience?
WHO?
WHAT IS A MAKERSPACE
Large space where people come together has wifi, electrical outlets, devices to use
3D printer, scanner, projector,
tools that people can use
Some libraries “We don’t have the space to put the tools”
Makerspace is a bad term.
Gretchen: make it take it kit. In lieu of space, you can check things out to the patron and they can create the makerspace on their own time and at their own space. Holds are ridiculous.
Kids see everything integrated into the world, not compartmentalized. “THE LIBRARY IS THE MAKERSPACE”
Instead of waiting for staff and space to have a makerspace we just do it.
Alison: School librarian, putting a makerspace in a school. How do they fund it? ASK! Lots of donations (from Ella).
Joanna from Nashville: talk about their new makerspace
IDEA: turning makey makey into a video game controller to add the making element to video gaming.
Jewel Friedman Fixler: Boomer Volunteer http://www.amazon.com/Boomer-Volunteer-Engagement-Collaborate-Tomorrow/dp/B007S6L6GG/ref=la_B00IWUTOLG_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398457445&sr=1-1
3Doodlers are $100 a piece, great cheap alternative to 3D printers.
Ellen (who is a publisher) asks “how can publishers help the maker movement?”
Stages of 3D Printing
WHAT ARE SOME TOOLS YOU USE WITH 3D PRINTING?
Do you take the 3D printer and use it with role playing? Gretchen says yes...they are taking their 3D printer to a local game shop to show folks that they can use it to create figures for their games
Alison: How do I make the makerspace and the tools fair?
DREAM LIST OF EQUIPMENT!
Do you charge for makerspace materials?
Library Admins in the group: are you afraid that people will set themselves on fire, cut off an arm, etc? -Gretchen and Bryan: not really. There are limits but we trust our staff to
WHAT ARE THE BIG TAKEAWAYS?