The most updated version of the presentation on makerspaces from the American Library Association 2016 Conference.

1. This Is What a MakerSpace Looks
Like: A Visual Perspective
Heather Moorefield-Lang
University of SC
School of Library and Information Science

4. How are They Different
From Library Learning
Commons?

5. • 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

6. Tools
Inventive Spirit
Problem Solving
Experimentation
Creativity
It’s using the Learning Commons in another
way or taking it further. David Loertscher

7. Types of Maker “Spaces”

8. Image Courtesy of Diana
Rendina

9. Image Courtesy
of Mary
Morrison
Holmes Middle
School

10. Indianapolis
Museum of Art

12. Image
Courtesy of
Adam Rogers,
Hunt Library,
NC State

14. Mt Lebanon Public
Library

15. Image Courtesy of Susan George at Saginaw Elementary

16. Image Courtesy of
Steve Teeri, Detroit
Public Library

17. Photo by John-Morgan - Creative Commons Attribution License https://www.flickr.com/photos/24742305@N00 Created with Haiku Deck

18. Themed Makerspaces

19. Cooking
Digital
Gardening
Farming
STEAMpunk
Robotics
Sewing
Art

20. Mobile Maker
Spaces

21. Image
Courtesy of
Frysklab

22. Image Courtesy
of Richland
Public Library

24. Image Courtesy
of Frysklab

25. Image Courtesy of
Susan George at
Saginaw Elementary

26. Image Courtesy of
Christina Cumberland:
Chase Elementary

27. Image Courtesy of
Brad Gustafson,
Greenwood
Elementary School

28. Projects

29. Arts/STEAM

30. Image Courtesy of
Missoula Public
Library

31. Image Courtesy of Sarah Schaeffer: Dodge
City Middle School

32. Image Courtesy of
Leah Joly: Williston
Schools

33. Image Courtey of DH
Makerbus
Makedo,
Roloblox, Mr.
McGroovys

35. Image Courtesy of
Ida Mae Craddock,
Monticello High
School

36. Robotics

37. Image Courtesy
of Steve Teeri,
Detroit Public

40. Photo by BlueBec - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/47439204@N00 Created with Haiku Deck

41. Librarian Perspectives

42. 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.

43. 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.

44. Student Perspectives

45. 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.

46. Image Courtesy
of Frysklab

47. 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.

48. Image Courtesy of
Andy Plemmons ,
David C. Barrows
Elementary

49. Many, Many Successes!

51. Messy

52. Noisy

53. Demand

54. Tradition

55. Photo by Jürg - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/85385002@N00 Created with Haiku Deck

56. Time for
some
Giveaways!

57. Questions?
Heather Moorefield-
Lang
moorefield-lang@sc.edu
@actinginthelib
www.techfifteen.com