This document discusses makerspaces and how they differ from traditional library learning commons. Makerspaces focus on tools, inventive spirit, problem solving, experimentation, and creativity. They allow learning in a hands-on way and taking it further than traditional libraries. Various types of makerspaces are shown including those in libraries, schools, mobile makerspaces, and more. Makerspaces provide opportunities for arts, robotics, 3D printing, and other projects. Quotes from librarians and students show how makerspaces change the mentality of learning and allow exposure to new technologies in a less restrictive environment than traditional libraries.

1. Makerspaces: 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. Image
courtesy of
Andy
Plemmons

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 Makerspaces

8. Image Courtesy of Diana
Rendina

9. Image Courtesy
of Chicago Public

11. Image Courtesy of
Richland Public

12. Image Courtesy Of
Seneca College

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

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

15. Monticello High
School, Charlottesville,
VA

16. Image Courtesy of
Steve Teeri, Detroit
Public Library

17. Image Courtesy of
Steve Teeri, Detroit
Public Library

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

19. Mobile Maker
Spaces

20. Image
Courtesy of
Frysklab

21. Image
Courtesy of
Frysklab

22. Image
Courtesy of
Sparktruck

23. Image
Courtesy of
Sparktruck

24. Image Courtesy
of Sparktruck

25. Images
Courtesy
of DH
Makerbus

27. Images courtesy
of Cynthia Alaniz,
Cottonwood
Creek Elementary

28. Images courtesy
of Cynthia
Alaniz,
Cottonwood
Creek
Elementary

29. Images courtesy of
Cynthia Alaniz,
Cottonwood Creek
Elementary

30. Projects

31. Arts

32. Image Courtesy of
Missoula Public
Library

33. Image Courtesy
of Sparktruck

35. Image Courtey of DH
Makerbus

36. Image Courtesy of Shannon Miller, Van Meter Community
School

37. Robotics

38. 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. 3D Printing

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

43. Image Courtesy of Eric Maslowski , University of
Michigan

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

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

46. Everything Else
And there is a lot that can go into
Everything Else

47. Exploratorium,
San Francisco

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

52. Photo by CSM Library - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/31085002@N06 Created with Haiku Deck

54. Quotes from Librarians

55. Libraries aren't just about books, they're
about learning and literacies of all sorts
and I think that this is just a different
avenue to have learning but I think its
good because it exposes the teens to
these newer technologies early on and if
they then go on to college and there's a
3D printer or a robotics workshop or
something they can say oh yea I've done
that. before.

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

57. 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.

58. Quotes from Students

59. 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.

60. Image Courtesy
of Frysklab

61. 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.

62. Image
Courtesy
of Frysklab

63. Sure, Many Successes!

67. Image Courtesy
of Sparktruck

68. Image Courtesy of
Sparktruck

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