FryskLab is Europe's first mobile library FabLab located in Friesland, Netherlands. It was initiated by Bibliotheekservice Fryslân to bring digital fabrication tools and skills to communities on its bookmobile. The document outlines FryskLab's achievements so far, including purchasing the bookmobile and FabLab hardware, developing an educational program called FryskLab Elements, and creating a Linked Open Data knowledge base about its collection. It also discusses future plans like a sustainable business model and masterplan to support lifelong learning and local business innovation through digital fabrication. The goal of FryskLab is to serve as a platform for community learning and collaboration.

1. FryskLab
Europe’s first Mobile Library FabLab

2. Jeroen de Boer
Domainspecialist new media Bibliotheekservice Fryslân
Board member FabLab Benelux Foundation
@jtdeboer
http://www.frysklab.nl
@frysklab

3. Where FryskLab is..

4. "If you Googled Maker Space plus
Library 18 months ago, you might
have found two hits, but now you'll
find it all over the Internet"
!
(Maxine Bleiweis, Westport Public Library)

5. Values Makers ≈ Values Library
Nicholas Schiller:
http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=2282

6. Library Bill of Rights
access
freedom
advocacy
inquiry
openness

7. Hacker Ethic
sharing
openness
collaboration
hands-on-imperative

8. “We’ll see that at least in terms of access to
information, public openness, freedom,
sharing, and collaboration libraries and
hackers are on the same page. There are
many things that hackers and libraries can
do together that further these shared values
and goals.”
Nicholas Schiller:

9. Community!
Libraries and FabLabs need the
Collaboration

10. David Lankes:
“The Mission Of Librarians Is To Improve Society
Through Facilitating Knowledge Creation In Their
Communities”
!
“A Platform For Community Learning And Innovation”
Library as Platform

11. “To think that knowledge itself is shaped like
books is to marvel that a rock fits so well in its
hole in the ground.”
Library as Platform
David Weinberger:

12. Not Institutional Repositories,
Networked Repositories
!
Role of Librarian: Acquisition to Curation
!
Collection Development Becomes
Connection Development
!
Size Doesn’t Matter
!
Rural Libraries Well Positioned
Some
implications:
Library as Platform

13. Mobile library FabLab
Initiated by Bibliotheekservice Fryslân

14. Mobile library FabLab
Initiated by Bibliotheekservice Fryslân

15. 1951:
Mobile library FabLab
Initiated by Bibliotheekservice Fryslân

16. FabLab?

17. Why?

18. What have we achieved
this far?
1. Purchase of former book-mobile
2. Purchase of FabLab-hardware
3. Official FabLab
4. Development FryskLab Elements
5. Development LOD Knowledge Base
6. Development Fab the Library!

19. Educational program for primary,
secondary and vocational
education.
Pilot March/April 2014 Funded by SNS REAAL
FryskLab Elements

20. 1. Lessons
2. Workshops
3. Challenges
FryskLab Elements

21. FabLab as makerspace is
inseparable from FabLab
as informationspace:
data is contextualized
FryskLab LOD Knowledge
Base
Funded by Pica Foundation

22. 1. Datamodel
2. Triplestore database
3. Data FryskLab
4. User interface
5. User interaction
FryskLab LOD Knowledge
Base
Funded by Pica Foundation
Development of:

23. FryskLab LOD Knowledge
Base Partners:
Rotterdam University of
Applied Sciences
MetaMatter
FabLab Benelux Foundation
Rotslab
Funded by Pica Foundation

24. Program to make it
easier for libraries to
integrate a FabLab or
related services
Fab the Library!
Funded by Netherlands Institute for Public Libraries

25. Fab the Library!
Development of three
modules:
1. Introduction
2. Hands-on
3. Strategy
Funded by Netherlands Institute for Public Libraries

26. Pilot in April 2014
Fab the Library!
Funded by Netherlands Institute for Public Libraries

27. Masterplan FryskLab
Life-long learning program
digital fabrication
Co-operating with
educational institutions to
realize a sustainable
environment for local (small
business) innovation

28. FryskLab: next step
Development of a sustainable
business model

29. Proposition FryskLab
1. Development of FabLab in
Fryslân with partners
2. FryskLab as connector

30. Thank you!
http://www.frysklab.nl
Jeroen de Boer
@jtdeboer
@frysklab