Fab the Library
Education,innovation and
maker culture in the library
Oslo Skaperfestival, Deichmanske Bibliotek, September 29, 2017

★ Innovation advisor at
Bibliotheekservice Fryslân
★ Amateur cyclist and music lover
www.debsf.nl
www.frysklab.nl
www.jeroendeboer.net
@jtdeboer @frysklab
About me

Book
TheresaWillingham, Jeroen de Boer:
Makerspaces in Libraries
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442252998/Makerspaces-in-Libraries

Library Lab
Makerspaces or FabLabs are creative, DIY spaces where
people can gather to create, invent, and learn. In libraries
they often have 3D printers, software, electronics, craft and
hardware supplies and tools, and more.

Chris Anderson: Makers, The New Industrial Revolution, p. 21
Maker Movement
“What Makers are doing is taking the DIY movement online– “making in public”—which
introduces network effects on a massive scale.”
People using digital desktop tools to create designs for new products and prototype them
(“digital DIY”)
A cultural norm to share those designs and collaborate with others in online communities.
The use of common design file standards that allow anyone, if they desire, to send their designs
to commercial manufacturing services to be produced in any number, just as easily as they can
fabricate them on their desktop.

FabLabs/Makerspaces:
Mark Hatch,The Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the NewWorld of Crafters, Hackers, andTinkerers (NewYork: McGraw-Hill Education, 2014), 1-2.
Exist to bring individual makers into a space with shared resources;
Are spaces in which experienced makers can teach skills and guide the progress of
newer makers;
Allow for the sharing ideas and designs not just within the makerspace, but outward
to the larger world of makers;
Enable individuals to collaborate on projects and bring multiple perspectives and skill
sets together;
Encourage individuals to experiment and discover through tinkering with
technologies and products and to approach making with a spirit of play.

Activities in Library Labs
John Burke: http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2015/Burke.pdf

Where are we coming from?

Lawrence Lessig
“The importance is that technique has been
democratized.These tools of creativity have
become tools of speech.It is a literacy for this
generation.This is how our kids speak.It is
how our kids think.It is what your kids are as
they increasingly understand digital
technologies and their relationship to
themselves.”

CompleteTED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity

Cory Doctorow
“Damn right libraries shouldn’t be book-lined
Internet cafes.They should be book-lined,
computer-filled information-dojos where
communities come together to teach each other
black-belt information literacy,where initiates
work alongside noviates to show them how to
master the tools of the networked age from the
bare metal up.”

David Lankes
“The mission of librarians is to improve society
through facilitating knowledge creation in
their communities”

Doug Belshaw
“My belief is that the concept of 'remix' is at the heart
of digital literacies.”
Doug Belshaw, The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies:
http://dougbelshaw.com/ebooks/digilit/

Doug Belshaw, The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies,TEDxWarwick: https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yQPoTcZ78

Doug Belshaw, The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies,TEDxWarwick: https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yQPoTcZ78

The Public Library as
a Community Hub for
Connected Learning
NYGREN,Åke (2014)The Public Library as a Community
Hub for Connected Learning.Paper presented at:IFLA
WLIC 2014 - Lyon - Libraries,Citizens,Societies:
Confluence for Knowledge
http://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1014

How do we do it in Friesland?

FryskLab: a mobile library makerspace

2017ALA Presidential Citation for
Innovative International Library Projects

1.100+ FabLabs globally

www.frysklab.nl/educatie
2D
Programmeren3D
Maken Electronica
21st Century Skills /
digitale geletterdheid
EDUCATIEF AANBOD VOOR SCHOLEN
FryskLab

Fab the Library!
Method to help libraries to
integrate a makerspace or related
services into their libraries

Fab the Library!
1. Introduction
2. Hands-on
3. Strategy

MediaLiteracyMakers & Makerboxes*:
Unpacking digital literacies
Cultural (Makerbox 1)
Cognitive (Makerbox 2)
Constructive (Makerbox 3)
Communicative (Makerbox 4)
Confident (Makerbox 5)
Creative (Makerbox 6)
Critical (Makerbox 7)
Civic (Makerbox 8)
* een concept van Ake Nygren:http://mymakerbox.es

FryskLab MakerTour2015

Impact through Connection at School

Class 7a, Dr.Algraschool, Leeuwarden

enabling* tech
low cost open-source hardware
digital making
low cost computing
(devices or hosted)
(open) data / analysis
IoT (sensors & actuators)
mesh networking
algorithms / machine learning
blockchain
energy production
agrotech
biotech
the enabled
the individual
as part of specific
small groups / teams
network of connected individuals
communities
organizations
(and by extension society)
impact
strengthen local community
think global, act (hyper)local
increase resilience
leverage and share local/group assets
cooperatively create infrastructure
build mutual support structures
scaffold new systems
shield against fall-out of old/broken
systems
build a distributed/networked living
p2p organizing
p2p sourcing
open knowledge
iterative processes with probes
social media / media production
community building practices
networked models
workflow / decision making
tools
community currencies/exchang-
es
hacking ethics
ethics by design / individual
rights
enabling* methods
/ design principles
by Ton Zijlstra, http://zylstra.org/blog, CC BY-NC-SA
*enabling is only that which is distributed, within my trust/control and can be deployed by me / my groups.
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Some examples of other library labs

My Makerboxes (SWE)

FabLab Zeeland (NED)

FabLab BibliotheekVeenendaal (NED)

Helsinki Library Makerspace (FIN)

Coding Pirates (DEN)

Common Libraries Makerboxes (UK)

Some reading
recommendations
★ John Burke: Makerspaces:A Practical
Guide for Librarians
★ ChrisAnderson: Makers
★ Sylvia Libow Martinez & Gary Stager:
Invent to Learn
★ Cory Doctorow: Makers
★ selected articles here (Google Drive)

Workshop time!

Workshop time

Workshop time

BMC-part Explanation
Proposition What do you offer?
Customers For whom it will be attractive?
Customer relation Must you guide the users, is it self-service or a combination of both.
Channels Which channels do you use to inform the public about the existence?
Activities What are the main activities?
Resources What do you need for building it?
Partners Which partners do you need? Government, Companies, Public?
Cost structure What are the components of the cost structure?
Revenues How do you generate the revenues?
Workshop time

Jeroen de Boer
innovation advisor Bibliotheekservice Fryslân
j.deboer@bfrl.nl
http://www.debsf.nl http://www.frysklab.nl
@jtdeboer
Thank you