Makerspaces (eBook)

A Practical Guide for Librarians

John J. Burke (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018 | 2., Second Edition
208 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
9781538108192 (ISBN)

Infos

This A-Z guidebook on makerspaces is jam-packed with resources, advice, and information to help you develop and fund your own makerspace from the ground up. Readers are introduced to makerspace equipment, new technologies, models for planning and assessing projects, and useful case studies.

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Makerspaces: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Second Edition is an A-Z guidebook jam-packed with resources, advice, and information to help you develop and fund your own makerspace from the ground up. Learn what other libraries are making, building, and doing in their makerspaces and how you can, too. Readers are introduced to makerspace equipment, new technologies, models for planning and assessing projects, and useful case studies that will equip them with the knowledge to implement their own library makerspaces. This expanded second edition features eighteen brand new library makerspace profiles providing advice and inspiration for how to create your own library makerspace, over twenty new images and figures illustrating maker tools and trends as well as library makerspaces in action and new lists of actual grant and funding sources for library makerspaces.

Autor

John J. Burke is principal librarian and director of the Gardner-Harvey Library on the Middletown regional campus of Miami University of Ohio. He is former president of the Academic Library Association of Ohio and former chair of the Southwest Ohio Council on Higher Education Library Council.Ellyssa Kroski is director of information technology at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of thirty-six books. She is a librarian, an adjunct faculty member at Drexel and San Jose State universities, and an international conference speaker. She was just named the winner of the 2017 Library Hi Tech Award from the American Library Association and the Library Information Technology Association for her long-term contributions in the area of library and information science technology and its application.

Inhalt

CHAPTER 1 The Library as a Creation and Collaboration Space: An IntroductionCHAPTER 2 The Maker Movement and Building Up a Making Mind-SetCHAPTER 3 An Overview of Makerspace ImplementationsCHAPTER 4 What Will Patrons Make in Your Makerspace?CHAPTER 5 Budgeting for a MakerspaceCHAPTER 6 Resources for Audio, Image, and Video CreationCHAPTER 7 Resources for Crafts and Artistic PursuitsCHAPTER 8 Resources for Electronics, Robotics, and ProgrammingCHAPTER 9 Resources for 3D Printing and PrototypingCHAPTER 10 Resources for the Unexpected: Lesser-Known Making CHAPTER 11 Approaches for Developing a Makerspace That Enables MakersCHAPTER 12 Remaking the Library? Tracking the Present and Future of Making in LibrariesAppendix: Makerspaces in Libraries Survey

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.1.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Practical Guides for Librarians
• Zusatzinfo: 67 Illustrations including: - 43 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 17 Tables; - 7 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Schlagworte: community engagement • FabLabs • group work • hackerspaces • libraries • Library • library community • library innovation • Library Technology • Makerspace • Makerspaces • Steam • stem
• ISBN-13: 9781538108192 / 9781538108192