LPR - Makerspaces

1. KILL THE QUIET!
Makerspaces in the library

2. What is a Makerspace?
• Makerspaces 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.

3. • Makerspaces come in all shapes and sizes, but they all serve
as a gathering point for tools, projects, mentors, and expertise.

4. • Support opportunities for learning
• Peer to peer learning
• Develop a culture of creating
• Problem solving

5. Solve a Problem
Answer a Question
Fill a Need
Design
Brainstorm
Hypothesize
Think
Build
Make
Expand
Fab
Share
Market
Publish
Teach
How does a Makerspace work?

6. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Math)
• Implementing STEM ideals in libraries
for community learning.

7. Encouraging STEM in girls
• Women only make up 26% of the STEM workforce
• In 1984 Women represented 37% of all computer science
graduates, and today, that number is 12%.

8. Crafting
• Knitting
• Weaving
• Painting
• Rubber band
Bracelets
Gardening
• Seed Banks
• Community
Gardens
Writing
• Zines
• Black out poetry
Mechanical
Building &
Tinkering
• Legos
• 3D Printer

9. 3D Printer - How does it work?
• Melting the plastic filament through the extruder at 185C (or 365F),
the heat bed is moved down as the extruder makes layers going left
and right.
• The heat bed moves down with each layer so that the extruder can
print.

10. 3D Printer

11. Different ways to use 3D printing
Custom Casts
Prosthetics

12. CHINA: Giant 3D printer
builds 10 houses in 1 day

13. Chocolate
Pancakes

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Popsicle Stick Catapult Plastic Cup Fort

15. Outdoor Kerplunk game! Hoola Hoop Weaving
Recycled paper baskets

16. Project Goals
• Setting an end goal for patrons to reach
with our makerspaces.
• For example – building a car out of
Legos

17. Mini Makerspace Kits
Independent
projects – passive
programming

18. Portable Makerspace

19. Pop Up Makerspaces

20. Impossible? We’re already doing it!