Presentation at the IFLA Conference "Thinking together: Innovate, Share, Preserve and Access". Lebanese Library Association, Beirut, May 20 2016.

1. Makerspaces in
Libraries
Education, innovation
and maker culture in
the library
Thinking together: Innovate, Share, Preserve
and Access. Lebanese Library Association,
Beirut, May 20 2016

2. About me
★ Project manager innovation Library
Service Fryslân
★ Chairman FabLab Benelux
Foundation
★ Cyclist and music lover
www.debsf.nl
www.fablab.nl
www.frysklab.nl
www.jeroendeboer.net
@jtdeboer @frysklab @fablab

3. Library makerspace?
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.

4. Book:
★ Theresa Willingham, Jeroen
de Boer: Makerspaces in
Libraries

5. 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.”

6. 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.”

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

8. FryskLab: Mobile Library FabLab

9. How did we
get started?
Abstract of my TEDx talk “The library as
maker and information space”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=prBATZD4oh4

10. FryskLab MakerTour2015

11. FryskLab MakerTour2015

13. 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

14. My Makerboxes (SWE)

15. FabLab Zeeland (NED)

16. FabLab Bibliotheek Veenendaal
(NED)

17. Helsinki Library Makerspace (FIN)

18. Coding Pirates (DEN)

19. The Waiting Room (UK)

20. Task Force Public Libraries

21. Common Libraries Makerboxes (UK)

22. Some recommended
reading:
★ John Burke: Makerspaces: A
Practical Guide for Librarians
★ Chris Anderson: Makers
★ Sylvia Libow Martinez & Gary
Stager: Invent to Learn
★ Cory Doctorow: Makers

23. Thank you
Jeroen de Boer
Project manager Innovation @ Bibliotheekservice Fryslân
Chairman @ FabLab Benelux Foundation
http://www.twitter.com/jtdeboer