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Maker Space Disruption – New PW Piece by Brian Kenney

Brian Kenney’s new piece in Publishers Weekly is on Maker Spaces:

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/56603-meet-your-makers.html

I love his take:

What’s radical about maker spaces in libraries? Pretty much everything. Maker spaces are messy in a library world that values order, disruptive in a culture run by schedules, chaotic in a profession that did, after all, develop the Dewey [...]

May 2nd, 2013 | Category: Makerspace & Creation | 2 comments

Makerspace Lawsuits – A TTW Guest Post by Rick Thomchick

Monica Harris, a librarian from Oak Park, Illinois, recently posted a great article to the MakerSpaces and the Participatory Library group on Facebook about 3D printing and intellectual property in which Chris Anderson declared, “we’re going to get sued.”

I wryly replied with a link to a Wired article that the lawsuits had already begun. Michael Weinberg, an attorney with [...]

November 3rd, 2012 | Category: Makerspace & Creation, TTW Guest Posts | One comment - (Comments are closed)

The Portal at Tippecanoe County PL

Note from Michael: I met Tippecanoe County PL (Lafayette, IN) director Jos Holman at IPLA last week. He told me about his library’s creation space “The Portal.” S. Neal Starkey, Head Technology Librarian, followed up with some info and a link. I thought this was a good example of what’s possible in a medium-sized midwest library.

The Portal [...]

October 10th, 2012 | Category: Makerspace & Creation | Comments are closed