The document describes plans by the Amsterdam Public Library to transform into a center for learning, skills development, and community engagement through establishing makerspaces. It discusses opening makerspaces in 10 local library branches to provide informal learning spaces where community members can create, design, code, and make things. The goals are to train library employees and teachers in makerspace facilitation, offer workshops for 5,000 local children annually, and position libraries as hubs for open learning through blending physical and digital resources.

1. Amsterdam Public Library

2. HOUSE OF
KNOWLEDGE
HOUSE OF
EDUCATION
HOUSE OF
SKILLS

3. open
for everyone

4. redesign
the commons
and local community
engagement

5. 21st century skills
LEARNING & INNOVATION
SKILLS
DIGITAL LITERACY SKILLS
CAREER & LIFE SKILLS

6. library
makerspaces
“MAKERSPACES ARE
ENABLING LIBRARIES TO
TRANSFORM THEIR
RELATIONSHIP WITH
COMMUNITIES AND TO
EMPOWER COMMUNITY
MEMBERS OF ALL AGES TO BE
CREATORS OF
INFORMATION, NOT JUST
CONSUMERS.”

7. LIBRARY PATRONS ENGAGE
WITH OTHERS IN HANDS-ON
LEARNING AND CREATION
academy / studio

8. LIBRARIES SHOULD BRING
TOGETHER THE BEST OF
THE PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL
TO CREATE OPEN LEARNING
HUBS.
network libraries
of the future

10. MAKERSPACE 021 IS A POWERFUL INFORMAL LEARNING
SPACE THAT GIVE LOCAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS THE ABILITY
TO CREATE, HACK, AND MAKE THEIR FUTURE.

13. MAKE THE CITY!
DESIGN SOLUTIONS FOR
YOUR OWN
NEIGHBORHOOD
CODETEAM
PROGRAMMING AND
CODING
FABSCHOOL
DESIGN-METHODS AND
DIGITAL FABRICATION
activities
Maakplaats 021

14. SCHOOLS USE THE MAKERSPACES AS AN ‘EXTRA ‘CLASSROOM
TEACHER TRAININGS

15. AMBITIONS 2017 Q1 Q2 ff
makerspaces in 10 local
library branches
- pilots opened in OBA
Waterlandplein (North) en
Central OBA
- start explorations and mapping
in Amsterdam Southeast and
New-West
training 200 OBA
employees / together with
school teachers
- Library Maker Camp: 80 OBA
employees
- training program ‘Maakplaats
coach’: 15 OBA employees
workshops for 5.000 children
on a yearly basis
- 3 after school programs a
week / +/- 40 kids per time
- build up to: 5 days a week;
morning for schools, every day
after school program, evenings
community activities

16. SACHA VAN TONGEREN
PROGRAM MANAGER
S.VANTONGEREN@OBA.NL