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This is What a Makerspace Looks Like: A Visual Perspective
1. This Is What a MakerSpace Looks
Like: A Visual Perspective
Heather Moorefield-Lang
University of SC
School of Library and Information Science
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4. How are They Different
From Library Learning
Commons?
5. • Collaborating, participating,
helping
• Authentic and engaging inquiry
and knowledge building
• Playing, creating, tinkering,
building, making
• Demonstrating respect in both
physical and digital space
• Experimenting, sharing,
performing
• Producing, doing, constructing
• Connecting, accessing, self
monitoring (Loertscher &
Koechlin, 2014)Maker Workshop,
University of SC
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42. It’s a question of does information go to your
library to die or does it go there to take on
new life? And if you maintain a traditional
library, you're an archivist and that is where
information goes to die and that's sad.
43. Librarians are collectors in their most
traditional role so they just want to
collect the right stuff and hope that the
outcomes come with it. We need to
realize there is a lot of making already so
meeting the community with what they
need is incredibly important.
45. The first time we had the maker ability
within the library and it sort of trickled out
throughout the school… It didn't just
change the library it changed the mentality
of the whole school it seemed. Instead of
saying we can't do that because we don't
know how, it’s we can do that, how can we
figure out how to do it.
47. If you were to consider the whole library
as a maker space, I'd say it's really
different than pretty much any other
library that I've pretty much ever seen
because it seems like it's more free and
not really the 'shhhhhh' thing that's in
most libraries.