A group of Swedish librarycolleagues visited The Netherlands this week. Part of the program was being informed about FabLabs and libraries.

1. FryskLab
the mobile library FabLab of Fryslân

2. Jeroen de Boer
Domainspecialist new media Bibliotheekservice Fryslân
Board member FabLab Benelux Foundation
@jtdeboer
http://www.frysklab.nl
@frysklab

3. "If you Googled Maker Space plus
Library 18 months ago, you might
have found two hits, but now
you'll find it all over the Internet"
!
(Maxine Bleiweis, Westport Public Library)

4. Values Makers ≈ Values Library
Nicholas Schiller:
http://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/?p=2282

5. Library Bill of Rights
access
freedom
advocacy
inquiry
openness

6. Hacker ethic
sharing
openness
collaboration
hands-on-imperative

7. “We’ll see that at least in terms of access to
information, public openness, freedom, sharing, and
collaboration libraries and hackers are on the same
page. There are many things that hackers and
libraries can do together that further these shared
values and goals.”
Nicholas Schiller:

8. Collaboration
Community!
Libraries and FabLabs need the

9. Library as Platform
David Lankes:
“The Mission Of Librarians Is To Improve Society Through
Facilitating Knowledge Creation In Their Communities”
!
“A Platform For Community Learning And Innovation”
Library as Platform
David Lankes:
“The Mission Of Librarians Is To Improve Society Through
Facilitating Knowledge Creation In Their Communities”
!
“A Platform For Community Learning And Innovation”

10. Library as Platform
David Lankes:
“The Mission Of Librarians Is To Improve Society Through
Facilitating Knowledge Creation In Their Communities”
!
“A Platform For Community Learning And Innovation”
Library as Platform
David Weinberger:
“To think that knowledge itself is shaped like
books is to marvel that a rock fits so well in
its hole in the ground.”

11. Not Institutional Repositories,
Networked Repositories
!
Role of Librarian: Acquisition to Curation
!
Collection Development Becomes
Connection Development
!
Size Doesn’t Matter
!
Rural Libraries Well Positioned
Some
implications:
Library as Platform

12. Mobile library FabLab
Initiated by Bibliotheekservice Fryslân

13. Mobile library FabLab
Initiated by Bibliotheekservice Fryslân

14. 1951:
Mobile library FabLab
Initiated by Bibliotheekservice Fryslân

15. Why
FabLab?
Why FabLab?

16. Why?

17. Why
FabLab?
What have we achieved
this far?
1. Purchase of library bus
2. Purchase of FabLab-hardware
3. Officially FabLab
4. Development FryskLab Elements
5. Development LOD Kennisbank
6. Development Fab the Library!

18. Why
FabLab?
FryskLab Elements
Educational program for primary
and secondary education
Funded by SNS REAAL
Pilot March/April 2014

19. Why
FabLab?
FabLab as makerspace is
inseparable from FabLab
as informationspace:
data is contextualized
FryskLab LOD Knowledge
Base
Funded by Pica Foundation

20. Why
FabLab?
1. Development datamodel
2. Triplestore database
3. Data FryskLab
4. User interface
5. User interaction
FryskLab LOD Knowledge
Base
Funded by Pica Foundation

21. Why
FabLab?
Partners:
Hogeschool Rotterdam
MetaMatter
Stichting FabLab Benelux
Rotslab
Funded by Pica Foundation
FryskLab LOD Knowledge
Base

22. Why
FabLab?
Fab the Library
Program to make it
easier for libraries to
integrate a FabLab or
related services
Funded by Netherlands Institute for Public Libraries

23. Why
FabLab?
Fab the Library
Development of three modules
1. Introduction
2. Hands-on
3. Strategy
Funded by Netherlands Institute for Public Libraries

24. Why
FabLab?
Fab the Library
Available in April 2014
Funded by Netherlands Institute for Public Libraries

25. Why
FabLab?
FryskLab: next step
Development of business case
for a sustainable business model

26. Why
FabLab?
Masterplan FryskLab
Waterapplicatiecentrum
Bètapunt Noord (Techniekpact)
ROC’s (Stimuleringsfonds MBO)
NHL/UCF (kennispartner)
LWD2018 (FabLab in bidbook)
Fries Bibliotheken Netwerk
Life-long learning program digital fabrication

27. Why
FabLab?
Proposition FryskLab
1. Dvelopment of FabLab in
Fryslân with partners
2. FryskLab as connector

28. Jeroen de Boer
@jtdeboer
http://www.frysklab.nl
Thank you!
@frysklab