FryskLab is an initiative of Library Service Friesland (Bibliotheekservice Fryslân, BSF) and the Frisian public library network. Friesland is a rural province in the northern part of the Netherlands and FryskLab, operating from a truck formerly used as a bookmobile, is Europe’s first official library FabLab, or “fabrication laboratory”. Its varied team consists of IT specialists, arts management professionals and librarians, and its goal is to examine the extent to which this mobile FabLab initiative contributes to the development of creative, technical and entrepreneurial skills of children and young adults. The project is ultimately expected to result in an increase of the innovative capacities of the entire province of Friesland. Officially launched in 2014, FryskLab has so far received a number of awards, including the American Library Association’s (ALA) 2017 Presidential Citations for Innovative International Library Projects award. Making knowledge and sharing the future, the motto of the FryskLab project, reinforces the role of libraries in facilitating access to various “tools of knowledge” (equipment and technology) and providing support in the form of various educational and training programmes, effectively bringing together physical and digital, traditional and modern means of acquiring knowledge. Keywords: maker movement, makerspaces, digital literacy, education, creativity Presented at 11th Croatian Conference on Public Libraries: “Public Library Network – Cooperation in the Development of Digital Services and Public Presentation” http://www.nsk.hr/en/11th-croatian-conference-on-public-libraries/

1. FryskLab
Education,innovation and
maker culture in the library
11th Croatian Conference on Public Libraries, Crikvenica, October 12, 2017

2. ★ Innovation advisor at
Bibliotheekservice Fryslân
★ Amateur cyclist and music lover
www.debsf.nl
www.frysklab.nl
www.jeroendeboer.net
@jtdeboer @frysklab
About me

3. Book
TheresaWillingham, Jeroen de Boer:
Makerspaces in Libraries
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442252998/Makerspaces-in-Libraries

4. Library Labs
…are creative,DIY spaces where people can gather to create,invent,and learn.They
often have 3D printers,software,electronics,craft and hardware supplies and tools,and
more.

5. (Library) Labs
Mark Hatch,The Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the NewWorld of Crafters, Hackers, andTinkerers (NewYork: McGraw-Hill Education, 2014), 1-2.
Exist to bring individual makers into a space with shared resources;
Are spaces in which experienced makers can teach skills and guide the progress of
newer makers;
Allow for the sharing ideas and designs not just within the makerspace, but outward
to the larger world of makers;
Enable individuals to collaborate on projects and bring multiple perspectives and skill
sets together;
Encourage individuals to experiment and discover through tinkering with
technologies and products and to approach making with a spirit of play.

6. Activities in Library Labs
John Burke: http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2015/Burke.pdf

7. Where are we coming from?

8. 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.”

9. CompleteTED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity

10. 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.”

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

12. Doug Belshaw
“My belief is that the concept of 'remix' is at the heart
of digital literacies.”
Doug Belshaw, The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies:
http://dougbelshaw.com/ebooks/digilit/

13. Doug Belshaw, The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies,TEDxWarwick: https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yQPoTcZ78

14. •
IFLA Statement on Digital Literacy (August 17, 2017)
“We use the term‘digital literacy’to describe the ability to harness the
potential of digital tools.IFLA promotes an outcome-orientated
definition –
to be digitally literate means one can use technology to its
fullest effect - efficiently,effectively and ethically
– to meet information needs in personal,civic and professional lives.”
https://www.ifla.org/files/assets/faife/statements/ifla_digital_literacy_statement.pdf

15. How do we do it in Friesland?

16. FryskLab: a mobile library makerspace

18. 2017ALA Presidential Citation for
Innovative International Library Projects

20. Educational programs centered around
2D, 3D, Making, 21st Century Skills, Digital Literacy,
Programming, Electronics

21. Impact through Connection at School

22. Class 7a, Dr.Algraschool, Leeuwarden

23. enabling* tech
low cost open-source hardware
digital making
low cost computing
(devices or hosted)
(open) data / analysis
IoT (sensors & actuators)
mesh networking
algorithms / machine learning
blockchain
energy production
agrotech
biotech
the enabled
the individual
as part of specific
small groups / teams
network of connected individuals
communities
organizations
(and by extension society)
impact
strengthen local community
think global, act (hyper)local
increase resilience
leverage and share local/group assets
cooperatively create infrastructure
build mutual support structures
scaffold new systems
shield against fall-out of old/broken
systems
build a distributed/networked living
p2p organizing
p2p sourcing
open knowledge
iterative processes with probes
social media / media production
community building practices
networked models
workflow / decision making
tools
community currencies/exchang-
es
hacking ethics
ethics by design / individual
rights
enabling* methods
/ design principles
by Ton Zijlstra, http://zylstra.org/blog, CC BY-NC-SA
*enabling is only that which is distributed, within my trust/control and can be deployed by me / my groups.
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Impact through Connection at School

24. Underwater
Viewer

25. Underwater
Viewer

26. MediaLiteracyMakers & Makerboxes*:
Unpacking digital literacies
Cultural (Makerbox 1)
Cognitive (Makerbox 2)
Constructive (Makerbox 3)
Communicative (Makerbox 4)
Confident (Makerbox 5)
Creative (Makerbox 6)
Critical (Makerbox 7)
Civic (Makerbox 8)
* een concept van Ake Nygren:http://mymakerbox.es

28. FryskLab MakerTour2015

29. SlimmeTrapper / Smart Cycler
https://www.facebook.com/slimmetrapper/

30. Fab the Library!
Method to help libraries to integrate a
makerspace or related services into their libraries

31. Fab the Library!
1. Introduction
2. Hands-on
3. Strategy

32. Some reading
recommendations
★ John Burke: Makerspaces:A Practical
Guide for Librarians
★ ChrisAnderson: Makers
★ Sylvia Libow Martinez & Gary Stager:
Invent to Learn
★ Cory Doctorow: Makers
★ selected articles here (Google Drive)

33. The library as maker and information space | Jeroen de Boer |TEDxFryslân
https://youtu.be/prBATZD4oh4

34. Jeroen de Boer
innovation advisor Bibliotheekservice Fryslân
j.deboer@bfrl.nl
http://www.debsf.nl http://www.frysklab.nl
@jtdeboer
Thank you!