Makerspaces
"Public libraries have embraced this (makerspace) movement by developing various makerspace programs, ranging from artists in residence workshops, digital design studios, and meet-spaces for groups with particular technological interests." (Willett 2016)
"A ... key theme underlying the makerspace movement in public libraries is learning—particularly learning practices that are informal, participatory, and collaborative." (Willett 2016)
"If individuals can do it for themselves, they don’t have to rely on others to do it for them. This can-do attitude supports increasingly desirable personality characteristics of innovativeness and a spirit of entrepreneurship. Likewise, creative thinking and making allows individuals and small groups to develop ideas that can be scaled into more traditional forms of manufacturing and businesses that have, in recent decades, become increasingly less accessible to those with lesser economic means of starting a business. We also see contemporary making as virtually untethered from traditional gender roles. Where once the type of tool, equipment, or material often dictated who would be doing the making, today’s tools, technologies, and spaces for making are idealized as gender neutral." (Mathuews 2020)
"...the library has become one of the few places to study, relax, and wait, before and after class meeting times and for times between classes. This fact has already made the library a popular site for colocation initiatives such as academic advising, tutoring, writing centers, and many other student-facing initiatives. As a result, the makerspace is a natural extension of this concept." (Mathuews 2020)
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