Makerspaces : A Practical Guide for Librarians

John J. Burke

ISBN 10: 1538108186 / ISBN 13: 9781538108185

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Makerspaces: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Second Edition is an A Z guidebook jam-packed with resources, advice, and information to help you develop and fund your own makerspace from the ground up. Learn what other libraries are making, building, and doing in their makerspaces and how you can, too. Readers are introduced to makerspace equipment, new technologies, models for planning and assessing projects, and useful case studies that will equip them with the knowledge to implement their own library makerspaces. This expanded second edition features eighteen brand new library makerspace profiles providing advice and inspiration for how to create your own library makerspace, over twenty new images and figures illustrating maker tools and trends as well as library makerspaces in action and new lists of actual grant and funding sources for library makerspaces.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Makerspaces : A Practical Guide for Librarians
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538108186
• ISBN 13: 9781538108185
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 280W x 216H x 12D millimeters 280 millimeters width by 216 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 542 grams

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Synopsis

Makerspaces: A Practical Guide for Librarians, Second Edition is an A–Z guidebook jam-packed with resources, advice, and information to help you develop and fund your own makerspace from the ground up. Learn what other libraries are making, building, and doing in their makerspaces and how you can, too. Readers are introduced to makerspace equipment, new technologies, models for planning and assessing projects, and useful case studies that will equip them with the knowledge to implement their own library makerspaces. This expanded second edition features eighteen brand new library makerspace profiles providing advice and inspiration for how to create your own library makerspace, over twenty new images and figures illustrating maker tools and trends as well as library makerspaces in action and new lists of actual grant and funding sources for library makerspaces.

About the Author

John J. Burke is principal librarian and director of the Gardner-Harvey Library on the Middletown regional campus of Miami University of Ohio. He is former president of the Academic Library Association of Ohio and former chair of the Southwest Ohio Council on Higher Education Library Council.

Ellyssa Kroski is director of information technology at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of thirty-six books. She is a librarian, an adjunct faculty member at Drexel and San Jose State universities, and an international conference speaker. She was just named the winner of the 2017 Library Hi Tech Award from the American Library Association and the Library Information Technology Association for her long-term contributions in the area of library and information science technology and its application.