A makerspace is an area intended to help its users express their creativity by crafting, building and designing whatever they can imagine. Typical amenities include 3-D printers that can create useful ...

Library makerspaces offer community members the opportunity to tinker, design, experiment, and create with a range of technology in an informal learning space. However, because current makerspaces and ...

Steve Zurier is a freelance technology writer based in Columbia, Md. What’s the best way to define a makerspace? For Laura Fleming, library media specialist at New Milford High School in New Jersey, a ...

On any given day at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy, visitors to the Lower School library might be surprised to find it bears little resemblance to the school libraries of years past. Encouraged by her ...

In ancient times, artisans labored in a small workshop with manual tools. Today, we have some extraordinary digital tools that enable the present-day “artisans” to create contemporary new products.

Today’s college students are spending more time than ever in public and campus libraries. According to a recent Pew Research Report, millennials are most likely to have visited a public library in the ...

Fans of the Boulder Public Library District’s BLDG 61 Makerspace can look forward to expanded studio time and new spaces for creating in the not-too-distant future. Located in the north building at ...

In my last blog post, I wrote about the rebirth of career and technical education (CTE) in U.S. high schools. But I also bemoaned the lack of opportunities available to non-CTE students who wish to ...

A few months into freshman year, I rolled around in the spinning chair that came with my dorm desk, forlorn, Googling: “Hot glue gun UC Berkeley free to use.” “Free hot glue gun for students.” “UC ...

From the art of the perfect hem to the creation of 3D-printed bots, UC Santa Barbara students, faculty and staff are welcome to learn and sharpen myriad creative skills at a newly minted on-campus ...