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 ...

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 2017, the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded the Nebraska Library Commission a $530,732 grant, which made it possible for the agency to rotate four makerspaces where people could make ...

A 3-D printer at work at Spark Place in the Xenia Public Library. LONDON BISHOP/STAFF Public libraries may be winning the streaming wars Xenia nonprofit to open day shelter with county ARPA funds ...

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 ...