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Librarians as Makers

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  • Recent trends in librarianship point to themes of crafters, artisans, and makers in library spaces. The American Library Association's Center for the Future of Libraries includes the Maker Movement as one of its trends. Librarians can support these makers and entrepreneurs by thinking of libraries as a place to create through community building and engagement, and considering job skills needed for success and confidence to staff such spaces, but this transformation requires administrative support. This article summarizes this movement for libraries and suggests a route to success through a case study of a year-long grant on Making Maker librarians. - - - - -
  • KEYWORDS: makerspaces, makers, library learning spaces, space design, skill sets, “making makers”, training, community engagement, acadeMAKE, library as place, academic libraries
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  • Filar Williams, B., & Folkman, M. (2016). Librarians as Makers. Journal of Library Administration, 57(1) DOI: 10.1080/01930826.2016.1215676
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  • This article describes the research and case study funded by an LSTA grant awarded through the North Carolina State Library while the authors were at the University Libraries of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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