...creative spaces, participants regrouped for plenary discussions. Promoting makerspaces A common topic of debate was how people have gone about promoting their makerspaces. Participants were encouraged to share what had...
...of makerspaces As described in Libraries Deliver: Ambition and the UK Digital Strategy, speakers agreed that makerspaces are a natural fit for libraries; as one speaker said “libraries are a...
...session from these workshops, develop a set of guidelines and resources that can be used by other library services who wish to develop makerspaces for children aged 3-8 and their...
...August. Photo credit: Telford & Wrekin libraries Makerspaces Finally, as you’ll have seen from our blog posts covering workshops to share experiences, a number of projects to create makerspaces were...
...code clubs and facilities like makerspaces and Fablabs. Below is the icon we have created to symbolise this outcome. To make it easier to spot related content, you’ll start to...
...using micro:bits. Photo credit: Gravesend Library To begin with, we started networking with other Makerspaces through the Libraries Innovators Network. This was immensely important and informative, and if I had...
...also created a new page to bring together a range of resources on makerspaces - following the workshops mentioned above. All our published material is available on GOV.UK. Sector forums...
...part of our bid we included a proposal to fund makerspaces within our libraries. Our confidence in the idea paid off and we were given £34,000 capital to invest in...
...each other and with staff, with experts, with partners. The introduction of ‘makerspaces’, for example, takes us away from ‘books about how to’ to actually doing and finding out. Makerspace...
...been doing, including lending tablets to people for their first taste of digital activity, hosting a writer in residence, giving business advice to people, creating makerspaces in libraries, running immersive...