Makerspaces for Adults: Best Practices and Great Projects

by Jennifer Hicks MLIS, Makerspace Program Coordinator, Gardner-Harvey Library, Miami Univers (Editor), Jessica Long (Editor)

Overview

This book highlights how to integrate your makerspace within the wider community. Discover how you can connect your makerspace with service learning to support different groups, take makerspace tools to various points of need through community partnerships, and build relationships with faculty, students, and patrons through makerspace projects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538133323
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/29/2020
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.64(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Jennifer Hicks, MLIS, is the Circulation & Reserves Supervisor at the Gardner-Harvey Library on the Middletown regional campus of Miami University (OH). Her work includes creating and running programming in the library makerspace. Jennifer’s research interests include student training, makerspaces, community engagement, and supporting nontraditional students.

Jessica Long, MLIS, is the Outreach and Instruction Librarian & Associate Librarian at the Gardner-Harvey Library on the Middletown regional campus of Miami University (OH). Her outreach work and research interests include online learning courses and tools, gamification and game-based learning, fake news and misinformation, and using makerspaces to help support community needs.

Table of Contents

Part I: Academic Libraries

1. Made for Each Other - James Mitchell
2. Building an Accessible and Inclusive Makerspace - Carli Spina
3. Making an Academic Makerspace and Making Assignments by the Moment: Successes and challenges during the first year of operation - Sara E. Wright, James McKee, and Camille Andrews
4. Intergenerational Learning and Crafting through Stitch ‘n Bitch - Nancy Schuler
5. Constructing and Critiquing Learning Pyramids in a University Makerspace - Jasia Stuart and Dianne Cmor
6. Collaborating Across the Institution to Deliver Makerspace Services to Students - Laura Wiegand McBrayer, Adalia Hiltebeitel, Gene A. Felice II, Peter Fritzler, and Jason Fleming

Part II: Connecting to the Curriculum

1. Applying Design Thinking, Collaboration, and Makerspaces to Encourage Innovation in the Classroom - Thomas Mays
2. 3D Printing in a Senior Seminar Fashion Course - Bernadette Smith Mirro, Julia Ravindran, and Mason Hongqiang Yang
3. Sculpting Synesthesia: Using the Makerspace to Develop Creative Writing and Creative Minds - Eric Melbye
4. The Makerspace as a Place for Social Justice Learning - Emily Lelandais, Donna Femenella, and Antoaneta Tileva
5. City of Galadriel: How it is used to explore understanding surface and groundwaters - Tammie L. Gerke
6. Little Shop of Horror - Wes Smith and Ethan Mills

Part III: Public Libraries and Community Outreach

1. Growing a Maker Community: Planning and implementing a local community Maker Fest - Tracy Paradis, Debby Emerson, and Michelle Costello
2. I Saw it on Pinterest: A Choose Your Craft Adventure - Cara Bolley
3. Moving Beyond Craft Programs: Encouraging Creative Confidence in Adult Learners - Sarah Nagle and Amber R. Cox
4. Design Thinking in a Goal-Oriented Makerspace - Amanda Sweet
5. Busting the Doors Open: Programs & Services that Engage with the Community - Jennifer Hicks
6. Maker Programming for Adults with Disabilities: “Library for All” best programs and best practices - Sarah Coleman and Stephanie Douglas

Part IV: Projects in Action

1. Multimedia Dickens: Teaching language and illustration through the makerspace - Elizabeth M. Henley and Susan E. Cook
2. Sharing a Common Thread: Quilting projects in the makerspace - Christine Keenan
3. Engaging Makers through Building Lunetta Electronic Music Instruments -David Luftig
4. Design, Cut, Etch: Using vinyl cutters to create custom etched glass - Jessica Martinez and Courtney Pace
5. DIY Lasercut Snowflake Workshop: Introducing design and fabrication to makerspace beginners - Kelsey Sheaffer
6. Why Don’t You Make Me: Laser cutting a statue/bust - Michael Price
7. A Tale of Two Tortoises: How the Cline Library MakerLab is building curriculum, community, and cohesive service design - Kathleen L. Schmand, Andrew See, and Bridget Rowan Wipf
8. Bringing the Field to the Classroom using 3D Printed Fossils - Tammie L. Gerke and John Burke
9. 3D-Printed Selfie - Stew Wilson
10. Bonding and Building Relationships through an Academic Makerspace - Soon Goo Lee, Jason Fleming, and Peter Fritzler
11. Taking a Virtual Archaeological Site Tour: A class visit to the Baths of Caracalla - Jason Fleming, Eleanora Reber, and Stephanie Crowe
12. Using Virtual Reality in Teaching Education Students - Lauren E. Burrow and Edward Iglesias

About the Contributors

About the Editors

Editorial Reviews

Makerspaces for Adults: Best Practices and Great Projects answers the call for practical literature to inform makerspace services to adults. From partnerships to practice, the contributors offer a holistic approach including topics such as inclusiveness, curriculum, community outreach, projects, and beyond. This book is an essential resource for those who wish to offer makerspace resources and activities to adults.

From the Publisher

Makerspaces for Adults: Best Practices and Great Projects answers the call for practical literature to inform makerspace services to adults. From partnerships to practice, the contributors offer a holistic approach including topics such as inclusiveness, curriculum, community outreach, projects, and beyond. This book is an essential resource for those who wish to offer makerspace resources and activities to adults.

Katy B. Mathuews