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                                                                     MakerSpace

                                   

According to Christopher Hunt, author of Tinkering with Makerspaces, “The purest form of makerspace is to have a dedicated area with random art and junk supplies and a variety of tools available for students to freely create whatever they are motivated to make without much outside influence or direction”. Having a makerspace in public school libraries is beginning to be more and more common, sometimes the makerspace has to follow along with a school lesson but sometimes kids have free range to create with little direction.

Many components help make a makerspace successful in a school library, the librarian must have admin, teacher, custodians, and sometimes even PTA support. My elementary school is slowly starting to build its makerspace, in the library. We have asked for donations of Legos from parents, we have gotten several different types of building blocks, and we are now starting to focus on art supplies and more “junk” type supplies. We want to have a welcoming space, where kids can come to let their imaginations go wild and let them create whatever they want. A makerspace is more than an art area or play area, it’s a place for imaginations to run wild, where no two kids will have the same finished project.

 

 

Hunt, C. (2024, April 10). EBSCO Information Services. OCLC Support. https://help.oclc.org/Library_Management/EZproxy/Database_stanzas/EBSCO_Information_Services

 

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