Makerspaces for Adults: Best Practices and Great Projects

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.

Author: Jennifer Hicks
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 07/29/2020
Pages: 202
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781538133323
ISBN10: 1538133326
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Library & Information Science | General

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.