A makerspace is an area intended to help its users express their creativity by crafting, building and designing whatever they can imagine. Typical amenities include 3-D printers that can create useful ...

Library makerspaces offer community members the opportunity to tinker, design, experiment, and create with a range of technology in an informal learning space. However, because current makerspaces and ...

A few months into freshman year, I rolled around in the spinning chair that came with my dorm desk, forlorn, Googling: “Hot glue gun UC Berkeley free to use.” “Free hot glue gun for students.” “UC ...

Today’s college students are spending more time than ever in public and campus libraries. According to a recent Pew Research Report, millennials are most likely to have visited a public library in the ...

In ancient times, artisans labored in a small workshop with manual tools. Today, we have some extraordinary digital tools that enable the present-day “artisans” to create contemporary new products.

In 2017, the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded the Nebraska Library Commission a $530,732 grant, which made it possible for the agency to rotate four makerspaces where people could make ...

In my last blog post, I wrote about the rebirth of career and technical education (CTE) in U.S. high schools. But I also bemoaned the lack of opportunities available to non-CTE students who wish to ...

A 3-D printer at work at Spark Place in the Xenia Public Library. LONDON BISHOP/STAFF Public libraries may be winning the streaming wars Xenia nonprofit to open day shelter with county ARPA funds ...

From the art of the perfect hem to the creation of 3D-printed bots, UC Santa Barbara students, faculty and staff are welcome to learn and sharpen myriad creative skills at a newly minted on-campus ...

The reopening of the Carroll County Public Library’s Westminster Branch also brings the completion of Exploration Commons at 50 East, a project that transformed the basement of the library into a ...