Library Makerspaces

Library Makerspaces: The Complete Guide is a comprehensive road map for libraries of any size, with any budget, seeking to redesign or repurpose space or to develop creative, hands-on maker-style programming. It features guidance on:

• Holding stakeholder discovery sessions for community-driven space and program development
• Evaluating existing library spaces for the most cost-effective and user-friendly facilities design and programming
• Asset mapping for developing community partnerships
• Best practices from different types of library makerspaces in the United States and internationally
• Sample budgets, inventories, and space plans
• Risk management considerations
• Programming recommendations and resources for a range of patrons from youth to seniors and business to hobby groups
• Funding and in-kind support

This book will help librarians develop and implement makerspaces, write grant proposals to fund such spaces,…