Makerspaces for Adults - by Jennifer Hicks & Jessica Long (Paperback)

About the Book

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 relations...

Book Synopsis

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.

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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.

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.