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Create, play, learn: Setting up a small maker space in a public library

ALIA Information Online 2017 Conference, 13-17 February 2017 Sydney: Data Information Knowledge
 
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Call it what you will, Maker Space, Hacker Space, Creative Space the movement in public libraries to be more than just purveyors of books and literacy has grown considerably over the past few years with Creative Spaces in all shapes and forms opening across the country.
 
From high tech labs to knitting circles the desire to unlock creativity and to share this with other people is strong within our communities

Around the World in Not-Quite-80 Libraries: What Library Trends Around the World Show Us About Future Library Spaces [slides]

ALIA Information Online 2017 Conference, 13-17 February 2017 Sydney: Data Information Knowledge
 
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) shares best practices, lessons learned, implementation suggestions, and a significant number of images of the concepts in place in spaces, so that libraries around the world can take advantage of the innovations of our colleagues.

When free is not enough: what the International Librarians Network managed to achieve with zero budget, and what we did when we hit the limits [slides]

ALIA Information Online 2015 Conference, 2-5 February 2015, Sydney: at the edge
 
This conference presentation (PowerPoint slides) outlines how the ILN used freely available technology to establish and grow, and what was achieved from this base. The paper explores the steps the ILN took to identify planning and development strategies for small organisations and projects that need to ‘do more with less’.

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