Yesterday, our local hackerspace/makerspace re-opened!
For awhile now, Fiacre O’Duinn has been talking about the shared purpose between libraries and these spaces:
The ideas that fuel hackerspaces, such as cooperation, resource and information sharing, self-directed education, and a diversity of views are concepts that are central to our profession’s ethos.
Not to mention the cool tech (3D printers, laser engravers, tool lending libraries, …) we’d like to see in libraries in the not-so-distant future.
It’s a conversation I hope to pick up with Willow & others (thx!)at CCCamp.