We're excited to share our episode about our (still relatively) new makerspace through an interview with the Digital Services Librarian Hedda Monaghan!

The SPL Learning Lab Makerspace page: https://shrewsburypubliclibrary.org/makerspace/

The Shrewsbury Public Library

609 Main Street | Shrewsbury, MA

508-841-8609

www.shrewsburypubliclibrary.org

splreference@cwmars.org

We recorded this episode in mid-December, and we're sad to announce that in the interim our host Mike Zeller has moved on to become the director of the Auburn Public Library and we hope he finds great success there!

Intro Song by Philip Zhang

Chapters

00:22 – Introduction

01:26 – About Hedda

05:38 – What is a makerspace?

09:39 – Community

10:47 – Why makerspaces in libraries?

17:28 – Maker culture and Internet information

18:15 – Origins of the SPL Learning Lab Makerspace

23:00 – Makerspace Tools

27:05 – What ages can use which tools?

31:06 – The importance of failure in making

34:10 – Wrap Up