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Beyond Books: A Shrewsbury Public Library Podcast
Beyond Books: A Shrewsbury Public Library Podcast
Your source to the events, news, people and an exclusive behind the scenes look at the Shrewsbury Public Library.
April ’25 – A Conversation with Digital Services Librarian Hedda Monaghan About Makerspaces
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
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