Library Makerspaces: The Complete Guide is a comprehensive road map for libraries of any size, with any budget, seeking to redesign or re-purpose space or to develop creative, hands-on maker-style programming. It features guidance on:
- Holding stakeholder discovery sessions for community-driven space and program development
- Evaluating existing library spaces for the most cost-effective and user-friendly facilities design and programming
- Asset mapping for developing community partnerships
- Best practices from different types of library makerspaces in the United States and internationally
- Sample budgets, inventories, and space plans
- Risk management considerations
- Programming recommendations and resources for a range of patrons from youth to seniors and business to hobby groups
- Funding and in-kind support
- Evaluating existing library spaces for the most cost-effective and user-friendly facilities design and programming
- Asset mapping for developing community partnerships
- Best practices from different types of library makerspaces in the United States and internationally
- Sample budgets, inventories, and space plans
- Risk management considerations
- Programming recommendations and resources for a range of patrons from youth to seniors and business to hobby groups
- Funding and in-kind support