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The article features Library Makers, a free online community of makers that aims to share ideas and offer support to all kinds of makerspaces in the U.S. Topics discussed include background on the creation of the platform, features of the website, and comments from Pamela Van Halsema, a teacher librarian who facilitated the launch of Library Makers in April 2023.

The article discusses the renewed popularity of project-based learning and makerspaces in educational settings. Some projects can be integrated into content areas and curriculum, while others allow children and teenagers to create and collaborate in an innovative and fun way. The video-based Sew-It! Workshop created by New Jersey-based Ellen Lumpkin Brown are designed to suit all types of libraries with makerspaces.

The article discusses how an active learning approach benefited students at Smithtown (New York) High School West on the north shore of Long Island. The district decided to hire teacher assistants (TA) to help in the library and the best candidate was assistant basketball coach, Jonathan Feiler. The response of the students to the hired TA, observations on library makerspace experience, and the benefits of student participation in active learning are mentioned.

The article discusses the move by librarians to strategize amid uncertainty and adapt makerspace environments to ensure hands-on learning remains available to all students. Topics covered include increase in the number of curate online resources that libraries offered and the diversity of media according to a survey, benefits of makerspaces to students, key to boosting online participation, and the use of makerspaces by library manager Sarah Steiger to try to address real-world problems.

The article offers the author's insights regarding their development of a teen maker space at the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County, Ohio in 2015. The author mentions several materials they used for creating the space such as circulating maker kits with Snap Circuits, LEGO toys, and stop-motion animation materials. She discusses several things they learned from the maker space such as digital photography, robotics, and vinyl cutting and 3D printing.

The article features several educational tools for librarians and how they are using them. Topics discussed include main categories of the tools that librarians use the most; recommendation from Texas middle school library media specialist Karina Quilantán-Garza; and the Do Ink for maker spaces, video making, podcasting, photo projects, and student-made book talks being used by Louisiana teacher librarian Amanda Jones.

The article focuses on the partnership called Making Spaces, funded by a grant from Google and led by Children's Museum of Pittsburgh (CMP) and the Oakland, California-based Maker Education Initiative (Maker Ed). Topics discussed include the growth of the partnership, one of the biggest hurdles facing a school or library, and biggest benefit of crowdfunding according to Lisa Brahms, director of learning and research at the CMP.

The article discusses the benefits of makerspaces in libraries to students and to librarians. Topics discussed include the significance of a maker workshop conducted by a group from the University of Michigan in 2016, the role of makerspaces in helping librarians connect with children, and comments from Jose Sandoval, a program specialist with Community Science Workshop Network and SAM Academy.

The article profiles Rebecca Millerjohn, a youth service librarian at Madison Public Library in Wisconsin and one of the individuals honored in the Movers & Shakers 2000 of the "Library Journal." Topics include her background which helped her to make connections between the unscripted learning that happens in Maker spaces and the standards-based curricula, how she developed ways to analyze and track learning through Maker spaces, and her collaboration with six Madison schools.

The article reports that library workers are helping communities mitigate the COVID-19 crisis through Maker skills. Topics discussed include the use of 3-D printers by librarians to create personal protective equipment (PPE), estimated cost per face shield to produce according to Boise State University in Idaho, and importance of following specific safety steps when manufacturing.

The article discusses the collaboration between the Mountain Lakes Public Library (MLPL) makerspace and the Mountain Lakes (New Jersey) High School (MLHS) students to give students learning experience through the organization Build a Better Book. Topics include the growth of the interest and level of projects and collaboration since the partnership started, things that the MLHS students have learned from the collaboration, and the expansion of in-school collaborations.

The article discusses the things considered in library planning for developing Maker spaces. Among the considerations include training staffs excluding the employee who has worked with three-dimensional (3-D) printing, determining equipments and services to be offered, and discussing work flows with the planning team.

The article provides information on the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music & Media Conference event SXSWEdu held in Austin, Texas from March 9 to 12, 2015, which focused on design thinking and making within libraries. Topics included libraries as Maker spaces, library collaboration with communities and schools, and library programs.

The article reports on the collaborative efforts by the Oxford (Alabama) Middle School (OMS) with a Gothic literature and STEAM collaborative unit called STREAM. Topics discussed include the creation of a plan that uses literature and STEAM with the unit, the lessons studied by the classes, and the reaction of the students to both the exploration of Gothic short stories and the STEAM elements.

The article discusses the educational opportunity provided by makerspaces. It states that a true makerspace provides student-driven opportunity for open-extended exploration for all. Sustainability that requires proper planning is said to be the key to the future of makerspaces. The importance of reflection to planning for the right makerspace for one's school is also emphasized.

The article offers information on MAKESHOP present at at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh which help children to develop interpersonal skills and technical skills. Topics discussed include MAKESHOP encourages libraries and museums to consider their community's needs when developing maker spaces and tips for planning activities for preschoolers; encouraging parents to interact with their little ones while playing with items; and framework "Learning Practices of Making" developed by museum.

The article offers information on the 17th biennial conference of the American Association of School Librarians held in Columbus, Ohio from November 5-8, 2015. Topics include learning, maker spaces and data-based advocacy to library writing centers. The conference featured several people including school librarians Joyce Valenza and Jennifer Boudrye, and school superintendent Steve Webb.

The author discusses how libraries have adapted to the changing needs and demands of their communities since the beginning of the digital age. Topics include how libraries have added programming such as technology classes for parents and their children, information sessions on health care, and language classes, how libraries are building Maker spaces and technology such as 3-D printers, and the level of activism among librarians.

The article discusses how the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) gave the National Leadership Grant to the Free Library of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the library's Maker Jawn initiative which offers expanded science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) programming in Maker spaces. Topics include how programming is aimed at teenagers, the etymology of the word "jawn," and the program's support from local universities such as Temple University.

The article features the upgraded Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School makerspace in Parkland, Florida.

The article reports on the collaboration of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab and nonprofit maker education training and resources organization Maker Education Initiative (Maker) Ed to embed assessment into maker activities to quantify what the students are learning, while not destroying the pedagogy. Topics include the Beyond Rubrics: Assessment in Making project funded by the National Science Foundation, the problem with makerspaces in schools, and comments from MIT research scientist Y. J. Kim.

The article presents lessons from the mobile makerspace of the County of Los Angeles Public Library in California. The pilot program of the mobile makerspace of the library started in December 2016 and reached its fleet of four in September 2017. Pieces of advice from library administrator Jesse Lanz for any size library or system looking to start a mobile makerspace program are offered including the need for flexibility and willingness to relinquish control.

The article focuses on the hatch makerspace of Watertown Free Public Library in the Arsenal Project shopping mall in Massachusetts.

The article discusses the Colorado Springs library which is part of the Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Topics include the library's role in community engagement and education, the renovated building's Maker spaces which contain three dimensional printers, sewing machines, and laser cutters, and how the library hired OrangeBoy Inc. for patron data analysis.

The article offers information on "Build a Great Makerspace," a web based panel discussion about maker spaces held on September 21, 2017. Topics discussed include the views of panelist and librarian Laura Fleming about the need for educators to consult students about maker spaces; the views of panelist Tamiko Brown, librarian at Ed White ESTEM Magnet School, on it; and the views of David Jakes, founder and chief design officer of David Jakes Designs, on it.

The article informs about 2017 series of webcasts presented by School Library Journal (SLJ) and ISTE for enhancing maker spaces and digital learning. Topics include rapid-fire session started by SLJ executive editor Kathy Ishizuka with librarian Monica Carbacas; speech given by Jefferson Lighthouse Elementary director Heidi Williams on coding lessons; and speech of SLJ senior editor Daryl Grabarek on using apps for build on a child's interest.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of organizing the Teen MakerSpace outreach program at the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County in Ohio.

The article reports on the grant provided by nonprofit Education Foundation of Wauwatosa (EFW) to school district libraries in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin to create makerspaces. Particular focus is given to the fundraising strategies of EFW, as well as Longfellow Middle School's grant application. According to EFW President Mary Phillips, the makerspace project is a group type of creative thinking, strategy and processing.

The article focuses on the use of technology by librarian Nikki Robertson of James Clemens High School in Madison, Alabama. It explores Robertson's effort of getting all students connected through digital devices and technology tools in her maker space in the school and her influence on other librarians in pushing their own digital learning skills into classrooms and libraries.