 We are at 2.30 the start of an exciting CNI so thank you all for coming little ground rule this session is being recorded now you won't be recorded but we're being recorded and what that means is that we are bound a little bit to this general tabling area so that we're recorded so we may not be as animated as you would normally find us but we'll do our best puts a whole damper on the interpretive dance portion of our presentation it does it does and I know that you are looking forward to that I'm Scott Walter I'm the University Librarian at DePaul University and I'm joined today by I am Janice Scurrio I am the Information Technology Librarian at DePaul University and the third person on our on our program Megan Bernal who's one of our associate University librarians I wasn't able to join us today so but she's represented here and certainly in the process we'd like to start by just saying thank you really to all of the folks who did makerspace programs at CNI over the last few years because it was those programs that really helped us to realize how important it was to shoehorn makerspace into the most recent phase of our library renovation and if you heard Joan speaking just a few moments ago about the role of creativity in the curriculum and the role of spaces like these in bridging the gaps between the curriculum and a co-curriculum you actually heard her singing a lot of the same songs that we sang on campus we would like to focus today as you'll see not necessarily on the specifics of the spaces will describe in terms of their technology or their staffing program or what have you but really more about the approach that we took in again I think doing exactly what Joan was talking about trying to build the makerspace as part of larger University perspectives and initiatives especially around innovation entrepreneurship and community engagement and you'll see those themes I think throughout our presentation today and our hope is that by talking about it in that context what we're laying the groundwork for is a stronger argument for academic library makerspaces as a strategic investment in campus programs and partnerships that are designed to promote that sort of innovation and teaching and learning and scholarship again that we've already heard about today now if people do want to talk about technical details we will be happy to do that in the Q&A and you'll get a little taste of them in the presentation so we've got five slides from the maker community around DePaul as well as in Chicago so in the upper left hand corner we've got some people working with 3d printers from the Coleman entrepreneur center and over to the right you see yours truly working with two students in the maker hub below that photo we have the steam lab from DePaul college prep a school that we work very closely with to the left is the maker lab at the Harold Washington library in downtown Chicago and in the center what's in the center is the IRL oh yeah that is the IRL that's very small photo that is actually our complimentary space in the loop on the loop campus the idea realization lab or the IRL in short and we will talk a little bit about them later on yeah and so again we've really tried to to center our maker hub within the library with a real understanding of the broader maker community in the city of Chicago and we'd also like to present something of a counterpoint to something that we've experienced maybe you've experienced we've seen the literature and we've heard it when we've talked to people about why to make the investment in maker spaces this is from Barbara Fister Barbara Fister who I love and am friends with sometimes uses 3d printer as a as a shorthand for fads in academic libraries and often and you'll see in her in her columns and so on sort of a little bit of a of a nudge against maker spaces and around 3d printing and in addition to sometimes associating it with the idea of fad ism in this presentation she taught she seemed to counterpoint the idea of investing in in emerging technology and in maker spaces with a social conscience and I think hopefully what you'll see is that certainly at DePaul we don't see those things as being opposed in any way at all and we did encounter this sense of fad ism or the broader question of how are you pushing the limits of what we are comfortable in thinking and planning for in terms of library space and the library's technology program even from some of our colleagues on campus I had to do a lot of advocacy and justification for the presence of 3d printers as well as other experimental technologies on the library and that was especially you know with our campus information technology and our campus facilities operations who are working with us on this renovation and we're really pressed to think about this as a core component of a library renovation as opposed to some other sort of of campus project and we do want to talk a little bit about why we chose the name maker hub for the library's maker space as opposed to maker space or maker lab or something cute that might have been drawn from Chicago's industrial history which would certainly be possible I think the stockyard was one name we threw yes yeah but turns out that has some negative connotations but what we want to well we'll talk about the hub and spokes in terms of the maker spaces and you saw them a second ago Chicago public the K-12 schools the idea realization lab we're also really thinking about these spokes going out to academic programs and you'll see connections when we talk today to in faculty development programs out of the provost office our office of teaching and learning and assessment our student affairs programs our liberal studies programs so we want to think about it really as a hub not just of maker spaces within the city but of this really emerging focus on again as Joan said creativity in the curriculum all right and here are our spaces as they are so above is the maker hub itself located at the DePaul University library I was a part of the planning team I am also the lab manager I run a staff of two student workers and myself so that is who runs the the maker hub at the bottom is our complimentary space a space that was planned in tandem with ours actually very coincidentally the idea realization lab which is run by a very prominent member of the Chicago maker community and we'll get a little bit into that later okay here's some other maker spaces on campus like I mentioned before the Coleman Center's maker lab also to we've got what else do we have here we've got the Art Museum the School of Music and the School of Theater they all have kind of their own pop-up maker spaces so the huge problem with having these spaces kind of siloed off is that they're very restrictive to students that are enrolled in those specific programs before the maker hub and the IRL opened there was really no place for the entire University community to meet and have access to this sort of technology so yeah we're very proud to offer those services to pretty much the entire University and I think in addition to that universal accessibility that probably all of you understand the other thing that I think we were able to bring to this and it's the nature of librarians right we bring people together and we make connections there were all these little things that were popping up there were 3d printers in business there were 3d printers in the basement of the physics department there were making like activities yeah in theater they were building sets in the Art Museum but there wasn't that discussion of really looking at it across campus as we'll talk about and there wasn't the framework for people to come together to talk about these things everyone was doing it in isolation and in addition to building that space what we've really tried to focus on building these past few months is those set of connections from people who are otherwise separate interdisciplinary kind of structure we wanted to bring someone who works in the basement of Bernhol which is where the physics office is and someone who works in the art department which is in an entirely different building all together they may never cross paths otherwise but we've actually had people meet in the maker hub and collaborate people who would never talk to each other otherwise and that's pretty cool so with that as as introduction I wanted to turn for a second and just tell a little bit about DePaul so people understand and again sort of our framework so DePaul is among other things the largest Catholic University in the United States this infographic gives you a little bit of sense of of the program the size of the program about 300 different undergraduate and graduate degree programs and and a real focus as we'll see on again on the community our student body is highly diverse again one of the reasons why maybe I pinged Barbara's comment about being engaged with low income communities we are a very highly diverse student body in terms of ethnicity race in terms of socioeconomic status and one that is committed to community engagement not just as part of our mission but really in thinking about our enrollment management strategy and again thinking about as well we'll talk about this notion of really thinking about making across the lifespan we're really beginning to see that in the city and knowing that that was the case and knowing again the nature of our enrollment strategy was part of our thinking about how to develop the program one of the other things that DePaul prides itself on is its innovation especially its innovative approaches to teaching and learning and its continuing commitment to its mission so and when DePaul talks about innovation it usually highlights a few key points that were relevant to us in thinking about the Maker Hub rapid development of academic programs developing those programs in the context of community partnerships and investing strategically in spaces and services and staff required to support the faculty and students in those campus in those programs and we've been happy that over the last few years especially as part of our renovation work we've started to see senior leadership of the university include the library in their discussions of what it looks like to be innovative at the university so for us that's a real win that was a discussion going on at the university that in years past wouldn't have highlighted the library as we'll see that approach to innovation also presents some planning challenges so within that in that's the institutional context we also wanted to give you a quick sense of the renovation process so this work was done as part of an ongoing four phase renovation of the Richardson library phase 1 in 2011 phase 2 in 2013 phase 3 just this past fall in 2017 and we're not going to get in phase 4 I should say TBA we're working on it and we're not going to get into the details of the renovation today people have questions we're happy to answer them and if people want to see how the maker hub sort of sits within the context of the broader phase this phase of the renovation I did bring a little handout that you can look at if you'd like after the after the session I think the key thing to remember and the thing that we wanted to highlight and talking about the renovation was that especially in phase 2 and phase 3 we really did look to inform the renovation process and the programs that were developed or brought into the library as part of the renovation with a clear focus on collaboration across campus engagement with those campus partners and thinking intentionally about strategic initiatives identified by the university and the way in which the renovation and new staff new services would help to move those initiatives forward cool I'm just going to talk a little bit about my baby the maker hub the maker hub softly opened on September 6th 2017 and when I mean a soft opening it only opened with two pieces of functioning equipment so one thing I'd like to quickly mention is that technology is great but it's also man-made it's prone to break early and often so be prepared to identify common issues and a quick course of action to resolve them so while we were planning the space we were really meaning for it to be an entry level space where students who were working on class projects as well as extra curricular projects would feel equally as welcome so after some negotiation a go negotiation with our facilities people and our architectural planning team we were given a 500 square foot space which is smaller than my first studio apartment in grad school given this constraint we had to make an executive decision on the focus of our space as this made our equipment selection very limited we wanted to utilize each area no square foot left behind we wanted a diverse array of equipment but we knew we'd need to have a more entry level space meaning that we'd have equipment with a relatively low learning curve and a low training curve as well from a staffing perspective we kind of knew that our staffing model would be pretty skeletal so we wanted equipment that didn't really require supervision as it's less dangerous as say an industrial CNC router or a drill press so the whole idea was to offer a learning environment that wasn't intimidating to use with friendly staff people willing to assist and consult as needed looking at other academic library makerspaces we noticed a trend supporting not just curriculum but like I mentioned before also supporting personal interests as well and so to our surprise we found a growing user base for 3D modeling and product design prototyping fab labs many undergraduates are being taught concepts of 3D modeling with CAD programs such as Tinkercad sometimes as early as elementary school students make these 3D models in school then realizing that they can make these creations come to life using a 3D printer and as the students enter college they're not only used to prototyping technology such as 3D printers but they almost expect them especially as they make their choices as to which higher education institution to attend so one thing I'd also like to point out that the Maker Hub is a lab it is a maker lab but it's also a classroom we'll also get into that a little bit more later on but otherwise we've got three 3D printers currently one 3D scanner we have a sewing machine a bunch of hand tools drills wrenches cutters saw as typical things that you'd find in your dad's garage and we also have a baby CNC router it's about yay big most of our students use it for cutting things a wood we haven't had it used for any other extensive projects other than like carving but hopefully that will change once more people know about it also talking about the IRL so I talked a little bit more about the IRL or the idea realization lab so the IRL is kind of like our big sibling located on the loop campus a short half hour train ride is it about a half hour it's about a half hour train ride cool in downtown Chicago so coincidentally both our space and the IRL we're planned and we're scheduled to open in tandem so the library Maker Hub and the IRL like real life siblings have many things in common but are still very different so the IRL's lab manager Jay Margolis he's a great person who already operates a hacker space maker space in the south Chicago suburbs and so he's a prominent figure in the Chicago maker community and so he brought his experience with running a full scale maker and hacker space with the intention of being a space on campus that would be accessible to all students regardless of program enrollment a concept that was completely absent on our campus before our spaces opened so Jay's vision included an unstructured learning environment stacked with knowledgeable people available to offer guidance to people interested in making not necessarily for classroom projects sound familiar the concept of the hub means that if someone has a project that outgrows the scope of what we can support at the library's maker space we'd send them here they have more equipment more consumables more space more staffing more storage and that's perfectly okay these spaces are meant to complement not compete and by planning to acquire similar materials by working together on training programs and certification programs and some of the legal protocols in regards to waivers and so on it really is designed to let people move seamlessly between the two spaces so if you are trained and certified on you know on a printer or a router or what have you in our space to the degree that that same tool is being used downtown you can just move that straight on now obviously again when you get to downtown they actually have more things larger things more dangerous things but we are trying to plan them together and working especially with OGC general counsel to make sure again that this really sort of new new set of activities on campus that had never really occurred before would be understood by the people who would have to sign off on them legally and and so on lots of meetings with lawyers lots of meetings with lawyers you never think about that when you're building a maker space we had a lot of meetings with with general counsel about making sure that this was going to be safe and secure and everyone would understand what the requirements were we're not talking about space lab this is Jay Margulis is down south Chicago maker space it's enormous but we wanted again to just for those who were interested in it you could see what space lab looks like and it did provide some of the seed ideas for the IRL but another important thing that again we learned as part of our planning was that we learned that it wasn't just Jay there were other people around campus not in libraries not in information technology in different parts of the university who had been involved for the last few years in some of these community based fab labs and maker spaces and they were really excited about bringing it to campus and you know these sort of maker space veterans where you know they were they helped us in the planning is that what you need to have this kind of certification program you need to think about this if you're going to have volunteers or in our case student employees and it was so it was a design again that that is very reflective of DePaul's character in that we really looked to design our spaces in a way that learned from the experience in the larger maker community so there was an active community in the city and there were people active in that community in the university and in the library and and that was good but there were also a number of obstacles now we're not going to talk about these obstacles in depth both because of time and because you're probably familiar with most of them I don't believe any of them are unique to us I would say as I suggested earlier that there's some truth to that old saying about living by the sword and dying by the sword DePaul's approach to innovation is one that prizes rapid planning and implementation and that has been beneficial to us in the past and it was beneficial to the development of both the maker hub and the idea realization lab but it also meant that both were designed very quickly they iterated on the run and we did have to do a lot of work to bring campus wide as I said earlier campus wide groups like information services and facility operations sort of into the fold and thinking about library space in this way and we had to do it in a model a budget model that as I'm sure you're all familiar with included no new money for any of these things and since this was such an entirely new concept on campus we had to deal with a lot of ambiguity especially with our external IT support namely kind of determining which things would be covered which things wouldn't and yeah we're still kind of trying to fish things and feel things out to this day yes we are still feeling things out we're going to talk again I'm noticing the time and want to make sure we have time for questions so I'm going to breeze through this piece just to talk a little bit about these are some of the opportunities that came in these first few months in terms of making those connections across campus our teaching commons we'll see that in a moment our Studio Chi Digital Scholarship Center some of the other initiatives we rather talk about them in particular rather than outline them but what I did want to make sure we mentioned briefly was this DePaul makes which was essentially sort of a a grassroots network of people working around the university in academic departments and student affairs in the library and IT and who had an interest in this and have sort of worked to build essentially a campus-wide network looking at the design and implementation of maker technology and the integration of maker technology into the curriculum in the absence of a formal structure there never was a formal structure for it we've built it ourselves and Janice has been the key person in the library for that go ahead and talk about some of the programs absolutely so the smiling gentleman in the photo is the the mastermind behind the DePaul makes movement his name is Dr Eric Landahl he is a faculty member from the physics department so he helps staff open hours he also holds tons of workshops for faculty looking to integrate maker technology in curriculum so he's a big proponent of the maker movement especially in Chicago he's very passionate about DIY so especially making simple electronics Arduino also to he taught me how to solder I had no idea how to solder before I met Eric so yeah definitely cool guy to work with so he taught the wildly popular teaching in a maker space workshop which wasn't just open to DePaul faculty but also higher ed professionals from all over Chicago which was pretty cool yeah so this is one feature we wanted to make sure were highlighted part of what Eric did in addition to being our maker in residence this year in the maker hub he did develop this workshop that was delivered as part of the teaching and learning certificate program through DePaul's office of teaching learning and assessment that I think he did he did two workshops one in Lincoln Park one in our downtown loop campus full in both cases and has brought oh more than 30 faculty members from departments all around the college all around the university through the maker hub specifically to talk to them about how you might use 3d printing and other maker technologies in your courses and again if you want to see a little bit more about what that workshop how was described you can see the link right here another thing that Eric and Janice will be doing next year is a first year seminar so this is going to this is going to go in the fall as part of our Chicago quarter some of you have heard me talk about Chicago quarter before it's our first year seminar program all incoming students at DePaul take a class in their first quarter about the city of Chicago and it can be anything it can be about music it can be architecture it can be politics it can be al Capone it can be anything there's over a hundred of these classes offered in the fall quarter and a key component of those courses is that they actually get you out into the community so you're actually you know in the city and you're going to places and meeting with people and so Eric has proposed this course it's going to be called what do they say Dave it's going to be called here the maker movement in the maker movement in Chicago and so he'll be taking not only will they be using the maker hub and the idea realization lab but they'll actually going to different maker spaces around the city of Chicago and learning about the maker movement the diy movement and and doing that as part of their introduction to the university so this we think is going to be really really interesting oh and then again because we we talked a little bit about instruction we're talking about this idea of the maker space as as a classroom we did want to talk very briefly about the work that we've just really started in thinking about how to integrate student learning outcomes into the use of the maker space so this is a strong focus at DePaul over the years we have developed undergraduate information literacy learning outcomes we have recently over the last couple of years been working on primary source literacy in terms of our instruction and special collections and archives and so again it was natural once we launched the maker space for Janice to begin working with our instruction team to think about the question of what is learned in a maker space and this austin community college example was one example she found of student learning outcomes associated with maker space use and this sort of of creativity curriculum if you will but it's something that we're really just beginning to explore again not just within the library's instructional program but thinking about our work with you know with the art museum with student affairs with the faculty members who work through the office of teaching learning and assessment to do their own work on student learning outcomes so i think it's going to be very exciting uh hopefully within the next year or so is that about the programs oh um yeah this program uh was a program put on by the institute of for business and professional ethics which is a department of the department of philosophy which talked a little bit about some of the ethical issues surrounding 3d printing say these make-it-yourself physical spaces and yeah they also demoed 3d printing actually it was me i was the one who demoed 3d printing during this during this workshop and they just spoke a little bit more about being a little more mindful of some of the potential repercussions of the maker movement and i think one interesting thing they addressed is waste which i thought was really interesting since in our lab in particular we recycle all 3d printed failed prints we have a fail pale directly next to our 3d printers and i think in the six months we've been opened the fail pale is like maybe yay big so it's like like maybe three feet wide and maybe like one foot high so not very big and so we also invite students to take things out of the fail pale and build new things out of them so kind of creating like franken creations out of other people's failed prints so really nothing really goes to waste in the maker hub but it's still good to be mindful and to think about some of these potential repercussions as we make things in our lab yeah what we've really seen again in just the few months we've been open is that programs that had not been engaged with the library in the past are coming in you know physics i don't know if there'd ever been a library instruction class for physics and now we literally you know we're teaching physics classes in the library in the maker space the the engagement with that entrepreneurial initiative across the university and having a center for it on the lincoln park campus as opposed to our downtown loop campus where it has been historically centered has brought business programs again into the library in a way that we hadn't seen before and there have been great downstream impact as well so not only are we having public programs like this which is a collaboration between physics sorry philosophy and business but the colman entrepreneurship center started sending its startup advisors to our learning commons so we were at we were adding startup advising to the programs the tutoring programs that and the peer assistance programs that we were offering through learning commons again something that never would have happened if they hadn't seen us as being contributing to to the entrepreneurial initiatives across campus so very exciting and then we want to end and then turn over to questions by just talking again about this community engagement idea and sort of coming full circle to that that charge uh that i suggested early on that investment in maker technology or 3d printing might somehow suggest that you were not engaged with the community in chicago at least that is certainly not the case maker technology is something that is increasingly available across the lifespan and across the educational and cultural heritage community k-12 schools academic libraries public libraries school libraries museums all are either have or are building maker capacity and the reality is is my experience as the father of a chicago public school student uh was really instrumental in sort of opening my eyes to how important this was because my daughter's first experience with 3d printing was in fourth grade in a in an entrepreneurial program co-sponsored by chicago public and northwestern university and as we were touring high schools around the city last year i got firsthand you know i was able to see firsthand how many high schools had this had some component of a maker space or a computer lab that had been outfitted to do critical making or some kind of modeling and it became very clear to me that we were going to be far less competitive for some of our core students coming out of chicago public schools if the technology available to them in college was not as good as the technology available to them in their high school uh or again we are a very diverse city and there are many high schools that do not have access to these tools in their schools but the chicago public library has done incredible work in bringing maker technology and media content creation to youth services shout out to you media you media some of you may be familiar with chicago public library you may not know that it was designed collaboratively with de paul originally the college of computing and digital media and again for those of you who are our local aficionados you know that you media's most famous alumnus chance the rapper continues to be an advocate both of public schools and of libraries in the city but what we saw was really the emergence of certainly a k-20 maker community and we also saw that more and more of our students were looking to move into sort of a a lifelong engagement with maker technology through the programs that were available either through chicago public or community-based programs like space lab and so in thinking about that it really helped us to think about not just the approach we were going to take to it but the connections we were going to be sure to make and so we do try to build in these connections with the community with our public library with the chicago maker community and again even with some of the things you don't think of as a maker community um like our film school's connection with cine space chicago if you watch any of the chicago fire chicago pd that's cine space that's where those things are being done one quick thing i'd like to also mention about lifelong learning um we are also open to alumni which at first i thought was kind of a revolutionary idea but there are a couple of academic makerspaces that also open their doors to alumni as well the university of ellenoy at chicago is one um there's us and i think that's pretty much it but again to kind of support that a pursuit of lifelong learning coming back to dipole and kind of um spreading your knowledge maker knowledge as even after you leave yeah all right so it's been a busy six months mostly for janice uh but we're excited about where we're going and again we think these connections are helpful in in building ongoing support for this growing part of the library's program and the campus technology program and with that we'll throw it open to questions