 Hi, I'm Hamish. I'm the children's librarian at Avondale Library in Auckland And I'm just going to talk about our experience of setting up a make-a-space and some more So who was the team? It was me Baruch Jacob is there. He's the digital outreach librarian and Penny Dougmore is the team leader of learning services my old boss at Central Library That's where we did our first Experimental make-a-space You probably know what are make-a-spaces, but I thought I might just talk a little bit about what it means to me And what I understand it to be I think that it's about Sharing sharing community. So first of all sharing a space sharing resources skills knowledge and Projects so working with others It's about Self-sufficiency which is enabled by things like 3d printing and increasingly the tools are enabling Ordinary people to produce for themselves and for their community Networked and peer learning is also very important A couple of I like to pepper my slides with things that kids made because That's what I do is kids make a space at the moment. So this is a young man who is very interested in American presidents So he made this interesting little animation and that's a 3d tank which is getting queued up for printing So why in a library? We have a strategic document called codar which has a couple of Directives which Well met by the maker space One is library spaces to activate library spaces with innovative programs and events which I think the maker space does very well and Another is to engage youth and children with meaningful play which stimulates imagination creativity and learning The document that's up there it's too time to read really, but it's a great one It's called future work skills 2020 and I find it personally really useful to think about What we are going to need to know It talks about things like the rise of AI the Influence of crowdsourcing they call it super structing which is that organizations Large groups of crowdsource people can achieve what huge organizations only could in the past So and it talks about what sort of skills will need for that environment So we needed to figure out what a mega space was and we talked to various people like tangle ball Which is a maker space in Auckland, but we quickly figured out that we couldn't be tangle ball because a maker space in a library Has to negotiate with a library culture So that's that's challenging and it also the library uses expectations of of what what a library is But on the other hand You're taking that maker space concept. I often joke that it's like the McDonald's ization of maker spaces because you're kind of homogenizing it down a little bit But you're also introducing it to this massive diverse audience of All sorts of people of all sorts of ages We had an opening event called make explosion where we drew on the resources of lots of Makers in our community like diamond age who produced the 3d printers the vendor who's got a 3d printing business mine kits application and lots of others and we put on a big kind of Make a fair of sorts where people could walk up and ask questions and they did they Stayed for long lengths of time And in one place asking lots of questions about 3d printing or coding or whatever technology it was And we got more makers coming out of the woodwork like there's a guy called Ted Sun from a maker space in Shanghai, which he that's where he had been and he wanted to do scratch workshops with kids So that was really awesome We set up the maker space with what I call platform tools Because they're open like a 3d printer can design any 3d object. We had Linux PCs Which was kind of Slightly radical things to do in a library context because you can install anything you like onto them and you can also go home and Install Linux on your own computer and go for it and also robotics kits Which you can make any kind of robot that you like out of them. So they're sandbox tools which are completely open But the tools that are blowing me away digital tools like these ones Tinkercad scratch gamefruit, etc A lot of them have Scratch built into them scratch is a kind of program and we can click together blocks visually to program things So click together commands So it really lowers It really makes it so much easier for kids to engage with the technologies And what I find is that they're all that the common element is that they've got bigger chunks of Stuff that you can just kind of slide around and click together rather than You know the insane amount of detail which is involved in most digital design if you want to get started and I think what will happen over time is they'll get the satisfied with those big chunks which you can't alter so that they'll get in and start hacking and You know getting more and more control I wanted to talk about a successful event that we had which was a game making jam a Whole bunch of kids came in and made computer games. They were working on them all day using this gamefruit And we made a virtual arcade at the end of the day where everyone could play each other's games and there was amazing Kind of social learning. It was like it was it was an exemplary kind of What I have in my head is great maker space All the kids were sort of Figuring out, you know, someone would have a problem and no one could figure it out and then an hour later Some other boy would be like, oh, this is that's how you do it and rush over and Show show the other person who needed to know So We had really great experiences with off-site Um like in places like otake marae who had an education festival Otara park jam and festival of education um Where we got to just introduce it to The the maker concept and the idea of a library as a maker space to an even wider audience than usual um challenges Our staff readiness to to take on the idea of a maker space and making things and not being ready Not knowing everything not being the expert necessarily and learning as you go learning with customers We need Very good technology and people who love technology and love to share Um learning about the technology and love to facilitate learning in a big group like in that game making jam And Yeah, so I called those people maker librarians. It's just a little idea that I have in my head Maybe we need maker librarians like that's you got your children's and teens librarian and your information services like You got a maker space librarian or a maker librarian Um A couple more things Which I found really interesting is that um kids are used to coming to libraries and playing computer games And then when you ask them to create computer games, that's quite That's quite a big strain and quite a big shift. Um, so That's that's quite a challenge And I've been thinking a lot about that and my kind of Pie in the sky is like a persistent community of practice around different things like a persistent community of practice around Game making or 3d printing or whatever it is and I we still haven't achieved that So it's something that I'm keep hammering out on a couple of ideas that I've had is Mozilla Open Badges is a project that I'm really interested in where you can Um have These badges which are created by other institutions Of learning other than schools and they recognize learning like a 3d printing badge or a badge for hey I made an app and got a hundred people to download it or something like that And also I saw from a big one that I watch is um, Chicago you media There's they've got a sort of a series of it's they're called sort of media spaces, but it's about making things it's about creativity and um, they talk about um role models being really important having um maker experts, you know artists coming in and inspiring youth as well. Um as a as a sort of a Motivational force So It is spreading amongst a whole bunch of different libraries with Certain people who are talented like there's a glen hidden robotics club There's a pan you a space where they're doing music production and other ones And there has been interest from libraries across the country So I thought I might just Play this If it will do it. No, it won't do it Oh, yeah, well Okay, I think we have Catched this So, yeah, it plays Taylor Swift. The funny thing is it it starts playing Taylor Swift every time you shake it So it'll sort of start playing 15 copies of the same song Which which we didn't really predict when we designed it. I think but All all good fun. Thank you