Patrons gather in the Central Library MakerSpace on Dec. 7, 2018 to learn the fundamentals of the game Dungeons & Dragons. [Image: Rene Battelle]
As a lifelong bookworm raised in a family of bookworms, I love libraries. I can’t remember a single vacation growing up where we didn’t make what was deemed a necessary visit to the library to take out books for the trip before leaving. But more than just housing the latest books, movies, and magazines, libraries are true havens of learning and technology, and that’s extremely apparent in the advent of library makerspaces. Anything can happen in a makerspace, from 3D printing a prosthetic arm for someone to creating a giant keyboard and learning about a game that might be new to you.
Last December, Trudi Antoine, Rene Battelle, and Dragana Drobnjak – all…
