On many days this Fall the Library has been and will be a noisy place as construction on The MakeIT Place has begun! The project kicked off on September 19 and according to the current schedule will end in the middle of January 2024.
For those not familiar with this project, The MakeIT Place will be the Washington Public Library’new makerspace. And for those not familiar with the term, a makerspace is a collaborative workspace where people with common interests, often in technology, science or the arts, gather to share resources, knowledge and equipment to create, invent and learn.
In the Library’s strategic plan survey a year ago, community members expressed strong interest in adding a makerspace to the library. The WFPL Foundation, the nonprofit organization that assisted with…
