I walk around our library, the DeLaMare Science and Engineering Library, a few times per day, as a way to give my eyes a break from my computer. It is eerily quiet as I walk past empty chairs and headphone clad students watching Zoom silently. In the “before times” of COVID-19, my walks would give me energy as I walked past enthusiastic study groups and students building hovercrafts for their Engineering 100 class. With few students trekking around campus, I wondered how we would still communicate with our users and keep them engaged with our Makerspace. Like many other services on campus, we found the need to expand our makerspace outreach efforts to a virtual medium. For us, this meant creating events that linked back to our social media accounts. One of these events includes the monthly DeLaMare Maker Challenge series.
While having events go virtual seems like a great idea on…
