Milwaukee City Librarian Joan Johnson said a program to get Milwaukee teenagers to use library resources to help with schooling and careers is expanding in early 2022.
The Teen Connected Learning program began about five years ago. The Mitchell Street Library has a makerspace area and a community kitchen for a culinary arts program. Johnson defines a makerspace area as a room, “where people can come in and create their own content. For Mitchell Street, we focused on people who were creating audio and video content, and people who were creating graphic arts.”
Johnson said the Mitchell Street Library provided equipment and software.
She said a new makerspace area at the Good Hope Library is focusing on industrial design and has a laser cutter and a 3D copy machine.
A makerspace room coming soon to the Washington Park Library will focus on…