How one public librarian researched, budgeted, and created the best maker space for her customers over the course of six months.
Teens tinker with littleBits at the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County, OH.
Photography by George C. Anderson
I didn’t think 2015 would be the year I created a teen maker space, but it was—and it turned out to be an exciting, challenging, and rewarding experience. After six months of planning, our maker space at the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County, Ohio, where I am the YA services coordinator, opened last month.
How did it come together? Organically. It began during our teen summer reading program seven months ago, when I hosted a few extremely popular Maker Mondays. Our children’s librarian, Debbie Baker, and I created a collection of circulating maker-related titles. We also assembled…
