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Tag: Making

June 17, 2019 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Nonfiction Roundup: MakerSpace Edition

A brief round up of some nonfiction titles that are great for makers and makerspaces.

November 14, 2018 by Karen Jensen, MLS

MakerSpace: Taking Bristlebots on the Road or, How I keep re-defining and re-purposing a simple Bristlebot activity to get teens making

The best part about working with teens, but also sometimes the hardest, is that every few years you get a whole new crop of teens to work with. This means that you can repeat programs, expanding on what you learned the first time(s) you did a program. With a new set of a teens an […]

April 3, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS

MakerSpace Madness: Mod-A-Tee @ Your Library – Fun with T-Shirts

Like most teen services/ya librarians, I’m heavy in the midst of planning my teen summer reading programming. This will be the second year of planning that incorporates our Teen MakerSpace at The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County (OH) and we know based on our experience from last year that our current model […]

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Take 5: YA Lit Titles for Makers and MakerSpaces

September 15, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Collection development is an active process in which I, like all librarians, actively seek to build balanced collections of all types of books. Because we have an active and popular Teen MakerSpace, one of the things I actively look for are “maker” related books. These can be books that include any type of maker related […]

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