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Makerspace and Collaborative Technologies: A LITA Guide

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD

Lanham Boulder New York London

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Thomsett-Scott, Beth C., editor.

Title: Makerspace and collaborative technologies : a LITA guide / edited by Beth Thomsett-Scott.

Description: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, [2020] | Series: LITA guides | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: This book explores how patrons are using innovative technologies utilizing real-life case studies from a variety of academic institutions. Discover which technologies patrons are using, how they are using them, and the purposes of use. Authors include best practices on designing space, marketing the technology, and collaborating to enhance the useProvided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019041369 (print) | LCCN 2019041370 (ebook) | ISBN 9781538126479 (cloth) | ISBN 9781538126486 (paperback) | ISBN 9781538126493 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Academic librariesInformation technologyUnited States. | Academic librariesTechnological innovationsUnited States. | Makerspaces in libraries. | Academic librariesUnited StatesCase studies.

Classification: LCC Z675.U5 M3247 2020 (print) | LCC Z675.U5 (ebook) | DDC 027.7dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019041369

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019041370

TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.

Paul McMonigle

Libraries have changed tremendously over the last twenty years. They have transformed from warehouses of books and quiet study to vibrant, exciting, and sometimes too noisy places where students can find books, computers, and state-of-the-art technology. As an example, when I was an undergraduate student in the mid-1990s, the campus library was not the place to find cutting-edge technology. Computer labs were available but often lived separately, departmentally and geographically, from the libraries. With the beginnings of electronic access, libraries were working on transferring their card catalogs to online public access catalogs. If you were lucky, you could search your librarys collection and access online databases using on-site terminals. Remote access through the Internet was rare and generally only available for larger public libraries. Many smaller libraries still had card catalogs for regular patron use.

Twenty-five years later, most academic libraries have large, robust IT departments. Knowledge commons and makerspaces take up many square feet of space, helping to transform libraries into one-stop shops for the information and creative needs of their patrons. Though this turn of events may surprise many people outside the library profession, if you take a quick look at the past, you will see that libraries have always been near the forefront of technological change.

Historically, libraries offered some of the first public access to new technologies. Servers and mainframe computers could store a large amount of information about local library inventory, giving staff the ability to quickly add and update new materials. The first commercial electronic database, Dialog, created in 1972 in CD-ROM format, heralded a new way to store and access information.

From this point, the next step was to completely replace card catalogs with online versions. Library management systems were created to integrate the processes of acquisition and cataloging of materials. These systems evolved alongside the microcomputer, with computer labs becoming common sights at campuses across the country. Librarians began to store bibliographic data on CD-ROMs, with operating systems, hardware, and software created to encourage a total networked environment.