Jennifer Hicks - Makerspaces for Adults: Best Practices and Great Projects

Jennifer Hicks is the circulation and reserves supervisor for Miami University Middletown campus. She holds an MLIS from Kent State University. Along with circulation, reserves, and student worker supervision, she also creates and runs programming in the library makerspace. Jennifer has presented at various state, national, and international conferences on the topics of student training, makerspaces, and fake news. She has held various board roles for the Ohio Library Support Staff Institute (OLSSI) and is a current cochair for the Distance Learning Interest Group for the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO). Jennifer has a cowritten chapter about library gamification published through ACRL. This book is her editorial debut. Aside from libraries and makerspaces, her interests include animals, tattoos, and traveling.

Jessica Long is the outreach and instruction librarian and associate librarian at the Gardner-Harvey Library on the Middletown regional campus of Miami University (Ohio). She received an MLIS from Kent State University and a BA in anthropology from the University of New Mexico. As part of her outreach work, Jessica has spent time building connections between the library and other departments as cochair for the Center for Teaching and Learning for the Middletown campus and with the greater library community as cochair for the Distance Learning Interest Group for the Academic Library Association of Ohio. She regularly teaches how to structure arguments and complete effective research in a credit-bearing debate course for international students, as well as leading a variety of instruction sessions on topics ranging from course-specific research to how to combat misinformation. Jessica has presented talks on online learning courses and tools, gamification and game-based learning, fake news, and using makerspaces to help support community needs at various state, regional, and international conferences. In addition to her presentation work, Jessica has also authored and coauthored two book chapters that deal with gamification of the research process and interactive library orientations, respectively. This book marks her first time as an editor, and she is thrilled to learn so much about making and makerspaces from other librarians and library staff. When not in the library, Jessica can be found volunteering at her local animal shelter, traveling the globe, or buying new gnomes to add to her growing collection. She can be contacted via e-mail at .

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Camille Andrews is emerging literacies librarian at Mann Library at Cornell University, where she works on multimodal literacies and the mannUfactory makerspace. Since 2004, Camille has also been involved in outreach; instruction; information literacy initiatives; learning technologies; and assessment for learning outcomes, technologies, services and spaces. She is extremely interested in the intersection of library and information science, user experience, instructional design, twenty-first-century literacies, and new technologies. Camille graduated from the College of William and Mary with a BA in literary and cultural studies (focused on Francophone African and Caribbean literature) and from Simmons College with a masters in library and information science.

Cara Bolley is the emerging technologies librarian at the Defiance Public Library Systems Main Library MakerSpace. She received an MLIS from Kent State University and a BS in digital media arts concentrating in animation at Huntington University. She provides classes at the main and branch locations and also provides one-on-one assistance in the MakerSpace. Her background in crafting and stop-motion animation helps fuel her creativity as she helps others in the local community make their own creations.

John J. Burke is the director of the Gardner-Harvey Library on the Middletown regional campus of Miami University (Ohio). John is a past president of the Academic Library Association of Ohio (ALAO). He holds an MS in library science from the University of Tennessee and a BA in history from Michigan State University. John regularly writes and presents on library instruction, makerspaces, and library technology topics and has just completed his sixth edition of the Neal-Schuman Library Technology Companion: A Basic Guide for Library Staff (ALA Publishing, 2020).

Lauren E. Burrow is an associate professor of elementary education at Stephen F. Austin State University. Her research agenda focuses on best practices in teacher education with scholarly and creative works typically exploring service learning as pedagogy, creative writing/the arts, and technology integration. As the mother of three young children, most of her most brilliant ideas come from listening to and learning from them.

Dianne Cmor has enjoyed an international career in academic libraries working in Canada, Qatar, Hong Kong, and Singapore. She is currently associate university librarian, teaching and learning, at Concordia University in Montreal where she is responsible for ensuring the high-quality and high-impact participation of the library across the teaching and learning endeavors of the university. She oversees various services, spaces, and cross-unit committees devoted to teaching and learning, user experience, and so on and plays well with other academic and student support units on campus. Dianne holds degrees from Trent University (BA Hons), McGill University (MLIS), and York University (MA).

Sarah Coleman is youth services/young adult librarian at the Bonita Springs Public Library, part of the Lee County Library System in Lee County, Florida. She received her MLIS and her BA in media, information, and technoculture from the University of Western Ontario. She has worked in public libraries since 2007 with children, teens, and adults. Sarah was active in the Colorado library community for ten years, presenting on topics such as STEM programming, social media for libraries, and programming for adults with disabilities, presenting at the Colorado Library Association Annual Conference and CLiC Spring Workshops. She also served as an instructor for the ILEAD USA Leadership Program in 2013.

Susan E. Cook is associate professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University, where she teaches nineteenth-century British literature, gender studies, and composition. Her research focuses on multi-media approaches to nineteenth-century literature, and her book, Victorian Negatives: Literary Culture and the Dark Side of Photography in the Nineteenth Century, examines the relationship between photography and nineteenth-century fiction. She and Liz Henley have cotaught a course on the industrial and digital revolutions and have coauthored articles in the journals Pedagogy and Impact.

Michelle Costello, education and community engagement librarian, is liaison to the School of Education and provides research help and library instruction to students, faculty, and community members. Michelle was coproject manager of a successfully developed and implemented learning community of pedagogical improvement for librarians (LILAC, Library Instruction Leadership Academy). Michelle earned her MLS from Syracuse University and a BA in psychology and elementary education from St. John Fisher College.

Amber R. Cox is a creative services senior librarian at the Pikes Peak Library District. She received an MS in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BS in psychology from Southeast Missouri State University. She has eight years of experience in developing and implementing public library programming for teens and adults and has presented talks on maker-centered learning, the Repair Cafe initiative, and other makerspace-related topics at various regional and state conferences.