Advice from Chicago Public Library's Maker Lab
Submitted by Amy on
On Friday, May 23rd, Allison, Liz and I visited with some of the folks behind the Maker Lab at Chicago Public Library.
June 2014
The Art of Failure
Submitted by Vicki on
The team behind make it at your library came together through the ILEAD USA project in 2013. One of the mentors at the program, the marvelous Beck Tench, distilled this bit of wisdom from a group conversation:
No Magic Trick
Submitted by Vicki on
I have a new gig (as the Head of Youth Services at La Grange Public Library). But before I left my old gig (Lisle Library District), I agreed to do a program for the adult services department on duct tape. I didn't think much about it until about a week before the program actually came up. I mean, really. I've been programming for years (let's say over a decade) for kids. How different could it be to do a simple old craft program with adults?
