The winner of the 2016 Springshare Innovation Award is North Carolina State University Libraries’ Makerspace Program at the D.H. Hill Library!
The Academic Division of the Special Library Association (SLA) offers a Springshare Innovation in Libraries Award. Springshare donates this award which “recognizes a new program or service that demonstrates an innovative approach to academic librarianship”.(1)
NCSU’s Makerspace Program is doing incredible work with 3D design and printing, 3D scanning, wearable electronics, programming with Arduinio & Rasberry Pi, and milling with CNC machines.
What’s more, they’re targeting women in the STEM fields with their ongoing “Making Spaces” event series. This series, in collaboration with NC State’s Women in Science and Engineering Village, College of Textiles faculty, and the College of Engineering’s Women in Engineering Program, aims to raise awareness among women about access to tools and technology while lowering the barrier for access and use of the Makerspace Labs.
And lastly, they’re working hard to integrate their Makerspace program into the curriculum of disciplines that aren’t normally associated with technology. For example, Ph.D. students in a Communications, Rhetoric, and Digital Media class titled “Technologies and Pedagogies in the Communication Arts” were tasked with designing and building technologies that would measure their students’ attention.
The SLA award committee acknowledged how the entire community at NC State has responded to the D.H. Library’s strong web presence, proactive training sessions, and outreach with their Makerspace program integration into the diverse curricula.
Congratulations to Adam Rogers, David Woodbury, Lauren DiMonte, and the NCSU Libraries for winning the SLA Academic Division Springshare Award for Innovation for their incredible work and outreach with their revolutionary Makerspace program!
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Congratulations to Our 2016 Awards Winners! | SLA Academic Division., 15 June 2016. Web. 01 July 2016, http://academic.sla.org/annual-conference/congratulations-to-our-2016-awards-winners.html.