Category: Blog
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Maker Programs Strive to Reach All Students
Through training and outreach, maker programs aim for greater diversity among future innovators. The maker movement is everywhere it seems. Kids tinkering with sewing machines or laser cutters, designing their own cookie cutters to “print” in a 3D-printer at libraries, museums, maker camps, or classrooms across the country. “Maker-educators” are mashing together technology with traditional…
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Moving Past Start-Up: Supporting Library Makerspaces Over Time
A group of YOUmedia makerspaces band together to innovate and support library makerspaces facing the opportunities and challenges distinctive to the middle, “post-emergent” years. The start-up phase of any project is often the most heady—long hours, innovative breakthroughs, visionaries with big ideas. But it is often the next stage—the maturing and growth phase—that makes or…
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Norfolk Public Library Joins the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network
Berkeley, CA, May 23, 2017 — Joining a network of colleagues across the country, the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network extends affiliate status to the youth program at the Norfolk Public Library, making the program the thirty-first lab in the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network. The YOUmedia model was developed in 2011 with support from the John…
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Six community crates will help bring the library to young learners
The Billings Public Library loves to have students in for a visit. But it also wants students — and their teachers — to be able to bring the library into the classroom. A $20,000 grant from Phillips 66 to the Billings Public Library Foundation will enable just that, beginning this summer. A library committee used…
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Librarians Lead the Way to Digital Literacy
Librarians have been on the front lines of information literacy for years, putting them in a prime position to help youth learn to navigate a complex and growing world of digital information and news. Unfettered access to information and news is essential for learning—but it can also be a hazard when learners lack the right…