Labs, Makerspaces and their challenge to develop library services in an innovative environment

Garcia-Grimau, Francesc, Latorre-Bel, Ruth, Raimundez-Kuhlmann, Ana Lis and Vidal-Santos, Gerard Labs, Makerspaces and their challenge to develop library services in an innovative environment., 2015 . In BOBCATSSS 2015, Brno, January 28-30 2015. [Conference paper]

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The purpose of this study is to expose examples of how low-cost hardware components and open-source software can benefits library systems on a basis of the drastic cost-reduction of this institutions’ budgets and the way it can motivate their staff at developing proposals for rethinking, not only their workspace, but also the conception of services that they are giving to their patrons. Since the last decade the open-source movement and the “Do It Yourself” (DIY) community (sometimes called “lo-fi revolution“) have gather a dizzying momentum in the ambition and complexity for their proposals, competing on equal terms with many of the commercial solutions aimed to solve the same needs, and even establish itself as an alternative business model based on the constant improvement of the product by their community rather than mere economic profit. Thanks to the reduction of electronic components prices and the spreading of tutorial-websites or dedicated forums, the “DIY” community, amateurish subjects with no hierarchy, deploy fully-functional prototypes and establish worldwide meeting points called makerspaces or hackathons that go further than a mere hobby. The Maker Movement is reformulating the way innovation is applied to several disciplines, among them Information Studies. Projects not necessarily created in this com- munity could give an effective response to the needs of libraries, showing that this context can be a great opportunity to improve their services and resources in a creative,participatory and cost-effective way.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: DIY, low-cost hardware, open-source movements, library services
Subjects: A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AC. Relationship of LIS with other fields .
F. Management. > FZ. None of these, but in this section.
G. Industry, profession and education. > GZ. None of these, but in this section.
L. Information technology and library technology > LZ. None of these, but in this section.
Depositing user: Gerard Vidal Santos
Date deposited: 19 Oct 2018 17:11
Last modified: 19 Oct 2018 17:11
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/33588

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