20 · Survey Results: Survey Questions and Responses
Please briefly describe the other motivation. N=16
A call for volunteers to set up the service was put out and I volunteered to propose a service model and help manage it
on an ongoing basis.
A competitive grant was provided by LibraryLinkNJ.
An existing makerspace on campus is looking for a new home and approached the library.
Differs by location. The director of Educational Technology Services approached the Libraries in creating a 3-D printing
lab in its Media Commons @the Knowledge Commons.
Environmental scanning of similar libraries
Interest from faculty, opportunity to centralize services and products of makerspaces being developed
One major source of motivation was Educause’s Horizon Report, which has listed 3-D printing and makerspaces in
recent years.
Our graduate school wanted to establish makerspace opportunities.
Part of the library’s mission is to expose our community to emerging technologies.
Pilot a teaching studio for multidisciplinary design education.
Project in conjunction with Engineering Department.
The library is very interested in digital scholarship centers. The campus is actively pursuing several initiatives in design
learning, including building out a network of design learning nodes across campus. We are interested in the library’s role
in these campus-wide endeavors.
These technologies were available in other schools at our institution, but not in the College of Arts &Sciences. We
thought that once humanists and others were exposed to the possibilities, in a low-stress, sandbox environment,
changes to research interrogations would follow.
University 3-D printing club expressed interest.
We knew of one other school on campus offering 3-D printing, but this was for program -pecific outcomes. We
purchased our first 3-D printer using funds provided by student government. Our first 3-D printing was a class gift to
the library.
We noticed the service trend in other libraries. We recognized our patrons were pursuing these services elsewhere
on campus. We thought it was a service our library could provide, that it was consistent with our mission and would
provide benefits including increasing our knowledge and support of patron projects and research.
3. What type of information did your library gather before deciding whether to test or implement
fabrication/makerspace services? Check all that apply. N=40
Investigated equipment, maintenance, cost, etc. of fabrication/makerspace services 39 98%
Collected information from other libraries that provide fabrication/makerspace services 35 88%
Observed other departments that might be affected by digital fabrication services, for example, technology
department, printing service department, innovation department, etc.
27 68%
Collected library users’ requirements on fabrication/makerspace services 13 33%
Gathered other type of information 12 30%
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