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Attracts students to the library for things they never knew we did. Inspires staff and engages them in creative processes.
Creates spillover effects into our other work: prototyping, etc.
Brings users into the library for other purposes than quiet study. Moving library services into the science
research process.
Contributions to campus teaching and research. Participate in the end-to-end knowledge creation process. Develop
informatics tools that can assist design learning.
Engage with users in different way. Staff appreciate ability to learn new skills.
Engaged students. Active library use. Providing access to services not available elsewhere in area.
Expand role of library, inspire students, help with student success, and support campus mission. Another service libraries
can provide as the field evolves to help keep us relevant. Opportunity for staff (including library staff), faculty, and
students to create.
Forging new connections to curriculum, research, and individual projects and students. Providing a new and needed
service. Staff learning and employing new skills.
Fun. Accessible: seeing technology at work. Making your own project.
Getting undergrads interested in the library. Expanding our services. Keeping the university on the cutting edge
of technology.
Giving students exposure to technology that they may not otherwise have access to. Developing new partnerships built
around making and the maker culture. Increasing library engagement with students and community.
Interaction with entire campus, all schools. Forming a university-wide maker network to share expertise, equipment,
training opportunities. Unveiling new methods to interrogate research questions.
It encourages patrons from several different departments to come to the library. Offers all students in all departments
the use of this exciting technology. Allows for outreach and engagement of the library and its services to campus and
the community.
Learning practice. Building community. Interdisciplinary learning.
Level the playing field for social science and humanities students and faculty members who don’t have as much access
to these services as those in STEM fields. Broaden scope of services provided by the library.
Opportunity for more collaborations and partnerships with campus colleagues. Profile on campus raised significantly.
Engagement with researchers and other staff who are using the services which are now readily available and accessible.
Partnership with campus partners. Cool factor.
Provide general access to hard-to-find technology. Expand the role of the Libraries in supporting learning. Expand the
opportunity of students to play with new technology.
Provide low-barrier access to a useful service. Provide instruction to a cross-campus, interdisciplinary audience. Support
the curriculum.
Provide students, campus community a place to explore and utilize this technology. Increased collaboration with campus
partners. High visibility, good press.
Provides hands on experience to all disciplines.
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