[IFLA-LPD] MakerTour 2015: Dutch Mobile FabLab on a European Tour

Dear LPD members,

Please take note of the exciting bus tour called MakerTour2015 that will showcase FabLab tools and techniques with a special focus on applying FabLab technologies for persons with a visual/reading disability. You can find the itinerary with library stops/workshops in 8 countries at http://www.frysklab.nl/nieuws/working-on-our-route-for-makertour2015/. If you are in the vicinity, go and visit this mobile version of library-powered FabLabs and discover what wonderful things you can make to help build inclusive library and reading services. Highly recommended and good fun!

Koen Krikhaar,

Dedicon

Chair of LPD

 

#MakerTour2015: FryskLab, Europe’s first Mobile Library-powered FabLab, visits 8 countries in 16 days

FryskLab, Europe’s first mobile library FabLab (fabrication laboratory) from the Netherlands, is going on an European road trip in February 2-18. During the trip there will be a dedicated focus on developing tools and services for people with visual/reading disabilities. The destination is Florence (Italy), where FryskLab will participate in the conference The Art of Invention, organized by OCLC. FryskLab, a former book mobile turned mobile library lab, is a project of Bibliotheekservice Fryslân (BSF).

 

FryskLab will embark on a two-week tour of Europe which will include visiting Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Belgium, as well as Italy, France and The Netherlands. In every country the FabLab team plans to hold workshops with a focus on making. During the trip there will be a dedicated focus on developing tools and services for people with visual/reading disabilities. For this BSF collaborates with several professional partners: Stichting Aangepast Lezen, Sectorinstituut Openbare Bibliotheken (SIOB), Dedicon, Christelijke Bibliotheek voor Blinden en Slechtzienden (CBB) and OCLC.

 

In Florence Frysklab will take pride of place outside the beautiful Villa Vittoria where the meeting is being held to enable everyone attending to explore the facility and ask its dedicated staff questions or have a go with the equipment in the bus, consisting of 3D printers, vinyl- and lasercutter and electronic and programming tools such as Makey Makey, Little Bits and Scratch. Jeroen de Boer, New Media Specialist at BSF who manages Frysklab, will also be giving a talk at the Meeting in one of the breakout sessions about makerspaces and libraries.

 

 

 

 

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