ARL is offering a series of webcasts that present the findings from the latest SPEC surveys and allow webcast participants to discuss trends with the survey authors. A 45-minute webcast will follow the publication of each SPEC Kit in 2015.
The third webcast in this series will cover the Rapid Fabrication/Makerspace Services survey (SPEC Kit 348), which explores ARL libraries’ engagement with 3-D printing, rapid fabrication and digitization technologies, and makerspaces, as well as the types of service offerings libraries can provide, level of service, level of resource commitment, potential clientele needs, and evaluation of the service. This study covers ARL member libraries’ policies, services, investments in, and experiences with supporting fabrication services and makerspaces.
The Rapid Fabrication/Makerspace Services webcast will review survey findings reported by ARL member libraries in May 2015. The webcast will also include a discussion of promising trends and conclude with a question-and-answer session. Read the freely available executive summary of the survey results in advance and have your questions ready.
Webcast Details and Registration
Title: Rapid Fabrication/Makerspace Services
Presenters: Dr. Micah Altman, Matthew Bernhardt, Lisa R. Horowitz, and Randi Shapiro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Time: 1:00–1:45 p.m. eastern daylight time
Cost: Free for 2015 SPEC Kit subscribers. $25 (USD) for all others.
Registration: Register online by Wednesday, October 7.
About ARL
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 124 research libraries in the US and Canada. ARL’s mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at https://www.arl.org/.
