Awareness about the Makerspace among Library Professional in Working in Engineering colleges of Navi Mumbai
Abstract
The main aim of this paper is to investigate the awareness of makerspaces and to identify makerspaces available in Navi Mumbai engineering college libraries. In recent times, libraries are not a place to just sit and study and refer to books. Rather, the activities of libraries have increased dramatically. In today’s generation, the users need to interact more, create, and collaborate, so accordingly the libraries should provide services to their users. Makerspace is one of the latest trends in libraries, and users expect libraries to provide the modern services to them. The idea of a makerspace is to promote creativity and inventions. The goal of makerspaces is to reduce barriers so that people can learn and start creating their resources and collections. If we build such a makerspace in libraries, then it will provide financial support to the libraries as well as help to increase the number of visitors in the library.
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