Case Study No. 1977: Professor Smallen

He-Man MotU Season 2 Episode 7 The Great Books Mystery part 1/2
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The 7th episode of season 2 from the 1984 cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
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From wikia.com:

The Great Books Mystery is the 72nd episode of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, written by Harvey Brenner and directed by Bill Reed. Eternia faces an unprecedented crisis when its most precious resource--information--is stolen by a dangerously clever villain, whom Skeletor would like to meet.

Synopsis
Orko has lost the book about unicorns that he intended to give Prince Adam for his birthday. Man-At-Arms and Teela are dubious that the book would simply disappear, but later Professor Smallen reports to King Randor that all the books in the ancient archives have disappeared. The king sees this as a great tragedy, since the kingdom's books are the information at the foundation of civilization.

Randor summons Adam and Man-At-Arms, who quickly conclude that a sinister plot is afoot and He-Man is needed. Adam makes excuses himself and then transforms himself and Cringer into He-Man and Battle Cat before they consult the Sorceress. Meanwhile, Teela and Orko follow their own lead--a lone book left laying on the south road out of the kingdom.

In his hideout at the Temple of the Sun, Batros congratulates himself for having the wisdom to recognize the value of the books he has stolen. The people of Eternia, he reasons, will be so desperate to regain the books that they will force Randor to abdicate and make him the new ruler. Batros does not suspect that he is being admired from afar by Skeletor, watching from Snake Mountain. Beast Man doesn't comprehend Batros's scheme, which simply reinforces Skeletor's opinion that he needs smarter henchmen. He sends Beast Man and Trap-Jaw to recruit Batros to help him raid Castle Grayskull.

At Grayskull, the Sorceress directs He-Man to the Temple to confront Batros. He-Man is surprised to hear that the villain is not staying on the dark side of Eternia; the Sorceress explains that he has come with a thirst for power. He-Man takes the south road into the desert, but Skeletor uses his magic to delay the hero until his lackeys can make his offer to Batros.

Teela and Orko are the first to reach the Temple, but when they locate the books, Batros takes them prisoner. While he gloats about his plan, Trap-Jaw and Beast Man get the drop on him. Although Batros is interested in meeting with Skeletor, he doesn't appreciate the villains' attitude, and teaches them a lesson with his magic. While Batros forces Beast Man to escort him back to Snake Mountain, Teela and Orko subdue Trap-Jaw and recover Orko's unicorn book.

When Batros comes face-to-face with Skeletor, they quickly butt heads over which of them will follow the other. Finally Batros agrees to hear Skeletor's proposal: If they work together to seize Castle Grayskull, Skeletor will have the power to rule the universe, and Batros will be allowed to have Eternia. Within moments, Batros has a plan to take the castle.

By the time He-Man and Battle Cat reach the Temple of the Sun, they find the books and Trap-Jaw, but no sign of Batros. Teela and Orko have already returned to the Royal Palace and told Man-At-Arms about Batros's alliance with Skeletor; he passes the word along to He-Man, who races back to Grayskull.

Batros's strategy to take the castle is simple: While Beast Man, Mer-Man, and Tri-Klops distract the Sorceress at the front wall, Batros will create a bridge to approach from another direction and outflank her. The plan fails before it can begin when He-Man arrives, sending Battle Cat to handle Beast Man's team while he faces Skeletor and Batros. When He-Man blocks the villains' path on Batros's bridge, Skeletor flees. Batros, however, blasts the bridge out from under the hero, who falls into the bottomless pit surrounding the castle. He-Man catches a rocky outcropping on the way down, though, and surprises Batros by throwing back to the dark side of the planet.

Meanwhile, Man-At-Arms, Teela, and Orko return to the Temple of the Sun to recover the books, only to find they've disappeared yet again. When He-Man is notified, he heads to Snake Mountain, suspecting that Skeletor has usurped Batros's original plan. As He-Man and Battle Cat make their way into the mountain, they are almost immediately captured. Once Skeletor thinks he has them helpless he freely gloats about where he is keeping the books; once they have the information they need, though, the heroes easily free themselves and chase Skeletor away.

Later, everyone is assembled in the palace to celebrate the safe return of the kingdom's books, as well as Adam's birthday. Adam is particularly grateful for Orko's unicorn book...as well as an assist in blowing out the candles on his cake.

Moral
Orko has a lot of reading to catch up on. Teela commends him for reading because books open up new worlds of entertainment and information.

Orko's Fun Facts
As featured in BCI's He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Season Two, Vol. 1 DVD boxset (Disc 1)

* "Professor Smallen from 'Keeper of the Ancient Ruins' returns in this episode. John Erwin voicing the character once again, but this time more gruff-like."
* "The Temple of the Sun from the Season One episode 'Temple of the Sun' makes a reappearance, faithful to its original purpose."
* "Batros went through numerous design changes, but at all times he had his bat-like symbol reminiscent of the Evil Horde logo."
* "Prince Adam's birthday cake has nineteen candles on top, revealing that up until this point in the series he was eighteen, and maybe even younger in the earliest episodes."

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From he-man.org:

Professor Smallen is a professor in the kingdom of Eternia. His first appearance is in the episode "Keeper of the Ancient Ruins", where Prince Adam identifies him as being "from the university."

He returns in the episode "The Great Books Mystery," where he has apparently been placed in charge of Eternia's Ancient Archives.

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From imdb.com:

King Randor: You mean, all of them gone?
Professor Smallen: Yes my lord, all the books in the ancient archives have disappeared.
King Randor: Come now Professor Smallen, are you sure you're not... not getting, well uh, forgetful?
Professor Smallen: Beg pardon, sire. I do misplace my glasses sometimes. And I don't always remember if I've had lunch or not. But I don't lose books.

[...]

King Randor: All of the kingdom's great books have disappeared!
Professor Smallen: They've simply vanished, poof! Including the books in the archives, they're... they're all gone.
King Randor: This is a terrible loss. Those books contain all the lore and knowledge of our people.
Man-At-Arms: And all the great scientific discoveries and inventions.
Prince Adam: And the wonderful stories.
King Randor: [covering his face with one hand] How will we live without the great books?
Man-At-Arms: Very poorly, I fear.

[...]

Batros: [laughs] How terribly clever of me to take the books. When the people of Eternia find out, they will force the King to step down, and they will name me, brilliant Batros, the Emperor of all Eternia.

[...]

Beast Man: If Batros is so smart, how come he stole the books instead of the gold and the jewels?
[chuckles]
Skeletor: Because unlike you, Batros has a brain. What he has taken is more precious than gold or jewels.
Beast Man: Books?
Skeletor: Of course, you worthless hunk of fur! Books are the real treasures of the world.

[...]

The Sorceress: Books are knowledge, and that is too precious to lose.

[...]

Teela: You know, when you open a book, you're really opening a door to a wonderful world of entertainment and information.
Orko: That's for sure! I'm finding out all about science, and dragons, and sports, but mostly bodybuilding!
Teela: You have a book on bodybuilding?
Orko: No, but carrying all thse books sure builds my body.
Teela: Oh, Orko.

Case Study No. 1976: Staff of Unnamed Library (That Girl)

THAT GIRL Opening Credits and Teaser
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From Season 3, The Secret Ballot. Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas)prepares to vote in her first election. Look for Penny Marshall as an assistant librarian in a one line cameo role.
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[scene opens with Ann Marie in the public library, as she carries a stack of magazines to the front desk, where the elderly female librarian (white hair, glasses, pink dress) is helping a female patron]
LIBRARIAN: Yes, well, there you are. Hope you enjoy it.
[she hands a book to the patron, who walks away]
ANN MARIE: Excuse me?
LIBRARIAN: Hmm?
ANN MARIE: May I please leave these here while I get a few books?
LIBRARIAN: Oh, certainly.
[she places the magazines on the desk]
ANN MARIE: Oh, uh, could you direct me to your political section?
LIBRARIAN: Oh, aisle five, section "S."
ANN MARIE: Thank you.
LIBRARIAN: Mm hmm.
[she heads towards the stacks, then cut to Ann Marie carrying a pile of large books back to the front desk]
ANN MARIE: I'd like to check these books out, please.
LIBRARIAN: Alright.
[she hands the librarian her library card]
ANN MARIE: There you are.
LIBRARIAN: Thank you.
[she takes the first book on the pile and opens it up]
LIBRARIAN: Oh, the three volumes of the Congressional record. That's a lot of reading.
ANN MARIE: Well, I wanna compare the legislation that's been proposed to what these magazines say is needed.
LIBRARIAN: I see ...
[she places the book's punch card into the machine reader, which makes a loud noise (causing her to jump back)]
LIBRARIAN: Oh! These new machines, they make me so nervous ...
[she smiles, then looks at the stack of magazines]
LIBRARIAN: Oh, you got a lotta magazines, too.
ANN MARIE: I have articles here covering all shades of opinion, from far left to far right to far middle of the road.
LIBRARIAN: Are you writing a thesis?
[she laughs]
ANN MARIE: No, I'm preparing to vote in my first presidential election.
LIBRARIAN: Oh.
ANN MARIE: And I wanna be informed on as many issues as I can think of. I think the good voter is the aware voter, not the voter who votes off the top of his head.
LIBRARIAN: I agree with you.
[she punches the last book's card]
LIBRARIAN: There you are.
ANN MARIE: Thank you.
[she stops and smiles at the librarian]
ANN MARIE: Voting is a great privilege. But more than that, it's a sacred trust of a free society!
LIBRARIAN: Young lady, I admire you.
ANN MARIE: Oh, thank you.
[she puts the magazines on top of the books and starts to pick them up]
LIBRARIAN: Now, can you handle all this?
ANN MARIE: Oh sure, nothing to it!
[she grabs her purse with her teeth, then picks up the large pile and starts to leave]
LIBRARIAN: Be careful!
ANN MARIE: [mumbled] Oh, don't worry, I will!
[she leaves, as the librarian watches her go and smiles]
LIBRARIAN: Now there's someone with her head on her shoulders!
[a young female librarian (short brown hair, blue dress) overhears her]
ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN: Who?
LIBRARIAN: That girl ...
[cut to Ann Marie heading for the stairs, when she trips (sending the books flying around a "Silence, Watch Your Step" sign]

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From imdb.com:

That Girl: Season 3, Episode 6
Secret Ballot (31 Oct. 1968)

This is Ann's first Presidential election and she is studying the issues like crazy. She balks at telling her father which political party she is registered for.

Cast
Marlo Thomas ... Ann Marie
Ted Bessell ... Donald Hollinger
Lew Parker ... Lew Marie
Rosemary DeCamp ... Helen Marie (as Rosemary De Camp)
Florence Halop ... Librarian (uncredited)
Penny Marshall ... Assistant Librarian (uncredited)

Storyline
It's Halloween. Ann's mind is not on costumes and jack-o-lanterns, but rather the upcoming Presidential election, which will be the first in which she is eligible to vote. She is reading up on as much as she can so that on election day she can make an informed decision, which she believes is the duty of every voter. As Ann and Donald spend the day with her parents, she gets into an argument with her father about her constitutional right to keep her election decisions - even with which party she registered - a secret, and their fundamental differences in how to vote, with Lew historically voting for a party slate regardless of the candidates. Ann, with Donald in tow, storms out of her parent's house because of this argument. Ann may have to make up with her father sooner than later as her forgotten purse in their house makes Ann and Donald need to drive all the way back up to Brewster to retrieve it.

Case Study No. 1975: Glynis Tryon

Book Talk - Seneca Falls Inheritance
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Looking for a good book? See what the Adult Services librarian at the Irondequoit Public Library is recommending today!
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[scene opens with two women talking in the library]
CHRISTY: Christy Simons, adult services librarian for the Irondequoit Public Library, and we're here this month talking about "Seneca Falls Inheritance." Uh, and I have a friend with me named Linda, who's been in the book discussion group for years. So she's gonna tell us a little bit about what brought you to the book discussion group, and how long have you been in it?
LINDA: Well, I've been retired ten years, and when I was a teacher, I didn't have much time to read adult literature. I spent most of the time reading children's literature, so since I've been retired, I have really enjoyed coming to the book discussion group and participating.
CHRISTY: So you've come about ten years?
LINDA: About ten years now.
CHRISTY: What do you enjoy about the group, Linda?
LINDA: I like the fact that it introduces us to a variety of books, some that I might not normally pick up and read on my own. Uh, I like the broad scope.
CHRISTY: Yeah. I also like the fact that we like to laugh in that group, too.
LINDA: Yes, it's a very enjoyable group of people.
CHRISTY: It's an enjoyable group, it's a lotta fun ... and we do get some men, too. So if you're a male viewer and you're watching this YouTube video, please come to our book discussion group.
[she holds up the book]
CHRISTY: Well anyway, we did choose "Seneca Falls Inheritance" for the month of January, and the reason we chose this book was because the author is a local. Miriam Grace Monfredo is local to Rochester, and she wrote a series of books having to do with local history in this area. And when we had our discussion, Linda was very enthusiastic about the book, as were all of the attendees, but I wanted Linda to come and share her impressions of "Seneca Falls Inheritance." So, what did you think?
LINDA: I really enjoyed the book. In fact, um, I'm reading other books in the series. I-I liked the way that it used both fiction and real history in a very believable combination to present how important this area is. Rochester and the cities along Five and Twenty, Geneva and Waterloo and Seneca Falls. The role that they played in the women's rights movement, and the issue of the abolition of slavery. Uh, both of those topics were influenced by people that lived in this area, heavily. And I think she does a wonderful job of presenting that, with some very well-rounded characters.
CHRISTY: One character that was a favorite of mine, of course, was ...
[they both say "The librarian!"]
LINDA: Glynis.
CHRISTY: Glynis. So tell us a little bit about the librarian in this story.
LINDA: Well, Glynis is an unusual women for her time. She has chosen not to marry, and to have a profession instead, as a librarian. And so she's gone to Oberlin College, and she's now the librarian for the city of Seneca Falls. And as the librarian, she knows a lotta people and gets involved in a couple of murder mysteries that happen in Seneca Falls, but she also is heavily involved in the women's rights movement. And through her we learn about Susan B. Anthony and ... uh, Elizabeth Stanton?
CHRISTY: Mm hmm.
LINDA: Elizabeth Stanton. And in further novels, we meet people like Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Blackwell, who was the first woman doctor in this area.
CHRISTY: Mm hmm, great. And what's also more interesting as well, those things about Glynis ... She has a little romance with the town police officer. Which, what was he? Considered a sheriff at that time?
LINDA: Right, mm hmm.
CHRISTY: The town sheriff.
LINDA: The constable.
CHRISTY: If you wanna read a great book, a great mystery with a lot of local history in it--
LINDA: Mm hmm.
CHRISTY: You'll wanna pick up books by Miriam Grace Monfredo. We suggest you start with "Seneca Falls Inheritance," since that's first in the series and it does get better and better and ... the romance continues.
[cut to a photograph of the book cover, then back to the two women]
CHRISTY: Thanks for listening, and we'll see you next month.
["Available at the Irondequoit Public Library www dot libraryweb dot org slash irondequoit" appears on screen]

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From amazon.com:

Seneca Falls Inheritance
by Miriam Grace Monfredo

Series: Seneca Falls Series
Paperback: 332 pages
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated (October 1, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1492267201

A historical mystery set during the first Women's Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Librarian Glynis Tryon must solve the mystery of why a woman would be murdered because of the new law governing inheritance.

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From barnesandnoble.com:

During the Women's Rights Convention of 1848, a body turns up in the canal-and town librarian Glynis Tryon stands up to a killer.

Page-turning suspense. (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

Well-written. (Sara Paretsky)

Amidst the bustle of the Women's Rights Convention of 1848, free-thinking town librarian Glynis Tryon is called upon by Elizabeth Cady Stanton to help organize the historic event. But when a body turns up in the canal, Glynis puts history on hold and uses her talent for detection to catch a murderer. Martin's.

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From publishersweekly.com:

In her historically authentic and cleverly entertaining first novel, Monfredo skillfully meshes life in Seneca Falls, N.Y., immediately before the First Women's Rights Convention in 1848 with a page-turning suspense story. Charming spinster librarian Glynis Tryon, like her fellow townspeople, is shocked by the sudden deaths of wealthy Friedrich Steicher and his wife, but she is more surprised by the appearance of a woman who says she is the daughter Steicher never knew. Before the woman can prove her allegation, however, she is murdered. Although suspicion falls heavily on Friedrich's only son, Karl, he denies the woman was his sister, even when her husband comes to town to lay a claim on the estate. Unofficially deputized, Glynis questions those who might have spoken to the woman, and continues the investigation of a second, related murder when the sheriff becomes ill. Historical figures, foremost Elizabeth Cady Stanton, are woven seamlessly into this well-modulated, satisfying tale.

Case Study No. 1974: Mita Williams

2015 ALA Midwinter Meeting - Mita Williams on Libraries/Maker Movement
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From ala.org:

ALA Masters Series - Mechanic Institutes, Hackerspaces, Makerspaces, TechShops, Incubators, Accelerators, and Centers of Social Enterprise. Where do Libraries fit in?

Sunday, February 1, 2015 - 11:45am to 12:30pm

Speaker: Mita Williams, User Experience Librarian, University of Windsor, Leddy Library

Some of our oldest public libraries were born out of mechanics institutes and many of our newest public libraries feature makerspaces. There is now a lengthy continuum of organizations that seem to share many similarities with the libraries of today. This session will be field guide to these new spaces and point out the differences that make a difference.

Mita Williams is a librarian at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She is also a founder and board member of Hackforge, a community-driven hackerspace that got its start in the front room of the Windsor Public Library. She blogs at New Jack Librarian and be found on various social networks under the name copystar.

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From newjackalmanac.ca:

Hackerspaces, Makerspaces, Fab Labs, TechShops, Incubators, Accelerators... Where do libraries fit in?

[ On February 1st, I gave this presentation the American Library Association Midwinter Conference in Chicago, Illinois as part of the ALA Masters Series. Thank you, good people of ALA.]

Today's session is going to start out as a field guide but it's going to end with a history lesson.

We're going to start here - with a space station called c-base that found/ed in Berlin in 1995.

And then we are going travel through time and space to the present day where business start-up incubator innovation labs are everywhere including CBASE which is the College of Business and Economics from the University of Guelph.

But before we figure out where libraries makerspaces fit in, we're going to use the c-base space station to go back in time, just before the very first public libraries were established around the world, so we can figure out how to go back to the future we want. It is 2015, after all.

But before we can talk about library makerspaces, we need to talk about hackerspaces.

This is the inside of c-base.

c-base is considered one of - or perhaps even - the very first hackerspace. It was established in 1995 by self-proclaimed nerds, sci-fi fans, and digital activists who tell us that c-base was built from a reconstructed space station that fell to earth, then somehow became buried, and when it was uncovered it was found to be borne with the inscription : be future compatible.

The c-base is described as a system of seven concentric rings that can move in relation to each other. These rings are called core, com, culture, creative, cience, carbon and clamp.

Beyond its own many activities, c-base has become the meeting place for German Wikipedians and it's where the German Pirate Party was first established.

Members of c-base have been known to present at events hosted by the Chaos Computer Club, which is Europe's largest association of hackers that's been around for 30 years now.

So c-base is a hackerspace that is actually inhabited by what we commonly think of as hackers.

Some of the earliest hackerspaces were directly inspired by c-base. There is story that goes that in August of 2007, a group of North American hackers visited Germany for Chaos Communication Camp and was so impressed that when came back, they formed the first hackerspaces in the United States including NYC Resistor (2007), HacDC (2007), and Noisebridge (San Francisco, 2008).

Since then, many, many more hackerspaces have been developed - there are at least a thousand - but behind these new spaces are organizations that have are much less counter-culture in their orientation than the mothership of c-base. In fact, at this moment, you could say there isn't a clear delineation between hackerspaces and makerspaces at all.

But before we can start talking about makerspaces, I think it's necessary to pay a visit two branches of the hackerspace evolutionary tree: TechShops and Fab Labs.

TechShop is a business that started in 2006 which provides - in return for a monthly membership - access to space that contains over a half a million dollars of equipment, generally including an electronics lab, a machine shop, a wood shop, a metal working shop, etc. There are only 8 of these TechShops across the US despite earlier predictions that would be about 20 of them by now. They have been slow to open because the owner has stated that the business requires at least 800 people willing to pay over $100 a month in order for a TechShop to be viable.

The motto of TechShop is Build Your Dreams here. But TechShops have been largely understood as places where members dream of prototypes for their future Kickstarter projects. And such dreams have already come true: the prototype of the Square credit card processing reader, for example, was built in a Techshop. I think it's telling that the Detroit Techshop has a bright red phone in the space that connects you directly to the United States Patent and Trademark Office in case of a patent emergency.

Three of out of the 8 TechShops have backing from other organizations. TechShop's Detroit center opened in 2012 in partnership with Ford, which gives its employees free membership for three months. Ford employees can claim patents for themselves or they can give them to Ford in exchange for a share in revenue generated. Ford claims that this partnership with TechShop has led to a 50% rise in the number of patentable ideas put forward by the carmaker's employees, in one year.

TechShop's offices in Washington DC and Pittsburgh are being sponsored by DARPA, an agency of the Defense Department. DARPA is reported to have invested $3.5 million dollars into TechShop as part of its "broad mission to see if regular citizens can outinvent military contractors on some of its weirder projects." But DARPA is not just helping pay for the space, they supposedly use the space themselves. According to the Bloomberg Business Week story I read, DARPA employees arrive at midnight to work when the TechShop is closed to its regular members.

You might be surprised, but we're going to be talking about DARPA again during this talk. But before that, we need to visit another franchise-like type of makerspace called the Fab Lab.

In 1998, Neil Gershenfeld started a class at MIT called "How to make (almost) anything". Gershenfeld wanted to introduce industrial-size machines normally inaccessible to technical students. However, he found his class also attracted a lot of students from various backgrounds including artists, architects, and designers. This led to a larger collaboration which eventually resulted in the Fab Lab Project which began in 2001. Fab Lab began as an educational outreach program from MIT but the idea has since developed into an ambitious network of labs located around the world.

The idea behind Fab Lab is that the space should provide a core set of tools powered by open source software that allow novice makers to make almost anything given a brief introduction to engineering and design education. Anyone can create a recognized Fab Lab as long as it makes a strong effort uphold the criteria of a Fab Lab, with the most important being that Fab Labs are required to be regularly open to the public for little or no cost. While it's not required, a Fab Lab is also strongly encouraged to communicate and collaborate with the other 350 or so other Fab Labs around the world. The idea is that, for example, if you design and make something using Fab Lab equipment in Boston, you could send the files and documents to someone in the Cape Town Fab Lab who could the same using their equipment.

The first library makerspace was a Fab Lab. It was established in 2011 in the Fayetteville Free Library in the state of New York. That's Lauren Britton pictured on screen who was a driving force that helped make that happen.

Now we don't tend to talk about Fab Labs in libraries. We talk about makerspaces. I think this is for several reasons with one of the main ones being - as admirable as I personally find the goals of international collaboration through open source and standardization - the established minimum baseline for such a Fab Lab generally costs between $25,000 and $65,000 in capital costs alone. This means that a proper Fab Lab is out of reach for many communities and smaller organizations.

I think there's another reason why we think of makerspaces before we think of Fab Labs, TechShops or hackerspaces. And that's because of Make Magazine.

Started in 2005 from the influential source of so many essential computer books, O'Reilly Publishing, Make Magazine was going to be called Hack. But then the daughter of founder Dale Dougherty told him that hacking didn't sound good, and she didn't like it. Instead, she suggested he call the magazine MAKE instead, because 'everyone likes making things'.

And there is something to be said for having a more inclusive name, and something less threatening than hackerspace. But I think there's more to it as well. There is a freedom that comes with the name of makerspace.

One my favourite things about makerspaces is that most of them are open to everyone - artists, scientists, educators, hobbyists, hackers and entrepreneurs and it is possibility for cross-pollination of ideas that is one of the espoused benefits of their spaces for their members. In a world where there's so much specialization, makerspaces are a force that are trying to bring different groups of people together.

Here's such an example. This is i3Detroit which calls itself a DIY co-working space that is a "a collision of art, technology and collaboration".

There are also makerspaces that are more heavily arts-based. Miss Despoinas is a salon for experimental research and radical aesthetics that hosts workshops using code in contemporary art practice. It is physically located in Hobart, Tasmania.

There are presumably makerspaces that are designed primarily for the launching of new companies, although the only one I could find was Haxlr8r . Haxkl8r is a hardware business accelerator that combines workshop space with mentorship and venture capital opportunities and official bases in San Francisco and Shenzhen, China.

That being said, I can't help but note that most of these maker spaces that I've found that are designed specifically to support start ups has been in universities. Pictured here is the "Industrial Courtyard" where students and recent graduates of the university where I work can have access for prototype or product development.

In some ways, this brings up us full circle because it's been said the originators of the first hackerspaces set them up deliberately outside of universities, governments, and businesses because they wanted a form of political independence and even to be a place for resistance to the bad actors of these organizations.

As Willow Brugh describes this transition from the earliest hackerspaces and hacklabs :

The commercialization of the space means more people have access to the ideals of these spaces - but just as when "Open Source" opened up the door to more participants, the blatant political statement of "Free Software" was lost - hacklabs have turned from a political statement on use of space and voice into a place for production and participation in mainstream culture.

For as neutral and benign makerspaces seemingly are ("everyone likes to make things"), there are reasons to be mindful of the organizations behind them. For one, in 2012 Make Magazine received a grant from DARPA to establish makerspaces in 1000 U.S. high schools over the next four years.

Now it's one thing if makerspaces simply exist as a place where friends and hobbyists can meet, work and learn from each other. It's quite another if the makerspace becomes the basis of a model to address STEM anxieties in education.

As much as I appreciate how the Maker Movement is trying to bring a playful approach to learning through building, it's important to recognize that makerspaces tend to collect successful makers rather than produce them. The community who participates in hackerspaces and makerspaces is pronouncedly skewed white and male. In 2012, Make Magazine reported that of its 300,000 in total readership, 81% are male, median age is 44, and the median household income is $106,000.

Lauren Britton, the librarian who was responsible for the very first Library Fab Lab/Makerspace is now studying as a doctoral student at Syracuse University in Information Science and Technology and a researcher for their Information Institute. She's been doing discourse analysis on the maker movement and last year she informally published some of her findings so far. She's already tackled STEM anxiety and I'm particularly looking forward to what has has to say about gender and the makerspace movement.

But there's no time to get into all of that now, because it is now time to hop into c-base and travel through and time and space to the time before public libraries. We are going to travel up the makerspace evolutionary tree to what I like to consider the proto-species of the makerspace : The Mechanics Institute.

The world's first Mechanics' Institute was established in Edinburgh, Scotland in October 1821. Mechanics Institutes were formed to provide libraries and forms of adult education, particularly in technical subjects, to working men. As such, they were often funded by local industrialists on the grounds that they would ultimately benefit from having more knowledgeable and skilled employees. Mechanics Institutes as an institution did not last very long - the movement lasted only fifty years or so - although at their peak there were 700 of them worldwide.

What I think is so particularly poetic is that many of the buildings and core books collections of these Mechanics Institutes- especially where I'm from which is the province of Ontario in Canada - became the foundation for the very first public libraries.

Although there are still some Mechanics Institutes still among us, like coelacanths evolutionary speaking- most notably Montreal's Atwater Library and San Francisco's beautiful Mechanics Institute and Chess Room.

Now, I have to admit, when I see some makerspaces, they remind me of mechanics institutes: subsidized spaces that exist to provide access to technologies to be used for potential start-ups. And if that remains their primary focus, I think their moment will pass, just like mechanics institutes. The forces that made industrial technology accessible to small groups will presumably continue to develop into consumer technology. To live by disruption is to die by disruption.

This is one reason why I'm so happy and proud of the way so many libraries have embraced makerspaces and have made them their own. Because by and large, libraries keep people at the centre of the space- not technology.

Librarians - by and large - have opted for accessible materials and activities in their spaces and have host activities that emphasize creativity, personal expression and learning through play.

This is The Bubbler which is a visually arts based makerspace from the Madison Public Library. I have never been but from what I can see, they are doing many wonderful things. They hosts events that involve bike hacking, audio engineering, board game making, and media creation projects. I was particular impressed how they are working with juvenile justice programs to bring these activities and workshops to justice involved youth.

As long as libraries can continue to focus on building a better future for all of us, then we can continue to be a space where that future can be built.

This concludes our tour through time and space. Thank you kindly for your attention.

May your libraries and your makerspaces be future compatible.

Case Study No. 1973: Herschel Fleischman and Staff of Unnamed Library

The Librarian
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[scene opens with a male janitor standing next to the book return slot outside of a public library, as a male librarian (frizzy black hair, glasses, grey sweater, blue undershirt, black pants) walks by carrying some books under his arm]
ANNOUNCER: Herschel Fleischman lived life by the book.
JANITOR: Hey Herschel, you're three hours early.
HERSCHEL: Well, you know how I feel about late fees.
[cut to the librarian running his finger across his spice rack (with each bottle clearly labelled), when he stops at turmeric]
ANNOUNCER: Where everything had its rightful place.
[cut to the librarian (his face red and drenched in sweat) adding the spice to a boiling pot on the stove]
ANNOUNCER: But some books were never meant to be ... checked out.
[cut to the librarian typing at his computer at work, when he stops and stares at something on the screen (taking his glasses off and then putting them back on to make sure what he's seeing is correct)]
[cut to several staff members of the library having a meeting]
LIBRARIAN 1: The bake sale on Thursday morning was a complete success, and the deal with Amazon is done.
[Herschel walks into the room carrying some papers]
HERSCHEL: Hey, sorry to interrupt, but the funds in the budget don't really add up. It's almost as if somebody has been cookin' the books ...
[everyone stares at him, then one of the staff members picks up his cell phone and (without dialing) starts talking]
LIBRARIAN 2: He knows.
[cut to a female librarian (brown hair in a bun, glasses, white blouse, pearl necklace) in her kitchen, speaking at the other end of the line]
LIBRARIAN 3: Fleischman? Take him off the shelf.
[she hangs up, then opens the stove and throws some chopped onions into a pot filled with books (including Darrell Huff's "How to Lie with Statistics" and Harold Kushner's "When Bad Things Happen to Good People")]
[cut to Herschel standing next to the return slot outside of the library (watching a male patron drop in a book before walking off), when another male librarian grabs him from behind]
LIBRARIAN 4: You're next!
[two other librarians appear and grab him, then cut to various shots edited together to make it look like he's being "stuffed" into the return slot]
HERSCHEL: Ahhh!
[cut to a shot from Herschel's POV, as he "falls" down a long shaft (his screams echoing along the way), then cut to him landing in a pile of garbage bags]
HERSCHEL: Whoa!
[he gets up and tries to dust himself off, then cut to a closeup of another male librarian's mouth]
LIBRARIAN 5: Welcome to the depository ...
[cut back to Herschel with a confused look on his face]
HERSCHEL: What, the what?
[cut back to the closeup of the other librarian's mouth]
LIBRARIAN 5: You've been withdrawn ...
[cut back to Herschel, who looks over to see that the janitor is inside the "depository" with him]
HERSCHEL: Oswald?
JANITOR: Hey, Herschel!
[he nonchalantly sticks his hand out for a handshake (as if nothing out of the ordinary is going on)]
JANITOR: Put 'er there, brother!
HERSCHEL: How'd you get in here?
JANITOR: I'll explain on the way.
HERSCHEL: Okay.
[cut to Herschel back in the library, as he sneaks up behind the male librarian on the cell phone (the one who ratted him out earlier) and snaps his neck ... then calmly putting a finger to his lips]
HERSCHEL: Shhh ...
[cut to Herschel back in the depository, using two stacks of books to do pushups]
ANNOUNCER: When his life was put on hold ...
[cut to Herschel sneaking through the library]
ANNOUNCER: And the stacks were stacked against him ...
[cut to Herschel back in the depository, as he trains on a punching dummy by hitting it with books]
ANNOUNCER: There was only one thing left to do ...
[cut to Herschel back in the library, holding a barcode scanner like a gun and pointing it at the camera]
ANNOUNCER: Throw the book at 'em!
[cut to Herschel holding a bookmark like a throwing star]
HERSCHEL: Don't lose your place!
[he "throws" it, then the camera quickly pans over to show his victim with the bookmark lodged into his forehead]
[cut to Herschel carrying a hammer, as he kicks open a door and points it at someone off camera]
HERSCHEL: I'm takin' you outta circulation!
[cut to the female librarian (now with her hair down and wearing a tight white dress) sitting in a chair and holding a martini glass]
LIBRARIAN 3: That's funny, I put you into circulation.
[she takes a sip, then cut to Herschel with a shocked look on his face]
HERSCHEL: Mom?!
[cut to the janitor entering the room from a door behind Herschel's mother]
JANITOR: Correction ... We put you into circulation.
[he bends down and kisses Herschel's mother, then cut to Herschel with another shocked look on his face]
HERSCHEL: Dad?!
[cut to footage from "2001: A Space Odyssey" showing the embryonic "starchild", then back to Herschel as he looks up to the heavens]
HERSCHEL: Starchild?
[cut to Herschel back in the depository, as he knits a sweater (?) while watching "No Holds Barred" on an old television (??)]
ANNOUNCER: The Librarian! This Labor Day, revenge is overdue!

Case Study No. 1972: "Virtual Librarians"

Dejan Milicevic - Virtual Librarians (Original Mix)
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From last.fm:

Virtual Librarians (6:29)
From "Out Of My Own Book"

Virtual Librarians appears on the album Out Of My Own Book. Dejan Milicevic was born in July 1979 in Belgrade, Serbia, at the time of ex-Yugoslavia. His early musical influences came from his older brother Alexander who was repeatedly playing fresh tunes of the bands such as Ministry, Front 242, Front Line Assembly and many other alternative new wave electronic sounds. Dejan fell in love with techno-music back in the early 1993, while attending some of the first parties ever made in Belgrade as a young clubber. He was deeply fascinated by the magic tunes played by the DJs at the time, as well as with the feedback they were getting from the enthusiastic Belgrade crowd.

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From plasticcity.de:

Virtual Librarians
Dejan Milicevic

2013 Plastic City / dareod music GmbH

Released on: 2013-07-12

Composer: Dejan Milicevic
Music Publisher: Copyright Control

Case Study No. 1971: Unnamed Male Librarian (Shantae and the Pirate's Curse)

Let's play Shantae & The Pirate's Curse part 2 The Palace Library
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Shantae has to get the map for Risky Boots to sail to a island to look for certain requirements to come against the Pirate Master as Shantae makes a trip to the Palace Library.
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[the player tries to visit the Sequin Land Palace, but is stopped by a guard]
GUARD: The library? You shouldn't go without a library card.
[the player enters the home of Shantae's friend Sky]
SKY: Shantae? I thought they had you under lock and key.
SHANTAE: Uhhhh ... I'm on my way to the palace library to ... to get something to read. You know, to pass the time. Can I borrow your library card?
SKY: You, read a book? This I have to see.
["You got the library card!" appears on screen]
SKY: Just don't ruin this card like you did the last one!
SHANTAE: I nibble when I'm nervous!
[the player returns to the guard]
GUARD: Let's see that library card! Golly, they say the camera adds five pounds ... but in your case, it gave you blonde hair and a totally different face! Amazing! Head down this path to reach Sequin Land Palace and the library. Good luck!
[the player eventually makes his way into the palace, then finds an elderly male librarian (bald, white beard, fez hat, glasses, blue robe, walking stick, pointy red shoes) holding a book in the library]
LIBRARIAN: A visitor! Let's have a look at you ... Hoo hoo hoo! This library card doesn't fool these old eyes. You used to come here all the time. The relic hunter's daughter, right?
SHANTAE: Yes. Well, he's my uncle.
LIBRARIAN: And what's this, a court summons?
["You gave summons!" appears on screen]
LIBRARIAN: It says here that ... hmmm ... scissors ... jigsaw ... goat mouth ... What!? They mean to cut off that long, winsome hair?
SHANTAE: ...
LIBRARIAN: That will never do. Why don't I just ... File these papers away until the Sultana returns. I'd like to give you a knowing wink now, but sadly my eyelids no longer work. Please take whatever you came for.
SHANTAE: Thank you very much!
[the player clicks on the glowing orb behind the librarian, and "The hollow globe contains a secret ... You got the Forbidden Isles map!" appears on screen]
[the player clicks on the librarian again]
LIBRARIAN: Keep that chin up, young lady! You have friends all around you. Good luck!

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From wikipedia.org:

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is a platform game by WayForward Technologies and Inti Creates for the Nintendo 3DS and the Wii U. It is the third game in the Shantae series, following Shantae: Risky's Revenge. In North America, the game was released on the 3DS eShop on October 23, 2014 and on the Wii U eShop on December 25, 2014. In PAL regions, it was released on both platforms on February 5, 2015.

Plot
Following the events of Shantae: Risky's Revenge, in which the half-genie girl Shantae was forced to defeat the embodiment of her own powers, Shantae has been adjusting to a life without genie powers. However, one day, Shantae is approached by her old nemesis, Risky Boots, who informs her that the Pirate Master, a powerful evil tyrant who was sealed away long ago by the genies of Sequin Land, was preparing to return and spell doom for all of Sequin Land.

Despite not having her powers, Shantae strikes up a reluctant alliance with Risky to thwart the Pirate Master's revival.

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From wikia.com:

Sequin Land Palace is a place mentioned by Mayor Scuttlebutt as being a place to which Scuttle Town ships fish via wagon as the town's main economy. It is the center of power of Sequin Land and is where the Sequin Land Sultana resides, though she is mentioned as frequently traveling and often isn't around.

Shantae visits the Palace at the beginning of Pirate's Curse to find a map for Risky Boots in the library. While there, she shows her Summons to the librarian, who is aghast to learn that the Royal Guards intend to cut her hair for attacking Scuttle Town's mayor, the Ammo Baron. Having served on the Royal Council (for one day), the librarian is able to drop Shantae's charges and save her hair.