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A makerspace in the College of San Mateo library. A library makerspace, also named Hackerspace or Hacklab, is an area and/or service that offers library patrons an opportunity to create intellectual and physical materials using resources such as computers, 3-D printers, audio and video capture and editing tools, and traditional arts and crafts supplies.
NextFab Studio, LLC (DBA NextFab) is a network of membership-based makerspaces with locations in Philadelphia and Wilmington. [1] Founded in 2009 by Evan Malone, the for-profit company opened its first location in West Philadelphia’s University City Science Center. NextFab offers users education on and access to manufacturing and prototyping ...
Online public access catalog. The online public access catalog (OPAC), now frequently synonymous with library catalog, is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries. Online catalogs have largely replaced the analog card catalogs previously used in libraries.
Teens and preteens who questioned how they’d survive in a “Hunger Games” setting found answers at a recent Olathe Public Library event. The program, which aimed to hone dystopian survival ...
Hammond, Beeby and Babka. The Harold Washington Library Center is the central library for the Chicago Public Library System. It is located just south of the Loop 'L', at 400 S. State Street in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a full-service library and is ADA compliant. As with all libraries in the Chicago Public Library system, it ...
t. e. In library and information science, cataloging (US) or cataloguing (UK) is the process of creating metadata representing information resources, such as books, sound recordings, moving images, etc. Cataloging provides information such as author's names, titles, and subject terms that describe resources, typically through the creation of ...
The Card Catalog at the Library of Congress. A library catalog (or library catalogue in British English) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A catalog for a group of libraries is also called a union catalog.
Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3][4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization. It has been funded in part by grants from the ...