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  http://renovatedlearning.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Makerspace-Resources.jpg This is an introduction to Makerspace in school libraries. The goal of a Makerspace is to facilitate making.  I have explored various articles and books that I feel can assist in researching, preparing and building a Makerspace with varying levels of funding.  The focus of making is to learn and ultimately create through doing, while tapping into technologies to do that.  Making focuses on learning through “doing” in a social environment, or community; a place where students can develop new knowledge and skills contributing to their academic achievement.   As with all learning, making is not intended to be perfect.  It means that students will learn through trial and error, or hands-on experience in a community setting.  Makerspaces come in all shapes and sizes, some fixed rooms, others temporary.  Incorporating Makerspace into a library simply makes the most sense, as part of a libraria