The workshop focused on how the School Library or learning commons can build influence and become an agent of change within the school community.
It featured presentations and workshops that identified ways teacher librarians can establish influential relationships within their school. James Henri spoke a lot about understanding your circles of influence and making sure that you are building and maintaining them. Influence and Social Capital are two closely aligned terms, check out Joyce Valenza's talk.
The Library @ the Dock is all new and shiny and as you would expect they have a 3D Printing section where they have a number of 3D printers that are available for the public to use. Consumables are charged per gram of the finished product and of course there are samples sitting around including a Tardis!
I liked the way that they had the filament rolls above the unit on a stand made by the 3D printer of course!
The Library at the dock have plenty of Makerspace workshops that you can attend and they are all FREE!
