Have you ever wanted to create something but just didn't have the means to do it?

Lexington Public libraries have maker spaces where you can 3D print.

So make buttons and magnets, record podcasts or videos and lots more.

So we are getting creative.

And this week's arts and culture segment we call Tapestry.

Sometimes it's everyday things like a knob broken.

We need to help them 3D print a new one.

Sometimes they want to create buttons or magnets for a birthday celebration.

So from the everyday to the special days, the experience, a learning spaces are here to help make.

Our spaces can be all sorts of different things.

So we have two more traditional makerspace models where customers can come in, they can create and we have staff there to help guide them and teach them new skills and equipment.

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Clay And then we also have the Cliburn Foundation Steam Lab at Central, and that space is specifically dedicated for grades three and up and we really focus on steam.

So science, technology, engineering, arts and math and having students have those hands on experiences and also showing them different career pathways.

And then we also have a digital studio at Northside.

I'm here at the North Side Public Library, but more specifically, I'm in the digital studio.

The digital studio is made up of several spaces that customers can utilize, probably our most popular spaces, the audio booths.

The audio booth is a sound treated space that has pro-grade microphones and equipment where folks can do podcasting music production.

We've had authors come in and do audio books before.

We have voiceover actors work in that space.

The space that I'm in now is our production studio, and so this is for content creators and photographers to film their projects.

We have cameras in all professional lighting, so as all the equipment that you would need to make a video or do photography shoot.

A lot of the equipment that we have would be really costly to have in your own home.

A lot of times customers need these things, but they only need them two, three times a year.

So there's not really a desire for that investment.

But if we have them here, then customers all day can come and use them all year long, do.

Them more time.

And then we have our magnet made.

One of our goals as the library is to be a place of lifelong learning, and part of that is the makerspace is part of that is continuing to learn new skills, developing new interests and knowledge that people can then take into the workforce so they can come and learn a new craft or a new skill that then they can translate into, you know, pursuing a new job opportunity.

We've seen that time and time again in our Northside digital studio.

People are building up those skills that are very, very impressive on their resumes.

And then that helps them pursue different career opportunities.

And that's very cool space.

You can visit the traditional maker spaces at Lexington Public Library's East Side and Mark's Barry branches along with the steam lab at Central and the digital studio at North Side.