Chapter 4. Hardware

Authors

  • Jason Griffey

Abstract

Chapter 4 of Library Technology Reports (53, no. 5), "3-D Printers for Libraries, 2017 Edition"


Chapter 4 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 53, no. 5), “3-D Printers for Libraries, 2017 Edition,” lists and discusses the 3-D printer companies and products that author Jason Griffey thinks are most effective and efficient for library use as well as a few experimental models that might bear watching in the future. The criteria used for evaluation include popularity, ease of use, support, and the degree to which the company espouses library values of openness and information access. The attempt will be made to provide buying advice for libraries, taking into account the possible differences in use cases that libraries may have.

Author Biography

Jason Griffey

Jason Griffey is a librarian, technologist, and the founder and principal at Evenly Distributed (http://evenlydistributed.net), a technology consulting and creation firm for libraries, museums, educational institutions, and other nonprofits. Griffey is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and was formerly an associate professor and Head of Library Information Technology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2009, Griffey has written and spoken internationally on topics such as the future of technology and libraries, personal electronics in the library, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. He was a winner of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries in 2014 for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. Griffey is also the creator and director of the LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open-source portable digital file distribution system.

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Published

2017-07-11

Issue

Vol. 53 No. 5 (2017): July

Section

Chapters