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Elgin Public Library opens makerspace, plans accessibility upgrades and adds peer-support and sensory services
Summary
Elgin Public Library announced a new makerspace with equipment and classes, plans to automate doors and restrooms for accessibility, and added a peer support specialist and a sensory children’s area funded by grants.
Elgin Public Library has opened a makerspace stocked with fabrication and textile equipment and announced plans to automate some doors and restrooms to improve accessibility, library representative Heather Fowler said during a recorded conversation on a local podcast. The library also has a peer support specialist available to patrons and is using a grant to add a sensory area in its children’s section.
The makerspace had a recent grand opening and includes a laser cutter, a 3D printer, an embroidery machine, six sewing machines, a T-shirt press, a mug press and a sublimation printer, Fowler said. “We just recently had our grand…
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