Makerspaces give patrons access to tools and technology for independent and collaborative creation. While patrons may come into the space with the goal of creating a specific product, the spaces have been created with the larger goals of learning and exploration.

Makerspace

- Use of screens, canopies, utility walls, and inflatable igloos, to screen off areas needing privacy
- Soft Seating
- Large tables for working on posters
- Furniture that can be moved
- Clear zoning
- Spaces to make, create, build, and construct projects (scheduled or spontaneously)
- Flexible spaces (microenvironments)
- Social learning spaces
- Open study zones
- Semi-enclosed pods
- Silent study areas
- Traditional study carrels
- Classroom facilities
- Refreshment zone
- Teaching Zone
- Multimedia bays
- ELearning Classrooms
- Makerspaces 

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These are the different approaches, furniture, and types of rooms/zones commonly used in Learning Commons to create a variety of learning spaces to meet diverse and dynamic learning needs/styles.

Space configurations in Learning Commons

Oliveira, Silas M. "Trends in Academic Library Space: From book boxes to learning commons." Open information science 2.1 (2018): 59-74.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opis-2018-0005/pdf

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