Blog

Year: 2015


  • “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” ― Philip Pullman Digital storytelling is an integral part of the contemporary teaching and learning environment. Stories are integral to the way we learn, and thus effective as learning tools because they can elicit emotions,...

  • Light Makers @ Your Library is a National Science Week public makerspace event being held at Curtin Library. Throughout the week we are running free sessions and workshops which involving making neat things to do with light. Join us to make, tinker, experiment, learn – and most of all, have...

  • A makerspace is a collaborative learning environment where people come together to share materials, tools, equipment, skills and knowledge, and to be involved in hands on activities – the possibilities of which are endless – where they learn through experiment, play and creativity. While public libraries have been at the...

  • In March this year Curtin Library ran a week-long ‘pop-up’ makerspace which kick-started a project to establish a more permanent makerspace in the library. Initially, we intended to make a small contribution to our institution’s annual Festival of Learning, by borrowing a 3D printer and 3D scanner, setting them up...

  • During Curtin’s Festival of Learning, held in March 2015, the Library’s pop-up MakerSpace attracted a lot of attention. In this episode of Curtin TV the makerspace features several times. In the Festival of Learning highlights you’ll see lots of images from the pop up makerspace event, and 5 minutes in...

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Curtin would like to pay respect to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members of our community by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which the Perth campus is located, the Whadjuk people of the Nyungar Nation; and on our Kalgoorlie campus, the Wongutha people of the North-Eastern Goldfields.