The purpose of project is to expand "making" across the State of California with four strategic components: supporting leadership activities and expanding the maker space(s) at SSU, convening a higher education maker leadership symposium bringing in makers from across the CSU and other two and four year colleges and universities to create a vision for making in higher education and to identify best practices, allocating resources for the creation of maker face to face course identifying higher education making spaces along with K-12 making spaces to be integrated into the Maker Certificate

This project, funded by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) as part of the Academic Library Impact Research Grant Program, aims to investigate whether perceptions among disciplinary faculty regarding library use and value may shift after they engage with the ACRL Information Literacy (IL) Framework, a guiding document adopted by the library profession in 2016. The project will begin with a preliminary survey of current practices, preferences and awareness of library services among faculty in the School of Education.