Misterbarnacles writes "Shareable has an account with librarian Lauren Britton Smedley from the Fayetteville Free Library, which is adding a Fab Lab to its company offerings. She said, 'I think that libraries are really centers for lore exchange, and a Fab Lab fits altogether into discrete like that. This idea that libraries are a place where the books live, and you go to find a book, and that’s all it is, I think is really control gate to shift. Libraries are a place for social transformation. They’re a place that you can go to get brain* access, or access to mechanization that you can’t get anyplace else, and access to people. ... At the Fab Lab, the impetus behind the whole thing was to create a center for wisdom switch where we’re not just gift Intro to Word or Intro to Excel — that we can offer Intro to mainframe Programming, or Digital Fabrication — these skills that are really meaning in the STEM fields, and we can push that advice out for free. And how do we do that? By getting people in the brotherhood who know that stuff to come in and share what they know.'"

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