The Bibliographical Maker Movement

At the end of twentieth century, increased access to certain technologies and processes, such as 3D scanning, computer-aided design, rapid fabrication microcircuitry, enabled consumers become creators material design. These activities, which collectively came be known making, extended across both public private sectors, including study book. This paper offers an discourse on full range activities comprising bibliographical maker movement, in recent years has coalesced around idea that culture may employed enhance our understanding not only history but also future The application these new toward critical book studies proceeded from practice-based approach research instruction first begun under auspices press movement mid-twentieth century. In keeping with this earlier work, biblio-making is predicated upon kinds knowledge are best gained through personal experience experimentation. article will outline benefits applying goals before locating describing participating individuals institutions within three broad categories: holistic, digitisation; recovering historical tools processes; creative experiments As demonstrates, strength potential lies its widening community practice that, by virtue being open-access network constituents, it now poised make a significant lasting contribution