# @clevelandmagazine on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-03-14T22:00:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Cleveland Magazine (@clevelandmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/clevelandmagazine

## Caption

Nearly an hour east of Cleveland, Madison, Ohio sits between nurseries and wineries. The largest township in Ohio’s smallest county, it’s unassuming, even with Exit 212’s newly erected Love’s Travel Shop sign cutting through the Grand River fog. 

Yet, in the fall of 2022, Dublin City Library contacted Madison Public Library through Facebook. As in, Dublin, Ireland. 🇮🇪

“I was over the moon. In the States is one thing, but never across the pond, never anything from the UK or Ireland,” says Shawn Walsh, MPL’s emerging services and technologies librarian. “They want to match exactly what we’re doing. They want to build a Stan.” 

Stan the Tech Van is a mobile extension of MPL’s CreateSpace. Acquired last year using Federal American Rescue Plan Act funds from the State Library of Ohio, MPL purchased Stan from a local Dodge dealer to haul and host 3D printers, laser engravers and more for library events within the community. 

But MPL isn’t the only local library embracing tech to serve its community members. Cuyahoga County Public Library is expanding its Innovation Centers to Fairview Park and Warrensville Heights this spring. 

This summer, Cleveland Public Library looks to introduce a Cricut machine and 3D scanners to its TechCentral space, as well as bring instruments back to its recording studio. 🎸

“Nothing we are doing is any different than what libraries have historically done with books,” Walsh says. “We are above and beyond just books. We are empowering people to become more.” 

👨‍💻Click on the link in our bio to learn more about how local libraries are embracing tech for Northeast Ohio’s maker communities. 

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