New Article Reports on Canadian Public Libraries Providing Access to 3D Printing Technology

From the CBC:

…publicly accessible 3D printers are popping up all over the country, at places ranging from libraries to makerspaces to small businesses that liken themselves to internet cafés for 3D printing.
It’s not just libraries in big centres like Edmonton, Toronto and Ottawa that are offering 3D printing now, but even smaller communities like Sudbury and Kitchener, Ont., and towns right across Nova Scotia, from Yarmouth to Sydney.
Ab Velasco, who helped set up the Digital Innovation Hub at the Toronto Reference Library that includes 3D printers, said it’s just a continuation of what libraries have always done.
“Libraries were one of first places to offer free access to computers, internet, wifi… and so offering access to other new emerging technologies — it’s just a natural fit,” said Velasco.

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