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Vol. 103, Issue 17 • April 23, 2015
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Library launches 3-D printing and biotech labs
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Above: Teddy Dykstra, a La Jolla High School student, is elated to take a freshly printed paperclip from the 3-D printer at La Jolla Library. Left: Jeanne Walker and Eleanor Sailor are captivated by the 3-D printer process. Photos by Ashley Mackin
By Ashley Mackin La Jolla’s Riford Library is bringing activity time into the 21st century with the installation of a 3-D printer and educational Basic Safety Level (BSL) 1 biotech laboratory for small-scale public workshops and demonstrations. While San Diego Central Library downtown also has a 3-D printer, La Jolla’s library might be the first in the world with a safe, open-to-the-public biotech lab, said branch manager Shaun Briley. “Libraries have always been involved in inspiring learning and technological literacy,” he said. “Two of the most interesting areas of science — each with mindbending ramifications for society — are 3-D printing and biotechnology. Our programs will give the public a basic literacy for understanding these complex technologies and we’ll talk about these developments and their societal impacts. Since La Jolla is one of only a very few centers for biotechnology in the world, it seems like the right place to do this.” La Jolla Library partnered with the Fab Lab, a nonprofit community design and fabrication laboratory based in San Diego’s Maker’s Quarter, to set up the 3-D printer and design software, which will be open to the public as long as there is a volunteer to supervise. “We want it so that members of the public can walk in and say ‘what is 3-D printing?’ and have it shown to them,” Briley said. “We are doing introductory and basic level stuff here and if residents want to take it further, we’ll show them where to go.” With the two MakerBot Replicator printers found at the library and accompanying design programs, See Library, A10
Group nixes gallery owner’s restaurant plans n Next stop: La Jolla’s planning group By Pat Sherman Jose Tasende and his architect, Jim Alcorn (of Alcorn & Benton Architects), will make their case to add a 100-seat restaurant to Tasende’s gallery at 820 Prospect St. during a future meeting of the La Jolla Community Planning Association (LJCPA). Alcorn stated their intention
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the plans after a third presentation. DPR members were bolstered in their decision by vocal opposition from residents of the adjacent Park Prospect condominium building, many of whom attended the meeting last week at La Jolla Rec Center. Residents expressed much of the same concerns they did See Gallery Plans, A6
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