Wescott Library

This library is so great! Everytime I go I see something new and interesting! If you haven't visited the library lately, what are you waiting for?

Clean, easy parking and helpful staff. Let me use a computer there even though I didn't have a library card.

The perfect neighborhood library. The iLab now has two 3D printers. We signed up with no experience at 3D printing and made an awesome chip clip with help from the librarian.

I recently had a bracket break on my kitchen drawers that is no longer produced and was lucky enough to find a 3d printer file for the part. I found online that many Dakota County libraries (including Wescott) offer 3d printing and made an appointment to try it out.

The staff at Wescott were really helpful and patient when I arrived and didn't really know what I was doing. I learned that I should have booked a tutorial session in addition to reserving the 3d printer, but the staff was nice enough to help me out since the library wasn't that busy.

It was a lot of fun to learn how to use the printer and the staff helped walk me through all of the steps in the process. The bracket printed successfully (it took about an hour and a half to print all 430 layers) and my drawer is fixed!

I want to try to design some other (more fun) items and use the printer again in the future.

Excellent library! They have some great resources for creatives! This library has a sound booth, and some workstations for editing audio and video. It also has some private study rooms that you can rent out. I love public libraries, I hope these never close.