Bay Shore Libraries 3-D Printing Face Shields For Health Care Workers

Press release from the Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library:

April 1, 2020

In a project coordinated by the Suffolk County Library System (SCLS) and in partnership with Stony Brook University’s iCREATE, Suffolk County Libraries have banned together to help create face shields for our heroic health care workers.

SCLS reached out to libraries with 3-D printers and asked them to consider having them temporarily shipped to SCLS where they were organized together in a “3-D Printer Farm” to make the headband portion for face shields used by medical personnel. The headbands are then sent to Stony Brook University’s iCreate lab, which assembles the shields to specifications provided by the hospital.

For libraries that didn’t own a 3-D printer, such as ours, SCLS offered them the opportunity to purchase one immediately through a coordinated order and have them added to the “3-D Printer Farm.”

We’re happy to announce that Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library has purchased one of the 3-D printers so that we may also participate in this important effort to help our hospital heroes. The Printer Farm’s 58 3-D printers are currently working in 2 shifts and averaging 200 printed items per day. Once the crisis is over, our own new 3-D printer will come back to the Library for use by the Bay Shore-Brightwaters community.

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This press release was produced by the Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.