GARFIELD HEIGHTS BRANCH
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Garfield Heights Branch Innovation Center offers free access to a variety of fabrication equipment that can be used to create product prototypes, signage, crafts and more. The branch also offers a green screen video recording studio and audio studio where visitors can create videos and record CDs for their small businesses or personal use.
ORIENTATION
Before you can use the Garfield Heights Branch Innovation Center, you must complete a required orientation class that will acquaint you with our procedures, equipment and software.
FIND A CLASS
After you have completed your orientation class, please print and fill out these forms. The completed forms must be returned to the branch where you attended orientation.
EQUIPMENT 
- MAKERBOT 5TH GENERATION 3-D PRINTER & MAKERBOT DIGITIZER 3-D SCANNER — Create a 3-D prototypes of your product ideas. Design and print custom projects.
- EPILOG HELIX LASER ENGRAVER — High quality engraving and cutting of wood, acrylics, and more; high detail engraving even at fastest speeds.
- ROLAND VINYL CUTTER — Cut precision graphics; create large format signs, labels, iron-on decals, and more.
- BROTHER PR1000E EMBROIDERY MACHINE — Perfect for home-based entrepreneurs, hobbyists and crafters; stitch designs with up to 10 colors without changing thread — up to 1,000 stitches per minute.
- COLLABORATION TOUCHSCREEN
- MAC & PC COMPUTER WITH ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD SOFTWARE — Create your own company logo, or product design; includes Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, PhotoShop and more.
AUDIO RECORDING STUDIO
Make your own tracks, podcasts or audiobook recordings in the Garfield Heights Branch audio recording studio. Complete a short orientation class and you'll be on your way to becoming the next big thing.
Once you've completed an orientation class you can use your library card to reserve the audio recording studio anytime during regular hours. No library card? No problem.
You can apply for one online.
FIND A CLASS
AUDIO RECORDING STUDIO EQUIPMENT
•Soundproof recording booth
•Mac computers
•Adobe Creative Suite including Adobe Audition CC audio editing software
•Garageband audio editing software
•Microphone
•Keyboard DAW controller
VIDEO RECORDING STUDIO
Create and edit your own video, commerical or short film in the Garfield Heights Branch video recording studio. The studio's green screen backdrop and editing software allow you to explore your creativity and set your video anywhere on Earth — and even fantastical landscapes that don't exist in the real world.
All you have to do is complete a short orientation class and you'll be on your way to becoming the next Steven Spielberg. Once you've completed an orientation class you can use your library card to reserve the video recording studio anytime during regular hours. If you don't have a library card,
you can apply for one online.
FIND A CLASS
VIDEO RECORDING STUDIO EQUIPMENT
- Mac computer featuring Adobe Creative Suite, Blackmagic Design ATEM and iMovie software
- 1 video camera
- Chromakey Green Screen wall
- Chromakey Green Screen backdrop and stand
- 1 handheld microphone
- 1 lapel microphone
