Magnolia's Library Is Getting 3D Printers and an Embroidery Machine. The Room Opens November 9.
By The Magnolia Standard · October 13, 2026
The library on Melton Street becomes the second in the county with a room full of tools most households do not own. Two of the machines cost nothing to use, after an orientation.
On Monday, November 9, from 3 to 4 in the afternoon, the Malcolm Purvis Library at 510 Melton Street opens a room it has never had: an Innovation Space, with 3D printers, a large-format cutting machine and a digital embroidery machine. The Montgomery County Memorial Library System announced the date on October 5.
It is the second of its kind in the county. The first opened at the Kevin Brady Library in The Woodlands in February.
What is in the room
Besides the printers and the two machines, the library lists an interactive touch wall, STEM kits that circulate like books, and materials for robotics, coding, electronics, engineering and science projects. The release says it is meant for every age, children included.
Magnolia helped choose it. Earlier this year the library asked residents what they wanted in the space, and the answers leaned toward hands-on technology and tools people cannot easily get anywhere else.
"The equipment and kits purchased will provide access to resources people might not find elsewhere," said Kallie Yoars, the Malcolm Purvis Library's manager.
Opening day
The hour on November 9 includes tours and demonstrations, a ribbon cutting and free 3D printing tickets, while they last.
How to use it after that
- Take the orientation first. Starting Tuesday, November 10, the library runs an orientation for each machine: the 3D printers, the Cricut and the embroidery machine. You need the orientation for a machine before you can reserve it. Eleven sessions are scheduled in the first two weeks, with more through November.
- Then reserve by phone. The Innovation Space desk is (936) 538-8329.
- What it costs. The Cricut and the embroidery machine are free. 3D printing carries a fee. The library has not posted Magnolia's prices yet. At the Woodlands room, the charge covers only the plastic filament a print uses, starting at $1 for a small one.
- Where the dates go. Orientation times and classes will be on the library system's calendar at countylibrary.org/calendar.php.
At the Woodlands space, children 17 and under use the equipment with a parent or guardian who has taken the orientation and stays in the room. The Magnolia release does not spell out its own age rules, so check when you sign up.
Who paid for it
The library system says the Magnolia room was made possible with support from the Magnolia Economic Development Corporation. Magnolia Library Friends and I-SOLIDS Digital Manufacturing are supporting the opening event.
When the library system first announced Magnolia as the next location last December, it expected the space to open in March. It took until November. If you go, write and tell us the first thing you make.
Sources: the City of Magnolia's notice and the attached Montgomery County Memorial Library System news release of October 5, 2026, for the date, the equipment, the survey, the orientations, the phone number, the fees, the supporters and Kallie Yoars's quote; the library system's Innovate@MCMLS page, for the Woodlands room's filament fees and its rules for minors; and Community Impact's December 18, 2025 report, for the original March target. Corrections to editor@themagnoliastandard.news.