Guildford Makerspace

  Are you between 8 and 12, and want to know more about computer coding?      We are hoping to start a Code Club as part of our Digital Friday initiative.      It would be at Guildford Library, and we will start with a one-off FREE session on  Friday 28 August between 4pm and 6pm .      If you’re interested, please send us an email at virtuallibrary@surreycc.gov.uk and we’ll let you know very soon if it goes ahead. You can find out more about coding at https://www.codeclub.org.uk/ You can find out more about Digital Friday at http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/digitalfriday Checkout our coding booklist  tinyurl.com/np6w6gl

Making the most of your tablet   You can turn your tablet into a portable library, and we can help you to do this.   We subscribe to resources which you, as a library member, can use free of charge:      Read today’s Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, and 300 other UK newspapers; or if you prefer, thousands of today’s newspapers from around the world in every language imaginable ·         Read the latest magazines including Top Gear, Cosmopolitan, Hello, New Scientist and 146 other titles ·         Listen to all the classical greats – 1.6 million of them, to be precise – in the Naxos music library ·         And, of course, borrow ebooks and talking books from our extensive collection. Come to our FREE Digital Friday workshop on 28 August 10.00-12.30 where we’ll show you what’s available.   Bring your tablet and if there’s time we’ll help you to install the library apps there and then.   Note that apps are not available (yet) for Microsoft tablets. Book a place at

Driverless cars – evening talk on Thursday 27 August 18.00-19.00 There are now driverless car pilots taking place here in the UK, and everybody's intrigued. Human drivers have to be able to cope with so many variables: how can a machine do this? What happens when the computer crashes? How does a computer decide between saving a pedestrian, or the human in the car? Come and watch two TED talks  www.ted.com and join in a discussion about the future of driving . Book a FREE ticket at  : https://digitalfridayevening.eventbrite.co.uk Find out  more about digital Fridays at http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/digitalfriday     : #digitalfriday