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’l...

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