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

Venue - The Seminar Room at Guildford Library We shop, we play, we work online but how safe are we? Come along to this session and explore the issues. Share your experiences. Places are limited so book now https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cyber-security-seminar-tickets-17830485462 Checkout a cyber security booklist from our library catalogue tinyurl.com/oddclug  Cyber Security. Explore the issues. Britain is being targeted by up to 1,000 cyber attacks every hour. Only a small proportion of breaches are reported. It is estimated that 70% of organisations keep their worst security incidents quiet. Listen by video recording to some authoritative speakers on the issue (creative commons videos). Hackers - are they the problem or could they be part of the solution? Share your experiences. What are the threats? What is malware? Have you any examples of phishing? Have you been breached? How safe is your password?

Our next Digital Friday event is a self-publishing session on 31 July 10:00 to 13:00 which will be held in the Seminar Room at Guildford Library. You can find tickets at  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/self-publishing-tickets-17478115514?aff=es2 - tell everybody you know. Checkout 100 ways to publish and sell your own e-book - and make it a bestseller tinyurl.com/nfaq6hw Have you written a book?  Fiction or Nonfiction? This event will give an overview of self publishing. The event will focus on eBook publishing. The aim of the morning is to give you some ideas of how to go forward and publish your book. There will be three guest speakers: Rachel Gregory who is the Ebook Programme Manager at Matador. She oversees the ebook creation and distribution processes, as well as the quality assurance procedure. She liaises with authors, retailers and libraries to ensure that their ebooks stand the best chance of selling. Naomi Green, Production Controller at Matador. Naomi creates...

We've found a local volunteer to run a Code Club, and we're just waiting for their DBS check to come through. Now we need to arrange the sessions, which will probably be late-afternoon drop-in sessions for children over the summer holidays. Image provided by Stuart Miles We are also looking at running lunchtime learning sessions, where our online resource suppliers could come in a talk about their products . We've still got the ambition of running a regular Minecraft session, but have not started planning this, especially as we have so many other ideas about Digital Friday that we would like to fit into the programme.

Last week was our first Digital Friday  , which went well. All six places were filled in the morning for the "Build your own website" session. Those people who filled in the evaluation said they would recommend it to a friend. There are 45 people on a waiting list for it, so we'll run it again. The evening session wasn't oversubscribed, but those attended it enjoyed the discussion about the Women's EqualityParty .