Guildford Makerspace

On the la st Friday of Septem ber we held our most recent Digit al Friday event at Guildford Library. Our morning event was Conn ecting to your customers with social medi a.  The session was led by Janet Ludley who gave a very interesting presentation on how your business can bene fit by using social media. The session advised business owners on how to build a social media plan for their company and which social network platform would work best. Checkout the slideshow of her presentation here. This was followed by a lunchtime presentation by Jonathan Wakeman about our O xford University Press resources which are available on our online reference shelf            http://bit.ly/1FaAHTW    We have six free OUP resources : Oxford Dictionary of National Biography  http://www.oxforddnb.com / The O xford English Dictionary http://www.oed.com/ Oxford Referen ce Online  http://www.oxfordreference.com/ O xf...

On the last Friday of August we held our most recent Digital Friday event at Guildford Library.                                                                                           The morning session focused on our free library service apps - when I say the free ones, I mean all of them, as they're all free! This included our library catalogue app (search for library books and DVDs in stock, renew your loans, reserve items, find out about library events and news); our ebook and downloadable audio book apps; as well as our free newspaper, magazine and streaming music apps). Library users turned up with their own tablets and we showed them how to get up and running with the apps. http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/...

Our next event is Connecting to your customers using Social Media with Janet Ludley.   In the new and changing world of Social Media how can your business benefit from going on-line?       This session is intended to advise business owners on building a social media plan for their company You will understand which social network platform is right for your business If you don't know where to start, or even what Twitter can do for you in 140 characters come along to find out more Come to our FREE Digital Friday talk on 25 September 10.00-1:00.   Book at place at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/connecting-to-your-customers-using-social-media-tickets-17964700904%23 Find out more about Digital Friday at  http://surreycc.gov.uk/digitalfriday #digifriday

  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...