This summer in the middle of Summer Reading Club, we acquired a grant-related exhibit for the library. Backyard Wilderness is a large-format film by HHMI studios, created primarily for the museum audience. An exhibit, designed also primarily for museums, was created to go along with it, and through the grant program, was distributed to libraries
This year I started adding something new to some of my programs - coding. It has been a whole new adventure for me. When I was in school, computers in education were a new concept. There was a room with several desktop computers with large towers connected to them. Those computers required 6 inch floppy
Over this past summer my department added a regular Gadget Lab to our Summer Reading Club programming. I had the opportunity to offer Kindle Fire HDs and iPad Minis for my school-aged participants to learn to use and play with. Initially the program was offered every other week, but an advertising mistake gave me
Are you constantly hearing about new applications for your iOS or android device, but are finding it figure out which ones are worth downloading and which are not? While, my library does not have iPads or tablets that I can use in programs, I do bring in my own personal one that I use during
