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This Week at Your Library: May 30
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Updraft Author, Fran Wilde to Speak at OBPL
Assistive Resources Web Page
New Catalog Interface
Intro to Arduino Controllers
Scratch Coding
We All Scream for Ice Cream!
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Dear Library Member,
Author Fran Wilde is the featured speaker at the Saturday, June 4 noon meeting of the Garden State Speculative Fiction Writers group. Ms. Wilde's debut novel, Updraft, was nominated for the prestigious 2016 Nebula Award, and won the 2016 Andre Norton Award and the 2016 Compton Crook Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Nature, and elsewhere. Her fiction explores themes of social class, disruptive technology, and empowerment against a backdrop of engineering and artisan culture. After her lecture, Ms. Wilde will take questions from the audience. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet one of the country's rising literary stars.
If you have a challenge which makes it difficult if not impossible to read regular print, the Library has various resources to assist you. Our new web page, Assistive Resources, lists and describes valuable resources available if you have a physical limitation, visual impairment or reading disability. Not least of these resources is the State funded Talking Book and Braille Center which now offers access to newspapers and magazines as well as audio books. Our Books By Mail program is also available to qualified Old Bridge cardholders. Please take a look at the page and contact us if you need help accessing any of these resources.
Beginning this week, the catalog you use to search for materials will have a new, improved look! Take a look for yourself here and use this guide for search tips. The Library's website has this information currently posted as a Library Alert. We think you'll like the improved capabilities!
On Wednesday at 7 pm, we are happy to bring back Intro to Arduino Controllers. Taught by an engineer, this class will introduce you to the topic, with examples that will get you and your kids off and running! Arduinos are credit-card sized "brains" in a new revolution of robotics that sense their surroundings and react. Register here.
On Saturday at 10:30 am ages 9-12 will learn the behind the scenes coding to the popular maker site Scratch, and discover how to make a unique creation to use with a MaKey-MaKey, an electronic tool that allows users to connect everyday objects to computer programs. In this hands-on-class, you'll learn how to add backgrounds, sprites (characters), add effects/motions to your sprites and much more! At the end, you'll give your coding creation a try with the MaKey-MaKey and see how it all turned out. Register here.
Kids- join us for We All Scream for Ice Cream on Saturday at 2 pm! Children in grades 1 & up will hear stories about ice cream, learn how it's made, and then make their own. The history of ice cream goes back centuries but still inspires delight today! Register here.
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Have a wonderful Memorial Day. See you in the Library!
Regards,
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