These ideas were generated at the 25 November Readers Advisory Meeting at Bowral. Please feel free to add your own ideas at the end of the list.
Seminars on using technology and gadgets (e-readers, tablets, smart phones etc, library catalogues, databases)
Technology – using the library at home – database access, requesting/renewing items
Trove, local history displays, genealogy and find my past workshops
Workshop on how to use Zinio, audio books, e books
Access to Hello Ruby, a website that teaches kids how to code; an intro into the “whimsical world of computing”
www.helloruby.com
Promote tablet collection
Promote e collections
Sci fi display
History pin.
www.historypin.com using technology to enable a “global community to collaborate around history”
Book sculpture of a robot
Remember the 70’s (birth of electric guitar) and 80’s (electronic keyboard) Display ideas: do you recognize this? Old technology
Sci fi – historic technological advancements that made science fiction more appealing
Great inventions, technology of the past
Gaming, xbox comp
Robotics display/competition
Minecraft events
Read review win – win an e book reader
Things to do away from the square things
Mobile gaming bus youth activity
Shaun tan author talk
Technical drawing workshop
Elements of game development workshop
Coding events for school holidays
Appy story times (using apps on iPads) with a projector