Monthly Archives: March 2014


A Hectic Digital Week The last week was a very busy week for our Digital team. Laura and CodeClub volunteer and STEMNet Ambassador Tom ran the first of our CodeClub sessions. CodeClub is a monthly programming club for 9-11 year old children (Laura blogged about it here). I ran a […]

#HourOfCode Programming Taster Session


This Saturday saw our first ever CodeClub session, ran by our guest volunteer Tom. In the first session we are introduced to Scratch software, an interactive platform that uses the functions of any other coding language but presents them with jigsaw like graphics. With Scratch, you can program interactive games, […]

CodeClub’s First Session




Committee Member Ethar held a Google apps training session today for Burnage Library ICT Officers and fellow Committee Members. We learned how to make good use of Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Google Analytics. It was a very useful couple of hours that will hopefully help us to work more […]

Google Apps Training




The first day on duty as a volunteer without a librarian! As a member of the Management Committee I enjoyed the first session “in charge” as it were. I arrived 1.45, opened up as normal and turned on the book machine and all the computers. Grace, one of our volunteers, […]

The First Friday!