What’s this about a treasure hunt? Last week, we ran an experimental interactive treasure hunt as part of the 20th Internet Librarians International conference in London. We also gave a talk about Conversations in the library, using technology to create new ways to communicate and collaborate with users, which you can read here. The treasure […]
This is the text version of our talk at Internet Librarian International 2018. Introduction As a creative technology company, we work with libraries on makerspace and maker education projects as well as software development and installations such as our LibraryWalls project. Basically, we spend a lot of time thinking about interaction and interactivity in libraries. […]
Podcasts are an accessible and creative format but they do require dedicated tools and a bit of quiet to produce, which isn’t always easy to attain. Libraries have always been a place of access, and this includes access to software and tools that aren’t easily available to people elsewhere.The digital media labs that have started […]
It’s been a while since our last update and we’ve been working on some exciting new projects and collaborations that we wanted to tell everyone about. We recently worked with Guildford Library on the Arts Council funded Read:Code:Make project. This was a collaboration of artists and digital makers, who came together to create interactive art […]
Welcome to our third and final post on the Read:Code:Program from Guildford Library. In our first post we introduced the artists and makers while in our second post we talked about the creative process. In this post we’ll discuss the final pieces that were displayed at Guildford Library and reflect on the whole process. Russell […]
We recently published the 100th issue of Newslet, our CPD newsletter for library staff. And so we thought this would be a good chance to take stock (library pun achievement unlocked) and share some things we’ve learned along the way about current awareness tools, curation and publishing. Newslet is a fortnightly curated CPD newsletter for […]
Welcome to our second post about the Read:Code:Make programme, a collaboration between the Surrey Library Service, artists Helen Scalway, Louise Scillitoe-Brown and Russell Jakubowski and makers Matt Prior (from the Surrey and Hampshire MakerSpace) and Artefacto. In our first post, we introduced the artists and how the project came together. In this post, we’ll discuss […]
We were very excited to have been invited to attend the first ever Maker Education (un)conference in the UK held on the 7th July 2018 at the Edge Hill University campus. The #MakerNoise18 Unconference brought together makers, educators, industry & library staff together. The day kicked off with a short welcome by Carl Simmons (@Activ8Thinking) […]
The first of three blog posts by Carlos Izsak about the Read:Code:Make programme, a collaboration between Surrey Library Service (Digital Department), artists and makers (including Artefacto), is now available. Find out how how the project came together and meet the artists and makers participating. The aim of Read:Code:Make from Surrey Libraries was to bring three […]
Five or so links from around the web about new and interesting applications of technology. Today’s links are about Augmented Reality, where the physical and the digital collide in new and interesting ways. Amazon Sumerian, a platform for building AR, VR and 3D apps, is now open to all (TechCrunch) First is the announcement that […]