Carnegie Neighborhood Library and Center for Learning

Monday, February 6, 2017

STEAM/Makerspace Resources

I [Amanda] put together a list of websites with fun STEAM and Makerspace resources--you youth services people especially might want to take a look at it, but everyone might find at least one of these interesting:

General STEAM activities

Computer Science

http://www.gcflearnfree.org (or http://www.gcfaprendelibre.org for Spanish)
Free mouse tutorial: http://pbclibrary.org/mousing/ (or http://pbclibrary.org/raton/ in Spanish)
Coding

http://code.org/learn
http://www.codecademy.com
http://scratch.mit.edu
Lynda.com has a bunch of coding tutorials, too, and we have free access to it through the HPL website

Art

Science

CRASH COURSE IS THE BEST THING EVER: http://thecrashcourse.com/
Well, so is Minute Physics: https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics
And SciShow: https://www.youtube.com/user/scishow
And SciShow Kids: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRFIPG2u1DxKLNuE3y2SjHA

And Animal Wonders: https://www.youtube.com/user/Anmlwndrs

Tax information

Carnegie NL 1:57:00 PM No comments

It's that time of year again...here are the HPL locations offering AARP free tax help this year:

Central Library: Mondays and Thursdays, 2 PM - 6 PM; Saturdays, 10 AM - 2 PM (Spanish-language assistance available only on Saturdays); starts on Monday, February 6; no tax help on March 4.

Heights Neighborhood Library: Tuesdays, 12:30 PM - 4 PM

Henington-Alief Regional Library: Wednesdays, 12 PM - 4 PM

Hillendahl Neighborhood Library: Wednesdays, 11 AM - 3 PM and Thursdays, 1 PM - 5 PM (Spanish-language assistance is available)

Johnson Neighborhood Library: Wednesdays and Thursdays, 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Kendall Neighborhood Library: Wednesdays, 12 PM - 4 PM and Saturdays, 10 AM - 2 PM

Oak Forest Neighborhood Library: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 10 AM - 2 PM; Thursday, 10 AM - 3 PM; Saturdays, 10 AM - 2 PM

Vinson Neighborhood Library: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

All of this and more can be found at http://houstonlibrary.org/tax-resources (houstonlibrary.org > Research > Tax Resources).

Super Bowl Display

Carnegie NL 10:37:00 AM No comments

Are you ready for some football? We definitely are...

Mr. John Middleton from Planning and Facilities even got in on the fun:

Log off your computers...

Carnegie NL 1:56:00 PM No comments

From the folks at IT:

As part of our regular maintenance, we have scheduled a file server upgrade this Sunday, January 29, 2017 after 8:00 PM. Please log off from your computer at the end of your workday this week (Friday, Saturday or Sunday) by 8 PM on Sunday. You don’t have to turn the computer off. Failure to log off your computer may result in delays restoring access to your network drives.

So if you have a computer and you're not working on Saturday, please log off when you leave on Friday afternoon. If you work Saturday, please do the same that day.