Code Across Marin will be a panel discussion to help build awareness about “open data,” a form of information that lends itself to free innovation and app development. The panelists are Kate Colin (Councilmember, City of San Rafael), Reed Ducey-Gibbs (Code for America fellow), Eddie Tejeda (CEO/Co-Founder of Civic Insight), Erin Cochran (Marin County H&HS), and Maureen Parton (Aide to Supervisor Kate Sears). This broad range of elected officials, municipal staff, coders, and technologists will explore what open data is and what it can do for us. They will also address your questions and suggestions sent ahead of time to brigade@codeformarin.org. Question topics should focus on ways to improve government-public communications, infrastructure, information requests, civic engagement, and the accessibility of community resources. The resulting dialog should help build the foundation for attracting developers to build the apps Marin needs–apps built specifically for our towns and neighborhoods. In the spirit of open data, this event is free to the public and will have a lengthy public Q+A to address all questions and concerns.
Public input is needed. Email brigade@codeformarin.org with your questions and discussion suggestions. Input during the Q+A is also encouraged, as local knowledge and perspective will be vital to the discussion. It’s the perfect time to let your voice be heard as well as network with your neighbors.
RSVP to https://codeacrossmarin.eventbrite.com and email your questions and suggestions to brigade@codeformarin.org to add to the panel discussion topics.
Looking for something good to read? Want to get out of your reading rut? We have online resources that will help expand your reading horizons. I’ll be demonstrating how to access them and give you a quick tour of our Book Lovers page, our portal to adult reading lists by genre, new items in the library, Novelist, and Bookletters.
With Novelist, find award winners, new titles based on your preferences, read-alikes, book group discussion guides, and more.
With Bookletters you can access our librarian-vetted book lists on various genres, with peeks at book covers, brief descriptions, and links to the library catalog. You can also sign-up and get themed book list newsletters e-mailed to you on a monthly basis.
This is a demonstration-only class, but feel free to bring your laptop or tablet to follow along.
Your Online Library – Your library card is your ticket to a world of online resources.
Class Schedule 2015
Th Jan 22 – eBooks and eAudiobooks Drop in Help Session
Th Jan 29 – Safari Books Online
Th Feb 26 – Book Lovers – eResources for Readers
Th Mar 26 – Go Mobile with Mango – Online Language Learning
Whether it be books, sunny days, cats, dogs, your family, cupcakes, sports, recess–let the world know! Write (or draw) whatever you love on a heart that will be hung on a Valentine Streamer in the Children’s Room. We provide the supplies, you drop in and provide the ideas.
What did you think of this year’s One Book One Marin selection, At Night We Walk in Circles, by Daniel Alarcón? Share your thoughts and explore more deeply this complex tale of a South American touring theater group where one member’s past collides dramatically with another member’s life.
A lifelong love of gardening does not have to end as low stamina, mobility and other issues arise. There are some simple things that can be done to make the garden an on-gong place of joy. Come and learn about gardening activities, techniques and adaptations to create fully functional, accessible gardens.
If you are a gardener who is experiencing the march of time or other physical limitations, yet you know you want to garden for life, learn techniques that will enable you to garden without injury and gain insight on ways to keep gardening safely so you can maintain this gratifying lifelong passion. Examples of adaptive tools will be demonstrated.
Speaker: Toni Gattone, a Master Gardener since 2011, is a gardener, a teacher, and small business owner. She lives on a tiny lot in Larkspur where she and her husband are transforming their traditional, ornamental front yard into a productive edible landscape.
PROGRAM CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS. TO BE RESCHEDULED SOON!
How to Transition Your Edible Garden from Cool Season to Warm Season, a free talk presented by Claire Splan, author of California Fruit and Vegetable Gardening,California Month-by-Month Gardening, and creator of the blog, An Alameda Garden. Claire will discuss preparing your soil, selecting what and when to plant, rotating crops, and successive plantings to stretch out the harvest. This program will be held in the library’s meeting room on Sunday, March 3rd, 2015 from 2 to 3 p.m. For more information please call (415) 485-3321.
“How to Transition Your Edible Garden from Cool Season to Warm Season” is a free talk presented by Claire Splan, author ofCalifornia Fruit and Vegetable Gardening,California Month-by-Month Gardening,and creator of the blog,An Alameda Garden. Claire will discuss preparing your soil, selecting what and when to plant, rotating crops, and successive plantings to stretch out the harvest. This program will be held in the library’s meeting room.
Join us every 3rd Friday of the month for more topics in the Next Chapter: Retirement series.
Join us for an interactive improvisation workshop taught by Stacy Mayer and Susie Sargent from The Un-Scripted Theater Company®.
Have you ever said no when you could have said yes? Would you like to learn how to better collaborate with others? Using improvisation techniques you will gain confidence and learn how to accept other’s ideas. No experience necessary.
The Un-Scripted Theater Company has created totally improvised theatrical productions in San Francisco since 2002. Stacy Mayer directs improv shows in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Susie enjoys sharing her love of improv with students from ages 3 to 85. Sponsored by the Friends of the San Rafael Public Library.
This program is inspired by this year’s One Book One Marin book selection At Night We Walk in Circles, by Daniel Alarcón. Find out about the book we’re all reading and other One Book One Marin events at the library.
Katya McCulloch, Program Director & Founder, will give a talk about TeamWorks Art Mentoring Program. TeamWorks provides visual arts education, mentoring and exhibit opportunities for high-risk youth in juvenile detention and continuation high schools in Marin. Katya also teaches blockprinting at San Quentin State Prison through the William James Association’s Prison Art Project. This event will include a hands-on creativity workshop for attendees. Sponsored by the Friends of the San Rafael Public Library.
This program is inspired by this year’s One Book One Marin book selection At Night We Walk in Circles, by Daniel Alarcón. Find out about the book we’re all reading and other One Book One Marin events at the library.
Are you interested in learning about the Ancient Peruvians who actually did walk in circles (the Nazca)? Peru’s archaeological record brings to light amazing stories of ceremony, resilience and innovation. This program by San Rafael Public Library’s Assistant Director (and former South American archaeology student) Vanessa Christman will feature the “greatest hits” of 7000 years of Peruvian prehistory.
This program is inspired by this year’s One Book One Marin book selection At Night We Walk in Circles, by Daniel Alarcón. Find out about the book we’re all reading and other One Book One Marin events at the library.
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Are you interested in learning about the Ancient Peruvians who actually did walk in circles (the Nazca)? Peru’s archaeological record brings to light amazing stories of ceremony, resilience and innovation. This program by San Rafael Public Library’s Assistant Director (and former South American archaeology student) Vanessa Christman will feature the “greatest hits” of 7000 years of Peruvian prehistory.