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Libraries and Adult Community Learning make the most of digital technology to continue to deliver services
Libraries and Adult Community Learning make the most of digital technology to continue to deliver services
Thursday 23 April, 2020
Whilst all Library branches throughout the Vale of Glamorgan are closed, library staff have been busy promoting the online services that we as a local authority offer.
And those services are expanding. In addition to a range of 250 popular magazine titles available for download, eComics are expanding to include Disney titles in the next few days.
Ancestry.com, a subscription service only usually available in library buildings is now available online for free. Library members with a card and pin number can now login and research their family history at home.
Due to the surge in the popularity of eBooks the Welsh Government have provided an additional £100,000 of funding to Welsh Libraries to purchase additional eBooks.
Libraries have been active on social media, promoting their digital services. And it's working, over 200 new users have joined in the last month.https://www.facebook.com/VoGLibraries
You can keep up to date with the latest library news on Twitter and Facebook and join in with live Storytime sessions.
If you are not a library member and want to access all the library has to offer online go to the main catalogue page and click on the join button to get a card number and pin.
Meanwhile, the Adult Community Learning and Learn Welsh teams have been offering digital classes and support to their learners online.
Learn Welsh the Vale have transferred 32 Welsh courses for adults onto distance learning platforms from classroom based lessons.
Tutors are using the online platform Zoom to meet with learners, and students have been invited to join alternative classes if their circumstances in lockdown make their usual class inconvenient. Singing class with Aled Hughes is now run online as well.
The National Centre for Learning Welsh (Dysgu Cymraeg) are updating resources on their website daily to enable learners to keep practising at home. Some of our learn Welsh tutors have been contributing to these.
Coming up this term will be informal conversation groups online, reading courses and a new, free “Cymraeg yn y Cartref” ten-week taster course for families.
Have you found a new way of working? Get in touch and let us know what you've been up to.