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<p>Necessity may be the mother of invention, but invention’s got
plenty of pals. Libraries routinely find different ways to use the same
equipment or technology. It’s fiscally responsible, it’s efficient, and
it’s downright fun if you take it as a challenge.</p>
<p>SWON had inventiveness in mind when we bought a Cameo Silhouette.
It looks like a printer, but instead of using ink, it cuts out shapes
from paper or fabric. What can you do with that? That’s the question I’m
exploring at SWON’s upcoming <a
href="http://swon.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=819">STEM
Summer Reading Program event on March 4</a>. </p>
<h2 id="cutpaper">Cut Paper</h2>
<p>To cut a shape, the Silhouette software can use several sources.
You can draw your own shapes in the software, freehand, or toss in an
image and use the bezier pen tool to trace it. Simpler images are easier
to cut and use. You could, for example, cut out leaves that match local
tree species for decorations or a learning display.</p>
<h2 id="cutvinyl">Cut Vinyl</h2>
<p>Signs on glass doors often aren’t painted on, these days. They’re
cut out of vinyl; they’re stickers. You can buy sheets of vinyl for the
Silhouette and cut out text that you could stick to a window. With the
Silhouette software, you can just select a font and type in the text
you’d like it to cut. With this, you could cut your own vinyl for signs
to put on glass doors, windows or display cases.</p>
<h2 id="designwherever.cuthere.">Design Wherever. Cut Here.</h2>
<p>Since the Silhouette’s software is free, you can install it on
several computers or patrons could install it at home. Just save the
files in the correct format and you can easily load them onto the
computer connected to the Silhouette. That means <strong>you can turn
your patrons into designers, teaching them to use vector images and
helping them create their own projects.</strong></p>
<p>Learn more about this and other ways to bring STEM to your library
on <a
href="http://swon.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=819">March
4th at the Centerville Public Library</a>.<br>
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<p>~ Nathan<br>
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<h2 id="the2014teenreadingchallengeisback">The 2014 Teen Reading
Challenge is Back!</h2>
<p>Grab some reading peeps, form a team, and see how many
teen-oriented books you can read between February 1 and April 30. Almost
200 people read over 4,000 books last year, but you can beat that,
right? Free to join, and plenty of fun, sign up for the 2014 Challenge
here: <a href="http://tiny.cc/trc2014">http://tiny.cc/trc2014</a></p>
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<h2 id="level-uplab:html">Level-Up Lab: HTML</h2>
<p>This Lab is a take-it-from-the-top approach to HTML. We won’t be
building websites. You’ll learn the basics of how HTML works and how to
use HTML to apply basic formatting to text and pictures. Don’t treat the
web like Microsoft Word. Join us in Blue Ash on January 16th to get
started with HTML: <a href="http://tiny.cc/html-lab">http://tiny.cc/html-lab</a>.</p>
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classes at least two days before they take place.)
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<li><strong><a
href="http://swon.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=794&lib=">Unraveling
the Year Ahead</a></strong> - (1/14/2014) - Online</li><li><strong><a
href="http://swon.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=727&lib=">ROYAL
Book Review (SIG) Meeting</a></strong> - (1/14/2014) - SWON Meeting
Room</li><li><strong><a
href="http://swon.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=728&lib=">ROYAL
Book Review (SIG) Meeting</a></strong> - (1/14/2014) - Boone County PL,
Main Branch</li><li><strong><a
href="http://swon.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=708&lib=">Technical
Services (SIG) Meeting</a></strong> - (1/15/2014) - Cincinnati Art
Museum</li><li><strong><a
href="http://swon.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=789&lib=">Level-Up
Lab: HTML</a></strong> - (1/16/2014) - SWON Meeting Room</li><li><strong><a
href="http://swon.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=791&lib=">Surviving
the Stressors of Organizational Change</a></strong> - (1/14/2014) -
Online</li><li><strong>Martin Luther King Jr. Day</strong> - SWON
Libraries Office Closed<span>- (1/20/2014) <br>
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href="http://swon.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=803&lib=">Customer
Service for Challenged Libraries</a></strong> - (1/21/2014) - Online</li>
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