The public library offers many helpful services
For months we have been aware of the economic challenges in our community. There is no simple solution, but there is a free resource available to everyone in Guilford County to address these challenges — the Greensboro Public Library. Often overlooked as only a place for checking out books, the library can provide you with ways to save money, find a job and assist businesses in staying competitive.
If you are looking for a job or contemplating a career change, the library offers career advice, training and workshops, job-search resources and connections with outside agencies that offer placement assistance. You can schedule a one-on-one counseling session with the library’s career specialist.
If you are a small business owner affected by the recession, you may want to contact your business librarian or review databases and resources at Central Library that can help you find new customers and explore efficient ways to run your business.
The Greensboro Public Library is the cornerstone of this community, serving everyone regardless of age, income or education. Visit the Central Library or your nearest neighborhood branch and discover a world of possibilities.
Steve Allen
Willie Taylor
Greensboro
Steve Allen is chairman, Greensboro Public Library Board of Trustees. Willie Taylor chairs the Greensboro Public Library Advocacy Committee
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"Free resource" ???
Number the writers of this LTE as two more non-thinking illiterates who believe any and every thing supported by tax dollars is "free" -
Posted on April 26, 2009 9:43 AM
Yeah, I went recently to the main library downtown only to wish I had never gone in.
I was carrying a laptop and got "*the look" from the fake cell phone holding up brother sitting in between the first and second set of doors. Upstairs, in the homeless nursery, it was hotter than trucker nuts. Nary a movement of air. Some sick lady, I'll call her Phlegm Hackula, rolled around lung loogers that would stop a train. As I was trying to write a letter, fifteen feet away, a too important cellular connected homeless dude was networking his hustles with loud promises of "next toosdey."
I ached really hard to make the best of it until I heard some trailer park mama utter, "oh, God, I hate livah puddin..."
I busted out like Bert Lahr.
So please make it pay as you go. Even a quarter. Or I will never go there again.
(* "the look" : a predatorial, opportunistic leer that comes from the covetousness of blacks towards whites who own anything blacks want to steal.)
Posted on April 26, 2009 10:19 AM
The GSO public library has been on PR push for a few months now with aggressive updating of it's blog. It's a deliberate campaign. Funding and relevance?
Posted on April 26, 2009 10:32 AM