One day while staffing The Urbana Free Library’s computer help desk, Kim assisted a man applying for a job at a fast food restaurant. His case manager specified one particular position, but the library patron was having trouble finding the application online. Google searches kept bringing him to third party job search sites that asked […]
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Silhouette machine and teens at Teen Open Lab
One of Kim’s favorite tools to work on at The Urbana Free Library’s Teen Open Lab is the Silhouette cutting machine. Teenagers use this tool to make stickers, cards, drawings, and patterns for the sewing machine. One day, two middle school girls came in that wanted to make stickers for their school folders. They had […]
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Computers 101: Printing
One day at the computer help desk at The Urbana Free Library, Kim helped an elderly man log onto a computer and then print. Since this was Kim’s first day, she was figuring these things out alongside him, which she thinks was very beneficial as they ran into problems and got frustrated together. He kept […]
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