Recently I’ve borrowed from my library several books, including Wicked (which I listened to on PlayAway, a book pre-loaded onto an MP3 player), a few movies on DVD and a music CD (Brett Dennen’s Hope for the Hopeless). I’ve read the Kansas City Star daily, the Wyandotte West weekly, and used the Internet to access other news sources. I’ve attended a program or two, and asked my librarian some reference questions.
Today I plugged all of that information into the Library Savings Calculator and found out that I “save” about $730 a month (about $9,000 annually) by using my library instead of having to buy books, newspapers, CDs, DVDs and subscriptions to all the online resources my library has to offer. (If I could just figure out how to spend more time browsing, reading, listening to and watching library materials, I could double my savings!)
Are you a patron of Kansas City, Kansas Public Library? Use the link above to the calculator and share your results with the library by sending an electronic postcard like this one:
Sonia, PR Coordinator – KCKPL
Filed under: Continuing Education, Stock photo | Tags: CAREER, Electronic Resource, Job Skills, Learning
Several years ago, a colleague presented a case study of her city at a conference. She reported that children in third grade and younger often say firefighter in answer to the question posed in the headline of this post. By the time they’ve graduated far fewer want to pursue this – or any childhood dream – as a career. What did you want to be when you were in third grade? This may be the time to see your employment status as an opportunity to think about what career would really make you happy.
Whether you need a career change, or just want to sharpen your job-hunting skills, your local library has many resources. Try LearningExpress, a free online resource that lets you practice for licensing tests in civil service, commercial driver’s license, cosmetology, emergency medical services, firefighter, law enforcement, the military, nursing and allied health, real estate and teaching. LearningExpress also helps you sharpen your job search and networking skills and prepare for interviews.
LearningExpress is available in the library or anytime, anywhere with your Kansas City Kansas Public Library card. Call the Kansas City Kansas Public Library (Main 913/551-3280; West Wyandotte 913/596-5800; Argentine 913/722-7400; Turner Community Library 913/596-1404) for help using LearningExpress. If you’re an educator or career counselor in Wyandotte County, Kansas, and would like free LearningExpress brochures to distribute, call (913) 279-2221 with your request.
Sonia Smith, PR Coordinator
Kansas City, Kansas Public Library
Filed under: Books and Reading | Tags: Books and Reading, Kansas, Library Program, WEST WYANDOTTE LIBRARY
Discuss Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam. This book by Pope Brock tells the true story of a goat gland quack who almost became governor of Kansas. Join other readers at 10 a.m., Thursday, May 7, Scooters at The Legends. This program is sponsored by the West Wyandotte Library, 1737 N. 82nd St., Kansas City, Kansas. Call (913) 596-5800 for more information.
