| Weirton Library's Page Writer Project is Underway College Computer Science Internship Program at the Community Library Weirton City Council Helps Save Public Service Hours! "Brighten the New Year with Books" Instill the Love of Books with Story Telling
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The BookletterJanuary 1999 Weirton Library's Page Writer Project is Underway Awarded by the United Way of Middle Tennessee and the Dollar General Foundation, the Mary H. Weir Public Library's $17,322 Page Writer Workplace Literacy Project provides an employment experience and work skills to Community Work Experience Program (CWEP) Participants while providing a needed community service. The Page Writer Project has 9 partnerships whose main objective is to help provide employment opportunities and public awareness of the need for training, education and chances for employment experiences for adults desiring to seek employment. The Page Writer Project's Partnerships provide support and educational opportunities, GED Achievement, reading and writing support, job searching readiness workshops, resume writing, mentoring and awareness to the community's information materials, resources and services for Project employees needing and wanting to prepare for employment. The Partnerships are West Virginia Department of Human Services, Weirton United Way, West Virginia Northern Community College, Regional Education Service Agency (RESA VI) with Change, Inc., Personnel Temporary Services, Weirton Area Literacy Council, Weirton Business and Professional Woman's Club, Weirton Lions Club, and City of Weirton's Mary H. Weir Public Library. The application was also supported by Senator Edwin Bowman. The Page Writer Project development was influenced by the Library's experiences with the traditional Library Page employees. Most of the Library's Pages went on to college and entered medical, legal and financial fields. The Page Writer Project will provide CWEP Library Employees this same experience working in the Weirton Library maintaining more than 3,000 shelves of books, tapes, CD's and learning Dewey Decimal and other organizational skills necessary to maintain access to public materials. All library departments will interact with the CWEP employees. The project will also emphasize the need to be able to write. The Weirton Library Technology Center's computers will be used to provide employees instruction. Employees will be taught how to write brief annotations of books and other new materials available at the Library from information located on book covers and jackets and from tapes and CD's. These writings will be published on the City Library's World Wide Web Page at http://weirton.lib.wv.us for all users to know what's new at the Weirton Library! The employment experiences and documented performance will be useful for the employees' resumes. For some this may be their first resume and also their first employment experience. Tanya, Dawn, Emma, Patricia, Troy, Bob, Holly, John, and Eric have been employed for over 663 hours writing about new books, re-shelving returned books, and helping maintain the City Library's 3000 bookshelves! And, the Web Page of the library's new books with their writings is scheduled to be placed online in February! Interested Community Work Experience Participants (CWEP) in the Page Writer Project should contact their local representative of the West Virginia Department of Human Services located at Three Springs Drive in Weirton.
College Computer Science Internship Program at the Community Library Bethany, West Liberty and the West Virginia Northern Community Colleges have five computer science students working with library patrons, organizations, and staff with technology and electronic information. The students provide assistance and instruction with technology, hardware, specific software questions from library patrons and the community. the students help maintain the Weirton Community Information Network Page answering questions on how to set up a server, build a Web Page, as well as offer assistance understanding technology books, software concepts, or typing to remember what you might have forgotten in a computer introduction class. Students Greg Slaby, William Mungai, Andrea Middleton, Jeff Wyatt, and Yvette Hoyos welcome the chance to represent their colleges' technology programs to assist the public while providing them opportunities for future job interviews in the technical fields. The students are available in the Weirton Technology Center of the Library. The College Computer Science Internship Program is funded by West Virginia Legislature with special thanks to Hancock County Delegate Tamara Pettit.
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