Edge Initiative and Excel for County Employees

Several months ago, Lisa was able to get involved with the Edge Initiative, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  Through the initiative, Franklin County Library was given a grant to purchase a mobile computer lab.  The lab consists of 10 laptop computers, wireless mice for all 10 computers, Microsoft Office software for all 10 computers, and a mobile workstation power storage cart.  We are very excited about this acquisition as it will allow us to offer computer classes during the day, not just in the evenings when are public computers are free.

We broke the lab in yesterday with a class on Microsoft Excel for 10 county employees (plus one newspaper employee). 

As you can see, we set the computers up in the end room upstairs.  We are very fortunate that we have a good place to have these classes.  I hope the county employees found the class to be useful.

We hope to offer many more of these types of classes to the public.  In fact, this fall, we will be offering a series of classes on Tuesday evenings.  We are mixing it up a little this year, so be sure to look at the schedule below to see exactly what we are offering.  Please call the library at 903-537-4916 to reserve your place in class.
 

September 16th - 5:30

Excel 1

 

September 23rd - 5:30

Excel 2

 

September 30th - 5:30

Social Media

 

October 7th  - 5:30

Apps*

 

October 14th - 5:30

Photo Editing

 

October 21st - 5:30

Jobs/Resumes

 

*The Apps class will be for Android and Apple devices.  Patrons will need to bring their own devices for this class.