Tech Fair @ your Library
Technology is all around us.
Discover the wonderful world of technology at the library on Thursday
November 15th from 1pm to 8pm.
Representatives from Barnes and Noble and Northeast College
will be among those presenting at this event.
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As well as vendors our library staff will lead workshops
during the day. The following is the schedule of events: 2pm Mango Languages, 2:30pm Job and Career
Accelerator, 3pm Microsoft Office classes, 4pm Facebook, Twitter, Email, 5pm:
Tech Thursday: answer any tech questions, 6pm E-book Reader. You are invited to attend one, or as many
sessions as you like.
Other Technology
Classes This Week
Setting Up an Email
Account: If you never have had an
email account this is the class for you. Yahoo email is a free email service
that is very easy to sign-up for and use (Monday 11/ 12 at 1 pm, 11/ 13 at 11
am).
Microsoft Excel
1: Trying to make a spreadsheet?
Need a little starting guidance? We can help. We will teach all about the
worksheets in Excel, how to move around the worksheet, all about the cells in
the worksheet (cut copy paste) inserting rows/columns, and saving all your hard
work (11/ 12 at 5 pm).
Keyboard and Mouse
Skills: Double-click, Right-click,
Scroll%u2026 If you get overwhelmed by knowing what all to do and when to do it
with your computer mouse, step into this class and learn! Your mouse and
keyboard are the ways you communicate with your computer; the more you know the
more you can make your computer work for you! (11/ 12 at 6:30 pm)
Microsoft Word
2: We will add to our knowledge from
Word 1 and expand a little bit more. We will discuss the ruler,
insert/overtype, cut and paste, using the clipboard, and paragraph styles (11/
13 at 10 am).
E-Book Readers: Get an introduction to your new e-book
reader (11/ 13 at 12 pm, 11/ 14 at 3 pm).
Microsoft Excel
3: If you need to insert a chart
into an Excel worksheet, this class will teach you how. We will also talk about
page breaks and printing your document (11/ 13 at 4 pm).
Mango Languages: Learn
languages quickly and easily with the world's most powerful language software.
Mango Languages allows you to learn even the most difficult languages. Choose from 16 foreign languages and 12
English as second languages (ESL) (11/ 13 at 5:30 pm).
Twitter Basics: An introduction to signing-up, creating a profile and using
the service to find friends and/ or use Twitter for a news source.
Patrons will have the opportunity to have two Twitter friends by the end of the
class (11/ 14 at 2 pm).
Windows Basics 3:
Did you know that you can Aero Peek, Snap and Shake on your computer? If
you don't know what we am talking about, stop in and let us show you some new
ways of working with Windows to make it more productive (11/ 14 at 5 pm).
Youth Activities: Our activities for youth this week are: Movie Monday (3:30 pm), Alphabet Party
(Monday at 6:30 pm), Preschool Story Time (Tuesday at 1 pm & Wednesday at
4:30 pm), Pat-a-Cake Pals (Thursday at 10 am), Night of FUN at the Library
(Thursday at 6:30 pm), Toddler Time (Friday at 10 am) and Let’s Create (Friday
at 4 pm).
It’s the Season for Hunting: We are in the midst of deer season. The following are some recommendations
related to hunting.
Wild Game Cookery: Down-
Home Recipes for Foods from the Wild by J. Carol Vance has recipes for wild game, fish and foraged
foods.
Smoking Food: a Beginner’s Guide by Chris Dubbs is the ultimate how-to
guide to smoking food provides detailed descriptions that even beginners will
easily follow and includes useful troubleshooting tips, advice on herbs and
spices, and over 30 recipes (including the author's legendary Swiss Steak and
Smoked Crabmeat).- from the catalog record.
Have a great week and read good books.
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