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JANUARY 19, 2022
SERVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
VOL LVIII • NO 39
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Book It To The Quarryville Library For Skill-Building Good News! CEF After-School Clubs Return To Lancaster County BY ANN MEAD ASH
Quarryville Library program manager Sharon Roche (left), Quarryville Library director Susan Eshleman (center), and Millersville University grant program assistant Aubrey Laity are excited to offer the public a new digital literacy program. BY COURTNEY MENGEL
ocated at 357 Buck Road, Quarryville, the Quarryville Library now offers a digital literacy and workforce development program through a partnership with Millersville University. To the best of Quarryville Library program manager Sharon Roche’s knowledge, this is the first time that the library has partnered with a university. Prior to launching the program, Millersville University created the Office of Community Engagement, Governmental, and Economic Development with the purpose of helping adults, the local community, and nontraditional students. Staff in the new office researched statistics regarding technology education, learning access, and broadband networking, and realized that
Millersville University grant program assistant Aubrey Laity will be at the Quarryville Library on Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Thursdays from 3 to 7 p.m. to instruct individuals enrolled in the program, answer questions, and provide more information. “I work in-person with the participants of the grant,” said Laity, noting that she has seen first hand the need for the program and the impact it can have. The program consists of three courses, which teach keyboard skills, other computer skills for the workplace, and how to conduct a job search. Roche noted that the library offered digital programs remotely in the past, but attendance was low. “We can imagine that people are not able to train for these jobs at
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home (because they don’t have internet access), but the library is a great place to offer this program,” said Roche. “We have computers, we have Wi-Fi, and now we have Aubrey.” The program is intended for people age 18 or older who are unemployed, underemployed, or seeking a new career path. They should expect to commit approximately four hours per week from now until Sept. 30. Participants must also reside in the Quarryville Borough or the townships of Bart, Colerain, Drumore, East Drumore, Eden, Fulton, Little Britain, Martic, or Providence. There is rolling enrollment, and people can register by contacting Laity at 717-871-5951 or aubrey.laity@millersville.edu. To learn more about the Quarryville Library, visit www.quarryvillelibrary.org.
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the areas surrounding the Quarryville Library and Adamstown Library were in need of assistance. When the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry began accepting applications for the digital literacy and workforce development program grant, the university applied and was eventually named the recipient. Through the program, the Quarryville Library provides free computer and digital literacy training, which focuses on providing skills to assist participants in job seeking and job performance. To accomplish these objectives, there is a combination of in-person instruction and online course content. The program is intended to increase comfort with and experience in online learning with the hope of creating opportunities for lifelong learning and skill-building.
In the fall of 2021, Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) Good News Clubs went live again across Lancaster County and beyond. In the spring of 2022, in-person clubs are planned for elementaryage students in the school districts of Columbia, Conestoga Valley, ELANCO, Elizabethtown, Ephrata, Hempfield, LampeterStrasburg, Manheim Township, Penn Manor, Pequea Valley, Lancaster, Warwick, and Octorara. Virtual clubs will be offered in Cocalico, Donegal, Manheim Central, and Solanco school districts. A program for sixth- through eighth-grade students will also be starting at Martin Meylin Middle School in Lampeter-Strasburg School District. “We would like to get the clubs all restarted,” said Lisa Kilgore, director of CEF of Lancaster County, who noted that more than 30 clubs were meeting in the county prior to the onset of
