The Sunnyvale Public Library has partnered on numerous occasions with the CONNECT! Job Seeker Center over the years in order to better serve the needs of local job seekers. Recently, the library was asked to teach a popular small business-related class for the CONNECT! job seeker community to augment their existing programs.
Joan Jackson, one of the city’s Adult Services Reference librarians, saw a need to outreach to this targeted community with a popular class taught regularly at the library. Basic Small Business Resources was a class created by Joan and another librarian to address the specific informational needs of those who are either small business owners, or who are contemplating starting their own business. Joan saw a special need to outreach to the targeted community at CONNECT! to share this information with them in their environment.
Over the past two months, the class was taught to 52 CONNECT! members, and was very well received. Kathy Puryear (CONNECT! Coordinator) and Jen Cheyer (CONNECT! Administrative Coordinator) have not only asked that this class be taught on a monthly basis, but also that new classes be created and taught at CONNECT! to meet the specific needs of the entrepreneurial community. Currently, Joan is creating a class to address the specific needs of independent contractors (“ICs”). Of course, these classes will also be taught at the library. Joan has also collaborated with CONNECT! staff to find out other informational needs of the CONNECT! community. Like all classes, the abundant resources of the library, community, and web-based resources will be the focal point of the classes.
Because of this unique partnership, the library and CONNECT! further help this segment of our community.
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Ancestry Library Edition has been available at Sunnyvale Public Library for several years and is popular with our amateur genealogists. Census data from the US, Canada, and UK is the heart of the collection, but it goes way beyond this standard data to include immigration information, the Social Security Death Index, military service,land ownership maps, county histories, marriage and divorce records, and so much more. Every month more data is being added and even if you’ve found nothing in the past you should consider redoing your searches to see what new information might have been added on your ancestors. You might find pictures of yourself from high school and college yearbooks.
