Good news comes in threes for L.B. library
LONG BRANCH — The Long Branch Public Library has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the New Jersey State Library.
The grant was given to the library on June 9 to implement, strengthen and expand the capability of library staff in the areas of job seeking, unemployment and related services to library customers.
These services will include a model career center computer lab, a virtual career center and in-person as well as virtual training in the use of online resources.
Long Branch Library Director Ingrid Bruck said that the grant money is one of three pieces of good news the library received in June.
“We had three pieces of good news recently,” Bruck said. “We got the grant money, but we also found out that New Jersey Natural Gas [NJNG] will be purchasing some computers for $10,000 and that the state will use our virtual career center as a model on the statewide level.”
“We had three pieces of good news recently,” Bruck said. “We got the grant money, but we also found out that New Jersey Natural Gas [NJNG] will be purchasing some computers for $10,000 and that the state will use our virtual career center as a model on the statewide level.”
Bruck explained that the grant funds will help people qualify for jobs in the community.
The money will ultimately be used to fund a teacher and state-of-the-art computers to help with the training class.
“The state library funded a teacher so we can have classes for people without jobs,” Bruck said. “We got the grant so we can use it on a teacher and equipment.”
Bruck said a teacher has not been officially named yet.
The class will begin in the middle of July and run 16 weeks. There will be 12 people attending the class, according to Bruck, and the goal of the class is to get people re-employed.
“The focus of the class will be helping people getting back to work,” Bruck said. You can read the entire article in the Atlanticville Newspaper.