gar 5 2008
The Kings Mountain Herald
| EDUCATION
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Sixteen laptops are now avail-
able for classes and workshops
at Mauney Memorial Library
and Cleveland Memorial
Library thanks to a $26,000
grant.
Mauney Memorial Library
Director Sharon Stack and
Cleveland Memorial Library
Director Carol Wilson sought
the grant to procure the technol-
ogy. “We wrote a Library and
Services Technology Act Grant.
These were funded (through)
the state library,” Stack said of
the laptops. “The grants paid
for not only the laptops, but it
paid for the carts, the teaching
laptop and the storage carts.”
The laptops came in about a
month ago, have been config-
ured and are now ready for use.
“We've just been getting ready
for classes,” Stack said.
Registration has been avail-
able for classes at the Shelby
branch and Wilson said that
they have booked up fast.
Registration for classes is now
available at Mauney. The one-
hour technology classes will
begin this month and are
offered at no charge to the pub-
lic. Class lessons include:
Introduction to Computers 1;
Introduction to Computers 2;
Email Basics; Resume Basics;
Internet Basics; Microsoft Word
Basics; and Library Resource
Basics.
The Library Resource Basics
class will help people access
and navigate the library online,
including how to find a book,
see if there is a hold on a book,
to request a book from another
location and many other fea-
tures. The class will also explore
the library's resources of
NCLive, NCKnows and the
new exciting features of Book
Flix and PBS Videos.
“Scholastic Book Flix is a new
online literary resource that
pairs classic video storybooks
from Weston Woods Publishing
with related nonfiction eBooks
from Scholastic to build a love
of reading and learning,”
according to the library's
brochure. “The engaging way to
link fact and fiction, Book Flix
reinforces early reading skills
and introduces children to a
world of knowledge and explo-
ration.”
Book Flix offers children a
chance to read or listen to and
view animated storybooks for
free online. PBS Videos allow
Mauney Memotial patrons free
“access to quality educational
and entertainment program-
ming from PBS over the
Internet. As a member of
NCLive, North Carolina’s
statewide library consortium,
(it) will provide on-site and
home access to nearly 250 PBS
programs.”
Eight laptops are stationed at
each of the two libraries and all
16 can be made available for
classes and workshops at either
branch. “If we had a class where
we needed 16 they can go back
and forth,” Stack said. “It’s a
cooperation.”
Mauney Memorial Library
held an open house Friday
morning with the new laptops,
allowing city department heads
and officials the chance to see
what this new service can pro-
vide. “Everybody needs train-
ing so this is a great way to
learn,” Stack said. “It definitely
expands our capacity for what
we can do for the public and
internally as well. We're really
pleased.”
Water Resources Director
Dennis Wells dropped by
Friday morning to see the new
technology. “Can I just move
my workstation up here?” he
joked. Wells said that they often
have to drive about 200 miles to
classes to maintain their certifi-
cation.
“If you can get to your certain
Concert to feature Don Gibson Tribute
Al Dunkleman, Sociology
Instructor at
Community College, will pres-
ent his fifth annual concert
March 10 from 7:00-8:30 p.m.,
in the Mildred H. Keeter
Auditorium on the campus of
Cleveland Community College.
The concert will feature a spe-
cial tribute to Shelby native and
country music legend, Don
Gibson. Four of Gibson's great-
est hits will be performed—*“I
Can't Stop Loving You,” “Sea of
Heartbreak,” “Blue Blue Day,”
and “Oh, Lonesome Me.”
Besides the Gibson tribute,
new songs to be showcased
include several recently written
by Dunkleman—“Ill Be
Coming Back to You,” a love
song that captures the chal-
lenges of commuter marriages,
“When We Were Young” high-
lights the social and historical
events that took place in the
1960s and early 1970s, and “The
Liver Mush Song” celebrates
one of Cleveland County's
unique foods.
Dunkleman will perform a
Cleveland -
Al and Karen Dunkleman, and Dr. Bobby Jones, left to right, to
perform at CCC March 10.
few old-time tunes on fiddle
and banjo, and will also encour-
age audience participation with
several sing-a-long songs.
Dunkleman will be accompa-
nied by his band “New Plowed
Ground”—featuring his wife,
Karen, on upright bass, and Dr.
Bobby Jones on mandolin and
guitar.
The event is sponsored by the”
Government
Student
Association of Cleveland
Community College.
Admission to the concert is two
cans of food, or two dollars, to
be donated to The Beacon and
Lighthouse Shelters of Shelby.
The public is invited. For
more information, or directions
to the campus, call 704-484-
4000.
EMILY WEAVER/HERALD
Cleveland Memorial Library Director Carol Wilson (left) and
Mauney Memorial Library Director Sharon Stack try out their
new laptops on Friday morning at Mauney's open house.
classes in here you've got up to
16 computers you can use right
here,” Stack told him. “If you
have a group and want to take a
class you just make a reserva-
tion for how many computers
you need.”
Wells asked if they could
bring groups from other munic-
ipalities in for classes if the need
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arises. Stack said that would be
fine. “Eventually, I'd like to
have laptops in all of our cars
for maps,” Wells said, adding
that they would need training
to learn how to operate the
equipment.
The library laptops will come
in handy for those needs and
many more.
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