HSE CONNECT!
HSE Connect! works to provide information, guidance and resources to adults seeking their New York State high school equivalency diploma, as well as adults who seek to improve their core… Read more »
Tag: libraries
Tutor.com presents How-To Job Search Webinars
These special sessions are aimed at helping job seekers get the help they need to achieve success on the job front. All are no-cost to you with your Westchester library card! Got… Read more »
Tips for Parents on Preparing Young Children to Be Ready for School
The early literacy skills needed to learn to read and write in Kindergarten are planted and nurtured from an early age. From the moment children are born, they start to… Read more »
Adult Literacy Can Change Everything
Health. Gender equality. Poverty. Every important social issue is impacted by low literacy. When individuals learn how to read, write, do basic math, and use computers, they have the power… Read more »
Services for adults who want to improve their skills, get a high school diploma, and get a job
Adults with low literacy and/or no high school diploma are at a special disadvantage in securing a job – especially as our economy reels from this pandemic. WLS offers three services that improve… Read more »
Virtual Census, Phased Re-openings, and County Wide Cooperation
When we last left off the Westchester self-response rate for Census 2020 was at 60.2%. It is now at 62.8%, only 5.1% away from our final 2010 self-response rate. I’m… Read more »
Census and Westchester Library System + Covid-19
I was excited to hit the ground running back in December of 2019 with coordinating the 2020 Digital Census for the Westchester Library System. I immersed myself in research and… Read more »
Introducing New WLS Board Members Andrea Bober & Wes Iwanski
Did you know that the Westchester Library System (WLS) is divided into 15 Districts? These Districts were created at its origin in 1959 and based on population. Cities within Westchester… Read more »
What We Are Reading – Volume 1
Westchester Library System‘s Manager of Cataloging Services, Douglas Wray, has been keeping up with reading during New York State PAUSE. He has quite a few good suggestions for your next… Read more »
Free Lynda.com Courses on Remote Work, Job Searching and More
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the global economy, as many people are now either working remotely or, unfortunately, not working at all. To help in this time, Lynda.com has unlocked… Read more »