Business & Career Center--Open Classroom!

10 AM – 12 PM, BCC Classroom

Come to our OPEN CLASSROOM sessions—The BCC Classroom will be staffed during these times with instructors on hand to offer assistance, answer questions and help you learn how to use workplace, small business or personal use tools efficiently. This is a pilot program to meet patron needs, so come check us out and help to shape this exciting new offering! Register HERE or just walk in! 

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Microsoft Office - Excel Basics

software10am in the BCC Classroom

Learn beginner-level skills or update your older version skills in Microsoft 2019 (using BCC laptops). REGISTER or just walk in!

 

 

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Microsoft Office - PowerPoint Basics Workshop

bcc10am in the BCC Classroom

Learn beginner-level skills or update your older version skills in Microsoft Excel 2019 (using BCC laptops). REGISTER or just walk in!

 

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Microsoft Office--Word Basics Workshop

software10am in the BCC Classroom

Learn beginner-level skills or update your older version skills in Microsoft 2019 (using BCC laptops). REGISTER or just walk in!

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Microsoft Office - Intermediate Excel

bcc10am in the BCC Classroom 

The follow up to our Excel for Beginners Workshop! Join us and learn next level Excel functions like VLOOKUP, SUMIFs and Pivot Tables in this hands-on workshop. You’ll also learn crucial text-related features like splitting and joining text, removing duplicates and data validation. REGISTER or just walk in!

 

 

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Computer Basics - CANCELLED

bcc2 pm in the BCC, Upper Level
Improve your basic computer skills. Use our laptops or bring your own! In this session, we will introduce the parts of the computer, identify and use essential keys on the keyboard, and work on mouse skills. Registration is required.

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Device Advice

bcc5 pm in the BCC, Upper Level
Need hands-on help with your smartphone, tablet, laptop or e-reader? Trying to download an app or program and getting stuck? Want to use free library media resources like eBooks and audiobooks from Libby? Sign up for a thirty-minute Device Advice session for in person assistance. Bring your personal tablet, laptop, smartphone, or e-reader with you. Make sure you have all passwords you might need during the session. Registration is required.

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Device Advice

bcc5 pm in the BCC, Upper Level
Need hands-on help with your smartphone, tablet, laptop or e-reader? Trying to download an app or program and getting stuck? Want to use free library media resources like eBooks and audiobooks from Libby? Sign up for a thirty-minute Device Advice session for in person assistance. Bring your personal tablet, laptop, smartphone, or e-reader with you. Make sure you have all passwords you might need during the session. Registration is required.

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Weekly Event

Thursday

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Fredricksen Reads: The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright (2023)

7 pm, Small Meeting Room & Zoom 

The books we're reading are award winners or have been featured in the public space as a good read. Join us as we discuss these literary gems. You are welcome to attend whether or not you have read or listened to the selection. Ages 18+. Books selected for Fredricksen Reads will be listed on the Fredricksen Library online events calendar.

October: The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright (2023) 278 pages. An incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists, says The Times (British) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women. Registration required 

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Curl Up with the Classics

Small Meeting Room  

Join with fellow book lovers as we take a look at works from a period in a language or culture's history that was particularly creative and productive. You do not have to read the selection before the meeting date. No registration required.

October: The Melancholy of Edgar Allan Poe - We will be reading a few of the Gothic master’s works including Fall of the House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum and the poem The Raven. Reading selections can be found in their entirety on the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore’s website: eapoe.org or in various books within the library system. 

This program is sponsored in memory of Marie Schleicher.

 

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