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What is Your Tech Need?

Our Digital Navigator is here to help you explore opportunities to get you online and up-to-speed.

Getting connected is essential in today’s fast-paced, technological world.

Access to the Internet; owning an internet-enabled device (like a laptop, computer or smart phone); and tech skills are all essential components today for education, your career, healthcare, filing for social services and taxes, online shopping, organizing your digital life, and so much more.

CRCPL offers help with all three basic needs:  Connectivity, Devices, and Skills.

Our Digital Navigator is a trained Information Technology (IT) professional who can help you explore all of the options available to help you meet your tech need.

WiFi Hotspot

Do you need Connectivity?  The library can help with:

Chromebook

Do you need a Device?  The library offers:

Do you need Skills?  Our Digital Navigator provides free 1-1 Tech Training on a variety of topics:

  • Device setup and troubleshooting
  • Devices - Which one is right for you?
  • Setting up and using email
  • Social media
  • Using the library catalog
  • Using the "SEO Libraries" app
  • Downloading and reading eBooks and eAudiobooks
  • Using the library’s databases and eResources
  • Digital photos and editing
  • Intro to Microsoft programs:  Word, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint
  • Intro to Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets
  • Online shopping and selling
  • Cybersecurity and online safety
  • And more. Let us know your need and we’ll do the research and provide information to help.

  

What Is your tech need?

Submit a request, and our Digital Navigator will explore opportunities to meet your need and contact you with more information.

Build Your Skills with These Resources, Free with Your Library Card:

Gale Courses

Gale Courses is an online learning platform that offers access to hundreds of instructor-led online courses covering everything from health and wellness to creative writing, computer programming, GED test preparation and much more. Courses run for 6 weeks, with new sessions starting each month.

Northstar Digital Literacy

The library provides proctoring for employers for Northstar Digital Literacy assessments, or you can use the resource for your own self-improvement. Northstar Digital Literacy defines basic skills needed to perform tasks on computers and online. Online, self-guided modules assess the ability of individuals to perform tasks based on these skills. Included are basic computer digital literacy standards and modules in three main areas: Essential Computer Skills, Essential Software Skills, and Using Technology in Daily Life.

Fiero Code

Coming Soon!  Fiero Code is a comprehensive online platform designed to teach coding from the ground up. With a curriculum that spans HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, and block-based coding with Scratch, it’s geared towards turning beginners into proficient coders.

Create a free account with your library card to track your progress as you build websites, animations, and video games. Advance through a story and level up your avatar while you learn different coding languages and build programming and problem-solving skills.

Ohio Means Jobs Online Job Assessments & Training

Ohio Means Jobs’ LearningExpress platform provides a comprehensive selection of educational resources—including interactive tutorials, practice exams, flashcards, articles and e-books—for basic skills mastery, academic success, job preparation, and career advancement.

Ohio Career Navigator

The Ohio Career Navigator from Ohio Means Jobs surveys your skills and talents, then delivers personalized resources that can help you advance your career or education

Find more resources in our eLibrary. 

Sign up for a library card and receive immediate access to all of the library's eResources.