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Bell County
Public Library District is pleased to announce that as of August 1,
2008, families with young children, and adults seeking to support
their studies or improve their math or grammar skills, will all have
experts waiting to help on the Library’s website.
Expanding one-to-one
online tutoring and homework help to more students is a natural next
step for the library as we continue to find new ways to serve everyone
in the community. Parents are teaching younger children to use the
computer, to learn and explore their world, just as adults turn to
technology to help them with everything from GED preparation to resume
writing.
Parents who bring
their young children to the library’s Live Homework Help service expose
them to rich learning resources, increase the child’s ability to succeed
in computer literacy and provide practice for fine motor skills.
Adults have always
come to the library for assistance with research, earning their GED and
other Adult Continuing Education support—as well as grammar help with
their resume or work-related writing. Now you may connect to a live
expert online, either on the library’s computers during library hours,
or from the privacy of your home computer until 10:00 p.m.
Anyone with a library
card may log-on to
http://www.bellcountypubliclibraries.org, go to the Live Homework
Help link, select a grade level from K – 12, College Intro, or Adult
Learner, and pick from one of 12 subjects, depending on your grade
level. You will then enter an Online Classroom where a certified
subject expert tutor will work with you in a chat window, on a drawing
board, and through website and file sharing, to resolve your educational
challenge.
The service is
available from 2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily in English, and until 9:00
p.m. in Spanish. The library’s live, online service is provided by
Tutor.com, the largest online tutoring company with more than 2,000
certified, background checked tutors. Tutor.com recently won a Parent’s
Choice Gold Award, their highest honor. Bell Co. Public Libraries have
been serving the community’s students with this award-winning resource
for three years, and we are pleased to now add early learners and adult
learners to those benefiting from this excellent service.
Pineville Rotary Club
has partnered with the library for the past two years to provide half
the subscription fee for this valuable service. To learn more,
stop by any library branch, call us at 606-337-3422 or 606-248-4812.
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