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We have had some great training opportunities so far this year. In April, Heather from Western Allegheny Community Library did a refresher on Hoopla for library staff. Heather went over some Hoopla basics but also touched on some lesser-known features.

In September, Mary Phillips and I did a deeper dive into BlueCareer and FinancialFit. Two of our newer resources. BlueCareer provides information on skilled trades and can connect patrons with trade schools, apprenticeship opportunities and even a simple, mobile-friendly want to connect with employers. FinancialFit offers short, easy-to-understand lessons and interactive tools to help develop and support basic financial literacy.

Rounding out this trio of trainings, in October, we had an excellent overview of Tutor.com by our Tutor.com Account manager. If you haven’t used Tutor.com in a while, it’s worth a revisit. They’ve updated the interface and added in a new suite of tutoring options for Career and Technical Education (CTE) services.

These three trainings are available on the Training Resources tab here on the Backstage. If you have any problems accessing a training, please email me or sent me a message on Teams.

-Hilary Lewis, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Join us on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 11:00 am for a comprehensive refresher on Tutor.com with Maxine Nebro. This will be great for those already familiar with the program, and those who are experiencing it for the first time as we’ll go over every feature available in your program. There have been a number of updates made in the past year, and we are super excited to share them with you! A Q&A will be happening at the end of the refresher, so be sure to bring your questions and stick around until the end.

The training will be recorded and posted to the eLibrary Backstage for those who cannot attend in person.

Join the training by clicking the link below. No registration required.

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Meeting ID: 225 943 457 580 2 Passcode: Vt9p7GJ6

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The Digital Resources Committee will be presenting an online training on September 23, 2025 at 2pm for BlueCareer and FinancialFit.

Blue Career  

BlueCareer provides information on more than 100 skilled trades, connects patrons with hundreds of trade schools across the United States and Canada, and provides training resources for those seeking to build their trade knowledge and experience.  

Financial Fit 

FinancialFit offers patrons short, easy-to-understand lessons, videos, and interactive tools to help develop and support basic financial literacy. Print material that provides similar information is consistently popular with our users, and we’re excited to be able to offer this digital resource as well!  

Join us in September to learn more about these resources. If you cannot join us on the 23rd, the session will be recorded and posted on the Backstage site afterwards.

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Meeting ID: 290 915 107 006 6

Passcode: Py6qj6qp

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Phone conference ID: 539 627 119#

~Hilary Lewis, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh