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Beginning Monday May 16, Katy Library will offer an ongoing course in computer basics. Some topics we will cover in this free, semi-weekly course include:
Essential devices, mouse and keyboarding skills, creating folders and saving documents, basic word processing functions, e-mail basics, internet searching, and more…
All classes will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays, lasting one hour each. To meet the demands of peoples’ differing schedules, we will offer two tracks:

Here at Katy Library we will begin offering more in depth computer classes by May. We are formulating schedules and agendas for new classes, but we need your help. To help us better serve our community, please take the time to fill out a computer class survey the next time you stop into Katy branch. Also, let us know what types of computer programs most interest you. We are excited about this knew opportunity to serve you!

If you haven’t been to the Northwest library in the past week, we’ve made another exciting change to our system: new self checkout machines! The process on the new machines is a little different, but don’t fear, one of our friendly staff members will gladly guide you through the process. The best new features are the multidirectional scanners and receipt printing options. Come by the library, pick out a book and try it for yourself.

Please join us on Monday December 13 for a very special concert of holiday piano music performed by Ms. Tracy “The Music Lady.” The event is hosted by the book club members of Northwest, but all are welcome to join us. The festivities will begin at 2 PM in the meeting room. We hope to see you there.

Don’t be alarmed if you hear the Northwest staff members using some pretty unusual words. No, we’re not taking a cue from Sarah Palin (see “refudiate”) and inventing our own words. Rather, we are participating in the Save The Words campaign. We have adopted a list of obscure words otherwise doomed to extinction by the Oxford American Dictionary. So if you hear us talking about how an aquabib (water drinker) visited the local oporopolist (fruit seller), please don’t assume we're a bunch of foppotees (simple-minded people). We are simply bulking up our slimikin (slender) vocabularies so that they are more crassulent (very fat).