In the Gale General OneFile database, you can easily stay up-to-date with magazines, news, and other key publications on topics like careers, personal finances, current events, technology, education, health, and history. This information is great for research, homework, and making sure you’re kept informed. Access is provided for free by PowerLibrary with your CCL card number or eCard.
Category: Business/Career
CCEDC Now Accepting Applications for COVID-19 Working Capital Access Program
The COVID-19 Working Capital Access Program (CWCAP) is program that supplies working capital to businesses negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Chester County Economic Development Council (CCEDC) is the Certified Economic Development Organization for Chester County and is your portal to this funding stream and is currently accepting applications for this program.
For a summary of the program, see this guide.
online workshops for JOB SEEKERS – PA CareerLink Chester County
PA CareerLink Chester County is currently offering a number of different workshop opportunities to Job Seekers online through Canvas.
Current workshop opportunities available include:
Crafting a Marketable Resume:
This workshop is designed to give you all the tips and strategies that you would need to design a resume that represents you at your very best. Whether you have never created one before or you are looking to update, this workshop can help.
Creating an Effective Cover Letter:
This workshop will explain how employers use cover letters in the hiring process, share best practices, and identify cover letter writing errors to avoid.
Interviewing Workshop Series:
The Interviewing Workshop Series includes Interviewing Basics, The S. T. A. R. Method, and Panel Interviewing. These workshops are designed to prepare you for your next job interview. Craft your 30 second elevator speech and learn how to conduct targeted research to prepare for interviews. Whether you have been on a job interview recently, or are going on your first job interview, these workshops will help you to prepare.
If you have an interest in any of these workshops, please contact Graham Desmond directly at (610) 280-1031 or gdesmond@edsisolutions.com.
Free online business consulting with Kutztown SBDC
The Kutztown SBDC recognizes that their clients’ small businesses may be negatively affected by the impacts of the COVID-19 global outbreak. To that end, they stand ready to work with clients to navigate potential financial hardships. If you currently have any specific concerns or questions, reach out to your current consultant or complete their online consulting request form to schedule a time to meet.
Borrow books without joining a waitlist from the National Emergency Library
The Internet Archive has suspended waitlists for the 1.4 million books in their lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners. This suspension will run through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later.
During the waitlist suspension, users will be able to borrow books from the National Emergency Library without joining a waitlist, ensuring that students will have access to assigned readings and library materials that the Internet Archive has digitized for the remainder of the US academic calendar, and that people who cannot physically access their local libraries because of closure or self-quarantine can continue to read and thrive during this time of crisis, keeping themselves and others safe.
For more information, go to their announcement page and their FAQs.
Business, education, biography, and more in Gale Virtual Reference Library
The Gale Virtual Reference Library database includes reference titles in the arts, biography, business, education, environment, general reference, history, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, science, social sciences, and technology.
Trying to plan a business but don’t have access to the Chester County Library’s Business Plans Handbook series while we’re closed due to the pandemic? Fear not! The first 35 volumes are available online in the GVRL business section.
Planning your career or higher education? Check out the education section.
For all other topics, log in to the database with your CCL library card number from this page.
Free access to Foundation Directory Online Essential
Nonprofit organizations can still search for funding opportunities while the Chester County Library is closed. Candid, the parent company of the Foundation Center, has provided us with temporary, free access to Foundation Directory Online Essential. This valuable resource includes:
- 103,000+ expanded grantmaker profiles
- 300,000+ key decision makers and leaders
- Searchable 990s and 990-PDFs
- FDO Workspace
If you need more in-depth information on a foundation than FDO Essential can provide, please email us at ref@ccls.org and one of our librarians can send you the full Funder Profile from Foundation Directory Online Professional.
Interim guidance for businesses and employers from the CDC
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will update this interim guidance as needed and as additional information becomes available. This web page includes recommended strategies for employers to use now and important considerations for creating an infectious disease outbreak response plan.
Job and career websites
Looking for help you can access from home to develop your career or maximize your job search? We’ve curated a list of websites for you! From career management to resume writing to interviewing tips to job and salary profiles, we’ve got you covered.
Your Emails, Voicemails, and Texts are Being Answered
We may not be able to meet and help you at the library right now, but we can “meet” and help you virtually! You can still rely on us while the library is closed to provide you with excellent information to all of your reference and research questions. Librarians are staffing Reference email, voicemail, and texts throughout the day and returning messages as quickly as possible. Any messages received after 9 p.m. will be returned the next morning.
To Contact a Librarian:
Email: ref@ccls.org (or complete and submit the Contact Form on this site)
Call: 610-344-5957 and leave a voicemail, including your phone number (and email address if you have one).
Text: ref@ccls.org from your mobile device.
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