Resources - Tough Economic Times for Library Users

With unemployment rising, the stock market falling, and folks struggling both financially and emotionally, use of libraries has risen incredibly over the last year.  More and more people are coming to the library for help, at the same time that libraries, too, are struggling with budget and staffing issues.  On this page, we hope to provide our libraries with some web resources that will better enable them to help patrons. 

 

Resources - Tough Economic Times for Library Users Resources for Library Users Employment Resources - Tennessee Employment Resources - National General Employment Resources Resumes, Cover Letters, and Interview Skills Education and Training Coping with Unemployment Economic Information for Users Technology Information for Computer Beginners Resources for Families - National Resources for Families - Tennessee Resources for Seniors Frugal Living

 

Resources for Library Users

Employment Resources - Tennessee

Tennessee Career Center locations

http://www.tn.gov/labor-wfd/cc/cccounty.htm

Tennessee Career Center Services

http://www.tn.gov/labor-wfd/cc/index.html

Tennessee Dept. of Labor and Workforce Development - Quick Job Search

http://www.sourcetn.org/saintro.asp?session=jobsearch&leftnav=true

  -- A brochure on how to use "The Source", a job search service of the

    TN Dept. of Labor and Workforce Development

     http://www.sourcetn.org/admin/gsipub/htmlarea/uploads/thesourcefindingjobs.pdf

Applying for TN State Government jobs

http://www.state.tn.us/dohr/JobSearch/Employment_index.html

Tennessee Teaching Jobs

https://www.k-12.state.tn.us/teachingjobs/index.aspx

Tennessee "Boomer" Careers

http://www.state.tn.us/labor-wfd/boomer/

Tennessee Teens 2 Work

http://www.tennessee.gov/labor-wfd/youth/

Tennessee employment resource guide for veterans

http://www.state.tn.us/labor-wfd/Publications/EmploymentSecurity/vets_guide.pdf

 

Employment Resources - National

CareerOneStop - sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Labor

http://www.careeronestop.org/

"Career Tools" from CareerOneStop

http://www.careeronestop.org/CareerTools/CareerTools.asp

America's Career Infonet

http://www.acinet.org/acinet/

Monster - Jobs

http://www.monster.com/

Career Builder

http://www.careerbuilder.com

USA Jobs - Federal Government one-stop site for federal jobs and employment information

http://www.usajobs.gov/

GovBenefits.gov - Benefits and assistance programs from the U.S. government

http://www.govbenefits.gov/govbenefits_en.portal

 

General Employment Resources

Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD) - Services for Job Seekers

http://www.sourcetn.org/assistance.asp

Tennessee Employment Laws and Information

http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/employment/emplaws.html

 

Resumes, Cover Letters, and Interview Skills

CareerOneStop resources on resumes and interviewing

http://www.careeronestop.org/ResumesInterviews/ResumesInterviews.aspx

About.com - Resumes samples and templates

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/sampleresumes/a/sampleresume2.htm

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/resumes/u/resumesandletters.htm

JobWeb - Resume and interview guidance 

http://www.jobweb.com/resumes_interviews.aspx?id=896 

 

Education and Training

Opportunity.gov - Educational Opportunities for Unemployed Workers

http://federalstudentaid.ed.gov/opportunity/index.html

Tennessee Career Center Workforce Training

http://www.tn.gov/labor-wfd/cc/ccareas_local.htm

Tennessee Adult Education 

http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/education/adultedu.html

Learning and testing resources available through the Tennessee Electronic Library's LearningExpress Library

http://www.learnatest.com/LEL/index.cfm/?HR=http://tntel.tnsos.org/

Veterans' Employment and Training Service

http://www.dol.gov/vets/

 

Coping with Unemployment

Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD) main website

http://www.state.tn.us/labor-wfd/

TDLWD Guide to UI Benefits

http://tnpaws.tnui.net/GuideToUIBenefits.pdf

TDLWD overview of filing for unemployment

http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/labor/

TDLWD video on filing an Unemployment Claim

http://www.tennessee.gov/labor-wfd/claimhelp.htm

New York Public Library's resources on "Coping with Job Loss"

http://www.nypl.org/links/index.cfm?Trg=1&d1=2302&d3=Job%20Loss%20Strategies

 

Economic Information for Users

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) national site

http://www.recovery.gov/

Tennessee Recovery information site for ARRA

http://tnrecovery.gov/

 

Technology Information for Computer Beginners

Microsoft free training tutorials

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/FX100565001033.aspx

BBC's Absolute Beginner's Guide to Using Your Computer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/abbeg/abbeg.shtml

TypingWeb's free online typing tutor

http://www.typingweb.com/typingtutor/

To apply for a free email account, choose from among these services:

    Gmail -- http://www.gmail.com

    Yahoo mail -- http://mail.yahoo.com

 

Resources for Families - National

Consumer Information from the Federal Government

http://consumer.gov/

USA.gov - Government made easy - Main Consumer portal for government information and documents

http://www.usa.gov/

USA.gov - Consumer guides listing

http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Consumer_Safety.shtml

eXtension.org - Resources articles about families and the financial crisis

http://www.extension.org/pages/Financial_Crisis_and_Families

Getting Through Tough Financial Times - University of Illinois Extension

http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/toughtimes/

 

Resources for Families - Tennessee

Tennessee Department of Human Services - Adult and Family Services

  (food stamps, TennCare, child care, home energy assistance, services for the disabled, etc.)

http://www.state.tn.us/humanserv/adfam/afs_fasc.htm

Tennessee Department of Human Services - "How Do I...?" (Question & answer listing)

http://www.state.tn.us/humanserv/hdi.html

Tennessee Department of Health - For those in need of health care

http://health.state.tn.us/findcare.htm

Legal aid assistance - Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services

http://www.tennhelp.com/welcome

Rural public transportation - Tennessee

http://www.tdot.state.tn.us/tntransit25/transit.html

   - SETHRA - http://www.sethratransit.org/

   - ETHRA - http://www.ethrapublictransit.org/

 

Resources for Seniors

Retirement jobs - search engine at AARP.org

http://jobs.aarp.org/

Financial tools from AARP.org

http://www.aarp.org/money/

Tennessee SeniorCorps

http://www.tennessee.gov/finance/rds/tnseniorcorps.htm 

Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability - Resource Listing

http://www.state.tn.us/comaging/resources.html 

- 2009 Older Adults Resource Guide

http://www.setaaad.org/downloads/2009OlderAdultsResourceGuide.pdf

 

Frugal Living 

About.com - Articles about Frugal Living

http://frugalliving.about.com/od/frugalliving101/a/What_Is_Frugal.htm

Top 50 Frugality Bloggers

http://www.creditpanda.com/blog/2007/top-50-frugality-bloggers/

Frugal Village

http://www.frugalvillage.com/

 

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