These part-time aides help students and other library patrons use library computers and electronic information resources efficiently and appropriately. The aides, who are often high school or college students, work during the very busy after-school hours. They have a good knowledge of computers and are proficient in math and English, as well as having strong "people" skills. They instruct students in the use of computers, printers, the Internet, Library databases, and software programs (i.e. word processing, graphics), and help with basic research techniques. Aides trouble-shoot computer problems, help parents of small children use the specially designated Kids Path computers, and maintain use statistics.

Thanks to the generosity of the B.C. McCabe Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. John Rallis, Wachovia Foundation, Bank of the West, Bowen H. & Janice Arthur McCoy Charitable Foundation, Forest Lawn Foundation, Janice McCoy Miller, The Cecile and Fred Bartman Foundation, Dwight Stuart Youth Foundation, Erteszek Family Foundation, Friends of the Chinatown Library, Leonardo DiCaprio Fund, Fritz B. Burns Foundation, Friends of Kaufman-Brentwood Branch, Transamerica Foundation, Teresa Clarke Ellis, and the Roth Family Foundation for their support of After-School Computer Aides.

To learn more about funding opportunities for After-School Computer Aides, please contact Dawn Coppin, Director of Foundation Relations, at (213) 228-7502.

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