Help Wanted; Employment/Job Information Links in Public Library Systems

NOTE: Looking for information about family finances or consumer protection? Your public library can help you locate information and referrals.

The New York State Library is partnering with public television stations WMHT and WCNY for Help Wantedexternal link icon, a grant-funded series of television programs that address the current economic crisis and its effects on New York families and individuals. Help Wantedexternal link icon focuses on the stories, needs, issues, and solutions for specific job seekers. It also explores resources for workforce development including re-training for a new career, consumer protection and family finances. The series airs statewide on New York's nine public television stations.

 

WMHT PBS station logo

 

WCNY PBS station logo

Help Wanted banner image

In addition to the television series currently in production and running, there is a website, www.helpwantedinteractive.orgexternal link icon, to help viewers of the program access resources about the project's focus areas: job search, workforce development, consumer protection, family finances. Press Release pdf file [81k] ; Flyer pdf file [151k]

As a partner in the project, the New York State Library is linking users of the Help Wantedexternal link icon web site to the State Library's web site. Users can use the links on this page to locate their public library and to identify a library that offers job, education and career resources and assistance. These are often available both in the library and online.

Public libraries across New York are helping job seekers with individual goals, computers, Internet access, resume and interview workshops, online and print/media resources, current education and training information and referrals to the New York State Department of Labor and other community resources.
Click on an area on the map, or click on a name below the map, to go to "Jobs" web site[s] in that area. Links open in a new window. external link icon

hot-linked image map of NY's public library system employment/job information resources

Brooklyn Public Library | Buffalo and Erie County Public Library | Chautauqua-Cattaraugus: Olean Public Library; James Prendergast Library Association | Clinton-Essex-Franklin: Plattsburgh Public Library | Finger Lakes: Tompkins County Public Library | Four County: Broome County Public Library | Mid-Hudson: Poughkeepsie Library District | Mid-York: Jervis Public Library Association | Mohawk Valley: Schenectady County Public Library | Monroe County: Rochester Public Library | Nassau: East Meadow Public Library; Levittown Public Library; Rockville Centre Public Library | The New York Public Library | Nioga: Niagara Falls Public Library | North Country: Roswell P. Flower Memorial Library; Ogdensburg Public Library | Onondaga County Public Library | Pioneer: Geneva Public Library | Queens Borough Public Library | Ramapo Catskill: Newburgh Free Library | Southern Adirondack: Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library | Southern Tier: Chemung County Library District | Suffolk: Patchogue-Medford Library | Upper Hudson: Albany Public Library | Westchester: Mount Vernon Public Library

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Last Updated: June 21, 2010