Emery County librarians learn to program: Carole Larsen celebrates 40 years in the library

By Roxanne Jensen

The Emery County Librarians are once again learning new ways to serve their communities.
This time, they are learning coding/programming.
That’s how cool our librarians are.
Roxanne Jensen applied for a grant from Birdbrain Technologies and was awarded five Finch Robot to be used from October through May 2019, throughout the library system.
Clinton Olsen, from the Emery County IT department trained the librarians on programming.
The USU Extension also partnered with the libraries to provide this service.
They have loaned five laptaps to be used with the Finch Robots. Each library will be hosting a monthly program, of two classes per week.
The libraries will be signing up participants who are 4-H age, into Robotic 4-H to fulfill the requirements for the partnership for USU extension. The cost for registration to 4-H is $10.
Here’s where the Finch Robots will be each month: October: Green River, they will be holding classes every Tuesday and Thursday at 3:30 p.m.. October 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, 23, 25.
In November they will be in Huntington, dates and times will be announced as they become available.
In December they will be in Elmo. January they will be in Emery, February they will be in Cleveland, In March they will be in Ferron, In April they will be in Orangeville and May they will be in Castle Dale.
Please come out and support this great program.
During the training, the librarians surprised Carole Larsen with a cake to celebrate her 40 years of library service.
Carole Larsen is the current Emery County Library Director and has been the Orangeville Librarian for 40 years.
People throughout the county came to surprise her.
Emery County Librarians and Assistants who attended the Training were: Castle Dale: Roxanne Jensen and Sherri Jensen; Cleveland: Camille Thomas and Mindi Labrum: Elmo: Bonnie Day and Maria Johansen; Ferron: Sarah Jensen; Green River: Cindy Bowerman: Huntington: Becky Jewkes and Susan Hess: Orangeville: Carole Larsen and Melodie Hoffman and Emery library Marion George.