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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock Newt Staff Writer
The county library has a new computer for public use. It was provided by the Virginia Extension Service and is on loan for at least six months.
Patrons can use the computer to find out about plant care, insect pests, how to remove stains and best buys in consumer products. The computer is very easy to use, since a user simply touches the screen to gain access to the information stored in it. If a patron wants to keep the information, the computer will print out a sheet with the information on it.
Librarian Nikki Lynch hopes use of the computer will help older patrons overcome their fears of computers. She said children are already comfortable with it.
Mrs. Lynch hopes having patrons comfortable with computers will help when the library has its public access catalogue. The library learned last month that it had been awarded a $23,850 grant from the state library to develop a computerized catalogue for public use with a copy of the information going to the state library.
When Mrs. Lynch applied for the grant, she assumed she would have the information for the catalog on a compact ROM disc. After talking with software companies, she said she thought the library would be able to get an on-line catalogue within the budget of the grant. The
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