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Skills class saves memories
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Neighbors | Amanda Tonoli.Some students in Saving Memories: Downloading Digital Pictures grabbed books on their way out of the class for further reading. Pictured is Joan Ruffing.
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Neighbors | Amanda Tonoli.The Austintown library hosted Saving Memories: Downloading Digital Pictures on June 15, teaching students how to save images from flash drives, mobile devices and more.
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Neighbors | Amanda Tonoli.Eugenia Atkinson came to Saving Memories: Downloading Digital Pictures at the Austintown library to learn how to put all of her memories in one place.
By amanda tonoli
The Austintown library hosted Saving Memories: Downloading Digital Pictures on June 15. Those wishing to place all of their digital memories in one place — on a computer — came to learn about the art of working with digital files to do so.
Librarian Lindsay Platt led the class, answering questions about picture files on a computer, a camera, a cellphone and a flash drive. She incorporated not only the use of digital cameras, but also cellphones as cameras.
Eugenia Atkinson, one of the students in attendance, said she enjoyed coming to the library’s many classes that teach everyday skill sets.
“The library offers things that are so useful — you know, common everyday things that you don’t think about,” Atkinson said.
Linda Kucalaba, another librarian at the Austintown library, said classes like Saving Memories are really useful to the older adult crowd.
“A lot of older adults never thought they would need computers and now they’re finding out that they do,” Kucalaba said.
Atkinson said she was happy to finally learn what to do with her digital pictures from an organizational standpoint.
“It’ll help me organize all my pictures on different devices,” Atkinson said. “It’ll help me get them all in one place.”
Joan Ruffing, another student in the class, said she had no idea how to import her pictures before the class and although she didn’t entirely master the art of it, she learned a little something.
“If you don’t know much, at least you learn a little,” Ruffing said.