Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

Looking for a new career or just starting out in the job market? Planning for college and trying to choose a major? The Peters Township Public Library has an excellent resource available for you to use for help in all these areas!

The Ferguson's Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive career research database, broken down into three main sections: Job and Industry Profiles, Job-Hunting and Workplace Skills, and Career and Industry Resources. The Job and Industry Profiles section, organized into 16 Career Clusters created by the Department of Education, contains information on nearly 3,400 jobs and 94 industries. The Job-Hunting and Workplace Skills section provides invaluable advice on applying for a job, acing an interview, behaving professionally in the work environment, and more—with more than 90 sample résumés and cover letters included. The Career and Industry Resources section includes more than 55,000 entries on scholarships, internships, and more, divided into easily browsable categories with searchable records.

Starting to think about college? The database includes a College Planning and Financial Aid section with a College Planning Timeline, advice on Choosing a College, and Financial Aid Directories for undergraduate, graduate, and vocational education.

Learn more about this excellent resource available to Peters Township Public Library patrons! Visit our home page and click on the Online Databases link on the right side of the page. From there you will see a link to Ferguson's Career Guidance Center. You will need to provide your library bar code number to access this site.

Doug Oster's Fall Gardening Secrets

Garden columnist and radio host Doug Oster will visit the Peters Township Public Library on Saturday, September 5 at 10:00 a.m. He will discuss how to put your garden to bed in the fall, preparing the garden for spring planting now, tips for planting perennials in the fall, secrets to bulb planting and more.

Oster is co-author of Grow Organic: over 250 tips and ideas for growing flowers, veggies, lawns and more. A book sale and signing will follow the program.

Doug Oster is the co-host of KDKA radio’s Sunday morning program The Organic Gardeners and is the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Backyard Gardener. His column is distributed regionally by the Associated Press and nationally by Scripps Howard News Service. He also works as writer, producer and on air talent for WQED-TV's OnQ program contributing stories related to gardening. Doug fills the same role at WYEP-FM's Allegheny Front program. He appears on KDKA-TV's Pittsburgh Today during their gardening segments. Doug's "Grow Your Own" gardening/cooking column is syndicated nationally through the Los Angeles Times News Service. He is also founder of Cultivating Success, a garden program for adoptive and foster children.

Register for this free program at the library’s circulation desk, call 724.941.9430 or email Carrie Weaver.