Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Monday that his office would expand the Chicago Public Library’s (CPL) YOUmedia digital skills program by $500,000 in order to serve 25 percent more teens in 2014. The program teaches web design, digital media production, and programming.
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Beginning next summer, CPL will offer YOUMedia training at six new library locations, plus an additional “pop up” program that will provide resources at a new branch library in a different neighborhood each month throughout the year.
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