Beyond Graduation

If you’re graduating this June, we’re looking forward to celebrating with you! In addition to all the good feels, you may also be thinking about things like finding a job, continuing education, workplace skills, financial planning, or new hobbies to fill all that extra time you’ll have 😉

First, know that you can still use Clark Libraries as a community member. Come to the Check Out Desk with your photo ID and we’ll get you set up with a library card that lets you continuing borrowing items from our library. While you can’t use our databases from off campus anymore, you can still come in to use computers and access research databases that way.

Don’t forget about your access at the public library as well! Clark and Multnomah County residents not only have access to their own libraries, but borrowing (including audiobooks and ebooks) and databases from other local systems too. Here is more information about getting a library card from Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries and Multnomah County Library.

Here are a few books you can check out now or later…

• 50 Ways to Get a Job: An Unconventional Guide to Finding Work on Your Terms
• Resume & LinkedIn Strategies for New College Graduates: What Works to Launch a Gen-Z Career
• Getting from College to Career: Your Essential Guide to Succeeding in the Real World
• Chasing Chickens: When Life After Higher Education Doesn’t Go the Way You Planned
• Undecided: Navigating Life and Learning After High School
  • If you’re graduating with your AA and from high school (or even if you’re not), this ebook has helpful sections to help you think about what you love to do, other options in higher education, military, civil, or foreign service, starting a business or getting a job, and taking time off
• How to be Happy at Work: The Power of Purpose, Hope and Friendships
• We Can’t Talk About That at Work!: How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics
• The Etiquette Edge: Modern Manners for Business Success
• Financial Adulting: Everything You Need to be a Financially Confident and Conscious Adult
• The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to be Complicated
  • I ended up buying this book after reading it, having found the strategies straightforward and helpful
• The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner’s Guide to Getting Good With Money
• You Can Do It!: The Merit Badge Handbook for Grown-Up Girls
  • Anyone looking for some encouragement and a new hobby will get ideas from this life-skills guide
• Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood
• Show Me How: Instructions for Surviving Everyday Life in Style
• The Maker’s Manual

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