Tamara Sokolovskaya
Khabarovsk
Far Eastern State Research Library
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Tamara Sokolovskaya: “Computers are a Miracle!”
Success
Using knowledge and skills she had acquired during the IDEA course in Computer Fundamentals, Tamara Sokolovskaya, a librarian with the Children’s Reading Center in Khabarovsk, has greatly increased the efficiency of her work and began making more money.
Overview
Visually impaired Tamara Sokolovskaya, 63, has worked as a librarian with the Children’s Reading Center for forty years. One of her job responsibilities has always been filling out library catalog cards, and she used to do it by hand. After taking the Microsoft Unlimited Potential course in Computer Fundamentals Tamara began using the computer which enabled her to automate many standard procedures and thus almost double her production rate.
Here is what the alumna wrote in her feedback: “A year ago I thought that computers were too complicated and simply beyond my ken and reach, especially in view of my age and vision loss. For years I wrote everything by longhand until I learned to use a mechanical typewriter about ten years ago. Recently I was encouraged to take an IDEA course and learn to use the computer. I was very fortunate with my instructor, who really inspired me and helped me see that, even though computers are complicated machines, they would not be too much for me. I am amazed to see how much one can do using modern computer technologies: in comparison with a typewriter the computer is completely noiseless, requires much less physical effort, allows one to make corrections, and provides unlimited opportunities for editing, changing fonts, highlighting important points, deleting superfluous information and printing out multiple copies. I have mastered all these things but I can also see how much I still have to learn.”
Since Tamara’s salary is directly contingent on her production rate, the increased efficiency of her work has also meant a higher income which is certainly a very welcome development.
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