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A HOME SERVICES AND RELOCATION DIRECTORY
Learning: A Lifetime Occupation
Grass Valley Library
Rocklin and Roseville. Categories range from
computers and technology to creative arts to
gardening, music, outdoors and writing.
Sierra College/Truckee
WAYDE CARROLL
Offering associate degrees, Sierra College
in Truckee has served the community for
over 20 years. Also available are Community
Education classes that include everything
from landscape photography to conversational Spanish. The college is located at
11001 College Trail off Hwy. 89 in a 25,000
square foot building.
Libraries
Sierra College/Grass Valley
Upgrade job skills, earn an associate degree, learn to maintain and repair your bike,
move on to a four-year institution. These are
all goals possible through the Sierra College
Nevada County Campus.
Open in 1996, the campus serves over
1,800 western Nevada County students
each semester. Located off Sierra College
Drive, the 105-acre site is built on a hill overlooking Grass Valley. In recent years, a major
building project added 72,000 square feet of
space to the campus.
A diverse student population can be
found including full-time day students, those
returning for career and technical education,
and evening students.
Over 24 degree and certificate programs
are offered locally with a majority of classes
taken on site. Most of these programs also
offer online classes so area residents don’t
have to “drive down the hill” to the main
campus in Rocklin.
Sierra College is also involved in Community Education by providing a variety of classes
on the Nevada County Campus, as well as in
SIERRA COLLEGE
The Nevada County Library System consists
of six facilities including a history library that
contains research material covering the county’s history dating from the 1850s.
Library services are provided for everyone
from preschoolers to elderly shut-ins and
include educational and cultural programs,
and special events.
Offered through the library system are
a library catalog online, public computers,
WiFi, job and career information, a Library to
Go (downloadable audio and ebooks), and
a variety of children’s programs (see Page
157). A Collaborative Technology Center at
the Madelyn Helling Library has added space,
equipment and classes.
Sierra College, Nevada County Campus
Nevada County Campus
274-5302
Tahoe-Truckee Campus
550-2225
Information/Classes
sierracollege.edu
sccommed.org
COUNTY LIBRARIES
Madelyn Helling, Nevada City: 265-7050
Grass Valley–Royce Branch: 273-4117
Truckee: 582-7846
Doris Foley History: 265-4606
Penn Valley Station: 432-5764
Bear River Station: 271-4147
mynevadacounty.com/library
All area codes are 530.
KATY HIGHT
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