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PPL Alum
PPL welcomes individuals from all walks of life and each has a unique story to tell — stories that illustrate the positive impact our library makes in the lives of those we serve. Stories that YOU make possible!
Meet some of our PPL Alum.
Cem Eskinazi
I am a practicing type designer. I have visited PPL numerous times in order to support my research on type design through attending many wonderful design lectures and most importantly through many visits to the Updike Collection. I was able to utilize the Updike Collection not only for inspiration for my own designs but to ...
Luis Mejia
I was in school when my teacher told me to try to find an ACN class and I was going through the course catalog when I found something interesting. I had done a computer science essential, which had python in it, which is a coding language. So when I saw HTML/CSS, I became interested because ...
Christy
The Library held an introductory data analysis class called Data Navigators. I wasn’t sure I’d like the few clubs in my school so I signed up for the class on ACN. In Data Navigators, I became more familiar with Excel and Tableau and learned how to clean, visualize, and analyze data. The class also involved ...