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Carnegie Branch offers free, instructor-led and tutorial classes in computer and software skills. The Edge also has a 3-D printer and a Media Lab for audio and video production for the public. The Funding and Business Information Center houses sources of grant funding for entrepreneurs and nonprofits as a member of the national Foundation Directory Online. The Library also has dozens of online databases including a language learning system, sign language instruction, business research, newspapers and magazine articles on a variety of topics
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