Even if a Federal bailout package never comes through, there is financial help to be found in the same place you might borrow books and movies: the public library.

“We’d like people to know they’re not as helpless as they think,” said Helene Palmer, supervisor of the Business, Law and Government Services section at the Main Library in Fort Lauderdale.

The section, which occupies the library’s entire fifth floor, began offering systematic financial and business help about three years ago. Back then the library debuted its Financial Literacy Awareness Program, which offers everything from credit seminars to business and legal reference guides.

The library’s computers — which are also free to use — feature online databases and links to information on real estate, jobs, and local foreclosures.

NEXT free FINANCIAL SEMINAR:

Resolving Debt Issues
noon on Jan. 27
Main Library
100 S. Andrews Ave.
Fort Lauderdale