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Students, are you having trouble with your homework and your parents can’t help?

Then North Central Regional Library might be your answer.

Kim Mehr, out of the Wenatchee Public Library, and representing NCRL, made a presentation last month to students in seventh through 12th grades about services available for them, and homework was one of the topics.

Students must have a library card, easily obtainable at any NCRL branch, and go online to the regional library home page at http://www.ncrl.org. Click on the Research & Homework tab. You can access information, or if you need instant help you can key “help now.”

That puts you in touch with a live helper through a database NCRL subscribes to.

The student will need to put in the grade they are in, the subject and the question that they want help with. They can continue discussion by typing back and forth until their questions are fully answered.

This service is available from 1-10 p.m.

It was an instant hit with students, according to Lake Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School Principal Brandon Byers, who made his report to the Grand Coulee Dam School District board recently.

The resource services are also available for adults, and the variety of resources is broad.

NCRL has offered the free online tutoring service for some time, but is now getting out to schools to promote it.