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Loveland Public Library (LPL) integrated computer classes with outreach starting in 2022. Prior to that, they provided small-scale, one-on-one-instruction, staff-taught specialty classes such as 3D printing and ChromeOS, as well as third-party-taught computer classes for basic computer skills, Microsoft programs, Android and iPhone devices, and the Google Suite apps. From 2019 onward, LPL has been on a path of increasing community engagement inspired by the Harwood Institute. The Harwood method of turning outward is best described as organizations--such as the library--connecting with communities directly and meeting citizens where they live, work, and play to discover what aspirations and needs they have for their communities and then facilitating them. As LPL's new full-time outreach librarian, Teddy Rosario benefited from LPL's utilization of this training and began to implement it by reaching out to LPL's Spanish-speaking community.