We just completed three staff training sessions to talk to library employees about our new subscription to lynda.com. Lynda.com is a computer based training system with over 2,300 courses mostly in technology, business, and education. It is used extensively for training in corporate environments Our intention is to host more "maker" oriented software on our public machines and patrons will be able to learn how to use that software through lynda.com. We have started out with 2 licenses so any two machine connected to our network (including our wireless network) can be taking lynda.com courses.We are monitoring usage so we can add licenses as they are needed.
Our staff was pumped about seeing the demonstration and learning more about this resource. They asked about many topics, some of which are available. We have communicated with our lynda.com representative about possible topics to add for library users.
Lynda.com has been in the library market for a few years but their presence in libraries really took off in 2009. Lynda.com is better known for their corporate customers and individual subscriptions. The availability of high quality training will be a great benefit to our patrons and staff. Now we have to focus on getting the word out and marketing this educational tool.
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