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LinkedIn Learning
Develop in-demand skills with access to thousands of expert-led courses on business, tech & creative topics for any skill level.
Innovation Lab
From podcasts to posters, bring your ideas to life with hands-on learning and digital creation.
Ten Fundamentals of Financial Fitness
Jan 8th | 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Review the ten fundamentals of financial fitness & identify your strengths and weaknesses. Then learn about the Financial Wellness toolkit.
Financial Planning Basics
Feb 5th | 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Take the first step in overall financial fitness - planning! Develop an integrated approach to a great financial life.
Master Microsoft Excel (Online Course)
Master Excel, the world's most popular spreadsheet program. Follow along with experts as they demonstrate how to efficiently analyze data.
Inclusion & Equity for Workers with Disabilities (Course)
Advocate and Paralympic gold medalist Liz Johnson details the actions your organization can take to ensure equity for disabled employees.
Build Your Generative AI Productivity Skills (Online Course)
Join Ronnie Sheer and others to learn how to apply generative AI skills to your work to boost your productivity.
Customer Service Foundations (Online Course)
Jeff Toister shows how to build winning relationships, provide the right help at the right times, and effectively handle angry customers.
Equity First: Path to Inclusion & Belonging (Online Course)
Mary-Frances discusses gender equality, racial and ethnic equity, sexual orientation equity, and equity for people with disabilities.
Skills for Inclusive Conversations (Online Course)
Mary-Frances Winters offers a multistep process for building the skills necessary to engage in inclusive conversations.
Building AI Literacy (Online Course)
This 6-part learning path will help you gain a basic understanding of trending AI topics and prepare you for this new industrial revolution.
National Write a Business Plan Month
December is a wonderful month to work on a Business Plan.
So You Want to Be a Professional Artist? (Online Class)
Create your portfolio, make connections, exhibit, apply for shows, attend residencies, copyright your work, market yourself, etc.
Start and Manage a Small Business (Online Course)
Learn how to successfully launch your own small business with this 10-part course. To get started, sign in with your library card.
Email Marketing: Drip Campaigns
Expert Sam Dey shares tips for running successful email drip campaigns including how to draft effective emails and measure your results.
Building a Creative Brand (Online Class)
This 5-part series will start you on your path, covering everything you need to know to discover, build, and elevate your creative brand.
Articulating Your Value: An essential skill (Online Course)
Join Alessandra Wall, PhD, as she explains how to articulate your value to others and communicate in a way that's compelling and impactful.
Zero-waste goals made easier with research tools.
A challenge for our team was how to generate a list of contacts that we wanted to reach out to about available resources.
Business Magazines
Research & Databases
America's News
Dig into current content and deep archives from over 3,000 U.S. news sources.
PressReader
Get instant access to current news from around the world with this digital newsstand.
Data Axle Reference Solutions
It's like the yellow pages and white pages, but better. Find a business, doctor or friend. Formerly ReferenceUSA.
Proquest Newspapers
From 1980 to yesterday, read through all of the news that was fit to print.
Newspaper Source
From 1969 to yesterday, read through all of the news that was fit to print.
NuWav Legal Documents
Get the everyday legal forms you need, for free. No special skills or extensive knowledge of the law is required.
EBSCOhost Research
EBSCOwhat? Just think of it as the Swiss Army knife of research tools. One search will bring back magazine, journal and newspaper articles.
EBSCOhost Business
Do your research. Be on the cutting edge with business analysis and trend spotting from the pros.
LinkedIn Learning
Develop in-demand skills with access to thousands of expert-led courses on business, tech & creative topics for any skill level.
Suggested Websites
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Catie W.
Catie enjoys sharing her favorite audiobooks, cookbooks, and graphic novels with library visitors.
Jessica C.
A veritable walking encyclopedia of stranger-than-fiction facts, Jessica gobbles up information like it's candy.
Adrien B
Adrien looks forward to exploring your interests and passions using the tools in the Innovation Lab.
Mindy B.
Mindy will always bring a smile to your face, even when she's concentrating on finding hard-to-get-your-hands-on books and journal articles.
