Unleash your potential
Calling all lifelong learners and those looking to level up their employment skills or gain an edge in their current field! Get ready to meet your goals with Udemy.com, the library’s newest online resource.
Udemy.com provides nearly 20,000 video-based courses in business, technology, software and personal development. With courses in website development, digital marketing, Java programming and more, this resource can help prepare you for IT certifications and sharpen leadership skills.
Eighty-five percent of the collection has been updated in the last two years, ensuring learners are developing skills in the most relevant areas. Udemy.com takes a learner-first approach, where users can select the instructor and content that best addresses their skills need and learning preferences and filter search results on course features, level, duration, topic and ratings.
Udemy.com is available exclusively to Bethlehem cardholders. To create your free account, visit bethlehempubliclibrary.org and click on the “Research” tab. Scroll down to “Gale Presents: Udemy” and click on the link.
Read your way through summer
Be one of the cool kids and sign up for the 2023 Summer Reading Challenge, which is open
to adults, teens and children. This year’s theme, All Together Now, focuses on kindness, friend ship and unity. Visit
bethlehempubliclibrary.org to sign up.
As part of the All Together Now them, we are creating an
ongoing community mural in the Children’s Place on the large
windows that face Delaware Avenue. The mural features colorful paper hands with words
of encouragement and kindness.
Anyone who would like to lend
a hand by decorating a hand is more than welcome! The hands
can be found in the Children’s Place by the reference desk,
along with a bin for the finished
masterpieces. Librarians and volunteers will be adding them to the mural throughout the summer, so we’ll get to watch it grow.
Reciprocal borrowing
Borrow e-books and digital audiobooks from library systems across the region through the Upper Hudson Library System’s reciprocal lending agreement. UHLS has teamed up with the Mid-Hudson Library System – and even more recently the Mohawk Valley and Southern Adirondack library systems – to allow access to more borrowing options through OverDrive and Libby. Through a reciprocal lending agreement, patrons in each of these systems can now borrow available titles from the other’s catalogs.
How does it work? The option to borrow from these additional systems will appear under “Partner Libraries” in the upper right hand menu of the OverDrive menu as it appears on the website. If you’re using the Libby app, go to the menu, tap “Add Library” and search for Mid-Hudson Library System. You’ll be prompted to enter your library card number to sign in. Visit bit.ly/43dV8ef for a short video that will walk you through the process.
If you’ve got questions, we can help. Stop by the Information Desk, give us a call at 518-439-9314 or email [email protected].