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Greensboro Public Library provides educational resources for learners seeking information for personal enrichment, skilled trades training, entrepreneurship and nonprofits. Bridge to Learn offers learners of all ages the opportunity to complete courses with Coursera, Gale Business: Entrepreneurship, Gale Business: Plan Builder, Gale LegalForms, and Interplay Learning SkillMill.
Use your library card to get started.

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Coursera

Whether you're looking to develop a new skill, strengthen an existing one, further your learning with a formal credential like a Professional Certificate or degree, or just learn something for fun, Coursera has many options to choose from. In each course or project, you’ll be able to learn in demand skills at your own pace with no previous experience needed. Ready to build a path to your goals? Let’s get started.

Sign-up for access to Coursera. You will need your library card and an email address. A library staff member will contact you to schedule an introductory meeting when the enrollment process begins to review the length of access to courses, course availability, and course withdrawal. Admittance is on a first-come-first serve basis. Your information will remain on file until the next available enrollment period. 

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Interplay Learning SkillMill

Get Full Access to 450+ Hours of Online Skilled Trades Courses. Develop Superior Knowledge and Troubleshooting Skills. With SkillMill, you get the right content, in the right order, with realistic 3D and virtual hands-on simulations to train technicians faster and better than ever before.

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Sign-up for access to Interplay Learning SkillMill. You will need your library card and an email address. A library staff member will contact you to schedule an introductory meeting when the enrollment process begins to review the length of access to courses, course availability, and course withdrawal. Admittance is on a first-come-first serve basis. Your information will remain on file until the next available enrollment period.

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Gale Business: Entrepreneurship

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship gives business owners 24-hour expertise covering all aspects of starting and operating a business, including finance, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, and taxes.

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Access Gale Business: Entrepreneurship using your library card. 

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Gale Business: Plan Builder

Business planning can be a complex and unfamiliar process. Often, entrepreneurs don’t know what kind of information they need, where to find it, or how to get started. Gale Business: Plan Builder brings it all together by offering an engaging, step-by-step guided experience–complete with the information and tools needed to move through the entire business development life cycle. The program’s intuitive dashboard walks users through the five essential steps of business planning and explains what each activity is, why it is important in the overall process, and how to get started.

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Access Gale Business: Plan Builder using your library card.

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Gale LegalForms

Take the law into your own hands and create accurate, reliable legal documents with no hassle with Gale LegalForms. It offers North Carolina specific “attorney forms” – officially approved forms actually used by law firms. Many of the forms and documents are available in Word and Adobe format so you just need to simply “fill in the blanks.”

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Access Gale LegalForms using your library card.