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What does lynda.com offer? Lynda for Libraries allows you to watch videos in small, easy-to-manage chunks, and to return to the lessons at your convenience.  

​Course offerings include:
  • Business: Explore a wide range of business skills from project management and negotiation to leadership skills and online marketing strategy. Lynda's professional development tutorials can help you learn SEO, spreadsheets, word processing, and more.
  • Design: Whether you want to design a logo, create eBooks, or just learn how to use a Pen tool, Lynda's in-depth design tutorials can help. Get to know Illustrator and InDesign, explore typography, and learn the nuances of designing for print.
  • Developer: Learn how to code, create, and build web applications, from the foundations of object-oriented programming in C and C++, to how to write Java. Lynda's developer tutorials can help you learn to develop and create mobile apps, work with PHP and MySQL databases, get started with the statistical processing language R, and much more.
  • IT: Lynda's IT training helps you solve real-world practical computing issues and practice for certification exams. Dive into troubleshooting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X; set up networks, servers, and client services; manage big data; and keep your organization's network secure.
  • Marketing: Learn how to develop, implement, and measure a winning marketing strategy using today's tools and platforms. Lynda's marketing courses help you master traditional marketing skills and the latest digital tools and techniques—learn everything from branding and public relations to SEO, PPC, web analytics, and social media marketing.
  • Web: Learn how to design and create a website with Lynda's web design tutorials. From hundreds of video courses, choose the right one to help you embed video, format text, design in CSS, create a content strategy, and analyze user experience design.
  • ​And much more!

Lynda.com can be accessed online — from home or at the Library. ​To get started learning, click here.
Once you log in using your library card number and password, you may want to create a personalized account by entering a name and email address. This account will help manage your course history, playlists, bookmarks, and Certificates of Completion. (Please note that you can only access course content through the PPL's lynda.com login page, and not by directly visiting the lynda.com homepage. Bookmark accordingly. Please also note that while the PPL's lynda.com accounts are accessible through mobile devices, they are not accessible through lynda.com apps. Use your mobile device's browser.)

Need help navigating the site? Watch a quick overview video of how to use lynda.com here.

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Please Note: Library cards must be in good standing to access all library services, including lynda.com. Cards in good standing will have an account balance under $10 and current registration information.