If you’re like me, you have a healthy admiration for knowledge and learning. I wasn’t necessarily at my best in an organized classroom, but to this day if I find a topic to fire up my mind, then I’m instantly on task and motivated. The classes in college that captured my attention included art appreciation, music appreciation, defensive driving, sociology, Chaucer, Spanish and psychology. Beyond that, I excelled but was not excited.
What I am excited about is the Library’s newest online service, Universal Class! Residents of Mountain Brook with a valid Jefferson County Library Cooperative library card have access to over 500 online non-college credit continuing education courses from dog training to learning HTML and beyond.
Residents of Mountain Brook may access the Universal Class database via the Library’s website at www.eolib.org. You will need a valid email address to sign up for a free account. This way, Universal Class will keep up with your lessons for you and each course has a real instructor with whom you may communicate using your email.
You may enroll in up to five courses at a time, and you will have up to six months to finish each of those courses. As long as you have internet access at home, you’ll be able to keep up with your courses 24/7, attending classes and doing assignments on your own schedule. These are non-credit courses and are provided strictly for your personal enrichment. These courses are not intended to be a substitute for any state, government, licensing or educational requirements.
For information about the Library’s regularly scheduled programs, see the Library’s calendar in this issue of Village Living. Visit us online at www.eolib.org and www.facebook.com/emmetoneallibrary or call 445-1121.
