Getting Started with LearningExpress Library

Ready to start using Learning Express Library and the Job and Career Accelerator with your patrons and/or students? Here are several resources to get you started, including descriptions of the services, webinars, a press release, marketing materials, and ideas from librarians about using LearningExpress in your library.

What is LearningExpress Library?

LearningExpress Library is an interactive online learning platform featuring over 800 practice tests, tutorials, and eBooks related to job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification and licensing exam prep, college entrance and graduate school admissions exam prep, GED exam prep, and basic skills improvement in reading, writing, and math, for all ages. You’ll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.

Job & Career Accelerator is the most comprehensive and easy-to-use job search application on the market. It integrates everything a patron needs to conduct a sucessful job search. Interactive wizards guide patrons through each step of the search process in a personalized manner, from recommending occupations to fetching up-to-the-minute job postings that are based on each user’s career preferences. It is also fully integrated with the LearningExpress Library platform, allowing it to provide users with recommended skills improvement courses and occupational practice tests that are based on an individuals’ work preferences and goals. (from Learning Express Marketing Materials)

Webinars

1. LearningExpress Library Pre-Recorded Webinar Link for the State Library of Kansas
2. Job & Career Accelerator Pre-Recorded Webinar Link for the State Library of Kansas
3. Register for upcoming LearningExpress Webinars

Accessing LearningExpress Library

• Accessing LearningExpress Library (NEKLS Post)
• Adding LearningExpress Library to Your Library Website (NEKLS Page)

Marketing materials available for download

• Press Release (Word)
• Promotion Handbook (PDF)
• Product and Overview (PDF)
• Featured Resources (PDF)
• Prepare for Your Career poster (PDF)
• College Ready Set Go poster (PDF)
• Breeze Through Your Exams poster (PDF)
• Bookmarks (PDF) — note: these are not very front and back print-friendly at this time. We hope to get this resolved before the end of the year.

Ideas to Use LearningExpress at your library (brainstormed by librarians at NEST)

• encourage adults to take the citizenship test to see if they can pass — 4th of July
• workshops at library for homeschoolers & also regular students
• Resumes
• GED prep
• ACT prep
• put a note in school newsletters
• Inservice program at school
• Placeholder or fake book to promte resource in stacks
• VHS tape cases could be repurposed for this
• advertise on facebook page
• put yourself on agenda for school’s in-service day to promote to teachers/or have lunch & invite them to library
• Resume
• Flyer/post bookmarks in “welcome” packet for town, included with other local brochures & other sources
• linking icons
• staff training to explore
• school promotion
• parent promotion
• students promotion
• go to schools at all levels and promote; parents might not know too
• put on school website & register on home computer
• designate one computer for job searches and this purpose
• fresh start (adult GED program)
• extra credit for students or parent reward program
• promote to all
• resume & job search
• test prep instead of purchasing countless books
• designated computer for using LE with no time limit & free prints
• have each staff member sign up and practice
• reach out to spanish speaking population
• homeschooling parent guides
• present to homeschool club/group
• older people using computer class
• young people searching for work
• after school tutoring with school library cuts
• people with disabilities using it for resume and work place skills
• for homeschoolers
• not happy with current work — use to get new direction (career part)
• people getting GED
• practice for college or grad school exams