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Article Search
Find a huge variety of articles in newspapers, magazines, journals and trade publications.
Our series brings engaging national authors to you, free and open to all.
Choose the Sesquicentennial Author Series (special-events) link under What’s Happening to see the lineup.
K-12 Students: Get free after-school help with your schoolwork in our School Help Centers.
Choose the School Help link under Kids, Teens & Teachers.
Get free, live coaching for help with resumes, interview practice, career coaching and job searching.
Explore our digital resources to help you learn something new or deep dive into a topic of interest.
Visit Main Library in person or Reserve an Expert online for one-on-one help with your research and genealogy questions.
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Find tools to help you research, job search, learn a new skill, find a hobby and so much more.
Find a huge variety of articles in newspapers, magazines, journals and trade publications.
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Free online access to official documents produced by the Federal Government.
Images, 3D models and architectural drawings for 1,000 buildings.
Find food banks, shelters, and places to donate, work and volunteer. IN MAIN LIBRARY USE ONLY.
This resource supports nonprofits in your community by identifying local organizations or agencies where you can donate, work, or volunteer. As well as help those in need find resources they rely on, such as food banks or shelters.
Full-text articles or abstracts from a variety of medical journals and health publications.
Health and Medical Databases provides access to Alt HealthWatch, MEDLINE, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, and Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection databases through the EBSCOhost search interface. The resource also features a quick image search function and a medical dictionary.
Health education resources in multiple languages.
Reference library of eBooks on a wide variety of health and wellness topics.
Health Reference Library provides access to a number of full-text, health related ebooks hosted by Gale. All titles can be read online and many allow users to download, share, link and print chapters.
Find health coverage and learn about the Affordable Care Act.
Online homework help, including tutoring, writing assistance and test prep. We recommend Chrome or Firefox.
HelpNow provides an impressive suite of resources and services to help students accomplish their schoolwork. Live online tutoring in a variety of subjects is available 2:00 - 11:00 PM each day and is available in Spanish for many subjects. The resource also provides lessons, videos, practice tests and more.
Comprehensive mix of resources, records and tools geared to African American genealogy.
HeritageQuest is an award winning resource that allows users to search census records, books, serials, maps and other historical records to trace your genealogy. Records are included for 60 countries, with coverage dating back as early as the 1700s.
Reference and multimedia content, plus primary sources, about key events and people in U.S. history.
This resource utilizes millions of articles from periodicals and newspaperss, hundreas of thousands of topic and event overviews, biographies and robust mutimedia including images, videos, audio and weblinks to help support students of US history.
Reference and multimedia content, plus primary sources, about world history.
This resource provides access to centuries worth of rare primary sources, authoritative reference and multimedia content to help support students of World History.
Provides detailed “how-to” instructions and creative ideas for virtually every hobby enthusiast.
Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center provides full-text articles from leading hobby and craft magazines to satisfy hobby enthusiasts. Content Includes: Full text for nearly 2,000 magazines and books, 720+ videos, 180+ hobby profiles, and 10,000+ recipes.
Provides detailed “how-to” information covering a variety of home improvement and repair projects.
Home Improvement Reference Center features full-text content from leading home improvement magazines and videos of popular home repair projects. Content Includes: 130+ full-text reference books, 40+ full-text magazines and trade publications, 35,000+ images not available anywhere else online, and nearly 100 videos of popular home repair projects.
Borrow free digital video, music, and audiobooks with your library card.
Hoopla is a digital content provider that allows users to access an enormous selection of comics, audiobooks, music, movies and televsion shows. Content is always available so there is no waiting to borrow items. Hoopla offers over a million titles and features content in 90 different languages.
Records, tools and resources for learning about Jewish genealogy.
Online job assistance, including professional resume review and interview preparation. We recommend Chrome or Firefox.
JobNow provides live job assistance daily from 2pm - 11pm. The resource also includes helpful features like career assessments, nationwide and local job search engines, and award-winning resume creator software.
Stream classic cinema, indie films and documentaries.
Kanopy features over 30,000 movies and documentaries including the Criterion Collection, PBS, Green Planet and many more. View on your PC or use the Kanopy app on mobile devices or cast content via Chromecast, Apple TV or Roku. Kanopy also offers the Kanopy Kids collection for younger library users.
Digitized documents, photographs and other items relating to United States history.
Access online courses from experts on business, web, job searching, photography and more.
Formerly Lynda.com, LinkedIn Learning for Library features 16,000+ professional courses from experts on a wide range of topics. Users can earn certificates which can be posted to their LinkedIn profiles for potential employers. Learn skills you need to succeed in your current role or take your first steps toward something new.
Information on thousands of authors and their works including plot summaries, criticisms, biographies and more.
Literary Reference Center provides users with information on thousands of authors and their works across time and literary discipline. Access nearly 100,000 liteary criticism articles, 693,000+ book reviews, author biographies, interviews, short stories and poems.
Reference library of eBooks on novels, poetry, drama and other types of literature for students.
Literature Reference Library provides access to a number of full-text, literature related ebooks hosted by Gale. All titles can be read online and many allow users to download, share, link and print chapters.
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