Students & Homework

Job and career searching, unemployment filing, Jobs and Family Services, re-entry resources, practice interviews, job training, budget calculators, student tests and tools such as ACT, SAT, ASVAB.

Great for ages 14 and up. Explore more than 650 pre-made timelines with over 14,000 individual events, or create your own timelines using your own events and images, or add content and images from World Book.

Information resources for pre-school through college.

Appropriate for middle and high school students. Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and other reliable sources. The database also includes a vast collection of images from sources such as UPI, Getty, NASA, National Geographic and the Nature Picture Library.

How-to instructions and creative ideas for crafters, collectors, foodies and fans. This library provides free access to Hobbies & Crafts Source, a database from EBSCO containing thousands of articles from top hobby and craft magazines and books as well as recipes, “how-to” videos and hobby profiles.

Very Short Introductions are a book series published by the Oxford University Press. The books are concise introductions to particular subjects, intended for a general audience but written by experts. Most are under 200 pages long.

Oxford University Press works with international communities of scholars across all fields of study to develop new comprehensive collections of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on an ever-growing range of topics.

Great for ages 10-14. Tailored specifically for students, articles include multimedia and related resources to engage students, biographies, and supplemental tools to support cross-curricular studies.

Great for ages 6-10. This go-to resource is chock-full of fun activities, hands-on science projects, and age-appropriate articles, and offers image-based navigation to help young learners find information quickly and develop necessary digital literacy skills. Thousands of colorful illustrations, diagrams, and maps enrich thousands of articles, with teacher guides.

World Book Early World of Learning offers rich resources to help young learners build their vocabulary, comprehension, phonics, and reading fluency. It features three interactive learning environments for preschoolers and children in early grades.