Research & Learn

Browse Explora resources with a simple layout, designed with the youngest researchers in mind.

Offers resources to assess career goals and interests, plan an education, learn workplace skills, find apprenticeships and internships, conduct a job search and more. Access detailed job and industry profiles and over 55,000 resource entries.

Download and flip through your favorite magazines in full print layout—but designed for your digital screen. Choose from dozens of current titles or read older issues to catch up with previous coverage. Users can search by publication or category.

Foundation Directory helps nonprofits find funding faster

• Build robust prospect lists from 242,000+ grantmakers
• Know which funders are more likely to provide support
• Connect with key decision makers through the LinkedIn integration
• Find collaboration opportunities and join forces with other nonprofits

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.

GuideStar is the most comprehensive source of nonprofit information:

• Community members can easily find local nonprofits where they can donate, work, or volunteer
• Connect those in need to resources they rely on, such as food banks or shelters

Includes clear, comprehensive, in-depth coverage of body systems, current health issues, major diseases and conditions, treatments, and procedures, as well as health and nutrition information tailored to men, women, children, teens, and seniors.

Access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books, including searchable full text for current health pamphlets.

This trusted full-text database covering nursing and allied health topics, including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.

HeritageQuest Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources with unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. The database provides genealogical and historical sources for more than 60 countries, with coverage dating back as early as the 1700s.

Explore an index of local newspapers updated by library staff and volunteers.

Stream critically-acclaimed movies, inspiring documentaries, classic cinema, and award-winning foreign films on your TV, mobile phone, tablet or online. Kanopy features over 30,000 films from producers and distributors such as the Criterion Collection, the Great Courses, PBS, Media Education Foundation, Cohen Films, Women Make Movies and more.

Providing access to more than 225 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis.

LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and nearly 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings.

Find literary supporting documents and analyses, such as plot summaries, literary criticisms, author biographies and interviews, book reviews, poems, short stories, and classic texts. This resource also offers an encyclopedia of literature, citation help, research guides, a literary glossary, and curriculum standards.

LOTE4Kids is an online database of children's books in dozens of different languages that allows kids to enjoy the magic of books in LOTE (Languages Other Than English ). Each book also comes with English translations to help kids learn language.

LOTE4Kids has 3000+ digital picture books in 65+ languages, with new books and languages released each month to help libraries to provide a more diverse and inclusive library service for their communities.

Another way to access the multiple databases and resources provided through the EBSCO platform. Use it to select and cross-search multiple resources at once via an alphabetical list provided by EBSCOhost.

Magic Desktop is edutainment software for Windows! On select computers in our eight branches, Magic Desktop prevents children from going onto windows and instead provides a safe, educational online playground for them instead. 

Kids can learn through the educational games on the website, watch educational videos and movies, and paint and draw digitally. 

In addition, children can safely browse the web using "Magic Browser" where they can visit pre-approved websites and safely send emails to family members in their address book.