Resources

Catalog Help Videos

Need help using the online catalog? Visit our video tutorial page for short, step-by-step help with searching, signing in, placing holds, renewing items, creating watch lists, and using advanced search tools.

Open the catalog help video page

Speakers Consortium

Watch past and live online author talks through the Speakers Consortium.

Visit the Speakers Consortium

Databases

  • Salem Health Database: Virtually all of the content in Magill's Medical Guide is available online, including illustrations and sidebars, indexes, appendixes and other back matter.

  • Practice Driving Tests: Practice our sample permit tests for free as many times as you need - until you're ready to take the real DMV test!

  • Gale Legal Forms: Virginia specific templates for leases, sales, wills, etc

  • JobNow: Career Skills

  • Blue Career: Explore careers, build your resume, and find job opportunities.

  • Gale in Context: Elementary

  • Explora Seconday: Grades 6-12

  • Ebsco Masterfile: General Knowledge Database

  • Readit!: Easier reading, general knowledge database.

  • Brainfuse HelpNow: Brainfuse helps students and job seekers reach their goals by connecting them with qualified eTutors and job coaches anytime, anywhere.

  • NoveList K-8 Plus: Find similar books to your favorites. Targeted toward kids books.

  • NoveList Plus: Find similar authors to your favorites.

  • Universal Class: Over 500 Online Continuing Education Courses

  • Transparent Language: Learn a language on your own terms and in your own time.

  • Ancestry for Virginians: Access digitized and indexed records and materials that would otherwise require a paid Ancestry.com subscription.

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