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ABCmouse is the most comprehensive early learning curriculum available online! With your free Home Checkout account, your family gets access to more than 10,000 Learning Activities and 850 lessons, plus a whole lot more. If you receive a "This library is not authorized to check out an account" error message please try clearing your cache. 

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• Purpose: Access Academic Search Complete for peer-reviewed journal articles for reports and other research.
• Content: Scholarly journal articles from more than 13,600 indexed and abstracted journals.  Full text for over 4,700 journals.    Content Lists
• Age Level: 13 – Adult
• Help: Library Tutorial

Adventure Academy is an online learning platform for kids ages 8–13 that uses games and other activities to teach academic subjects. It's designed to be a safe virtual world where kids can explore, learn, and socialize. (From the Creators of ABCMouse - Learn More)
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• Purpose: Provides news from magazines and journals of the independent press.
• Content: Unique, independent voices from some of our nation’s most respected and cited grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals.
• Age Level: 13-Adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required

• Purpose: Read news from around the country
• Content: Full-text articles from America's Newspapers
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: Help Documentation
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

• Purpose: Find obituaries and death notices from across America.
• Content: NewsBank’s large and comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices from around the United States.
• Age Level: Adult
• Access: Library Card Required
• Help: HeritageHub Tutorial from NicheAcademy

• Purpose: Find your family history using Ancestry Library Edition.
• Content: Census, Birth, Marriage, Death Records
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: Learning Center
• Access: Only available inside the Library. 
• Niche Academy Tutorial

• Purpose: Access historical documents to support your research in history, anthropology and more.
• Content:   
  • Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia
  • County and Regional Histories & Atlases: Ohio
  • Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880
  • County and Regional Histories & Atlases: Indiana
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: General Help Page /
  • Niche Academy Tutorial
• Access: Library Card Required

Open a world of reading inspiration with a library, school, or Beanstack Go account:
- Participate in reading challenges created by your librarians or educators. Beanstack Go users have access to an ever-expanding catalog of challenges created by our reading specialists.
- Track all the books each member of your family is currently reading and has finished reading
- Use the app’s barcode scanner to quickly add titles to your reading log.
- Record reading sessions to log reading times, or log an entire book with a click.
- Achieve streaks for reading multiple days in a row and badges for reaching reading goals.
- View your reading stats, including totals and averages of your time spent reading and titles read.

• Niche Academy Tutorial

• Purpose: This historical newspaper collection provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
• Content:  Atlanta Daily World, The Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Cleveland Call and Post, Los Angeles Sentinel, Louisville Defender, Michigan Chronicle, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier 
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

• Purpose: Bookflix provides a unique read-aloud experience that will help your child develop and practice essential reading skills, and introduce them to a world of knowledge and exploration. It includes classic animated stories, each paired with a related nonfiction ebook. 
• Content: Paired Fiction and Nonfiction eBook Library for PreK-3 Kids 
• Age Level: PreK-3 Kids 
• Help: Niche Academy Tutorial

• Purpose: Read first person oral histories and learn about the historical importance of the narrative.
• Content: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
• Age Level: Adult
• Access: No Library Card Required

On demand, anytime, anywhere eLearning. View how easy, intuitive and engaging Brainfuse HelpNow eLearning is for all ages and levels.

HelpNow's features include:

• Homework Help Interact with live tutors in math, science, reading/writing, social studies, PSAT/SAT, ACT, AP and state standardized tests.
• Skills-Building Choose your topic to receive real-time help.
• Personalized eLearning Tools My File Sharing, My Session Replay, My Tutoring Archive, My Tests Archive, and more!
• 24-Hour Writing Lab Submit essays and other forms of writing for constructive feedback.
• Homework Send Question Submit homework questions for expert guidance.
• Adult Learning Center Access a library of rich adult learning content (GED) and live, professional assistance in resume/cover letter writing, U.S. citizenship prep, MS Office Essential Skills Series, and more!
• Foreign Language Lab /Spanish-Speaking Support
• Need help getting started?  Watch this tutorial
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• Purpose: Business Source Premier features full text and searchable cited references for top journals covering a variety of business disciplines.
• Content: Full text articles from business journals and magazines. Disciplines include: accounting, banking, economics, finance, international trade, marketing, management information systems, operations management and more.
• Help: Niche Academy Tutorial
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

The Kenton County Public Library offers an array of services and resources for job seekers at all levels of work. Whether it’s entry-level, a second career or you’re in a transition, the library’s goal is to help you find the job that is right for you. Find all the resources you need on this page. Formerly known as Job Search Central it is now called Career and Job Services. 

• Purpose: ProQuest Career & Technical Education is the definitive source for vocational information. The database includes nearly 600 titles, with more than 500 available in full text for quick access to research on virtually any technical topic.
• Content:Topics include: careers & vocations, trade & industry, technical resources and job search. 
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: Help Documentation
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

• Purpose: This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
• Content:    
  • Historical local, regional and national news
  • Multidisciplinary
  • Coverage: 1909 – 1975
• Age Level: Adult
• Access: Library Card Required

Check out children's best sellers, non-fiction, picture books and much more for eReaders, tablets and phones.

• eBooks, graphic novels, audiobooks, and magazines
• Want help getting started? Watch this tutorial video.

• Purpose:Use CINAHL to locate journal articles about nursing, allied health, biomedicine and healthcare.
• Content: CINAHL indexes the top nursing and allied health literature available including nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses Association.
• Age Level: 13 – Adult
• Help: Niche Academy Tutorial

• Purpose: Access local business news from the greater Cincinnati area. 
• Content:The Cincinnati Business Courier features local business news about Cincinnati. It also provides tools to help businesses grow, network and hire.
• Age Level: 13 – Adult

• Purpose: Learn about the history as well as current events of the Greater Cincinnati in the Cincinnati Enquirer.
• Content: Full text articles and obituaries for the Cincinnati area.
• Age Level: 13-Adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required

• Purpose:  Find information on your neighborhood, relatives or just learn about the history of the Greater Cincinnati area.
• Content:  Searchable full-text articles and obituaries from the Enquirer 1841-2009
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

• Purpose:  Find information on local events and people.
• Content:  An Index to Local News compiled by The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
• Age Level: Adult
• Access: No Library Card Required

• Purpose: Consumer Reports is a nonprofit organization providing unbiased product ratings and reviews on cars, appliances, electronics and more. 
• Content: Consumer Reports (CR) is the world's largest nonprofit product-testing organization and has been helping subscribers find better, safer products for 80+ years. Consumer Reports accepts no outside advertising and no free test samples, and employs shoppers and experts to buy and test the products reviewed.
• Age Level: 13 – Adult
• Help: Niche Academy Tutorial

Search for items and recommendations on Ebscohost Children's Core Collection (H.W. Wilson). 

Search for items and recommendations on Ebscohost Core Collection en Español (H.W. Wilson).

Search for items and recommendations on Ebscohost Graphic Novels Core Collection (H.W. Wilson). 

Search for items and recommendations on Ebscohost Middle and Junior HS (H.W. Wilson). 

Search for items and recommendations on Ebscohost Fiction Core Collection (H.W. Wilson). 

Search for items and recommendations on Ebscohost Nonfiction Core Collection (H.W. Wilson). 

Search for items and recommendations on Ebscohost Senior High Core Collection (H.W. Wilson). 

Creativebug has thousands of award-winning art & craft video classes taught by design experts and artists.  Learn how to paint, knit, crochet, sew, screen print and more.

• Purpose: Learn arts and crafts skills with project diy videos.
• Content: Full video tutorials created by experts.
• Age Level: 12-adult
• Access: Use your Library card to create an account.
• Help: Want help getting started? Watch this tutorial video.

CultureGrams covers over 200 countries, the 50 United States, and the Canadian provinces. 

• Purpose: Writing reports on countries and cultures, visiting a foreign country – learn about the culture first.
• Content: Concise and reliable reports on 200 cultures of the world.
• Age Level: K-5
• Help: Want help getting started? Watch this tutorial video.

• Purpose: Writing reports on countries and cultures, visiting a foreign country – learn about the culture first.
• Content: Concise and reliable reports on 200 cultures of the world.
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: Want help getting started? Watch this tutorial video.

Data Axle Reference Solutions is a powerful digital resource for small business owners, marketing professionals, researchers, job seekers, and students. Use the database to look for sales leads, find new business opportunities, locate suppliers and more. (Formerly ReferenceUSA)

Tutorial - Learn how to use Data Axle Reference Solutions. 

• Purpose:  Search library and museum collections from across the country.
• Content:  Millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States.
• Age Level: Adult
• Access: No Library Card Required

The first step to get your KY driver’s license is testing, and we have put together resources that make the whole process a snap. Whether you are preparing for a motorcycle, car, or CDL license, we have questions that match almost identically to what you’ll see at the KY KSP.

• Purpose: Discover encyclopedia articles, multimedia, primary sources, games, and other learning resources that support student research and reinforce curriculum standards.
• Content: Hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos and more.
• Age Level: Five to adult
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

Descubra artículos de enciclopedia, multimedia, fuentes primarias, juegos y otros recursos de aprendizaje que apoyan la investigación de los estudiantes y refuerzan los estándares del plan de estudios.

• Purpose: Discover encyclopedia articles, multimedia, primary sources, games, and other learning resources that support student research and reinforce curriculum standards.
• Content: Hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos and more.
• Age Level: Five to adult
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

• Purpose: Discover encyclopedia articles, multimedia, primary sources, games, and other learning resources that support student research and reinforce curriculum standards. 
• Content: Hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos and more.
• Age Level: Five to adult
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

• Purpose: Espacenet is a free online database provided by the European Patent Office (EPO) that allows users to search for patents and patent-related documents from around the world.
• Content: Access to patent documents, including published patent applications, granted patents, and legal status information.
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: Help Documentation
• Access: Free Access

• Purpose:  Access popular magazine articles for entertainment or research.
• Content: Full-text magazines articles including Time, People etc.
• Age Level: 5-12
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

• Purpose:  Access popular magazine articles for entertainment or research.
• Content: Full-text magazines articles including Time, People etc.
• Age Level: 12-18
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

• Purpose:  Access popular magazine articles for entertainment or research.
• Content: Full-text magazines articles including Time, People etc.
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library
• Formerly known as Masterfile Premier

• Purpose:  Find photos of your neighborhood, family and more in this collection of photographs.
• Content:  Over 100,000 photographs of the people and places of Northern Kentucky. 
• Age Level: Adult
• Access: No Library Card Required

• Purpose: Discover your family history
• Content: Access the records of billions of names including birth, marriage and death records.
• Age Level: 12 – adult
• Help: FAQs
• Access: No Library Card Required

• Purpose: Genealogy information from Great Britain & Ireland.
• Content: Census, Birth, Marriage, Death Records
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: Learning Center
• Access: Only available inside the Library. 

• Purpose:  Research family members who have served in the military or find out historical information about people in the military.
• Content: US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.
• Age Level: 12 – adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

FDO delivers quality funding prospects. By combining exhaustive data with intuitive search functionality and informative data visualizations, FDO delivers the information you need to reach your fundraising goals quickly and efficiently.

FDO delivers quality funding prospects. By combining exhaustive data with intuitive search functionality and informative data visualizations, FDO delivers the information you need to reach your fundraising goals quickly and efficiently.

Gale Courses offers a wide range of highly interactive, instructor led courses that you can take entirely online for free.   As a library card holder in good standing, you are entitled to these courses at no cost. Courses run for six weeks and new sessions begin every month.

• Purpose: Read news from around the country (Kentucky Post 1996-2007)
• Content: Full-text articles from America's Newspapers
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help:  Help
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the
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• Purpose: Provides free online tutorials.
• Content: More than 1,000 lessons in technology, math, reading, and more. 
• Age Level: 13 – Adult
• Help: How to use the tutorials. 

• Purpose: Family and local history research
• Content: Local church records, Civil War Veterans Burial List, Yearbooks, Birth, Estate records and much more.  This data has been complied and digitized by the Library and is not available elsewhere.
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: Database Descriptions
• Access: No Library Card Required

• Purpose: Find German ancestors in German records.
• Content: Church registers (mostly books of birth, marriage and death) from various European countries (currently Austria, Germany, Poland, Serbia and Slovenia). These records are not indexed and you need to know the village. 
• Age Level: Adult
• Access: No library card required.

• Purpose: Find interesting photos from around the area.
• Content: A collection of photos from around the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area.
• Age Level: 7-adult
• Access: No Library Card Required

Use GreenFILE to find scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. 

• Purpose: A collection of consumer health information including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
• Content: Full-text magazines and journal articles.
• Age Level: 12-adult
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

• Purpose: Find family history information at HeritageQuest.
• Content: Census, books, Freedman’s Bank PERSI and the US Serial Set
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: Research Aids
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

• Purpose: Learn about the history of the United States
• Content: Full text articles and obituaries for the United States.
• Age Level: 13-Adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required

• Borrow streaming video, ebooks,  music, and audiobooks each month with your library card.  Titles are always available.
• You will need to create an account using your library card to check out items. 
• Need help getting started?  Watch this tutorial. 
• Up to 20 titles per month

• Borrow audiobooks.  Titles are always available.
• You will need to create an account using your library card to check out items. 
• Need help getting started?  Watch this tutorial. 

• Borrow videos.  Titles are always available.
• You will need to create an account using your library card to check out items. 
• Need help getting started?  Watch this tutorial. 

• Borrow videos.  Titles are always available.
• You will need to create an account using your library card to check out items. 
• Need help getting started?  Watch this tutorial. 

LearningExpress Job & Career Accelerator gives job seekers the tools they need to explore careers, find open positions, apply for jobs and get hired.

Kanopy is a video streaming service for quality, thoughtful entertainment. Find movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, and more. 

Enjoy 15 free tickets per month with your library card.  Download the Kanopy app on your mobile device or watch Kanopy on your TV. Each movie or series requires a ticket/tickets. 

Kanopy Kids is Kanopy's curated collection of content for children, with a focus on ages 2-8. While in the Kanopy Kids section, you'll only see content that's age-appropriate and allows unlimited viewing.

Kanopy Kids doesn't use tickets. You can access an unlimited number of Kanopy Kids titles each month. Kanopy Kids also offers parental controls. 

Look up property values and other useful information on the Kenton County PVA database. 

• Purpose: Explore the Kentucky and Cincinnati Post to find historical information about the area.
• Content: Full-text articles from the Cincinnati and KY Post.  There is also access to The Lexington Herald-Leader and the Dayton Daily News (1990-Current).  Kentucky Post Historical Access: 1895 - 1959 and 1962.
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: Help Documentation
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library
• Newsbank

• Purpose: Explore the Kentucky Post to find historical information about the area.
• Content: Full-text articles from 1996-2007 from the KY Post.  
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: Gale
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

Browse Learning Express for resources on career preparation, GED test prep center, college admissions test prep and more. 

Browse Learning Express - Computer & Software Tutorials to learn about how to use your computer, certain softwares and more. 

• Purpose: Gale LegalForms offers a wide selection of essential state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms that may be customized for the most common legal procedures. These forms are used by attorneys and law firms. Includes real estate contracts, wills, premarital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant, and many others.
• Content: Customizable legal forms
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: FAQ

• Purpose: Read the daily edition of the Lexington Herald Leader 
• Content: Full-text articles from Lexington Herald Leader. View the full page images of the day's news. 1983-Current
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: Help Documentation
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

Download Libby to easily read and listen to ebooks and audiobooks. 

• iOs 
• Android 
• Windows

Libby app and Kindle Fires

Download the Library's app to check out your books, look at holds or see if a book is available.

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• Android   

• Purpose:  Find information on your neighborhood, relatives or just learn about the history of the Louisville area.
• Content:  Searchable full-text articles and obituaries from the 1830-1922
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

• Purpose: Follow Kentucky news in the Louisville Courier Journal
• Content: Full text articles and obituaries for the Louisville area and Kentucky.
• Age Level: 13-Adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required

Use Mango to learn a new language! Prepare for business trips, family vacations, or study abroad with practical, conversation-based language lessons. Download the app to take your learning on the go!

• MasterFILE Premier contains full text for general reference magazines and publications covering a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues.

MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends.

• Purpose: Make more informed investment decisions with Morningstar Investor's tools, expert analysis, and ratings. 
• Content: Morningstar Investment Research Center database includes research on more than 30,000 stocks, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). 
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: Investing Classroom
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

• Purpose: MyHeritage Library Edition (Formerly WorldVitalRecords) is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases of its kind. Access billions of historical documents, millions of historical photos and other resources in thousands of databases that span the past five centuries.
• Content: Access key collections: U.S. Federal Census images and indexes from 1790 to 1940; military records; birth, marriage and death records; enhanced Social Security Death Index (SSDI) records; one billion newspaper articles, including full text of modern U.S. newspaper obituaries.
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: Tutorial
• Access: Library Card Required

• Purpose: Access the New York Times Digital
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library – User must also create an account with the New York Times. Account access is for three days with unlimited renewals. All Access

• Purpose: Access to papers in Kentucky, Ohio and the world. Every newspaper in Newspaper Archive is fully searchable by keyword, date, place, and title making it easy for you to quickly see if we have the article you’re seeking.
• Content: Access newspapers in Kentucky, Ohio and the world.
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required

• Purpose: Search or browse the collection to find news, notices of births, marriages and deaths, sports, comics and much more. 
• Content:  Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 178 million+ pages of historical newspapers from 19,900+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond. Newspapers provide a unique view of the past and can help us understand and connect with the people, events and attitudes of an earlier time.
• Age Level: Adult
• Access: Library Card Required

Learn how to use many of the resources offered by the library with Niche Academy.  Quick tutorials will get you started in no time!

Find the latest workforce resources offered by local partners. 

• Purpose:  Find information on local people, places and events.
• Content:  Indexed Northern Kentucky Newspapers from the 1800s.
• Age Level: Adult
  
• Access: Free Access – No Library Card Required

• Purpose:  Find information on local people, places and events.
• Content:  Indexed Northern Kentucky Newspapers from 1900-1935 and 1982-Present.
• Age Level: Adult
  
• Access: Free Access – No Library Card Required

• Purpose: Use Novelist to find read-a-likes, book club resources, literary criticisms and more. 
• Content: NoveList is the premier database of reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world.
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required

• Purpose: Use Novelist to find read-a-likes, book club resources, literary criticisms and more. 
• Content: NoveList is the premier database of reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world.
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required

• Purpose: Use Novelist K-8 Nonfiction to find read-a-likes, book club resources, literary criticisms and more. 
• Content: NoveList is the premier database of reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world.
• Age Level: Adult
• Help: Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required

• Content: Opposing Viewpoints database:
• Purpose: An online resource that seeks to explore different opinions on current topics, in a balanced way. 
• Content: Different viewpoints on a variety of topics including - government, health, culture and more.
• Age Level: 12-Adult

Check out best sellers, non-fiction and much more for computers, tablets and phones. MP3 format availability.

• Want help getting started? Watch this tutorial video.

Check out best sellers, non-fiction, picture books and much more for eReaders, tablets and phones.

• eBooks, graphic novels, audiobooks, and magazines
• Want help getting started? Watch this tutorial video.
• The Overdrive app is no longer available for download from Google & Apple.  Please download the Libby app. 
• On May 1, 2023, the OverDrive app will be discontinued - Upgrade to the Libby app today.

Check out best selling popular magazines as well as titles from around the world

• Browse magazines from around the world
• Want help getting started? Watch this tutorial video.

• Purpose: Patent Public Search is a free online database provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that allows users to search for patents and patent-related documents in the United States.
• Content: It provides access to a vast collection of patent documents, including granted patents, published patent applications, and legal status information. 
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: Help Documentation
• Access: Free Access

• Purpose: PebbleGo helps students in Grades 3-5 learn about important figures all over the world. 
• Content:  Biographical information on important figures all over the world. 
• Age Level: Grades 3-5

• Purpose: PebbleGo helps students in Grades 3-5 learn about a variety of different animals and science topics
• Content:  The Animal module features information on animal behaviors, classification, mammals and more. The Science module features information on a variety of science topics including: physical sciences, technology, life sciences and more. 
• Age Level: Grades 3-5

• • Purpose: Helps students in Grades 3-5 learn about key concepts related to the United States and American Indians.
  • Content:  The State Studies and American Indian History module features articles for all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, and articles for each American Indian Tribal Nation.
  • Age Level: Grades 3-5

• Purpose: Helps students in Grades 3-5 learn about key concepts related to the United States and American Indians.
• Content:  The State Studies and American Indian History module features articles for all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, and articles for each American Indian Tribal Nation.
• Age Level: Grades 3-5

• Purpose: Access research books.
• Content: Browse various reference and research books on topics like: arts, environment, literature, law and more. 
• Age Level: 12-Adult

• Purpose:  Search maps for the structures that existed 1867-1970
• Content: City maps of Kentucky.
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

• Content: Color city maps of the United States.
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: General Help Page
• Access: No Library Card Required

Small Business Source offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business topics. It includes business videos, a help and advice section and details on how to create business plans.

• Content: Small Business Source offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business topics. It includes business videos, a help and advice section and details on how to create business plans.
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Access: No Library Card Required

Browse through information on the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent source on authors and literature for young people. Something About the Author includes both the main series and Something About the Author Autobiography Series, totaling more than 290 volumes, 20,000 entries, and nearly 30,000 images - all delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.  This resource is no longer being updated at KCPL.

• StatsAmerica (US Economic Development Administration and Indiana Business Research Center)
• Purpose: StatsAmerica serves as a data resource platform designed to provide economic developers with actionable demographic and economic statistics for site selection, grant writing, development metrics, and strategic planning.
• Content: The website contains comprehensive demographic, workforce, and economic value-added statistics for states, counties, regions, and metropolitan areas across all 50 U.S. states, including comparison tools for up to four geographic regions.
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: Resource Tools
• Access: Free Access

Scholastic Teachables offers worksheets, lesson plans, learning games, and more! We offer printable activities for any subject: math, science, reading comprehension, STEM, writing and beyond. Download printable lesson plans, reading passages, games and puzzles, clip art, bulletin board ideas, and skills sheets for kids in any grade.

• Purpose: Identify exceptional books that reflect diverse cultural experiences, interests, and ability levels. Obtain resources paired with your book titles that further reading enjoyment, contextual knowledge, and educational relevance
• Content: A collection of instructional materials about children's and young adult books and authors.
• Age Level: 13 – Adult

• Purpose: Identify exceptional books that reflect diverse cultural experiences, interests, and ability levels. Obtain resources paired with your book titles that further reading enjoyment, contextual knowledge, and educational relevance designed for educators. 
• Content: A collection of instructional materials about children's and young adult books and authors.
• Age Level: 13 – Adult
• Tutorial - Niche Academy

Check out teen best sellers, non-fiction, picture books and much more for eReaders, tablets and phones.

• eBooks, graphic novels, audiobooks, and magazines
• Want help getting started? Watch this tutorial video.

Use ThomasNet to discovers suppliers and to find product sourcing (US & Canada)

• Purpose:Trademark Search System is provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that allows users to search for registered federal trademarks and pending trademark applications in the United States.
• Content:Topics include:trademark information, including trademark registrations, pending applications, and other relevant data.
• Age Level: 12-Adult
• Help: Help Documentation
• Access: Free Access

• Purpose: Helps students in Grades 3-7 learn about science and social studies content with dynamic videos, interactive ebooks and engaging activities.
• Content: Trueflix includes social studies topics like American Indians, biographies, U.S. government and more. 
• Age Level: Grades 3-7

• Purpose: Helps students in Grades 3-7 learn about science and social studies content with dynamic videos, interactive ebooks and engaging activities.
• Content: Trueflix includes science related topics like nature, experiments, animals, alternative energy and more. It also includes social studies topics like American Indians, biographies, U.S. government and more. 
• Age Level: Grades 3-7

• A collection of animated talking pictures books designed to teach kids the joy of reading.
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• Purpose: U.S. Copyright Office is the official online portal of the U.S. Copyright Office, a division of the Library of Congress, responsible for registering and safeguarding copyrights in the United States.
• Content:Topics include: comprehensive information about U.S. copyright law, regulations, procedures, and searching records.
• Age Level: 12-Adult
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• Access: Free Access

• Purpose: Read the daily edition of USA Today 1987-Current
• Content: Full-text articles from USA Today. View the full page images of the day's news.
• Age Level: 12-Adult
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• Access: Library Card Required Outside the Library

• Purpose:Search libraries around the world with OCLC WorldCat/Firstsearch.
• Content: Library collections.
• Age Level: 13 – Adult
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