Digital Resources Overview

Digital Databases, Tutorials, and Resources

General Resources

Got a hobby you’d like to nurture? Looking for a new activity to pass the time? Our library provides free access to Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center, 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.

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Looking to install a new door, fix a leaky faucet, or spruce up your garden? You’ve come to the right place! Our library provides free access to Home Improvement Reference Center, a database from EBSCO containing thousands of articles from leading home improvement magazines and reference books, plus a collection of home repair images not found anywhere else online.

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Discover Gale Databases, a wealth of knowledge spanning diverse subjects, including academic journals, magazines, eBooks, newspapers, and multimedia content. Whether you’re a student, researcher, or knowledge enthusiast, these user-friendly databases offer easy access to reliable information. Enhance your research skills with our Niche Academy tutorial and begin your journey of exploration today. 

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Database Access

Gale Databases

Discover Gale Databases, a wealth of knowledge spanning diverse subjects, including academic journals, magazines, eBooks, newspapers, and multimedia content. 

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Discover the power of knowledge with Britannica Library, your ultimate digital resource available through your library district. Dive into a vast collection of trustworthy and up-to-date articles, multimedia content, and interactive resources tailored to learners of all ages and interests. 

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Student Resources

Improve your academic skills.
Prepare for high-stakes tests.
Become career-ready.
LearningExpress Library offers targeted
learning centers — each with a collection of
practice tests, tutorials, e-books, articles and
flashcards — to help you achieve your goals.

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Designed for kids, Gale In Context: Elementary delivers trusted, age-appropriate digital content. Through newspaper and magazine articles, videos, images, graphics, and eBooks, elementary students can learn about everything from animals and outer space to famous artists and favorite athletes. The database is visual and intuitive, and rewards students’ efforts by developing comprehension and research skills to prepare them for middle school—and a lifetime of learning.

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When you have a paper, project, or presentation to complete, the hardest part is figuring out where to start. Gale In Context: High School simplifies your search for information by bringing together hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections into one easy-to-use database. While online browsers can serve up unreliable or incomplete results, this database lets you explore vetted primary sources, biographies, critical essays, and other materials in many formats — giving you deeper context to high-interest topics.

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Gale In Context: Biography offers authoritative reference content alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images. Covering a vast array of people from historically significant figures to present-day newsmakers, it’s continuously updated to ensure researchers have access to the very latest information.

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Gale In Context: U.S. History provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people. Comprehensive, contextual, media-rich information is provided on topics ranging from the arrival of Vikings in North America, to the stirrings of the revolution, through to the Civil Rights movement, 9/11, and the War on Terror.

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Brush up on world history with Gale In Context: World History. Rich resources to study the past & its links to today. Explore it all, the Holocaust, ancient Egypt, the Aztec Empire, Atlantic slave trade. 

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Gale’s Gale In Context: Science is an engaging online resource providing contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. By integrating authoritative, curriculum-aligned reference content with headlines and videos, Gale In Context: Science draws researchers into the subject matter, showing how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues, from weather patterns to obesity.

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Designed to support global awareness, Gale In Context: Global Issues ties together a wealth of authoritative content that empowers researchers to critically analyze and understand the most important issues of the modern world. Integrating news, global viewpoints, reference, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more in a single search, Gale In Context: Global Issues brings essential, balanced information to researchers across many academic disciplines, as well as newsworthy topics.

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Having a clear, compelling point of view on today’s most debated political and social issues requires finding the most credible facts and insights. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints simplifies your search by bringing together thousands of resources to provide authoritative articles, research reports, videos, and statistics. This database steers you away from unreliable content that online browsers sometimes serve up and helps you draw your own conclusions about global warming, the minimum wage, and hundreds of other debated topics.

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Pronunciator

The world’s most comprehensive language-learning service. 164 languages to learn, 144 languages to learn them in. Years of learning activities within each language.

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Business

Data Axle is an industry leader in business and consumer information. Reference Solutions, founded as Reference Solutions in 1992, is an online tool to give library patrons and business owners access to data on over 17 million businesses and 320 million consumers.

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Take the law into your own hands and create accurate, reliable legal documents with no hassle with Gale LegalForms. It offers Arizona-specific “attorney forms” – officially approved forms actually used by law firms. Many of the forms and documents are available in Word and Adobe format so you just need to simply “fill in the blanks.”

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Apply for Legal Help or Court Help. Free or reduced fee might be available for those that qualify. Click the link or call 866-637-5341 to check eligibility.

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Publication Search

Easily search over 17,000 publications from scholarly journals and other authoritative sources covering biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental sciences, history, marketing, political sciences, and psychology. 

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Gale OneFile collections connect you to credible articles from leading magazines, newspapers,
and scholarly journals.

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Discover the power of knowledge with Britannica Library, your ultimate digital resource available through your library district. Dive into a vast collection of trustworthy and up-to-date articles, multimedia content, and interactive resources tailored to learners of all ages and interests. Whether you’re a student, a curious mind, or a lifelong learner, Britannica Library offers a user-friendly interface, ensuring easy navigation and access to accurate information. Experience the joy of learning with engaging features, interactive elements, and educational games, all optimized for any device. With Britannica Library, the world of knowledge is at your fingertips, empowering you to explore, discover, and grow.

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Answer the age-old question, ‘What do I read next?’ Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.

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Browse original scholarly essays on authors from around the world. Places authors and their works in personal and historical context.

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Find in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers. Includes influences of literary movements.

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NoveList Plus is the premiere database of reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world presenting fiction, nonfiction and audiobooks and includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.

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Career Planning

Prepare for standardized tests, research undergraduate and graduate programs, find tuition assistance, and explore careers whether you’re entering the workforce for the first time or searching for new opportunities. A variety of interactive methods prompt personalized career recommendations and insight on programs, knowledge, skills, and ability. 

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Gale Presents: Peterson’s Career Prep accommodates job seekers at all levels, whether they are entering the workforce for the first time or searching for new opportunities. Career assessments prompt personalized career recommendations and guidance on programs, knowledge, skills, and ability.

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Build your resume/cover letter; No-cost Professional Resume Review; Explore career options; Search for available jobs; Access preferred partners.

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Digital Library

OverDrive is the leading digital reading platform for libraries and schools worldwide. We are dedicated to creating “a world enlightened by reading” by delivering the industry’s largest catalog of ebooks, audiobooks and other digital media to a growing network of 88,000 libraries and schools in 109 countries.

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