e-Library
- eBooks, eAudiobooks, & Streaming
- Museum Passes
- Readers’ Advisory
- Consumer Resources
- Student & Teacher Tools
- All Ages Research Tools
- Genealogy
- Learn a Language
- Recursos en español
- Government Resources
eBooks, Audiobooks, & Streaming
E-Read Illinois Boundless An extensive collection of ebooks, audio and digital media.
Hoopla provides an enormous selection of digital video (movies and TV shows), music, audiobooks, ebooks and comics to patrons.
Libby lets you access thousands of ebooks and audiobooks to borrow for free with your library card. Download and read or listen to ebooks and audiobooks from you phone for free with your library card.
Kanopy is an on-demand video streaming service which is free to library cardholders. It has over 30,000 titles to choose from, including documentaries, film festival favorites, classics, and more!
Teen Book Cloud is an online database of eBooks & comics perfect for middle and high schoolers.
World Book eBooks is an on-the-go digital library that includes story books, picture books, graphic novels, and chapter books from well-known classic titles and famous authors. (All ages and reading levels)
Museum Passes
Museum Adventure Pass lets you use your library card to receive admission or a special discount at participating Chicago area cultural destinations!
Explore More Illinois can help library cardholders get free passes, discounted admission, and other deals from a wide variety of Illinois cultural attractions.
Readers’ Advisory
NoveList is a reader’s advisory service designed to give you great, custom book recommendations regardless of your age!
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books to engage, entertain, and deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Sign up for the newsletter.
Consumer Resources
Weiss Financial Ratings provides powerful new tools to protect your finances, invest wisely, grow your wealth, and learn more about your finances.
Chilton Library provides automotive repair information on thousands of year, make, and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.
Consumer Reports help you make better purchasing decisions. ConsumerReports.org® provides ratings, reviews, and buying advice for thousands of products and services.
Consumer Health Complete is the most comprehensive database for consumer-oriented health content.
Legal Information Source provides access to thousands of legal forms such as rental agreements, wills, patent applications, power of attorney forms and more.
Student & Teacher Tools
Scholastic BookFlix pairs classic video storybooks with related nonfiction books to help build a love for reading and learning. (Grades PreK-3)
Scholastic Teachables provides instant access to thousands of high quality and ready-to-print worksheets, lesson plans, practice pages, and more that cover a wide variety of topics. (Grades PreK-8)
Scholastic TrueFlix provides support for social studies and science related topics with vocabulary games, quizzes, and links to further research that helps kids to expand on what they’ve learned. (Grades 3-6)
Tumble Book Library consists of animated talking picture books that include puzzles and games to make reading fun! (Grades K-6)
Tumble Math contains animated math stories that create a fun experience for students of all ages. Also contains educational games and quizzes.
All Ages Research
World Book Early Learning contains tools to reinforce early childhood learning via short videos, read-along stories, printable activities, fun games, and more! (Grades PreK-2)
World Book Kids features easy-to-read articles that can be read aloud or translated as well as fun games, science projects, and activities. (Grades 2-5)
World Book Student is a one-stop shop for learning a wide variety of topics! Contains a Biography Center, current events, and research guides. (Grades 5-8)
World Book Discover Assist differentiated learners and older adults with a research database that offers a practical Life Skills section.
World Book Advanced includes primary source documents, biographies, Back in Time articles, and Teaching with Documents that aid in more in-depth understanding within the classroom curriculum. (Grades 9-12)
World Book Timelines is a collection of 650+ unique Timelines, spanning the arts, science & technology, society & culture, sports, world history & geography and more. (Grades 3+)
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos is the ideal Spanish-language reference tool for those learning Spanish and ELL students. Browse features provide visual prompts, and bilingual features allow students to toggle between Spanish and English text. The site includes concise articles, videos, maps and activities more.
Scholastic Go! contains more than 115,000 articles covering every core-curriculum subject. The articles and their illustrations are derived from the content of seven Scholastic encyclopedia databases.
Gale Elementary is an introduction to research on everything from animals and outer space to famous artists and athletes. (Grades 2-5)
Gale in Context Middle School combines Gale’s reference content with age appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. (Grades 5-8)
Explora provides an optimized search experience for a variety of EBSCO databases and database packages. Use your library card number to log in under “Patron ID.”
Genealogy
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Ancestry helps you understand your genealogy. A family tree takes you back generations—the world’s largest collection of online family history records makes it possible.
HeritageQuest Online combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular ProQuest Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content.
Learn a Language
Mango Languages contains over 70 world language courses! Lessons involve a mix of listening and reading activities that allow you to explore different topics in your target language. (Grades 6+)
Recursos en español
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos es la herramienta de referencia en español ideal para quienes aprenden español y estudiantes ELL. Las funciones de exploración brindan indicaciones visuales y las funciones bilingües permiten a los estudiantes alternar entre texto en español e inglés. El sitio incluye artículos concisos, vídeos, mapas y actividades más.
Government Resources
Driving Tests Illinois lets you view practice tests for the DMV driving test to ensure you’re ready to get your license.
Medline Plus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends. It is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
