Online Databases
NCLive | Tutor.com | Cypress Resume | Universal Class | Learning Express Library | Transparent Language | Bookflix | Job & Career Accelerator | NoveList Plus | Consumer Reports | Entrepreneurship Database | Films on Demand | LawHelpNC | Ferguson's Career Guidance Center | MedlinePlus | ProQuest Central | Hein Online Social Justice Suite | African-American Historical Serials Collection | Access World News | Goldsboro News-Argus
NC LIVE provides content, products, services, professional development and technical support to North Carolina’s libraries. Content includes an online collection of 1.6 billion full-text articles, eBooks, streaming videos, digitized newspapers, language learning tools, and more.
Tutor.com offers one-to-one learning solutions for students through educational institutions such as colleges, universities, K-12 schools, and public and state libraries as well as through corporations for employee benefits and workforce development. We connect learners with qualified, expert tutors online, on-demand, 24/7/361. We provide tutoring services in more than 200 academic subjects and test preparation areas in an engaging and uplifting learning environment.
Effective tool for resume creation. Designed for job seekers skittish about writing, Cypress Resume allows anyone to create a professional resume.
Provides online continuing education courses to schools, libraries, companies, educators, and individuals throughout the world. It aims to advance intellectual exchange in teaching, research, and service with its technology and belief that lifelong learning should be affordable to all people of all cultures. With a growing course catalog of over 550 online classes, UniversalClass is committed to providing only the most affordable and highest quality continuing education.
LearningExpress Library has interactive online tutorials, practice tests, articles, eBooks, and support for test and career preparation, all easily accessible online after creating an account using your library card number.
Transparent Language Online provides a fun, effective, and engaging experience for learners of all levels looking to build their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in a foreign language. Combining robust courses, supplemental vocabulary, extensive grammar resources, and mobile apps, Transparent Language Online is the most complete language-learning system. With over 110 languages to choose from, including English for speakers of over 30 languages, there is something for every learner.
A digital literacy resource that pairs more than 120 animated stories from Weston Woods with a best-selling nonfiction eBook from Scholastic on a similar subject. The fiction and nonfiction pairings are designed to strengthen early literacy skills while exposing young learners to real world concepts.
This extensive database has an easy-to-use search tool for finding jobs, creating resumes, accessing training for good interviews, and even career advice. Users have access to over 120 model resumes, a college and scholarship finder feature, and interest assessments.
A readers’ advisory resource that uses appeal factors and expert reviews to offer read-alike and listen-alike recommendations for fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks.
Popular collection of product reviews and recommendations for cars, appliances, electronics, personal finance, and health information.
Information for entrepreneurs and researchers that includes business start-up plans, video clips, journals, business cases, and more.
FILMS ON DEMAND VIDEO COLLECTION
Thousands of high quality videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels. Also includes content formerly in the NC LIVE Video Collection.
Find information and links about your legal rights, the law, the courts, legal forms and more.
FERGUSON'S CAREER GUIDANCE CENTER
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive resource that enables users to explore industries and careers, plan their education, and research best practices for résumés, cover letters, interviewing, networking, and salaries/benefits. The database includes articles, career advice blogs, and streaming video.
Common diseases and conditions, health promotion and wellness, drugs info, medical dictionaries and more.
General reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.
The Social Justice Suite provides more than 200 million pages of multidisciplinary periodicals, essential government documents, international resources, case law, and much more.
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL SERIALS COLLECTION
An archive of periodicals that document the history of African American religious life and culture between 1829 and 1922. It includes newspapers and magazines, plus reports and annuals from African American religious organizations, including churches and social service agencies.
Explore and stay informed on local, national and international topics, people and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more. Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources from around the world to around the corner. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.
Search full-text articles on local news, issues, events, people and more from current and archived issues of Goldsboro News-Argus. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.