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Resources

Archive Grid provides access to detailed archival collections of family histories, political papers, and historical records held in archives around the world. 

Axis 360 app provides access to popular and best selling ebooks and eaudiobooks. The collection includes thousands of titles for adults, teens, and children. 

BiblioBoard Library Open to all residents of Illinois, BiblioBoard has digital books, images, documents, audio and specially curated collections.

Birthday Time Capsule Type in your birthday and create a "time capsule" for the day you were born, including headlines, prices, top songs and TV shows, favorite toys, and popular books.

Code.org is a fun, creative platform for learning basic coding and computer science!

Coursera is an online learning platform offering self-paced guided projects and on demand courses on a variety of subjects.

Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel featuring

educational videos.

DPLA Digital Public Library of America offers free access to American libraries, archives, and museums.

eRead Illinois includes ebooks and audio books that can be borrowed through Axis 360 app.

Explore More, Illinois provides instant online access to free and reduced tickets to local venues.

Freading offers downloadable ebooks. (Not compatible with Kindle-for Kindle use Overdrive Ebook.)

Fueleconomy The official government source for fuel economy information. Find and compare cars; calculate your mpg; explore hybrids, and more. 

Go Noodle - Movement and mindfulness videos for kids.

Google Books to search full versions of public domain books, preview several pages of popular books.

Google Scholar provides an easy way to broadly search for scholarly literature. 

The Great Courses Library Collection offers courses of in depth video lectures. 

How Products are Made Gale Resources brings us a new database with detailed descriptions and pictures about how things are made.

How Stuff Works Learn about how stuff works through words and pictures.

Illinois Legal Aid Online provides a resource where people can find the help they need for legal solutions.

Illinois State Archives includes archives collected by the Illinois State Library, Illinois Statewide Vital Records Databases and the Illinois Regional Archives Depositories.    

Inkie is a set of resources that supports local authors with online creation and publishing tools and allows readers access to locally produced content.

Khan Academy is a free website that offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard so learners can study on their own.

Kindle ebook reader is a free app that can be loaded to your phone or tablet to access ebooks borrowed from your library's ADML collection.

Libby is an app from Overdrive to download ebooks and audiobooks from ADML directly to your device.

Library of Congress to access digital collections o documents, photographs, and more.

Lunch Doodles with Mo where learners can draw, doodle, and explore new ways of writing together with Mo Willems, author and illustrator. 

McLean County Museum of History contains more than 15,000 books and periodicals with a focus on McLean County and Central Illinois history and geneology; considerable online access is available through the website.

Overdrive Check out and download audiobooks, ebooks, and magazines to your computer, tablet, e-reader or smartphone.

RSA Cat Mobile Search all RSA libraries using your RSAcat mobile app. You may search, place holds, renew items, pay bills, manage your account and more. 

Storytime Online Free online story videos on YouTube

World Factbook This website from the CIA provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and maps for 267 world entities. 

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