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Featured Online Resource

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Mango Languages

Try Mango and see why it is the highest-rated language learning app in the App Store and Google Play!

Mango’s conversation-based methodology means you can begin using words, phrases, and grammar that are actually useful right away (no practicing sentences like “The potato is wearing red pants”). Irondale residents can use Mango to learn more than 70 languages including Spanish, English, Italian, Russian and Mandarin Chinese. Get started today at irondalelibrary.org/digital-collection.

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Ancestry Library Edition

Available in library only. Discover your family history with access to over 7 billion genealogy records from around the world through Ancestry Library Edition. Made possible by the Alabama Public Library Service.

Ancestry

Beanstack

Track your reading, participate in our online reading challenges, share book reviews, and more in the Beanstack Tracker app or at irondalelibrary.beanstack.org. No library card required.

Beanstack

Black Freedom Struggle

Black Freedom Struggle features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Appropriate for a wide range of students, from middle and high school students to college students and independent scholars. Freely available from ProQuest.

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Career Alabama

Career Alabama offers free online career and job search assistance, writing and résumé support, academic skills tutoring, and career and study resources. Live assistance is available 11 a.m. – 10 p.m. daily, and the writing lab and career and study resources are available 24/7.

Career Alabama

Craftsy

With more than 3,000 hours of content and over 1,300 courses from expert instructors, there’s a creative focus for everyone on Craftsy. Courses include fabric and yarn arts, food, art, home décor, gardening, woodworking, writing, fitness, and more. For Irondale residents.

Craftsy

Homework Alabama

Homework Alabama offers free online tutoring and academic resources, test prep, citizenship and language resources, help with your job search, and more to Alabama residents from kindergarten students through college, plus adult learners. Tutors are available 10 a.m. – 11 p.m. Drop off writing for review and access the study center 24/7.

Homework Alabama

Hoopla

Stream digital movies and TV shows and download or stream music, eBooks, comic books, and audiobooks with hoopla. For Irondale residents. Up to 8 titles may be checked out per month.

hoopla

Kanopy

Everyone from children to film scholars will discover remarkable and enriching films on Kanopy. Kanopy offers more than 30,000 films, including critically acclaimed movies, inspiring documentaries, award-winning foreign films, and more.

Log in with your library membership and enjoy our diverse catalog with new titles added every month. For Irondale residents.

Kanopy

Learning Express Library

Learning Express Library features nearly 1,000 online tutorials, practice tests, and eBooks to help patrons of all ages. It offers job search and workplace skills improvement, skill building in reading, writing, math, and basic science, career certification, exam prep, college entrance test prep, GED® test prep, and more.

Learning Express Library

Libby Overdrive

Download audiobooks and eBooks or listen/read in your browser with Overdrive Libby. For all residents of Jefferson County with current library card. Up to 10 titles may be checked out at a time.

Libby

Mango Languages

A personalized, adaptive language-learning experience that provides the tools and guidance you need to expand your language skills wherever and however you learn best. More than 70 languages including Spanish, English, Italian, Russian and Mandarin Chinese.

Mango Languages

MasterFILE Premier

Read full articles from Consumer Reports, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and over 1,840 other journals, plus nearly 5,000 Magill's book reviews and essential documents in American history. Tip: Want to search a specific article or publication? Try the advanced search feature to search by journal name, publication date, and more. Provided through the Alabama Virtual Library.

MasterFILE Premier

Public Libraries in Jefferson County

Visit for research tools, learning resources, and more.

Public Libraries in Jefferson County

Reference Solutions

A comprehensive directory of residential, consumer and business information, including the US White Pages. Previously Reference USA. Provided by the Jefferson County Library Cooperative.

Reference Solutions

TeachingBooks

TeachingBooks strives to joyfully enrich everyone's experience reading children's and young adult books. Meet authors and illustrators with exclusive videos, enjoy readings of picture books or book samples, find your next favorite book, plus many more resources for kids, teens, teachers, and parents.

TeachingBooks