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.
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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
ArtistWorks provides world-class instruction from Grammy Award-winning music professionals. ArtistWorks for Libraries offers users a guided path of video lessons containing everything they need to reach their musical goals. All levels of player are welcome!
-Blues, Bluegrass, Jazz, Rock, Classical and More
-Hundreds of hours of high quality video instruction
-Studio quality play-along tracks
-Downloadable written materials, tablature and sheet music
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 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
Chilton Library offers the most authoritative automotive repair information available with thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models. Made possible by the Alabama Public Library Service.
Chilton Library
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
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.
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
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
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
Visit for research tools, learning resources, and more.
Public Libraries in Jefferson County
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.
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Weiss Financial Ratings provides access to:
-Over 40,000 investment ratings on stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs)
-Over 16,000 safety ratings on banks, credit unions, and insurance companies
-Guides for becoming an investor, financial literacy basics, medigap plans, planning for the future, and more
Provided through the Alabama Virtual Library.
