E-Library

With your library card, you have access to a wide array of online resources available through the public library. If you have any questions or need assistance, please call the library at 336-753-6030.

​​A​utoM​ate

	Auto Repair Source: Reference database with authoritative and up-to-date auto repair and service information on more than 38,000 vehicles. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and includes step-by-step repair information, diagrams, maintenance schedules, parts and labor estimates, service bulletins and recalls.

​Cypress Resume

Easy-to-use résumé building tool with a built-in writing process and automatic formatting.

eBook and eAudio Collection

      Borrow and read free eBooks, eAudios, and eMagazines to your eReader, mobile device, or computer using the

eiNC consortium of NC libraries.

Download the Libby app to your phone or tablet for easy access to the same free content available on Overdrive.

  

Gale Testing & Education Reference Center

A testing and education preparation resource that includes in-depth information on college, graduate, and professional programs, professional training, scholarships, and entrance tests alongside practice tests for entrance exams, certifications, and licensing exams.

Mango Languages

A language-learning software with over 70 world language courses and over 17 ESL/ELL courses, featuring an engaging user interface, voice comparison, fresh design, foreign language films, cultural anecdotes, and a user-friendly mobile app.

NC Kids

  What's the buzz? Enjoy this collection of children's eBooks. Click here for NC Kids training videos!

NC LIVE

Easily search for your favorite NC LIVE Resource!

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NC LIVE offers free electronic access for all ages to online library and information resources that support education, enhance statewide economic development, and increase quality of life. Resource subjects include:

• Books & Literature
  • eBooks on EBSCOhost: Over 26,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.
  • Home Grown eBooks Collection: A collection of more than 1,000 eBooks from a variety of North Carolina publishers. Includes popular and scholarly nonfiction, novels by well-known NC authors, and award-winning short fiction and poetry.
  • NoveList Plus: A readers’ advisory resource that uses appeal factors and expert reviews to offer read-alike and listen-alike recommendations for fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks.
    
• Business & Management
  • Morningstar Investment Research Center: Includes research and independent opinions on thousands of mutual funds, stocks, and hundreds of ETFs.
  • Reference USA: (CURRENTLY DOWN) Reference and research tool providing instant, real-time access to accurate, in-depth information on 24 million U.S. businesses and 235 million U.S. residents. 
  • SimplyAnalytics: Web-based mapping application that lets you create professional-quality maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data.
    
• Career, Jobs, & Test Prep
  • 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.
• Education & Teacher Resources
  • Credo Online Reference Service: A premier virtual reference collection including encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, images, audio files, and videos in a wide expanse of subject areas.
    
  • 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.
    
  • Science in Context: Reference content plus magazines, journals, news sources, experiments, and more. Covering earth science, life science, space, technology, mathematics, science history, and biography.
    
• Everything NC!
  • North Carolina Driver's Manual: Current DMV driver's manual in English and Spanish.
  • Our State Magazine Collection: Search or browse Our State magazine, North Carolina's premier travel, food, and culture publication celebrating the best of life in the state. Every issue from 1933 to 2011 is online in the North Carolina Digital Collections, and articles and advertisements are full text searchable.
• Genealogy
  • Please visit our Genealogy and Local History Page
• Health & Wellness
  • Healthfinder: Journals, magazines, and medical dictionaries on minority health, as well as prevention and self-care on a variety of topics such as pregnancy, HIV, diabetes, women's health, and more.
  • MedlinePlus: Common diseases and conditions, health promotion and wellness, drugs info, medical dictionaries and more.
    
  • NC Health Info: Online guide to quality health and medical information and local health services throughout North Carolina.
    
• History & Biography
  • ArchiveGrid: Access to primary source information, including birth and death records, ship logs, and cemetery records.
  • Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection: Newspapers.com North Carolina Collection. 3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 NC county newspapers.
    
  • NC ECHO: Online access to the special collections of North Carolina's libraries, archives, museums, historic sites, and other cultural institutions.
    
  • NCPedia: Information about the state, its history, people, government, and educational institutions.
    
• Homework Help
  • Use NC LIVE to search or browse across material formats and subjects; also visit our Homework Help Page
• Journals & Magazine
  • Consumer Reports: Popular collection of product reviews and recommendations for cars, appliances, electronics, personal finance, and health information.
  • New York Times: Full articles from the New York Times (1980-current).
    
  • Wall Street Journal: Full articles from the Wall Street Journal (1981-current).
    
• Nursing
  • CINAHL Plus with Full Text: Database of nursing and allied health journals with additional materials that include nursing dissertations, conference proceedings, evidence-based care sheets, audiovisuals, and continuing education modules.
  • ProQuest Health & Medical Collection: Clinical research plus consumer and health administration titles.
    
• Science & Technology and more!

Universal Class

Learn something new today! Over 500 online non-credit Continuing Education Courses.