Databases

LearningExpress Library

A comprehensive collection of test preparation tools, skill-building materials, and career resources. Use to prepare for college and career, education tutoring, software tutorials, and workforce development.

LearningExpress Library: Adult Learning Center

This center offers busy adults the resources to improve their basic skills in reading, writing, and math, prepare for high school equivalency tests, and U.S. citizenship.

LearningExpress Library: Career Center

Are you preparing for a professional exam? Curious about a particular occupation or looking to improve your workplace skills? This center will set you up for a bright career future.

LearningExpress Library: College Center

For college students, resources to help strengthen academic skills, prepare for placement tests, and get ready for graduate school entrance exams.

LearningExpress Library: College Preparation Center

Study for and practice college admission tests and application essays. From AP Exams to the ACT and SAT, this center is devoted to college entrance.

LearningExpress Library: Grades 4-8 Educator Resources

The resources here can help students and educators in elementary and middle school prepare for important tests, get extra help with assignments, and boost their skills in important subjects.

LearningExpress Library: High School Equivalency Center

Use this center to prepare for the GED™ test and other equivalency exams with tutorials, eBooks, and practice tests.

LearningExpress Library: High School Students

The resources here can help students and educators in high school prepare for important tests, get extra help with assignments, and boost their skills in important subjects.

LearningExpress Library: Popular Software Tutorials

Learn to use the most popular software programs from Microsoft Office, along with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, and the Windows operating system.

LearningExpress Library: Recursos para Hispanohablantes

Recursos en Español para adultos: Mejore sus niveles académicos, prepárese para el examen de GED®, prepárese para su Ciudadanía Americana, y más.

Legal Collection

Contains content from the scholarly law journals.

Lewis and Clark: Moments in Time

Focusing on state curricula for elementary school students, this collection of educational materials features video segments from Idaho Public Television’s Lewis and Clark: Moments in Time, which brings to life excerpts from the journals of Lewis and Clark.

These materials were compiled by Idaho teachers for Idaho teachers. Included are teacher-curated videos and teacher-written facilitator guides that are correlated to fourth-grade Idaho Content Standards for Social Studies.

Life and Career Skills Series: Employment

This e-book guides the reader in gaining job skills, seeking work, interviewing, negotiating salaries and benefits, and thriving in the workplace. It also offers information that applies to all job seekers, as well as guidance for first-time job applicants and workers returning to the workforce after an absence.

Life and Career Skills Series: Health & Wellness

This e-book guides readers in making healthy choices about hygiene, diet, exercise, and medical care. They present easy-to-understand information about health-care coverage options and offer overviews of the types of available medical care, from general practitioners to alternative medicine and mental health providers.

Life and Career Skills Series: Personal Finance

This e-book guides readers in making prudent decisions about spending, saving, and borrowing, walking them through major life events, such as buying or renting a home, purchasing or leasing a car, and saving for college and retirement. It also offers practical guidance about purchasing insurance, applying for government benefits, and being an informed consumer.

Life and Career Skills: Series: Social Skills

This e-book helps readers understand and hone the social skills necessary for success. Although the essays offer advice applicable to many aspects of life, the focus is primarily on the workplace. The essays guide readers in effective communication and conduct, emphasizing the characteristics of verbal, nonverbal, and written communication, stressing the importance of ethics and etiquette, and providing tips for conflict resolution and teamwork.

LISTA

Index and abstract of core journals, books, and research reports in the area of library and information sciences.

Literary Reference Source

Provides information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Literary Themes for Students: Race & Prejudice

This e-book covers a wide range of circumstances in which individuals experience prejudice in American, British, and world literature. The discussion goes well beyond race, religion, and gender into ethnicity, social status, mental and physical health, and personal beliefs and behaviors.

Literary Themes for Students: The American Dream

This e-book provides readers with an overview of literary works that explore the theme of the American dream. Analyzes poetry, plays, short stories, novels, and works of nonfiction that address this theme in some capacity and how that theme has been treated in literature at different times in history and across diverse cultures.

Literary Themes for Students: War & Peace