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Learning Express – Career Preparation
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Learn more about various career fields, improve your interview and job search skills, and prepare for many career certification tests such as NCLEX and Praxis.
Learning Express – Computer Skills Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Help patrons and students learn the fundamentals of computers, the internet and popular software applications a user-friendly e-learning platform that contains more than 100 selfpaced video tutorials.
Learning Express – Recursos Para Hispanohablantes
¿Usar en casa? Sí
Descripción: Mejore sus habilidades escritas, orales y gramaticales, sea mejor lector, desarrolle sus habilidades matemáticas, prepárese para el examen de GED®, sea ciudadano estadounidense.
Learning Express Library
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Supports those looking to improve core academic skills, pass a high school equivalency test, prepare for college, explore careers, join the military, study for occupational certification tests, become a U.S. citizen and much more.
Contains practice tests, interactive tutorials, e-books, articles, and flashcards.
Legal Information Source
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Thousands of legal forms by topic including Bankruptcy, Divorce, Name Changes, Wills & Estate Planning and more. Most of the full text legal reference books provided through NOLO.
Legal Source
Use at Home? Yes
Description: A scholarly resource of current issues, studies, and trends of the legal world. For attorneys, educators, businesspeople, law librarians, students, and paralegals.
LGBTQ+ Source
Use at Home? Yes
Description: LGBTQ+ Source is the definitive database for LGBTQ+ studies. It provides scholarly and popular LGBTQ+ publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines, newspapers, and videos. It also includes a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus containing thousands of terms.
Library & Information Science Source
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Journals and periodicals that help librarians and researchers keep pace with the latest trends in the field.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Coverage back to the mid-1960s makes this the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
LinkedIn Learning
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals.
Our library code is “scpld” (all lowercase).
Literary Reference Source
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Full-text literary database covering all genres and timeframes, including thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals and author biographies, plus full-text classic novels, short stories and poems.
Local Historical Newspapers
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Searchable database of local digital microfilm 1842-1998.
Los Angeles Times
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Indexes not only top news stories but also the information contained on the various sections of the paper, including complete bibliographic information, companies, people, products, etc. Coverage from 1985 – current.
Los Angeles Times Historical Edition
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage from 1881 to 1994.
The library’s subscription to this resource will expire November 1, 2024.