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Borrow and enjoy audiobooks, eBooks, movies, TV, magazines, or music anywhere you have a screen—for FREE! Hoopla syncs across all your devices, and most titles can be downloaded to your phone.
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Libby is a FREE app where you can enjoy eBooks, digital audiobooks, and magazines from TPL’s digital collection. Stream and download titles using iOS (Apple products), Android, or Amazon Fire tablets.
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An online learning platform that helps you learn business, software, technology and creative skills. Choose from thousands of online courses from real-world industry experts. FREE with your library card!
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Interactive online language courses that allow you to learn at your own pace: Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Portuguese, Sign Language, and English. FREE with your library card!
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Your source for FREE test preparation, skill building, and career resources for students, educators, and adult learners. Hundreds of practice tests available! Sign up using your library card.
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FREE tutoring, test prep, self-paced resources, and job search assistance for every Alabamian. Get help studying for standardized tests, practice for an interview, submit a paper for review, and more!
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A FREE online reference resource that focuses on Alabama’s history, culture, geography, and natural environment. Named a “Best of Free Reference” by the Library Journal—check it out today!
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Provides all students, teachers, and citizens of the State of Alabama with online access to essential library and information resources.
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A non-profit FREE digital library that offers more than 20 million downloadable books and texts, as well as 2.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
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The OG of FREE online eBooks, Project Gutenberg provides access to a vast library of public domain materials. Scan their reading lists, check out their top 100, or search for your own treasure!
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Open Library is a book cataloging system that provides links to Internet Archive materials. Sign up for a FREE account to check out books, contribute to the project, or build your own reading list.
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Candid (formerly Foundation Center and GuideStar) is a comprehensive resource for:
- Identifying grant makers, foundations, and corporate sponsorship programs
- Finding grant opportunities for nonprofits, schools, libraries, and community organizations
- Detailed profiles of funders, grants awarded, and application priorities
- Exploring tools and training resources to strengthen grant-seeking efforts
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Ancestry Library Edition gives patrons access to genealogical records of individuals from North America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and more. The database includes censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more. This resource is only available inside TPL branches and cannot be accessed at home.
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TPL is an affiliate library that extends FamilySearch’s resources beyond the original center in Utah. Patrons have limited access to historical records and digital genealogical collections that are otherwise accessible only through a FamilySearch center. This resource is only available inside TPL branches and cannot be accessed at home.