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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.

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Learning Express – Computer Skills Center

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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.

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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.

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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.

 

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Legal Information Source

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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.  

 

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LGBTQ+ Source

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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.

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Library & Information Science Source

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Description: Journals and periodicals that help librarians and researchers keep pace with the latest trends in the field.

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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)

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Description: Coverage back to the mid-1960s makes this the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.

 

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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).

 

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Literary Reference Source

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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.

 

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Local Historical Newspapers

Use at Home? Yes

Description: Searchable database of local digital microfilm 1842-1998.

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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.

 

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