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LearningExpress Library - Your Best Resource for Test Prep and More

Pleasant Grove Library Offers FREE and Unlimited Online Access To Over 770 Career and Academic-Oriented Courses and Practice Tests through LearningExpress Library.

Improve your job search process, prepare for career certification, raise college entrance test scores, and improve 21st century basic skills. Enjoy free, unlimited access to interactive skill-building courses in math, reading and writing as well as a broad range of practice tests based on official exams such as the ACT, SAT, GED, ASVAB, Allied Healthcare, Firefighter, Police Officer, Paramedic, EMT Basic, U.S. Citizenship, Postal Worker, Cosmetology, Real Estate Agent & Broker Exams. This valuable service is available 24/7 from any internet-enabled computer—in the library and even from your home!

You can access this database by using your library card barcode number and your pin number. If you do not already have a pin number, please come in to the library to set one up. Click here to access Global Issues in Context





Ancestry Library Edition
Ancestry Library Edition

Ancestry Library ( www.Ancestrylibrary.com) is powered by Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online resource for family history documents and family trees. With this new database you can discover your ancestors using the world's largest family history website. Start a family tree, browse census records and more online.

Access is available only in the library. You may use the library’s public Internet computers and simply go to Ancestrylibrary.com, or you may bring your laptop in for use with the library’s free wireless service. Once you are connected to the wifi, you will be able to access Ancestry Library by visiting www.Ancestrylibrary.com



Global Issues in Context
Global Issues in Context

Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.

You can access this database by using your library card barcode number and your pin number. If you do not already have a pin number, please come in to the library to set one up. Click here to access Global Issues in Context





Global Road Warrior
Global Road Warrior

The Global Road Warrior is an international resource for social, cultural, travel, and business information. The database covers 175 countries and territories and includes information on demographics, economy, holidays, currencies, visas, climate, passports, immunization, entry and departure, emergencies, internal travel information, country and regional maps, airports, international dialing guides, and more.

You can access this database by using your library card barcode number and your pin number. If you do not already have a pin number, please come in to the library to set one up. Click here to access Global Road Warrior





Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.

You can access this database by using your library card barcode number and your pin number. If you do not already have a pin number, please come to the library to set one up. Click here to access Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center





World Book Encyclopedia Online
World Book

World Book Online Reference Center is the premier online reference source containing every article from the 22-volume printed encyclopedia set plus thousands more. It has state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, editor-reviewed web sites, and more.

Highlights of World Book Online include the following:

  1. Accurate, authoritative, easy-to-read articles from The World Book Encyclopedia.
  2. Related articles from major newspapers and magazines.
  3. Extensive graphic and multimedia enhancements, including photographs, maps, illustrations, tables, animations, and audio/video clips.
  4. Special Reports that broaden and deepen coverage for selected topics.
  5. Back in Time, a captivating, you-are-there chronicle of events from the World Book Year Book that begins in 1922 and unfolds in the distinctive voice and perspective of each successive year.
  6. Links to external Web sites specially selected by World Book editors.
  7. World Book Kids
  8. World Book Student
  9. World Book Reference Center
  10. World Book Advanced
  11. Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos

You can access this database by using your library card barcode number and your pin number. If you do not already have a pin number, please come in to the library to set one up.

Click here to access World Book Online





Overdrive

Overdrive
Download best selling audiobooks, eBooks and videos from OverDrive 24/7 to your PC at home, in the office or from anywhere in the world. All you need is your library card and an access code to get started. To get the access code, please email or call the library.
Overdrive has great 'help' and 'quick start' sections located here. To use Overdrive you will need to install free software on your computer in order to download and transfer the audiobooks and videos.

Netlibrary
Netlibrary is another online resource that allows you to download audiobooks and view ebooks. You can view what's available through Netlibrary by using the library's catalog. Click here to browse over 2,000 titles.
To use this service you will need to create a free account. The access code is needed to create this account. (It is the same as used to access Overdrive and other Pioneer databases.) You may email or call the library to obtain this access code.

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is the web's largest collection of free eBooks, including many popular and must-read classical books. There are over 20,000 items in its collection, with an average of over fifty new e-books being added each week. You can download these eBooks to your computer and many devices such as PDAs and mp3 players with text reading capabilities.

Pioneer: Utah's Online Library

This is a powerful online resource database that contains thousands of newspapers and magazines available to library patrons. It also contains auto repair help, health care resources, geneology research links, poetry and literature sections, and so much more. Call the library for help in accessing these databases. This service is provided by Utah State Library.

MedlinePlus

Wonderful resource for medical information.

Homeworkspot

Lots of homework resources for the kids.

Utah History for Kids

Great for learning and reports.

Federal Application for Student Aid

Student loan/grant applications.

Utah Tax

Utah State tax information and forms

Utah State Courts

The Utah State Courts web page provides links to the Utah Code, court rules, appellate court decisions, and other Utah legal information. It has resources for people doing their own legal work. It also provides links to information about legal clinics and finding legal help. Topics include: Appeals, Civil and Criminal Cases,Estate Planning & Probate, Families & Children, Forms & Instructions, Juvenile Cases, Landlord-Tenant, Mediation, Protection from Abuse, Seniors, Spanish Resources, and Traffic Matters.