America's News
One of America’s largest newspaper databases. Search a single newspaper including the Pantagraph, Illinois newspapers or the entire collection of over 2,700 full-text news sources nationwide.
biblioboard
Our library system, RAILS, has partnered with BiblioLabs to bring Normal Public Library patrons a library of e-books on the BiblioBoard platform. There is no limit on simultaneous use; items can be read by 1 or 100 patrons at the same time. This means no hold queues and no waiting for titles.
Bloom's Literary Reference Online
This resource contains more than 20,000 critical essays from over 500 literary journals and 2,300 scholarly and critical books, including 700 titles published by Bloom’s Literary Criticism and Facts On File. Also included in the database are more than 13,000 biographies, 45,000 character entries, 5,000 synopses of literary works and hundreds of images and videos.
Brainfuse HelpNow
Brainfuse HelpNow is America’s premier online homework help and tutoring provider offering a unique tutoring and study suite backed by an industry-leading academic team. This service is available to assist students of any age achieve success and includes live online help from 2 pm to 11 pm every day in English and Spanish.
Brainfuse JobNow
Brainfuse JobNow is a one-of-a-kind job coaching service designed to help people land the job of their dreams. Job seekers can prepare for interviews, receive resume help, search for local jobs and even receive live online help from 2 pm to 11 pm every day in English and Spanish.
Creativebug
Creativebug.com has more than 1,000 award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists.
Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives and museums and makes them freely available to the world.
Driving Tests
Whichever type of motor vehicle you wish to operate or knowledge tests you need to pass, Driving Tests offers handbooks and practice tests to help you out. The questions on the practice tests resemble those on the official knowledge tests, so you will learn what to expect.
Duolingo
Duolingo is the best new way to learn a language. Learning with Duolingo is fun and addictive. Earn points for correct answers, race against the clock and level up. These bite-sized lessons are effective, and there is proof that it works.
EBSCO Databases
EBSCOhost databases are the most-used, premium online information resources for tens of thousands of institutions worldwide, representing millions of end users.
FirstSearch – “WorldCat”
FirstSearch is an online service that gives library and education professionals access to a rich collection of reference databases. FirstSearch also offers electronic access to more than 10 million full-text and full-image articles.
Google Books
Search thousands of full-text books, preview the first several pages of lots of popular titles and even download full versions of books in the public domain for free. E-books are also available for purchase.
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Great Courses
The Great Courses Library Collection is the leading global media brand for lifelong learning and personal enrichment, with hundreds of courses spanning thousands of in-depth video lectures on subjects like Science, Health & Wellness, and much more. Unlimited access is available to you when you use your RB Digital 7-day pass to check out this digital product.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a free website that offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom, along with free tools for parents and teachers.
Library of Congress
Access the Library of Congress’ considerable digital resources. You will find collections of documents, photographs and much more.
Mango Languages
An online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more.
McLean County Museum of History
The Stevenson-Ives Library is one of the finest local history and genealogy research libraries in downstate Illinois. The Library contains more than 15,000 books and periodicals with a focus on McLean County and Central Illinois history and genealogy. The Library contains the collections of the McLean County Museum of History, the McLean County Genealogical Society and the Letitia Green Stevenson Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution.
Method Test Prep
Online SAT and ACT test prep in a comprehensive self-paced program proven to raise scores. Unlimited access is available to you when you use your RB Digital 7-day pass to check out this digital product.
New York Times
The New York Times offers news articles and more from one of America's leading newspapers. Receive breaking news, in-depth investigations, and important information on a variety of topics.
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Niche Academy
Niche Academy provides ready-to-use tutorials for the most commonly used library electronic resources. As these resources evolve over time, Niche Academy updates the tutorials.
Oxford English Dictionary
An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of 600,000 words—past and present—from across the English-speaking world.
Pantagraph
Read today’s news or search the Pantagraph’s archives from 1990 to today. Includes news, obituaries, sports, headlines and more.
PebbleGo
PebbleGo is the award-winning PreK–3rd-grade database for reading and research. Databases are simple to navigate and offer key reading supports such as read-along audio and word-by-word highlighting.
rb digital
RBdigital offers a wide array of audiobooks for the savvy reader and listener. RBdigital also offers resources including digital magazines, continuing education courses, test preparation, health and wellness, streaming movies and television.
Wilson Web
H. W. Wilson databases cover a wide variety of subject areas including art, education, engineering, humanities, social sciences and more.
World Book Web Online
The premier online reference source containing every article from the 22-volume encyclopedia print set, plus thousands more. This database includes resources such as state-of-the-art multimedia and editor-reviewed Web sites.