Listen to your favorite audio books with just a click of a button. Listen to books in many different categories, including fiction, non-fiction, children's, classics and even Spanish language. Books are always available and never on hold.

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.

The library in the palm of your hand! Search for items, surf our site, and more. Call us with a click, place a hold, use our online databases or scan any book’s barcode to see if we own a copy! The future is here.

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.

Offers consumer news, reports on different products, recalls, safety information and much more.

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.

Whichever type of motor vehicle you wish to operate, whichever knowledge tests you need to pass, here are some handbooks and practice tests to help you out. The questions on our practice tests resemble those on the official knowledge tests, so you will learn what to expect on the official tests.

eRead Illinois includes an e-book collection and Axis 360 software platform from Baker & Taylor for RAILS members and IHLS non-SHARE members. Participating IHLS libraries that are members of the SHARE catalog will use the Cloud Library.

Instant online access to free and discounted tickets to museums, science centers, sporting events, zoos, park districts, theatres, and other fun and local cultural venues.

Freading offers thousands of downloadable eBooks with absolutely no waiting lists! All of their books are available at all times. We are sorry, but Freading eBooks are not compatible with the Kindle. For Kindle-compatible books, please use our Overdrive eBook service.

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.

Learn more about Google Books.

Access family genealogies, county and town histories, church and school histories, maps and atlases, vital records, tax lists, military records, wills, cemetery records, the complete set of US Federal Census Records from 1790 to 1930 and more.

Illinois Legal Aid Online develops technology and information to increase access to justice for Illinois residents.

IndieFlix is a movie service that offers access to pop culture favorites, box office hits, award-winning feature films, documentaries and shorts. Instantly view thousands of titles from around the world.

Access the Library of Congress’ considerable digital resources. You’ll find collections of documents, photographs and much more.

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.

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.

An interactive investment database with information on over 27,000 stocks, mutual funds and ETFs. This database provides independent analysis, charts, portfolio building tools and investment education.

Provides enhanced subject access to over 70,000 fiction titles and contains over 1,000 subject oriented booklists and complete lists for over 150 book awards.

Check out and download audiobooks and ebooks to your computer, tablet, e-reader or smartphone.

Read today’s news or search the Pantagraph’s archives from 1990 to today. Includes news, obituaries, sports, headlines and more.

rb digital offers a wide array of magazines and audiobooks. The world's largest library digital newsstand bringing the very best in magazines and special issues combined with various audiobooks available 24 hours a day. 

Scholastic ScienceFlix is an online resource that focuses on engaging subject-area science content for students spanning grades 4–9.  Extensive science-related assets help to build hands-on STEM content knowledge.

Standard & Poor’s is the world’s foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research, data and valuations. Access industry surveys, stock reports, mutual fund reports, bond reports, corporation records and more through NetAdvantage.

Access information and advice on the stock market, the economy and approximately 1,700 stocks in 98 industries.

Use the great information available from World Book, but tailored to kids. This database uses simple navigation, colorful illustrations, activities for young students and more. Access World Book Online for Kids through World Book Online for Kids here and then click on Kids to get started.