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.
Ancestry Library Edition
The world’s largest online collection of family history resources, home to more than 7 billion historical records, millions of family trees and much more. Please note that this database can only be accessed from within the library.
AudioBookCloud
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.
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.
BookFlix
Scholastic BookFlix is an online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic to build a love of reading and learning. The engaging way to link fact and fiction, BookFlix reinforces early reading skills and introduces children to a world of knowledge and exploration.
Boopsie Mobile App
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 Help Now
Brainfuse Help Now 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 2pm to 11pm everyday in English and Spanish.
Brainfuse Job Now
Brainfuse Job Now 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 2pm to 11pm everyday in English and Spanish.
Consumer Reports
Offers consumer news, reports on different products, recalls and safety information, and much more.
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.
Digitallearn.org
Find simple, free online tutorials for computer basics, from starting an email address to buying a searching for a job.
EBSCO Databases
EBSCOhost databases are the most-used, premium online information resources for tens of thousands of institutions worldwide, representing millions of end users.
eRead Illinois
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.
eSequels
The online guide to series fiction. Find lists of popular series, indexes by character, location, subject, and more.
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.
Freading
Freading offers thousands of downloadable eBooks with absolutely no waiting lists! All of their books are available at all times. We’re sorry, but Freading eBooks are not compatible with the Kindle. For Kindle-compatible books, please use our Overdrive eBook service.
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.
HeritageQuest Online
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.
Hoopla
Bringing you thousands of movies, full music albums, audiobooks and more, hoopla is a revolutionary digital service made possible by your local library. Borrow up to five items a month on your Normal Public Library card.
Illinois Legal Aid Online
Illinois Legal Aid Online develops technology and information to increase access to justice for Illinois residents.
Illinois State Archives
Includes archives collected by the Illinois State Library, Illinois Statewide Vital Records Databases, and the Illinois Regional Archives Depositories.
InstantFlix
InstantFlix: Powered by IndieFlix brings engaging stories to movie lovers around the world. Enjoy over 7,000 high-quality shorts, features, documentaries, classic TV shows and Web series from 85 countries.
Learning Express Library
Completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series to help you succeed on academic or licensing tests. Get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and individualized analysis of your results.
Library of Congress
Access the Library of Congress’ considerable digital resources. You’ll find collections of documents, photographs, and much more.
Lynda.com
lynda.com is a leading online learning company that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Through individual, corporate, academic and government subscriptions, members have access to the lynda.com video library of engaging, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts.
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.
Mango Premiere
Learn languages while watching foreign feature films. You can watch the films in Engage Mode to maximize your language learning, or in Movie Mode to just sit back and enjoy.
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.
Merck Manuals
The Merck Manuals are one of the world’s most widely used medical information resources. Find information on medical topics, symptoms, drugs, procedures, news and more, written in everyday language.
Morningstar
An interactive investment database with information on over 27,000 stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs. Provides independent analysis, charts, portfolio building tools, and investment education.
NoveList
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.
NoveList K-8
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.
OneClickDigital - Recorded Books
Check out and download audiobooks 24 hours a day! Need help? You can email support@oneclickdigital.com.
OverDrive - Alliance Digital Media
Check out and download audiobooks and ebooks to your computer, tablet, ereader, or smartphone.
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-3 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.
RBdigital
Access full magazines like Consumer Reports, ESPN, Forbes, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Mechanics, Rolling Stone, US Weekly, and many more from your computer, phone, or tablet! No wait lists and no checkout periods!
ReferenceUSA - U.S. Businesses
A comprehensive database of over 12 million businesses, searchable by company name, geographical location, business size, executive title, and yellow page heading.
Scholastic GO!
Scholastic GO! is an award-winning digital resource that combines credible, accurate, reliable nonfiction content on myriad subjects with intuitive navigation, interactive features and a variety of multimedia.
ScienceFlix
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 NetAdvantage
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.
TumbleBooks
Kids, enjoy audiobooks, read-alongs, puzzles and games, language learning, and more.
Value Line
Access information and advice on the stock market, the economy, and approximately 1,700 stocks in 98 industries.
Wilson Web
H. W. Wilson databases cover a wide variety of subject areas including art, education, engineering, humanities, social sciences and more.
World Book Online for Kids
Use the great information available from World Book, but tailored to kids, using 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.
World Book Web Online
The premier online reference source, containing every article from the 22-volume encyclopedia print set, plus thousands more. With state-of-the-art multimedia, editor-reviewed Web sites, and more.