Online Resources
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten
This family reading project is for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. Earn prizes as you accomplish milestones toward your goal of reading 1,000 books before kindergarten.
America’s News
NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues. Web-based, full-text access to articles and video clips from worldwide, national, and local papers including the Beloit Daily News. Paid advertisements are excluded.
Ancestry.com: Access from BPL
Historical records and photos hold so many answers about the fascinating people in history. Ancestry Library Edition puts them at your fingertips, enabling both research and inviting critical thinking.
AtoZdatabases
A to Z Databases is the premier Job Search, Reference, and Mailing List database. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding people, and more!
Auto Repair Source
A full-text database of instructions for repairs including routine maintenance as well as extensive repairs. Search by product type, brand, model/engine type, specific area, and model numbers.
BadgerLink
Wisconsin’s online library providing access to licensed content such as magazines, newspapers, scholarly articles, videos, images, and music. These resources are not available on regular search engines such as Google.
Beanstack
Our reading challenges have gone virtual with Beanstack! Use the free app or the website from your desktop to track your family’s reading and activities to earn badges and prizes and to get new book recommendations!
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Beloit History
Rare and historic books unique to Beloit from BPL, Beloit Historical Society, and Beloit College Library Archives Department, including early city and phone directories, farm directories, plat books, and more.
Black Life In America
A new resource from NewsBank that supports discussions and conversations on race, equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice. Explore comprehensive news coverage of the African American experience, from 1704 to today.
Book Connections
An easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children’s and young adult books. This database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books for youth.
Brainfuse
Access real-time assistance through an intuitive online classroom. Tutors are trained to not provide answers, but to help users master a problem’s underlying academic concept. Tutoring services offered in Spanish and English.
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Business Source Premier
Consumer Reports
Creativebug
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Edgewater Flats Photo Gallery
Photos of African American families who moved up north to Beloit, Wisconsin, from Pontotoc, Mississippi, to work at the Fairbanks Morse factory in Beloit and lived in the Fairbanks Flats.
Gale Courses
A wide range of highly interactive, instructor-led courses that you can take entirely online. Library card holders are entitled to these courses at no cost. Courses run for six weeks with new sessions beginning every month.
HeritageQuest
A comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources rich in unique primary resources, local and family histories, convenient research guides, interactive census maps, and more.
History Reference Center
Full-text history reference resource covering both U.S. and world history topics. Features reference books, magazines, journals, and thousands of primary source documents.
Hoopla
A groundbreaking digital media service that allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics, and TV shows for free with your library card. Titles can be streamed immediately.
LearningExpress Library
A collection of web-based test preparation tools and skill-building materials, including full-text ebooks, courses, tutorials, and GED resources. Includes access to eight learning centers.
Borrow thousands of ebooks and audiobooks instantly, for free, using just the device in your hand and the Libby app. It takes just a few taps to get to the titles you want.
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A leading online learning platform offering video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative, and business skills. All courses are free for library card holders. Formerly known as Lynda.com.
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LOTE Online
for Kids
Kids can access 1,300+ digital books in 45+ languages. Each book also comes with English translations to help kids learn other world languages.
Digital access to the Pulitzer Prize-winning NYT, the paper founded in 1851 and ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The Times has long been regarded within the industry as a national “newspaper of record.”
Digital access to the Pulitzer Prize-winning NYT, the paper founded in 1851 and ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The Times has long been regarded within the industry as a national “newspaper of record.”
Newspaper Source Plus
A full-text digital collection of the world’s major news content, including articles from newspapers, newswires, and news magazines as well as TV and radio transcripts from popular news sources.
Newspapers.com Library Edition-World Collection
Historical newspaper archive from the 1700s through 2000s, containing thousands of well-known regional, state, and small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.
NoveList
A trusted source of read-alike recommendations to help find your next favorite read. Use the filters to locate materials by topic, author, similarity to other books, mentioned in the media, and more.
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NoveListK-8
A trusted source of read-alike recommendations specifically for younger readers to help find books that are just right for reading level and interest. Also provides tools for adults to engage young readers.
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Overdrive
Borrow eBooks, audiobooks, and streaming video for free using your library card and an electronic device. OverDrive’s catalog includes more than 2 million digital titles from more than 5,000 publishers.
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Regional Business News
Full-text regional business publications from the U.S. and Canadian provinces. Search newspapers, magazines, and other resources from trusted news sources.
TeachingBooks
An engaging collection of resources that brings books to life. TeachingBooks strives to enrich everyone’s experience reading children’s and young adult books with our original and curated literary resources.
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Transparent Language
Combining extensive courses and supplemental resources for more than 100 languages Transparent Language is a complete language-learning system with mobile and desktop formats.
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TumbleBooks eBook Library
Animated, talking picture books that teach children the joy of reading in a format they’ll love. Children can read these electronic picture books … or have them read to them.
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U.S. Newsstream
U.S. news from the 1980s to current, featuring content from key national and regional sources including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, and more than 80 Gannett titles.
The Wall Street Journal
Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of breaking news and current headlines from the U.S. and around the world. Access top stories, photos, videos, detailed analysis, and in-depth articles.
Wisconsin Historical Society Family History
Family history-related government records from the Wisconsin Historical Society’s collections made available for free to Wisconsinites through a partnership with Ancestry.
Wisconsin Newspapers Archive
Full-text archived from more than 250 daily and weekly Wisconsin newspapers from 90 days ago to 2005, as well as 13 historical newspapers from the 1800s and 1900s.
The Yellow Pages
The original source to find and connect with local plumbers, handymen, mechanics, attorneys, dentists, and more is now online.