Practice tests, interactive tutorials, and ebooks for students adult learners. Includes practices tests such as GED, GRE, SAT, TEAS, and supports those looking to improve core academic skills, pass a high school equivalency test, prepare for college, join the military, obtain occupational certification, find a job, change careers, become a US citizen and much more.

Northstar's free, interactive, audio-based Digital Literacy Assessment allows users to demonstrate their digital skills and identify areas in which they need further education. Northstar Online Learning provides free, interactive, audio-based tutorials for the areas identified by the assessment.

Learn something new today! Over 600 online non-credit continuing education courses.

Learn about careers that are available in the Centralina region, pay well, and are a good fit for you and your life goals.

See career information in visual, interactive, and easy-to-understand dashboards.

Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive resource that enables users to explore industries and careers, plan their education, and research best practices for resumes, cover letters, interviewing, networking and salaries/benefits. The database includes articles, career advice blogs and streaming video.

NC LIVE offers free electronic access to resources for all ages on topics ranging from careers, business, and investing, to health, history, and genealogy. EBooks, audiobooks, videos, magazines, newspapers, journals, language-learning tools, and other online materials available through NC LIVE are designed for at-home use, and are available from any Internet connection via library websites

A readers’ advisory resource that uses appeal factors and expert reviews to offer read-alike and listen-alike recommendations for fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks.

Northstar's free, interactive, audio-based Digital Literacy Assessment allows users to demonstrate their digital skills and identify areas in which they need further education. Northstar Online Learning provides free, interactive, audio-based tutorials for the areas identified by the assessment.

Transparent Language Online provides a fun, effective, and engaging experience for learners of all levels looking to build their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in a foreign language. Combining robust courses, supplemental vocabulary, extensive grammar resources, and mobile apps, Transparent Language Online is the most complete language-learning system.

Learn something new today! Over 600 online non-credit continuing education courses.

NC LIVE offers free electronic access to resources for all ages on topics ranging from careers, business, and investing, to health, history, and genealogy. EBooks, audiobooks, videos, magazines, newspapers, journals, language-learning tools, and other online materials available through NC LIVE are designed for at-home use, and are available from any Internet connection via library websites

Magazines and journals covering consumer health topics, such as sports injuries, women's health, food and nutrition, midwifery, eye care and dentistry.

Learn something new today! Over 600 online non-credit continuing education courses.

Clinical research plus consumer and health administration titles.

NC LIVE offers free electronic access to resources for all ages on topics ranging from careers, business, and investing, to health, history, and genealogy. EBooks, audiobooks, videos, magazines, newspapers, journals, language-learning tools, and other online materials available through NC LIVE are designed for at-home use, and are available from any Internet connection via library websites

Online guide to quality health and medical information and local health services throughout North Carolina.

Common diseases and conditions, health promotion and wellness, drugs info, medical dictionaries and more.

Business research of journals, trade publications, market research reports, dissertations and working papers.​

Company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources: OxResearch from Oxford Analytica, Snapshots and Hoover's Company Profiles.

Full articles from the Wall Street Journal (1981-current).

Reports on issues shaping our world, with in-depth coverage of political and social issues, such as health, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.

Reference and research tool providing instant, real-time access to accurate, in-depth information on 24 million U.S. businesses and 235 million U.S. residents. Data-Axle makes it faster and easier to find new business opportunities, research executives and companies, find news articles, conduct job searches, research papers, locate addresses and phone numbers, conduct market research and much more

Collection of product reviews and recommendations for cars, appliances, electronics, personal finance and health information.

NC LIVE offers free electronic access to resources for all ages on topics ranging from careers, business, and investing, to health, history, and genealogy. EBooks, audiobooks, videos, magazines, newspapers, journals, language-learning tools, and other online materials available through NC LIVE are designed for at-home use, and are available from any Internet connection via library websites

An authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.

Information for entrepreneurs and researchers that includes business start-up plans, video clips, journals, business cases and more.

Research and independent opinion on thousands of mutual funds, stocks and ETFs.

Newspapers.com North Carolina Collection. 3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 NC county newspapers.

Information about North Carolina, its history, government and educational institutions.

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) provides access to millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images and more from libraries, archives and museums across the U.S. Find primary sources to use in school projects, academic research, family history research and more.

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

Explore original materials from 304 libraries, museums, and archives across North Carolina.

Discover your family history through the world's largest collection of free family trees and genealogy records compiled by the Church of Latter Day Saints.

The North Carolina Gazetteer is a dictionary of North Carolina's geographical place names documenting their location, history and origins.

Digital Sanborn Maps (1867-1970) for North Carolina delivers detailed property and land-use records that depict the grid of everyday life in 158 North Carolina towns and cities across a century of change.

A genealogy resource of military, court, land, probate, vital and church records, directories, passenger lists and more.

Treasury of American genealogical sources: unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Includes historical census, PERSI, Revolutionary War records, and more.

Online access to Cabarrus County deed transactions dating from 192 to the present.

NC LIVE offers free electronic access to resources for all ages on topics ranging from careers, business, and investing, to health, history, and genealogy. EBooks, audiobooks, videos, magazines, newspapers, journals, language-learning tools, and other online materials available through NC LIVE are designed for at-home use, and are available from any Internet connection via library websites

The newspaper industry's leading provider of online obituaries.

Full-text, searchable, local news content, 2008-present, from the Independent Tribune via NewsBank, including special reports about current topics.

Interactive, data-layered county map.

Search historical content from the Kannapolis Daily Independent (1938-1994) and more than 200 other NC newspapers.

Features premier collections of original military records. These records include the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served in the military. Many of the records come from the U.S. National archives, The National Archives of the U.K. and other international records.

A free resource for finding the final resting places of famous folds, friends and family members. With millions of names, it's an invaluable tool for genealogical research.

Primary source information, including birth, death and cemetery records and ship logs.

Explore past issues of Our State, one of North Carolina's longest running and most popular magazines. First published in 1933, The State (as it was known until 1996) features stories about North Carolina's people, places, and history. 1933 - 2018

History and literature ebooks, including the series Daily Life, Critical Companions, Literature in Context, as well as American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography.

EBooks from a variety of North Carolina publishers. Includes popular and scholarly nonfiction, novels by well-known NC authors, and award-winning short fiction and poetry.

NC LIVE offers free electronic access to resources for all ages on topics ranging from careers, business, and investing, to health, history, and genealogy. EBooks, audiobooks, videos, magazines, newspapers, journals, language-learning tools, and other online materials available through NC LIVE are designed for at-home use, and are available from any Internet connection via library websites

A collection of eBooks and digital audiobooks that can be downloaded to your computer, tablet (including Kindle) or mobile device. Also accessible via Overdrive's Libby app.

A wide range of eBooks, comics, audiobooks, music, movies and more. Hoopla spans genres and age groups with titles that entertain and are educational.

NC Kids Level Up offers e-books and audiobooks. This collection is designed for youth 4th though 8th grade. It offers youth fiction, non-fiction and more. No holds are allowed on NC Kids Level Up items.

NC Kids Digital Library offers e-books, audiobooks and read-alongs. This collection is designed for youth pre-K through 4th grade. It includes picture books, youth fiction, non-fiction and more. No holds are allowed on NC Digital Kids Library items.

History and literature ebooks, including the series Daily Life, Critical Companions, Literature in Context, as well as American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography.

Designed specifically for elementary and middle school students, SIRS Discoverer offers articles, nonfiction books, images, activities, and websites curated for educational relevance, age appropriateness, and readability.

Practice tests, interactive tutorials, and ebooks for students adult learners. Includes practices tests such as GED, GRE, SAT, TEAS, and supports those looking to improve core academic skills, pass a high school equivalency test, prepare for college, join the military, obtain occupational certification, find a job, change careers, become a US citizen and much more.

A premier virtual reference collection including encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, images, audio files, and videos in a wide expanse of subject areas.

Research the pros and cons of current issues and enduring social issues through full-text articles, multimedia, primary sources, government documents and reference materials.

The Just for Kids Streaming Collection gives children - and their parents - a thoroughly kid-safe, advertisement-free media platform they can freely explore and enjoy.

Applied and general science articles covering topics such as global warming, alternative energy sources, robotic engineering, genetically modified food, and more.

NC LIVE offers free electronic access to resources for all ages on topics ranging from careers, business, and investing, to health, history, and genealogy. EBooks, audiobooks, videos, magazines, newspapers, journals, language-learning tools, and other online materials available through NC LIVE are designed for at-home use, and are available from any Internet connection via library websites

An authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.

NC Kids Level Up offers e-books and audiobooks. This collection is designed for youth 4th though 8th grade. It offers youth fiction, non-fiction and more. No holds are allowed on NC Kids Level Up items.

NC Kids Digital Library offers e-books, audiobooks and read-alongs. This collection is designed for youth pre-K through 4th grade. It includes picture books, youth fiction, non-fiction and more. No holds are allowed on NC Digital Kids Library items.