Ancestry Library
Learn about your family’s history! Ancestry provides access to vital, census, military and immigration records.
Accessible at the library only.
Learning to drive? Use this resource to read the driver’s manual and to take free practice tests for car, motorcycle and CDL license exams.
Duolingo offers free, bite-size language lessons that feel more like a game than a textbook, and that’s by design: Learning is easier when you’re having fun.
State of Connecticut’s new health and human services portal aimed at providing health and wellness services to Connecticut residents at every stage of life. Some of the resources available include: health benefits eligibility screener, healthy living tools, Insurance and financial resources, and more.
Khan Academy 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. [They] tackle math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including K-14 and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content.
Contains hundreds of resources ― such as tutorials, practice tests, e-books, articles and flashcards ― to help users achieve high school equivalency, explore jobs and careers, prepare for occupational certification exams, and develop the core knowledge and skills that are essential to workplace success.
MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends. It is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library, and a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Looking for your next favorite book? NoveList helps readers identify books and authors they’ll enjoy using read-alike suggestions and genre-related keywords. Great for book clubs!
reseachIT offers free online resources as a service of the CT State Library. Here you will find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles for Connecticut public, K12, and academic libraries and their users. We also offer a collection of downloadable eAudios and eBooks for Connecticut residents with valid CT public library card numbers.
Designed to strengthen early literacy skills while exposing young learners to real-world concepts, it pairs animated videos with non-fiction e-books.