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Career & Test Prep
| Ferguson's Career Guidance Center Explore careers and best practices for job searching, take a career interest assessment. |
| LearningExpress Library 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 U.S. citizen and much more. |
| NC Driver License Practice Test Review the NC Driver's Manual and practice for the test with sample questions. |
| NCWorks Online Complete set of employment tools for job seekers in North Carolina. Search jobs, create résumés, find education and training. |
eBooks
| eBook Central Find scholarly ebooks on all subjects. |
| HomeGrown eBooks Collection 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. |
| Hoopla Audio and ebooks on a variety of topics. An app is available. Users will need to make a personal account to use this resource. Select NC Live as your library. |
| OpenLibrary Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read free library books online. |
History & Genealogy
| Clayton History The library has collected an ongoing historical collection of the Clayton area homes, businesses, and family heritage. |
| DigitalNC The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing organization housed at UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library. |
| HeritageQuest Treasury of American genealogical sources: unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Includes historical census, PERSI, Revolutionary War records, and more. |
| Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection Newspapers.com North Carolina Collection. 3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 NC county newspapers. Years 1751-1999 |
| Sanborn Maps Produced for over a century, more than 660,000 Sanborn maps chart the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Sanborn maps are large-scale plans of a city or town, drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. |
Language Learning
| Transparent Language Online 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. With over 110 languages to choose from, including English for speakers of over 30 languages, there is something for every learner. |
Newspapers & Magazines
| MasterFILE Premier Magazines and other publications covering many subject areas including business, health, education, science and culture. |
| New York Times Full articles from the New York Times (1980-current). |
| US Newsstream News content from many national and international newspapers, newswires and selected news magazines. |
| Wall Street Journal Full articles from the Wall Street Journal (1981-current). |
| Washington Post Full articles from The Washington Post (1996-current). |
Readers' Advisory
| NoveList Plus A readers’ advisory resource that uses appeal factors and expert reviews to offer read-alike and listen-alike recommendations for fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks. |
Reference & Homework Help
| Credo Reference A premier virtual reference collection including encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, images, audio files, and videos in a wide expanse of subject areas. |
| Consumer Reports Popular collection of product reviews and recommendations for cars, appliances, electronics, personal finance, and health information. |
| SIRS Discoverer Articles, nonfiction books, activities, and websites intended for elementary and middle school students. |