Books and Authors

Answer the age-old question, ?What do I read next?? Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.

LitFinder

Access literary works and authors throughout history, including full-text poems, plays, short stories, speeches, and more.

Business

Understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through leading business and trade publications. Updated daily.

Entrepreneurship

Learn how to start, finance, or manage your small business. Includes sample business plans, how to guides, articles, and more.

Florida Small Business Development Center

Access to no-cost consulting, affordable and high-quality resources, innovative tools, and the knowledge of experienced small business experts

New York Times

NYTimes.com U.S. and International Edition. Redeem Code & Set Up Your Login Once. Redeem code each day from this page. Use your same login everyday

Value Line

Investment research on companies, industries, markets and economies.

Wall Street Journal

Login with your Library Card & PIN. Set up your login once. After 3-Days, click link again and use same login

Academic OneFile

Quickly access articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals. Best for academic research.

Access World News

A comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.

CloudLibrary NewsStand

Thousands of digital magazines and newspapers. Access from your browser or from one of the device apps.

Consumer Reports

Access to Consumer Reports ratings and reviews, recommendations and buying advice for thousands of products and services, including cars, appliances & electronics.

Flipster

Access to Consumer Reports, Consumer Reports Buying Guide, The New Yorker, People, The Atlantic, and Essence digital magazines.

Florida Newspaper Database

Full-text journals with a focus on the State of Florida.

General OneFile

Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Best for general research.

New York Times

NYTimes.com U.S. and International Edition. Redeem Code & Set Up Your Login Once. Redeem code each day from this page. Use your same login everyday

Sumter County Times Collection

Local newspaper dating back to 2008.

Wall Street Journal

Login with your Library Card & PIN. Set up your login once. After 3-Days, click link again and use same login

CloudLibrary

Borrow and stream audiobooks, ebooks, and digital magazines.

Gale eBooks

Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.

Hoopla

Borrow and stream audiobooks, ebooks, movies, TV shows, music, and comics.

LibriVox

Free public domain audiobooks

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks.

Ancestry

*In Library Use Only

Heritagehub

Access to hundreds of years of obituaries and death notices from newspapers and funeral homes throughout the United States.

Accelerated Reader Bookfinder - Renaissance

Find appropriate Accelerated Reader books and articles.

Beanstack

Online reading program.

Ebooks for Students

Access for our local schools

Elementary

Introduce elementary students to database searching with resources featuring age-appropriate, curriculum-related content.

Gale eBooks

Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.

High School

Search magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference on a range of topics. Best for middle- and high-school students.

Hoopla

Borrow and stream audiobooks, ebooks, movies, TV shows, music, and comics.

Kanopy Kids

Collection of content for children, with a focus on ages 2-8.

LibriVox

Free public domain audiobooks

Middle School

Explore the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, history, literature, and more.

Peterson’s Career Prep

Learn about careers, receive personalized recommendations, create resumes, search for jobs and schools and get career advice.

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks.

Hoopla

Borrow and stream audiobooks, ebooks, movies, TV shows, music, and comics.

Kanopy

Access to thousands of movies.

Freegal

Offering over 18 million songs belonging to 200+ genres.

Hoopla

Borrow and stream audiobooks, ebooks, movies, TV shows, music, and comics.

Driving Practice Tests

Florida DMV practice tests and references to help find the correct answers when taking the test.

Duolingo

The free, fun, and effective way to learn a language!

Fueleconomy.gov

The official U.S. government source for fuel economy information

Learning Express

An easy-to-use online test prep resource that helps people improve their core academic skills, earn a high school equivalency, prepare for college, join the military, obtain occupational certification, change careers, become a U.S. citizen and much more.

Peterson’s Career Prep

Learn about careers, receive personalized recommendations, create resumes, search for jobs and schools and get career advice.

Educator’s Reference Complete

Gain insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. Best for educators, administrators, and education students.

Health and Medicine

Find up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals.

Health and Wellness

Search a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices.

Informe Académico

Search across full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines from and about Latin America.

Power Search

Gale PowerSearch is a search platform unlike any other, providing libraries with a sophisticated yet simple solution for managing a wealth of periodical, reference, multimedia and primary source information.