AUTOMOTIVE
Auto Repair Source
Auto Repair Source provides the most accurate, authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles. Powered by the automotive experts at MOTOR, all content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and includes step-by-step repair information, diagrams, maintenance schedules, parts and labor estimates, service bulletins and recalls.
DMV Driving Tests
Practice for your California DMV driving test with online practice tests.
CITIZENSHIP
ProCitizen
ProCitizen is an online citizenship prep course that covers the civics, reading, and writing portions of the US citizenship exam. You’ll find over 100 informative videos, practice exercises, and quizzes.
ProCitizen es un curso de preparación para la ciudadanía en línea que le ayudará a prepararse en las áreas de educación cívica, lectura y escritura que son parte del examen de naturalización de los Estados Unidos. Encontrará más de 100 videos informativos, ejercicios prácticos y concursos.
CONSUMER RESEARCH
Consumer Reports
Make informed purchasing decisions and find expert reviews from the most trusted name in the marketplace. Consumer Reports is an independent, non-profit member organization that incentivizes corporations to act responsibly, and helps policymakers prioritize the rights and interests of consumers in order to shape a truly consumer-driven marketplace. Library access provides unlimited digital access to ratings and reviews, car recall tracker, and Best Time to Buy.
CRAFTS
Creativebug
Enjoy unlimited access to thousands of online art and craft classes using your SLO County Library Card for access. Watch anytime, anywhere. No pressure, just possibilities!
DIRECTORIES
AtoZdatabases
AtoZdatabases offers Marketing and Mailing Lists/Sales Leads. The databases can help with sales leads, mailing lists, market research, and more.
FINANCIAL
Morningstar
Morningstar Investment Research Center provides comprehensive financial information on stocks, funds and ETFs, educational and informative videos, analyst insights and portfolio tools.
Value Line: Library Pro Elite
Streamline your investment strategies. Access Value Line Investment Survey, Small & Mid-Cap Survey, and more.
GENEALOGY
Ancestry - Library Edition
Ancestry Library Edition is a genealogy resource especially for U.S. and Canadian records. Includes census, birth, marriage, death, immigration, military records and more. Also includes some European, Australian and New Zealand records. Access online available on Library Computers only.
HeritageHub
A collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices from newspapers across the country. Includes coverage from all 50 states, hard-to-find content from the mid 1900's, and some original obituary images.
My Heritage Library Edition
One of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases of its kind with access to billions of historical documents, millions of historical photos and other resources in thousands of databases that span the past five centuries.
HEALTH
Medline Plus
Up-to-date information about diseases, medical conditions, treatments, drugs,and health and wellness issues in understandable language.
LIFELONG LEARNING
Brainfuse HelpNow and Adult Learning Center
Discover how the Brainfuse Adult Learning Center can help you, whether you are going back to school, switching jobs, or just want to brush up on an academic skill, the Adult Learning Center is here to help: High School Equivalency preparation, resume and cover letter assistance, and more.
Job & Career Accelerator
Part of EBSCOlearning. This portal contains useful guides and tools to help you with your career.
VetNow
VetNow helps with navigating the VA system and understanding earned benefits, as well as offering workforce tools and job seeking support.
MOBILE LEARNING
LearningExpress Library
A suite of eLearning solutions with interactive tutorials, practice tests, and ebooks for skill building and career development. Learning Centers include Career Prep, Job & Career Accelerator, High School Equivalency Center, College Prep, Grade 4-8 Educator Resources, High School Students, College Students, Adult Core Skills, Basic Computer Skills, and Recursos Para Hispanohablantes.
PRINT MEDIA
Access World News
Find current and archived articles on issues, events, people, government and more with the world's largest collection of full-text news sources. Includes local news, editorials, announcements and other sections from more than 4,700 sources.
Asian Life in America
The experience and impact of Asian Americans as recorded by the news media, 18th century to today.
Hispanic Life in America
The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today.
New York Times
Researchers can now access the New York Times from 1851 to today when you login with your County of SLO library card. After you login with your library card, you will need to create an account with NYT or login with an existing account to view articles. You will land on Today's Paper after you login. If you're a researcher looking for back issues, scroll to the very bottom of the Webpage and look for TimesMachine to enter the archive. If you are on a mobile device, click on Listings & More to find the TimesMachine or use the search function under the menu in the top left of the screen.
Master File Premier
Provides full-text magazines, like Consumer Reports, reference books, and primary source documents. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.
ProCon
Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues. Accurate and unbiased information on over 50 important public issues.
San Luis Obispo Tribune
The SLO Tribune Collection includes an Image format of The Tribune from December 2017-current, a text format from 2000-current, blog articles; and web articles. For today’s Tribune, click on the link under Image format.
Wall Street Journal
24/7 online access to the latest news coverage on the Wall Street Journal website. For award-winning business journalism and unrivaled coverage of global markets, politics, world news, tech, arts and life. Simply click here to login with your library card number.You will then be prompted to create an account.Once you create an account you will get unlimited, paywall free access for the next 3 days. At the end of the 3 day period, you may click the above link again, then login as an existing user, using the same username and password that you first created. Note: The sharing of sign-on credentials is not permitted! Any violation will result in termination of access.
READERS RESOURCES
TeachingBooks for Libraries
Personalize and enjoy digital connections to books for kids and teens in English and Spanish. These digital resources are provided for all Californians by the California State Library.
Novelist Plus
Discover reading suggestions, series information, expert recommendations, articles, lists and more. Includes reviews and title information for audiobooks, fiction, and nonfiction.
STUDENT RESOURCES
ABC Mouse (access anywhere)
ABCmouse.com: With 3,500+ interactive books, educational games, puzzles, and other learning activities, ABCmouse.com’s award-winning online curriculum is an invaluable resource for young learners (ages 2-6+).
Brainfuse
HelpNow is a complete tutoring system consisting of live tutoring, collaboration, and study tools. Connect from the library or on your mobile device with your library card to expert tutors for academic assistance. Spanish speaking tutors are also available. Online tutors are available 7 days a week from 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm Pacific Time, except on major holidays.
Britannica School Edition (From Home)
Britannica School Edition (From Library)
Britannica School is an educational site for students to use for homework help, projects, or learning at home.These digital resources are provided for all California students from the California State Library.
California Missions
California Missions Resource Center provides history, facts, descriptions, images, maps and architectural drawings of the 21 missions. Quality information for students and teachers.
Gale In Context Environmental Studies
Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.These digital resources are provided for all California students from the California State Library.
Gale Interactive Science
Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science.These digital resources are provided for all California students from the California State Library.
National Geographic Kids
Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. Best for children aged 6 -14.These digital resources are provided for all California students from the California State Library.
TeachingBooks.net
Description: a collection of 166,000+ digital materials about children's and young adult books. Find author interviews, video book trailers, read-alongs, discussion questions, vocabulary lists, and more.Username: sanluisobispo Password: teachingbooksK12library. These digital resources are provided for all California students from the California State Library.
Tuition Funding Sources
Tuition Funding Sources is a private website designed to help students find scholarships, college and career information. TFS offers students the largest scholarship database in the world with over $41 Billion in scholarship awards along with a career personality test and detailed college and career information.
TRAVEL / LANGUAGES
Pronunciator
Pronunciator Language Lab - learn any of 80 languages at your own pace. ESL curriculum with courses from 50 non-English languages. Free apps, downloadable audio lessons, speech recognition to test your pronunciation, scored quizzes, features for toddlers to adults.