Craft & Hobby offers online tutorials for a wide range of creative hobbies and skills. Click here or on the icon above and enter your library card number to access the 4000+ hours of content.
Get help with homework through live tutoring or the writing lab. Learning resources for high school and college topics, college placement tests, ESL courses and study aids, nursing school, ASVAB, Praxis, and more!
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Funding for this product is provided by the State Library of Iowa and Friends of DCL.
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HelpNow offers live tutor access for homework help, skills building and test preparation where after taking a quiz, the user can connect directly to a live tutor from the test center without having to return to the main page.
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Funding for this product is provided by the State Library of Iowa and Friends of DCL.
Brainfuse’s JobNow is an online resource for job help and career services. A variety of tools are available, including live resume and interview coaching.
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Funding for this product is provided by the State Library of Iowa and Friends of DCL.
Reference Solutions is a powerful online reference and research tool providing library cardholders instant, real-time access to accurate, in-depth information on U.S. businesses (59 million) and U.S. residents (310 million).
Reference Solutions 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 more.
Use the Business Database to:
- Conduct job searches
- Look for sales leads
- Find new business opportunities
- Locate out-of-town companies
- Find key business people contact information
- Locate suppliers
- Analyze competitors
Rely on the Residential Data to:
- Plan weddings or family reunions
- Organize class reunions
- Find neighbors or long-lost friends
Search the Consumer Lifestyle Database to:
- Conduct market research
- Target new customers
- Discover customer preferences
- View prospective individual customer demographics
- Analyze community demographics
- Identify new residents in a specific area
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Funding for this resource is provided by Friends of Drake Community Library.
Mango is an award-winning language learning resource for individuals and organizations around the world. The only single solution that combines quality content, intelligent technology, and an adaptive algorithm that delivers practical phrases from real situations. It is language learning that is centered around you.
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Funding for this resource is provided by Friends of Drake Community Library.
The library is excited to provide online searching for area newspapers that are in the public domain (anything before 1925). We will add additional years as they move into the public domain or when we can otherwise gain copyright permission to do so.
This project is funded by the Friends of DCL.
The online search interface is provided by Advantage Archives, a Cedar Rapids company providing newspaper digitization throughout Iowa and beyond.
The library offers access to Heritage Quest and Ancestry Library Edition. Our Genealogy Page also links to resources related to research of families in the Grinnell and Poweshiek County area.
Funding for these resources is provided by Friends of Drake Community Library.
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The People’s Law Library of Iowa is an easy-to-understand, basic information website about the law. The site is for users with no prior knowledge of law or legal topics. This website is a good starting point for understanding some legal issues such as consumer law, family law and landlord/tenant issues. The website contains video explanations of some topics, as well as navigation and training videos for how to best use the website.
Iowa DOT Driver’s Resources
The Iowa DOT has comprehensive resources available on their website, including the driver’s, CDL, and motorcycle manuals and practice tests. They also provide an app for the Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) test app that can be used on mobile devices. Information is also available on this site regarding license and registration and used vehicle sale and purchase.