Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
Literary criticism, author biographies, and business resources. Includes Twayne's and Scribner.
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Heritage Quest
Find ancestors in the complete set of U.S. Federal Census images from 1790-1940, including name indexes for many years. Find information on people and places described in over 28,000 family and local histories.
History Reference Center
EBSCO's History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
Exclusive articles from the EBSCO databases covering over 140 topics, as well as many other periodicals, books and videos that focus on categories commonly referred to as hobbies and crafts; available in high-quality PDF format.
HomeworkLouisiana
Live Online Tutoring, Skills Builder, Homework help and tutoring for K through basic college level, Writing Center, Career Center, and Adult Education Center.
Knowledge City
KnowledgeCity is a state-of-the-art professional development platform with more than 13,000 online video tutorials in critical business skills, including topics like leadership, communication, computer programs, marketing, sales, and more. All courses are taught by industry experts and university professors. New content is added every month.
Learning Express Library
LearningExpress Library offers instantly scored licensing, certification, and aptitude practice tests, online career preparation, and vital information for a wide variety of occupations.
Legal Forms
The most extensive legal forms site available to library patrons has thousands of legal forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues for areas such as business, personal, litigation, and federal.
Legal Information Reference Center
Provides online full text from EBSCO for many of the top consumer legal reference books and contains more than 310 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms.
Literary Reference Center
Information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Information Services.
Literature Criticism Online with Biographies
The largest curated online collection of literary criticism in the world, this resource brings together 10 acclaimed multidisciplinary series representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras, and genres.
Louisiana Digital Library
An online library of over 144,000 digital materials about Louisiana's history, culture, places, and people.
Louisiana Jobs & Career Center
LAJaCC pulls together resources for those seeking new careers, changing jobs, needing a little extra help preparing for the job market, online one-on-one tutoring and access to free workforce development classes.
Louisiana Public Library eBook Collection
Gateway to multiple resources providing eBooks and Audiobooks to Louisiana Public Library users of all ages.
Names & Place Index
An alphabetical listing of names, places, and organizations from the Bossier Banner newspaper.
Newspapers
Links to free newspaper sites in Louisiana and in other states.
Newspapers.com
Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 300+ million pages of historical newspapers from 7,600+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond. Newspapers provide a unique view of the past and can help us understand and connect with the people, events and attitudes of an earlier time.
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Learn one of 80 languages, practice English as a Second Language or study for the citizenship test.