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Universal Class

Universal Class has a PowerPoint tutorial with the distinct look and feel of an online university. Though it is not an accredited online college, once you sign up and enroll, you're on your way to mastering subjects like Microsoft PowerPoint and even earning continuing education units, or CEUs. Universal Class is an authorized provider for the International Association for Continuing Education and Training, or IACET. Classes are free for Narragansett patrons.

Site navigation for Universal Class is straightforward, which is important for an online-based course. You can find whatever course you need by searching for keywords or course numbers. For each course, you can request additional information with the click of a button.

Universal Class courses last six months, so you can complete lessons at your own pace within that timeframe. However, to help keep you on track, a qualified trainer monitors your progress. Sometimes all you need is that extra boost of motivation from an outside source, especially when you are completing everything online and independently.

Book Info

  Novelist K-8 Plus

   Designed especially for elementary and middle school students, NoveList K-8 Plus is an online database with fiction and nonfiction titles chosen specifically to support the school curriculum as well as the pleasure reading needs of students.

  Novelist Plus

Using NoveList Plus, you can search among hundreds of thousands of popular fiction and readable nonfiction titles, and also retrieve author read-alikes, book lists, book discussion guides, and more. All of this rich editorial content is crafted by librarians and reading authorities who are experts in the field -- making NoveList Plus the premier readers advisory resource.

Today's Tutorial: Finding the Newest Title in a Series 

The library has a number of resources you can access from home (including a car repair database, health information, and academic articles) to use them you need to have your library card number available and click on this Link and choose the appropriate database

Online Newspapers

Find current and archived local, state, regional and national full-text articles on issues, events, people, government and more with over 1,500 newspapers and other news sources including the Narragansett Times (1/21/09-Current), New York Times (1985-Current), and the Washington Post (1977-Current).

http://infoweb.newsbank.com/signin/NarragansettPublicLibrary

Narragansett Times

Search full-text articles on local and state news, issues, events, people are more from (1/21/09-Current).

http://infoweb.newsbank.com/signin/NarragansettPublicLibrary/NTRI

Online Learning Resources

Learning Express

Learning resources for everyone from elementary school students to adult job seekers. Practice your math or grammar skills, prepare for the SAT, study for exams such as CDL or cosmetology. Brush up on your interview skills or business writing. Prepare for your U.S. Citizenship exam. There is something for everyone in this database! Accessible from the library or from a home computer with your library card.

Mango Languages

Mango languages is an online learning tool with basic and complete languages courses for over 20 different languages. Mango also offers English as a Second Language course for speakers of other languages. Learning is fun with these interactive, online courses. Create an account to keep track of your progress and to pick up where you left off. 

Health Info

Medlineplus: a free consumer health database from the National Library of Medicine.

Pubmed:is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.It is geared for health service professionals and acadamics

Job Info

ProJo Jobs

Boston.com.Monster

CT Job Central

Job Hunt :
Free Online Job Search Guide - Help and Links to 11,048 Employers & Resources
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09 Edition  career information from the U.S. government
RED:  Rhode Island Research & Economic Database
RI Dept. of Labor and Training
USAJobs is the offical job site of the United States Federal Government. Its your one stop source for Federal jobs and employment information

Research Info

New features with
EBSCOhost Database

Are you researching a paper for school or college? Looking up a medical condition? Helping your child find information for a science report? We can’t say enough about the benefits of using the EBSCOhost databases. EBSCOhost is an online information resource available to use in the library or from a remote site using your library card (just click on Find an Article under the the basic search screen). The new version, EBSCOhost 2.0, has a new clean look with a Basic Search screen and a Result List loaded with features.

 Tumble Books--ebooks for kids!