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Whatever your goal, Learning Express Library’s resources will help you succeed. Each of the Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life.

Learning Express Library’s resources are organized by topic into different Learning Centers, so whatever your reason for visiting Learning Express Library, everything you need can be found in one place. For example, if you are preparing for the GED, the GED Learning Center has practice tests, essays, and tutorial lessons to help you do your best.

Looking to land a job? You’ll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that’s right for you.

Learning Express Library contains practice test tutorials, basic skills courses, and computer software tutorials. Improve your reading, writing , business or math skills. It allows you to answer, save, return to and score questions on practice versions of such standard tests as FCAT, SAT, ACT, GED, ASVAB, U.S. Citizenship and a range of academic and career tests. Start Learning Express Library

• Online practice tests that are true previews of the official exams.
• Instant scoring and individual analysis to help improve your test score.
• Explanations of both right and wrong answers to promote understanding and retention.
• The ability to proceed at your own pace and on your own schedule.
• Unlimited access – repeat exams as many times as you need to.

Computer Skills

The Learning Express Library Computer Skills Module features multimedia tutorials in Microsoft Office and Windows, including Office 2007 and Windows Vista. Courses are available for both Windows and Mac computers. Master computer applications most commonly used in schools, the workplace and at home. The New & Improved Computer Skills tutorials do not require installation of any software or plug-ins, are easier to use with increased functionality and include discussions, demos, quizzes and assessments to track and monitor progress. In addition, interactive practice labs allow users to apply what they have learned. Most courses contain a Basic, Intermediate and Advanced level 2008 versions are for Microsoft Office Macintosh. 

eBooks on Learning Express Library

Learning Express Library has a complete library of hundreds of searchable e-books covering academic test preparation, reading skills, civil service exams, real estate, parent guides, math skills, health occupations, miltary tests, workplace skills, writing skills career tools, science and U.S Citizenship. Learning Express provides study guides and test-preparation books to help people prepare for high-stakes tests—to advance in school, or pass licensing, certification, or competitive entry-level exams. See the list of eBooks available 

Note:  These courses require Adobe Flash Player 8.0 or higher. Click here to download Adobe Flash Player. This version is for Windows operating systems.

Guided Video Tutorials:

• Learning Express Library Guided Tour
• Accessing LearningExpress Library
• Finding Tests, Courses, and eBooks
• About the Learning Centers
• About My Center
• Navigating LearningExpress Library
• Finding Help
• What’s New in LearningExpress Library Version 2.0?

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U.S. History in Context delivers comprehensive, contextual, media-rich search results from the most extensive online collection of historical information available today.

Providing a complete overview of U.S. history that covers the most-studied events, issues and current information, it combines documents from Primary Source Microfilm’s™ digital archives; articles from classic Macmillan Reference USA™ and Charles Scribner’s Sons® references; as well as other Gale proprietary content such as country and era overview information, and full-text periodicals and journals. Unlike other sources that only offer periodical or bibliographic information, this broad collection of full-text periodicals, reference works, primary documents and scholarly analysis includes:

• More than 185,000 reference articles, including the best titles from Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner’s Sons® and other top publishers
• Select articles from more than 95 new Gale reference titles not previously available
• 613,000+ periodical articles from respected publications like Newsweek, American Heritage and The Historian
• Easy to search galleries containing more than 73,000 images and 1,500+ seals, maps and flags
• More than 9,100 viewpoint essays
• Nearly 5,000 primary documents
• Video and audio from NBC, NPR and other reliable sources
• The ability to cross-search World History in Context

Not only does this online solution provide the interactive content in context required by 21st-century learners, it surpasses all other electronic sources in providing integrated access to such diverse and rare primary source material as:

• Louis Banks
  A Hobo Remembers the Great Depression
• Bill Clinton
  Remarks on the Oklahoma City Bombing, April 23, 1995
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Farewell address
• Ulysses S. Grant
  Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America
• Saddam Hussein
  Hussein’s Speech Upon Withdrawal from Kuwait, February 26, 1991
• Text of NAFTA, 1993
• And millions more

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Open seven days a week, 24 hours a day, the Kentucky Virtual Library (KYVL) is dedicated to supplying all Kentuckians with a comprehensive and dynamic collection of information resources. The databases supplied through KYVL are paid for by collaborative efforts of state, public, academic and school libraries.  To access KYVL, visit one of the Library’s branches – OR *contact the Reference librarians for a password (cardholder status must be verified to receive current username and password).

The mission of KYVL is to provide all Kentuckians with equitable access to library resources and to a common foundation of quality online information for lifelong learning, working and living.

KYVL databases include:

EBSCOhost Databases (follow link for full details)

Elementary School Portal:
The Kentuckiana Digital Library is your gateway to rare and unique digitized collections housed in Kentucky archives. These digital collections are built to enhance scholarship, research and lifelong learning.	Kid’s Search
Amazing Animals of the WorldAmazing Animals of the World is published by Scholastic Library Publishing, Inc. It is based on the print series of the same title. Amazing Animals was engineered by Grolier Interactive. It supports Netscape 4.5 and above and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and above.	Searchasaurus
New Book of KnowledgeThe New Book of Knowledge is published by Scholastic Inc. from The New Book of Knowledge database, a 7-million-word repository of text and images maintained by the encyclopedia’s editorial staff. NBK was engineered by Grolier Interactive. It supports Netscape 4.5 and above and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and above.

Middle School Portal:
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (Middle – High School)The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is published by Grolier Online, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is derived from the Academic American Encyclopedia database, an 11-million-word repository of text and images maintained by the encyclopedia’s editorial and technical staff.	Student Research Center
Proquest - 2 Databases Alt-PressWatch - This database provides full-text articles for over 210 publications of the alternative and independent presses, from 1970 to current. Proquest Career and Technical Eduation - ProQuest Career & Technical Education is the definitive source for vocational information. The database includes nearly 600 titles, with more than 500 available in full text for quick access to research on virtually any technical topic.	Kid’s Search
Worldcat - Search for books and other media from libraries around the world.  Find something you’d like that the Library doesn’t have? Try requesting it through Interlibrary Loan.

High School Portal:
Encyclopedia Americana is one of the largest general encyclopedias in the English language. Following the acquisition of Grolier in 2000, the encyclopedia has been produced by Scholastic.	EBSCOhost Databases
Student Research Center	NoveList
Proquest	Worldcat

College/University Students/Adult Learners Portal:
Encyclopedia Americana	EBSCOhost Databases
Business Source Premier	Proquest
Worldcat

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 Supporting high school curricula and university coursework, Science in Context features authoritative information for assignments and projects, and provides detailed coverage of popular subjects. From earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history and biography, this revolutionary, this curriculum-oriented online experience is designed to boost achievement for students and researchers.

Science in Context delivers delivers integrated content through 150+ comprehensive reference sets from Gale Encyclopedia of Science, Chemical Elements, Science in Disputeand Macmillan Science Library, as well as:

• More than 22,000 topic overviews
• 7,000 biographies
• 1.5 million periodical articles from noted publications like Science Weekly, Science News and The Science Teacher
• 16,000 images and videos
• 170+ detailed experiments
• 8,100 biographies
• Two dictionaries

Guided Video Tutorials:

• Navigating the Homepage (1:13)
• Searching (1:29)
• Topic Pages and Documents (2:46)

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A search interface designed specifically for primary & lower secondary school students combines a state-of-the-art search engine (powered by EBSCOhost®) with a child-friendly, graphically rich design that is both powerful and fun to use Search EBSCO’s American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, EBSCO Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Image  Collection, and Primary Search databases.
Filter search results by source type and choose to add search results, images, or persistent links to searches to your personal Folder.

Things to Know For Searching:

• You might need to type different versions of the same words to get all the results. For example, if you type “mountain” in the search box it will search for the word “mountain” as well as “mountains.” However, if you type in “mountains” (plural) it will only search for the plural version. It will leave out all the results that include the word “mountain.” Also if you type in “child” you will need to do another search for “children” as the single term will not search this type of plural.
• You can make your search more specific and accurate by picking where you search. So if you type in “tiger” in the main box, it will search all the categories. However, if you click on the category “animals” and choose a few of the subtopics provided and then type “tiger” in the search box, it will only search the animal categories you picked…giving you less results to look through.
• Clicking on the Detailed Search link at the top of the home page will also allow you to limit your search, not only by subject but by type of information. So if you only wanted biographies and magazines articles, you could go to Detail Search and choose to only search those areas.
• For more help searching, click the Help link in the upper right hand corner of the page. On the page that appears, look at the advice listed under the heading of Searching. There is also an online tutorial for searching under the heading Welcome.

Things to Know For Your Results:

• Results are divided by type, dictionary entries, biographies, etc.
• You can print, email, or save your results. When doing so it will give you the option to save, print, or email in a certain citation format like APA or MLA.
• You can limit your results by lexile (reading) levels. Here is a breakdown of these levels:
  

  Chart for lexile levels (reading levels by grade)

  Grade	Text Measures (from the Lexile Map)
  Grade 1	200 to 400
  Grade 2	300 to 500
  Grade 3	500 to 700
  Grade 4	650 to 850
  Grade 5	750 to 950
  Grade 6	850 to 1050
  Grade 7	950 to 1075
  Grade 8	1000 to 1100
  Grade 9	1050 to 1150
  Grade 10	1100 to 1200
  Grade 11 & Grade 12	1100 to 1300

Guided Video Tutorial:

Kids Search

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Three popular primary education databases (Primary Search^®, Middle Search^® Plusand Book Collection: Nonfiction™) can be accessed via Searchasaurus^®, EBSCO Publishing’s user search experience for users in primary education. Searchasaurusis an exciting and easy way for young researchers to experience online searching. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages students to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. Students will be riveted by the colorful, animated interface, complete with erupting volcanoes and a dinosaur guide, as they gather information on a wide range of topics. Searchasaurus offers Lexile limiters (reading level), making it easy for students to read and research only appropriately challenging materials.

Guided Video Tutorial:

Searchasaurus

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EBSCOhost web features a variety of databases brought to you by the vendor, EBSCOhost.\

Databases included in EBSCOhost web are (click on each database for a detailed description):

EBSCOhost web is also available in three foreign languages:

1. EBSCOhost Espanol
2. EBSCOhost Deutsch
3. EBSCOhost Francais