Digital Library & Research
Resources and Databases are available online 24/7 from your library.
Some of our Digital Library databases require you to create your own account once inside their system and may require verifying your library card number. Please call or visit one of our libraries if you have any questions.
GALE includes a variety of resources, like Home Improvement, Health Matters, Homework Helpers, Small Business Resources, and much, much more! Also find general interest magazines, research subjects, and key serials in a single resource.
Choose to browse by subject or theme – get started here.
Downloadable & Streaming Materials
Libby from Overdrive
Download eBooks, eAudiobooks, and music to your digital devices using your library card. Choose from thousands of current best sellers and popular authors.
Kanopy
Get free access to thousands of movies with your library card. Stream critically-acclaimed movies, inspiring documentaries, tv series, KanopyKids, and more! Start here to create an account, then download the app to stream from your device.
Author Talks
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders! Enjoy live author interviews or watch the replay with your Book Club. Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
BiblioBoard
The Washington State Library has a new collection of ebooks. Highlights for youth include the Kids and Teen Comics collections as well as Young Adult collections of Fantasy & Sci-Fi and Mystery & Action.
The Palace Project
Palace Bookshelf provides free access to more than 19,000 eBooks via the free Palace e-reader app for iOS or Android. Choose Palace Bookshelf as your library. All titles are free to download.
BiblioBoard
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.
Digital Literacy - Computer & Job Skills
LinkedIn Learning
Learn software, technology, creative, and/or business skills to achieve your personal and professional goals! Create an account with your library card and PIN, then choose from over 16,000+ courses in seven languages, taught by recognized industry experts.
Northstar Digital Literacy
Learn It - Know It - Show It! Northstar Digital Literacy tests your computer skills and helps you build skills in key areas while demonstrating your knowledge by earning certificates and badges. Validate your computer with PIN YQMD to save progress to your account!
Northstar - Internet Basics
A Mobile Friendly, direct link to multiple computer basics mini-courses, such as connecting and navigating the internet, finding what you need online, and staying safe from scammers. Validate with PIN YQMD to save progress to your account!
Digital Learn
If you are new to computers, haven't used them for a while, are a little unsure and uncomfortable, or just need a bit of a refresher, this resource provides the tools to help you tackle technology at your own pace. No login required.
Grow with Google
Training, tools, and resources to help you grow your skills, career, or business.
Microsoft Learn
Whether you're just starting your digital literacy experience or an experienced IT professional, our hands-on approach helps you arrive at your goals faster, with more confidence and at your own pace. Find Learning Paths, ask questions in the Student Hub, and more!
SkillUp
This non-profit helps job seekers and workers find training, skills, and connections with high-growth, good-wage jobs that don't require a degree. Free coaching, job matching, and opportunities with "earn-and-learn" companies.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense, a non-profit, is "dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive."
Typetastic!
Discover a world of fundamental tech skills and interactive fun, gamified learning that helps "students to become productive, safe, and responsible digital citizens." **Can contain advertisements with free account**
Student & Life-Long Learning Resources
LinkedIn Learning
Learn software, technology, creative, and/or business skills to achieve your personal and professional goals! Create an account with your library card and PIN, then choose from over 16,000+ courses in seven languages, taught by recognized industry experts.
(formerly Lynda.com)
Driving Tests
Driving Tests is a partnership with Driving-Tests.org. Take practice tests for permits, motorcycles, and CDL exams or browse handbooks for all three. Available in English and en Espanol.
Mango Languages
An award-winning language learning resource. Click "Sign Up" to create an account that allows you to save your progress, or sign in as a guest with your library card number. **New for 2024: American Sign Language module! **
Intelligent
Higher education student resources to help make informed decisions for your future. Includes blog posts for self-improvements, resources for previously incarcerated individuals, information on degree programs, and much more.
Gale
GALE includes a variety of resources, like Home Improvement, Health Matters, Homework Helpers, Small Business Resources, and much, much more! Also find general interest magazines, research subjects, and key serials in a single resource. Choose to browse by subject or theme.
Digital Public Library of America
Discover 52,481,575 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States! The Digital Public Library of America empowers people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse and better-functioning society by maximizing access to our shared history, culture, and knowledge.
Research Resources
Mango Languages
An award-winning language learning resource. Click "Sign Up" to create an account that allows you to save your progress, or sign in as a guest with your library card number.
Gale
GALE includes a variety of resources, like Home Improvement, Health Matters, Homework Helpers, Small Business Resources, and much, much more! Also find general interest magazines, research subjects, and key serials in a single resource. Choose to browse by subject or theme.
FactCheck.org
A "nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics." Check sources with factual accuracy from ads, debates, speeches and more.
Novelist
A fiction database that provides reviews, annotations, and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles.
Washington State Library Digital Collection & Resources
The Washington State Library offers several digital collections from its many historical resources. All of these collections will continue to grow as more books, maps, newspapers and manuscripts are scanned.
Digital Public Library of America
Discover 52,481,575 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States! The Digital Public Library of America empowers people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse and better-functioning society by maximizing access to our shared history, culture, and knowledge.
Google News
Search hundreds of archived newspapers from around the world.
Library of Congress: Chronicling America
Chronicling America contains more than 16 million word-searchable newspaper pages from 1777-1963, covering 48 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The headlines, articles and advertisements capture the life and times of the American people, shining new light on historic events as they unfolded.
Photographs/Digital Materials
Search the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) to find catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress.