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Try Our Online Databases

We've got many databases that can help you. Some you can use from your home, school or at the Library and some you can use only at the Library. To use the databases at your home or school, you will need your regular Library card number and a PIN. For more information on getting a card or PIN, click here or call 407.835.7323.
 

Need a tutor's help?
 
You can use:
 
Live Homework Help                          
   
Get live homework help from tutors in math, science, social studies and language arts. For 4th through 12th grade.
Available:
     

English tutors 7 Days a Week from 2:00 PM to 1:00 AM

Spanish Tutors 7 Days a Week 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

 
Want to know about Abraham Lincoln?
Need to do a report on an inventor?
 
You can use:
 
Biography Resource Center                    
   
Find info about the lives of the well-known people from ancient times to the present. You can also find people based on their job, the country they were born in, or the year that they were born or died on.

Need to know about Venezuela?
Need a map of Africa?
 
You can use:
 
Countrywatch                                  
   
Get geographical, political, and economic info, news and maps on 192 countries.

Need a magazine article on drugs in schools?
Searching for articles on measles?
 
You can use:
 
General Reference Center Gold                
   
Search for articles from over 2,500 general interest, business, and children's magazines and newspapers and reference books. Many articles are full-text (meaning you can read the actual article right on the computer and don't have to look in the magazine).
     
 
SIRS Researcher                        
   
Full-text articles on social, scientific, historic, political and global issues.
     
 
   
Get articles from magazines, newspapers, and reference books on subjects like plants and animals, geography, current events, science and technology, government and history, and sports.
     
 
   
Articles on health and medical issues from magazines, newspapers, pamphlets and reference books.

Needing info on one of Shakespeare's plays?
Looking for some poems on love?
Want to read a book that's like a Harry Potter book?
 
You can use:
 
Literature Resource Center                      
   
Find biographies and criticism for more than 90,000 authors.
     
 
   
Look here to find books that are like your favorites.
     
 
   
Look here to find more books that are like your favorites.
     
 
LitFinder                                         
   

Search for poems, short stories, essays, plays, and speeches.


Taking the FCAT?
Preparing for the SAT?
 
You can use:
 
LearnATest                                     
   
Has practice tests for the FCAT, GED, AP, ACT, SAT tests and more.

Some other helpful Online Databases.