A-Z Resources

Treasury of American genealogical sources, unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids.

Read the latest local news, from Kansas City and the KC area, and around the country and world by The Kansas City Star and KansasCity.com.

Interactive online practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help users succeed on academic and licensing tests. Offers immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of results.

Selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms, including real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, and landlord/tenant forms, and more.

Downloadable audiobooks and eBooks including adult, young adult, children's, featured collection, fiction, non-fiction and more.

PhD-created and linguist-approved software teaches real conversations in over 60 languages and makes it fun.With free mobile apps, learning through film, and the coolest promotional materials around, it's no wonder Mango is the most popular langua

Designed for high school, full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. Provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, co

Designed for public libraries, provides full text dating back to 1922 for 2,000+ general reference publications.

Full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with information dating as far back as 1975.

Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more.

Full text for 140+ popular, middle school magazines. Database articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays.

More than 9 million records can be accessed through Missouri Digital Heritage, including the collections of the Missouri State Archives, the Missouri State Library and other institutions from across the state.

Global information on business, education, environment, health, international issues, careers, government, social issues, sports, STEM and more including newspapers, videos and web-only content featuring the Kansas City Star, St.

Cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national and international newspapers Contains selective full text for more than 370 regional newspapers.

NextReads newsletters deliver reading recommendations directly to patron inboxes.

A database about books specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Parents, teachers, and librarians can also find tools to teach with books and engage young readers.

A premiere database of reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world. It is a comprehensive source of information about books that includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.

Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research.