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Welcome to the Idaho Falls Digital Library. Our collections bring a wealth of digital information, online classes, and tutorials to the convenience of your home, office, or mobile device.

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Automotive Repair
EBSCOhost Research
Digital Maps
Gale Cengage
Heritage Quest Genealogy
LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com)
Online Learning
OverDrive eBooks and Audiobooks
Rosetta Stone Language Lessons

For additional digital resources not listed here, visit lili.org, a service of the Idaho Commission for Libraries.

Automotive Repair Libraries

Chilton Library—Reliable automotive help available 24/7. Trusted by automotive enthusiasts and professionals for more than 100 years. This resource contains step-by-steps service and repair procedures, wiring diagrams, maintenance and specification tables, troubleshooting guides and diagnostic trouble codes, photos, illustrations, diagrams, and multimedia resources, and ASE test prep resources (gale.com).

EBSCOhost Research

	EBSCOhost Research—Search among more than 30 well-known databases offered by EBSCOhost, including Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, ERIC, Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedias, GreenFILE, Health Source, MAS Ultra, MasterFILE, MEDLINE, Newspaper Source Plus, TOPICsearch, and more. Create an account to save results into a personalized folder.
	Consumer Health Complete—This library supports the information needs of patients, fosters an overall understanding of health-related topics, and provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream to complementary and holistic medicine (ebsco.com).
	Explora Primary—For elementary-aged students, this library has information about thousands of topics including art and music, literature, language arts, geography, history, social studies, world cultures and languages, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, health and sports (ebsco.com).
	Explora for Educators—The Educator’s Edition helps teachers find primary source documents, informational texts, and curriculum support materials and discover reliable information on thousands of topics (ebsco.com).
	Explora for Public Libraries—This library has been designed with public library patrons in mind. It provides ad-free, easy-to-use features and reliable content from the world’s leading magazines and reference books. Library patrons can find licensed articles from reputable publishers, topic overviews, text-to-speech capabilities, password-protected personal folders, and citation help (ebsco.com).
	History Reference Center—”Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals, and thousands of primary source documents” (ebsco.com).
	Literary Reference Center—”This rich full-text database provides a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It gives students, professors and researchers a foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs” (ebsco.com).
	NoveList Plus—”NoveList is a trusted source of expert read-alike recommendations, available through libraries around the world” (ebsco.com).
	NoveList K-8 Plus—”NoveList K-8 Plus is a trusted source of read-alike recommendations specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Parents, teachers, and librarians can find tools to teach with books and engage young readers” (ebsco.com).
	NoveList Mobile—Access the NoveList website on your mobile device. This simple mobile interface makes it convenient to use your smartphone or tablet to search for reading recommendations and book information.
	Rosetta Stone Library Solutions—”Rosetta Stone Inc. is dedicated to changing people’s lives through the power of language and literacy education. The company’s innovative digital solutions drive positive learning outcomes for the inspired learner at home or in schools and workplaces around the world. Founded in 1992, Rosetta Stone’s language division uses cloud-based solutions to help all types of learners read, write, and speak [up to] 30 languages” (rosettastone.com).
	Small Business Reference Center—”Small Business Reference Center offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business topics. It includes business videos, a help and advice section and details on how to create business plans” (ebsco.com).

Digital Maps

Digital Sanborn Maps—Search for historic Idaho maps within the Sanborn Map collection. For login credentials, contact the Idaho Falls Library at 208-612-8460. Available to library patrons only for noncommercial purposes.

Gale Cengage

LitFinder—”LitFinder is international in scope, covers all time periods, and contains literature content, including more than 140,000 full-text poems, 840,000 poem citations and excerpts, 7,100 full-text short stories and novels, 3,800 full-text essays published in the 16th-20th centuries, 2,400 full-text speeches, and 1,250 full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. Within LitFinder ‘s collection, patrons have access to works from over 80,000 authors from 660 nationalities … read more” (cengage.com).

Heritage Quest

Heritage Quest—Powered by ProQuest and Ancestry.com, Heritage Quest is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, convenient research guides, interactive census maps, and more (proquest.com). Effective October 2019, use your library card number to sign into Heritage Quest.

Online Classes and Tutorials

Learning Express Library—”LearningExpress Library™ provides the most comprehensive selection of academic and career-related resources available in one platform. It provides academic skill building in reading, writing, math, and science, standardized test preparation, soft skills training, job search and career advancement, college admissions test preparation, professional licensing and certification test preparation, high school equivalency test prep, and much more” (learningexpresshub.com).

LinkedIn Learning – LinkedIn Learning has more than 14,000 expert-led videos to teach you business, creative, and technical skills. Disclaimer: The Idaho Falls Public Library maintains a LinkedIn Learning subscription for patron access. The library and LinkedIn are not officially affliated with nor endorsed by one another. By license agreement, LinkedIn Learning is only accessible to card holders who live in Bonneville County.

Rosetta Stone Language Lessons

Rosetta Stone Library Solutions—”Rosetta Stone Inc. is dedicated to changing people’s lives through the power of language and literacy education. The company’s innovative digital solutions drive positive learning outcomes for the inspired learner at home or in schools and workplaces around the world. Founded in 1992, Rosetta Stone’s language division uses cloud-based solutions to help all types of learners read, write, and speak [up to] 30 languages” (rosettastone.com).