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Find ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services including cars, electronics, home & garden, and babies and kids products. You can compare up to 5 items side by side in the same search. You can also read the current issue, articles on money, health, and safety recalls.

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Please CLICK HERE for help using ConsumerReports.org.

Morningstar Investment Research Center provides expert reports, data, and opinions on over 14,500 stocks, 24,800 mutual funds, 1,500 exchange-traded funds and 700 closed end funds.  Designed for library users, it offers free monthly webinars, extensive help files, and investor education tutorials.

 

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Login with your WVPL library card, select "Help and Education" in the grey band.  For troubleshooting, select the link at the bottom of the page.  

Sign up for weekly emails about WVPL’s newest books and movies so you can reserve them quickly. Learn about upcoming library programs.

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Please CLICK HERE for help using WOWbrary.

Research the arts, biography, education, environment, history, law, literature, medicine, nation and world, religion, science and social science, and technology through 91 reference eBooks.  Great for assignments on topics like: American History, World War I & II, Ancient Greece & Rome, the Middle Ages, Holocaust, clothing, immigration, inventors, climate change, sports biography, animal rights, drugs and alcohol, crime, and diseases.

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Login using your WVPL library card barcode and look for the orange HELP link in the middle of the page.

NOTE: Access to this eRESOURCE is limited to WVPL card holders or Internet computer users in the Blue Bell or Ambler libraries.

Your child can watch and listen to a large collection of animated, online story books. There is also a large collection of audio books, including ones in French and Spanish. Tumblebooks also has book related puzzles & games. 

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Please CLICK HERE for help using Tumble Book.

Learn one of 38 languages or English as a Second Language (ESL). Mango includes a translation feature that lets you translate English into one of the 38 languages or vice versa. If you’re using an iPad or iPhone, you can download the free app.

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Please CLICK HERE for help using Mango Languages.

Take real-time online college preparation practice tests for ACT, AP, CLEP, CUNY, PSAT/NMSQT, SAT, THEA, TEOFL iBT, TOEIC, GRE, GED. If you are looking for a job, you can take practice test for careers in air traffic control, civil service, commercial driving, cosmetology, culinary arts, electrical, emergency medical services, firefighting, law enforcement, legal, military, nursing, plumbing, real estate, and teaching. Those seeking US Citizenship can practice for the exam. There are also learning centers that provide skills improvement for grades 1-12 in Math, Reading, Writing, Social Studies and Science.  

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Please CLICK HERE for help using Learning Express.

Start a family tree and search 4 billion historical records including: census & voter lists, birth, marriage & death records, military service records, immigration & travel, land ownership, maps, photographs and public member family trees. If you are just getting started, you can find instruction and webinars to help you. This eResource is available in the Main Library in Blue Bell only.

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Please CLICK HERE for help using Ancestry.com.