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This site focuses on U.S. history for kids, including information about the states, biographies of famous Americans, and other materials from the Library of Congress.

View details on America's Story
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This site provides child-appropriate information on the branches of government, founding documents, national symbols, and more.

View details on Ben's Guide to US Government for Kids
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A growing selection of eBooks and eAudiobooks for all ages. You can check out up to six at a time for 21 days.

View details on Cloud Library
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Access free courses in programming languages, website creation, and other digital skills.

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Prepare for important exams like the ACT, SAT, AP Tests, and more.

View details on College Admissions Test Preparation
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Video courses to learn popular software and computer basics.

View details on Computer Skills Center
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Nurture your creative side with more than 1,000 award-winning video classes in painting, knitting, crafting, sewing, and more!

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View details on Creativebug for Lake Oswego
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Nurture your creative side with more than 1000 award-winning video classes in painting, knitting, crafting, sewing and more!

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View details on Creativebug for Ledding Library of Milwaukie
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Nurture your creative side with more than 1,000 award-winning video classes in painting, knitting, crafting, sewing, and more!

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View details on Creativebug for Oregon City
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Nurture your creative side with more than 1,000 award-winning video classes in painting, knitting, crafting, sewing, and more!

 

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View details on Creativebug for Sandy
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Nurture your creative side with more than 1,000 award-winning video classes in painting, knitting, crafting, sewing, and more!

 

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View details on Creativebug for West Linn
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Nurture your creative side with more than 1000 award-winning video classes in painting, knitting, crafting, sewing and more!

 

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View details on Creativebug for Wilsonville
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The Cultural Pass Express program is now happy to offer limited access to venues which are open for visitors again. Please check the venue’s website for more information about their… more

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The DPLA site provides acess to photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and more.

View details on Digital Public Library of America
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Take free driver, motorcycle, and CDL practice tests, and read the full text driver manuals for all 50 states.

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Apply for financial aid for college or grad school.

View details on Federal Student Aid - finding scholarships
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This site is a source of student financial aid information, advice, and tools

View details on FinAid
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Master file of academic, general, and business periodicals. Search for scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images.

View details on Gale Academic OneFile
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Gale Business: Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive database offering content that covers all major areas of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human… more

View details on Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
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More than 200 reference titles are now available online. These cover a wide range of topics, including travel to all areas of the world. Make this your new go-to spot for general… more

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View details on Gale eBooks
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Includes hundreds of eBooks. This is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

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Comprehensive general interest resource providing periodical and news information. Also includes Fodor travel guides, NPR programs and more than 20 reference sets on a wide range of… more

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Authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and issues on the environment, sustainability and more. Includes news, unique commentary, audio, video, primary… more

View details on Gale In Context: Environmental Studies
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Gale In Context: High School provides:

  • A database of 18,000 topic overviews, 29,000 biographies, and over 13,500 pieces of literary criticism
  • 8 million full-text… more
View details on Gale In Context: High School
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Created with the middle-school and high school student in mind, Research in Context combines reference content with videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.… more

View details on Gale In Context: Middle School
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A complete overview of U.S. history that covers the most-studied events, issues and current information using a broad collection of full-text periodicals, reference works, primary… more

View details on Gale In Context: U.S. History
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Articles covering all aspects of the computer industry including consumer information, database management systems, hardware and software design, programming information operating… more

View details on Gale OneFile: Computer Science
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Robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests. With… more

View details on Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy
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This periodical database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current… more

View details on Gale OneFile: High School Edition
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These free classes cover a wide variety of topics, including beginning and advanced computer skills, math and reading, basic life skills, job seeking, and career planning.

View details on GCF Learnfree.org
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Guided support and preparation to help you earn a high school equivalency credential.

View details on GED Prep at High School Equivalency Center
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This non-profit educational website provides free video tutorials and interactive educational lessons.

View details on Khan Academy
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Part of the National Park Service website, this page provides educational videos, printable coloring sheets, and information about the Junior Rangers program.

View details on Kids in Parks
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The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. It is the main research… more

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A Library of Things is a collection of items such as kitchenware, musical instruments, and games hosted at a library that library patrons can check out with their Libraries in Clackamas… more

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As part of a statewide consortium, LINCC cardholders can download e-books, audiobooks, and videos. Most can be transferred to other devices for use away from the computer. Don’t worry -… more

View details on Library2Go
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Novelist will help you find a good book. The database provides readers’ advisory, read-alikes, and "What to Read Next?" information covering over 100,000 titles. Includes both fiction… more

View details on Novelist Plus
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A career exploration, research, decision making and planning database that provides a system of occupational and educational information to help Oregonians learn about the world of work… more

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View details on Oregon Career Information System (OCIS)
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Full text articles from The Oregonian:  1/1/2019 to 90 days prior to today.

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View details on Oregonian
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Pronunciator is a language-learning service featuring 163 languages with personalized courses, movies, music, and more. Learn how to speak a foreign language with the help of a variety… more

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Herramientas de aprendizaje, carrera y ciudadania en español.

View details on Recursos Para Hispanohablentes
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Skill-building resources for classroom and homework success.

View details on School Center
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Access free study guides on literature, poetry, math and other subjects.

View details on SparkNotes
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StopBullying.gov provides information on what bullying and cyberbullying are, who is at risk, and how kids, parents, and teachers can prevent and respond to bullying.

View details on Stop Bullying
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This site from the Smithsonian Institute provides regular news stories for kids in grades K-12, including articles in Spanish.

View details on Tween Tribune Smithsonian
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This site is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.

View details on Wikipedia
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ZOOM provides free educational activities for kids based on the PBS television show. Also includes resources for parents and teachers.

View details on ZOOM Science Projects for Kids
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