
Take music lessons online. ArtistWorks provides world-class video lessons on musical instruments and styles. Learn to play guitar, bass, ukulele, piano, banjo and more. Access to ArtistWorks is provided by Libby.
Make smart buying decisions with Consumer Reports. Find ratings and recommendations for new and used vehicles, car buying guide, and a maintenance & repair pricing tool.
Find your next book with Novelist Plus. Get expert reading recommendations for fiction, nonfiction and audiobooks. Search by appeal factors, genres, and themes.
AtoZdatabases provides detailed profiles on U.S businesses and consumers to create mailing lists or perform market research. Useful for new and growing small businesses, budding entrepreneurs, and job-seekers.
With Business Source Premier, search leading business journals for articles on marketing, management, accounting, banking & finance, and regional business. Includes access to over 10,000 company profiles from MarketLine.
Candid Foundation Directory is a database of grantmakers & nonprofit funders. Includes profiles on over 235,000 grantmakers. Search by subject, organization, and geographic focus. Browse new RFPs, connect with funders, and view recipient profiles. *Only available on library computers and wifi.
Regional Business News from EBSCO provides full-text regional business publications. Search newspapers, magazines, and other sources for business related articles dating back to the 1990s.
Start your job search with AtoZdatabases. Access résumé & cover letter templates, interviewing tips, and learn job searching skills. Search over 7 million job listings.
DigitalLearn provides short beginner courses to help improve digital skills. Includes courses about online job searching, being safe online, and basic computer skills.
Learn to use your computer with Universal Class. Find self-paced instructor-led courses on computer basics, keyboarding, Windows 10, and more.
Gale Presents: Peterson's Test Prep has practice tests, interactive tutorials and ebooks for college entrance exams, GED, vocational exams, citizenship tests, and more.
Learn a new language with today! Mango is an award-winning language and culture learning system. It offers adaptive, conversation-based lessons in over 70 languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and more.
ABC Mouse is an early literacy website with thousands of interactive books, games, puzzles, and other learning activities. (Only available on library computers and wifi)
Your child will have fun learning with BookFlix. They can listen to and watch classic animated stories from Weston Woods, and then explore the paired nonfiction eBook from Scholastic. Books are chosen to help children practice early literacy skills.
TumbleBooks has tons of animated, talking picture books just for kids! Find early readers, chapter books, and graphic novels too!
Your child will have fun learning with BookFlix. They can listen to and watch classic animated stories from Weston Woods, and then explore the paired nonfiction eBook from Scholastic. Geared towards students in preschool through 3rd grade.
HelpNow has live tutoring for K-12 students. Other services provided include a writing lab, language lab, flashcard creation, and virtual private study rooms.
SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database that helps upper elementary students complete their assignments by providing easy access to premium newspapers, magazines, images, and other kinds of great content.
TumbleBooks has tons of animated, talking picture books just for kids! Find early readers, chapter books, and graphic novels too!
Writing a research paper? Start here! Academic Search Premier has access to current information in many areas of major research. Includes full-text articles, books and journals.
Make smart buying decisions with Consumer Reports. Access ratings and reviews of vehicles, electronics, appliances, health equipment, and more. Includes buying guides and articles.
Doing research? EBSCO Megafile combines three major EBSCO databases into one simple search: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, and Regional Business News.
GreenFILE is a research database that covers human impact to the environment. This collection of scholarly, government and general titles includes content on global warming, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and more.
Need to find reliable information on a subject? MasterFILE Complete covers virtually every subject area of general interest and provides full text of more than 2,000 general reference publications dating back to 1922.
Doing research? Check out Proquest Research Library, a database with over 150 full-text periodicals and scholarly journals. It covers topics from arts, literature, and social science to general reference, business, science, technology, and medicine.
Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture has more than 3.6 million articles from over 100 journals, including Better Homes and Gardens, Country Living, Delmar’s Handbook of Flowers, Foliage, and Creative Design, and so much more! This database is a great resource for gardening enthusiasts of all levels.
Consumer Health Complete can help you better understand key topics across the health and wellness spectrum — from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
Health Source provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Access nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
Medline Plus is a service of the National Institute of Health. It provides easy to understand medical information for patients, family, and friends. This resource includes up-to-date information on diseases, prescription drugs, and health care.
Writing a research paper? Start here! Academic Search Premier has access to current information in many areas of major research. Includes full-text articles, books and journals.
The American Indian Experience is a digital resource that illuminates the histories and contemporary cultures of the Native peoples of North America. Click here to log in from home with your library card.
What’s life like in other countries? Find out with CultureGrams. Explore reports on the daily life and culture of over 200 countries. Find recipes, videos, interviews, bios, and more.
HelpNow has live tutoring for K-12 students. Other services provided include a writing lab, language lab, flashcard creation, and virtual private study rooms.
Gale Presents: Peterson's Test Prep has practice tests, interactive tutorials and ebooks for college entrance exams, GED, vocational exams, citizenship tests, and more.
Science Reference Source contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other more.
When it comes to helping novice researchers make sense of the major issues of the day, SIRS Issues Researcher stands apart by offering balanced content selections from more than 2,000 global sources.
Teen Health and Wellness provides middle and high school students with straightforward, nonjudgmental answers from real teens and professionals on a variety of topics they deal with on a daily basis. Topics include diseases, nutrition, mental health, drugs and alcohol, green living, and more.
World Book Advanced is an encyclopedia for High School students. Look up homework answers, read world newspapers, find information for papers, and download images and videos to use in reports and presentations.
The American Indian Experience is a digital resource that illuminates the histories and contemporary cultures of the Native peoples of North America. Click here to log in from home with your library card.
Archives Unbound is four collections of primary sources in American History. Primary sources are books, documents, diaries, recordings, and other sources of information that were created during the time of study. Includes Slavery in America, The American Revolution, The Civil War, and Travels in the West: 1800-1880.
Indigenous Peoples of North America provides insights into the cultures, politics and social histories of Native Peoples through primary source documents from the 17th to 20th centuries. Primary sources are books, documents, diaries, recordings, and other sources of information that were created during the time of study.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers provides an as-it-happened window on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America that is of interest to both professional and general researchers.
In this original collection of content from Rapid City Public Library you will find a wide assortment of historical documents, books, images, articles and much more. The digital collections cover the Black Hills region and are contributed to by partner libraries.
Browse maps of many South Dakota communities published by the Sanborn Map Company. Used for fire insurance purposes, these colorful maps were created between 1867 and 1970 and are stored at the Library of Congress.
Hungry to learn about international cuisine? Visit A to Z World Food to explore food culture and traditional recipes from around the world. It's a virtual cookbook for each of 147 different countries.
Where do you want to go today? Learn about the countries of the world with A to Z World Travel. With 202 city guides, this is a comprehensive travel guide providing practical information for experiencing the world and all its wonders, for travelers and students alike.
Little Pim, provided by Mango Languages, provides twelve different language learning courses for young learners, such as Spanish, French, and Japanese.
Learn a new language with today! Mango is an award-winning language and culture learning system. It offers adaptive, conversation-based lessons in over 70 languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and more.
With LawDepot, print or download a personalized will, power of attorney, bill of sale, agreements, and more, in 5-10 minutes. Access to LawDepot is provided by Libby.
The HeinOnline Social Justice Suite is a set of databases collecting reports, publications, handbooks, and legal documents. The suite includes Civil Rights and Social Justice, Open Society Justice Initiative, Gun Regulation and Legislation in America, and Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
What’s life like in other countries? Find out with CultureGrams Kids Edition. Get a kid's-eye view of daily life around the world.
HelpNow has live tutoring for K-12 students. Other services provided include a writing lab, language lab, flashcard creation, and virtual private study rooms.
SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database that helps middle school students complete their assignments by providing easy access to premium newspapers, magazines, images, and other kinds of great content.
Teen Health and Wellness provides middle and high school students with straightforward, nonjudgmental answers from real teens and professionals on a variety of topics they deal with on a daily basis. Topics include diseases, nutrition, mental health, drugs and alcohol, green living, and more.
Explore and stay informed on local and national topics, people and events from news sources spanning the U.S., including the Rapid City Journal.
Patrons of Rapid City Public Library can now enjoy New York Times | All Access. Your access includes everything The New York Times offers: News: Understand the world with original reporting from 1,700 journalists; Games: Spelling Bee, Wordle, The Crossword and more; Cooking: Recipes, advice and inspiration for any occasion; Wirecutter: Independent reviews for thousands of products; The Athletic: In-depth, personalized sports journalism.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers provides an as-it-happened window on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America that is of interest to both professional and general researchers.
Explore Rapid City history through local news, events, and people with the Rapid City Journal Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device
Interested in the history of Rapid City? Looking for current news? Search the Rapid City Journal collection on Newspapers.com. This database of scanned images of the Journal from 1886-now is fully searchable. *available on library computers and wifi.
Access five of the top national and regional newspapers. U.S. Major Dailies includes the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Updated by 8am daily, and includes archives going back to the 1980s.
ABCmouse *
Academic Search Premier
American Indian Experience
America's News
ArtistWorks
AtoZdatabases
A to Z World Food
A to Z World Travel
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States (ProQuest)
BookFlix
Business Source Premier
Candid Foundation Directory *
Candid GuideStar *
ChiltonLibrary
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer Reports
CultureGrams
Gale eBooks
Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture
Gale Presents: Peterson's Test Prep
Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound
Gale Primary Sources: Indigenous Peoples
GreenFILE
HeinOnline Social Justice Suite *
HelpNow
LawDepot
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Little Pim
Mango Languages
MasterFILE Complete
Medline Plus
Newspapers.com Central Collection
The New York Times
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
NoveList Plus
ProQuest Research Library
Publicly Available Content Database
PubMed
Rapid City Genealogy Society
Rapid City Journal (newspapers.com)*
Rapid City Journal (Newsbank)
Rapid City Library Digital Archives
Regional Business News
Sanborn Historical Maps
Science Reference Source
SIRS Discoverer
SIRS Issue Researcher
Slavery in America and the World: History,Culture & Law *
Tax Resources
Teacher Reference Center
Teen Health and Wellness
TumbleBooks
Universal Class
U.S. Major Dailies
U.S. Newsstream
World Book
World Book Advanced
World Book Discover
World Book Early Learning
World Book Kids
World Book Student
* Only available on library computers and Wi-Fi
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