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Career and Technical Education Database
Articles covering vocational education topics, such as building trades, automotive technology and more. Provided by NC LIVE.
Entrepreneurial Mindset Training Course
This online, self-paced course will help you recognize opportunities that others overlook and determine whether starting a business is right for you.

Provided by NC LIVE.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Explore careers and best practices for job searching, take a career interest assessment. Provided by NC LIVE.
PrepSTEP Academic
Test prep resources, including practice tests for GED, GRE, SAT, TEAS, and more. Provided by NC LIVE.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Profiles with information about hundreds of occupations. Provided by NC LIVE.
SAGE Skills: Business
Sage Skills: Business offers students resources, learning modules, and self assessment tools to assist them as they prepare to transition from university to professional workplaces.

SAGE Research Methods
Sage Research Methods is an assistive methods methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos from across the social sciences, including a large collection of qualitative methods books available online. The site is designed to guide users to the content they need to learn a little or a lot about their method. Includes Cases, Videos, Datasets, and Foundations of research. Includes Teacher Resources
CQ Researcher
Find pro/ con essays and background information about current events. Provided by NC LIVE.
Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society
This database features authoritative historical context, expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources on the most enduring, significant, and timely issues. This rich online resource helps users investigate controversial topics by framing thoughtful questions, revealing the background story behind the issues and providing scholars' perspectives and analyses, allowing students to formulate educated opinions on hotly debated "gray area" subjects.
Points of View Reference Source
Points of View Reference Source covers hundreds of topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).

Each topic features a Guide to Critical Analysis which helps the reader evaluate the controversy and enhances students’ ability to read critically, develop their own perspective on the issues, and write or debate an effective argument on the topic.
Research Companion
Watch videos that teach you the process of writing research papers. Provided by NC LIVE.
SIRS Issues Researcher
Find pro/ con essays about social issues and newspaper articles. Provided by NC LIVE.
What Everyone Needs to Know
Oxford University Press’s What Everyone Needs to Know® series offers a balanced and authoritative primer on complex current event issues and countries, spanning across popular topics and disciplines including Politics, Economics, Sciences, and Religion.

View a complete list of titles available online.

eLibrary
Collections of media content for schools and libraries of all kinds. Provided by NC LIVE.
Just for Kids Streaming Collection
Streaming videos for kids and their parents on a thoroughly kid-safe, advertisement-free media platform. Provided by NC LIVE.

Minerva’s Kaleidoscope

A place for parents and caregivers of children and teens ages 7 through 16 to find kid-friendly activities based on the Library’s collections. We invite families to use this blog to connect with us and as way to see the Library’s resources in new and unexpected ways.