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Find what you're looking for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week FOR FREE with these electronic resources! Login to any of these resources using your 14-digit barcode number unless otherwise noted. Find useful Internet sites through the subject guides at the left.

Login to any of these resources using your 14-digit barcode number unless otherwise noted.

E-books & Audiobooks

WILBOR -- Downloadable E-books & Audiobooks

Download E-books and Audiobooks to your reader, MP3 device, or computer FOR FREE from the library's WILBOR collection (through Overdrive). Follow the helpful step-by-step instructions at the website to get started, or do a quick search in the search bar on the left.

Thousands of titles to choose from!

< Para Tumblebooks en español, haga clic aquí!

Tumblebooks -- E-books for Children

View it right from your computer, and help your young child enter the fascinating world of books at an early age! Immediate access from this link.

An Early Childhood Literacy database with interactive e-books for children!

Genealogy & Local History

Ancestry.com Library Edition

Perhaps the premier online resource for genealogical research. Access to million of records from US and other country's censuses, birth, death and marriage records, immigration and military records as well as historic newspaper collections.

[Available only at the Library]

Heritage Quest Online

HeritageQuest Online is another great genealogical resource providing access to US Census records from 1790-1930, selected Revolutionary War records, records of the Freedman's Bank, and over 28,000 family and local histories.

Find your family today!

Downtown Historic Research 2012

A compilation of information about the downtown Washington area organized by building address. The research was funded by an HRDP Grant and The City of Washington, IA. (No login necessary)

Learn more about our historic downtown!

Languages

Byki Online

A full-featured program to help you learn a new language from travel help all the way to an intermediate level! Includes an extensive list of languages as well as English for foreign-language speakers.

[Follow the image link and create your own personalized account]

Newspapers, Trade Journals & Magazines

Provides full text copies of articles from thousands of popular magazines, newspapers and trade journals. Great for research, homework, or general interest!

Also includes EBSCOhost En Español!

[Contact the Library for User Name & Password or use your library barcode]

Washington Evening Journal Online

The online edition of the Washington Evening Journal is now available in the library! Keyword searching is available for articles as far back as 1999, and the full article is available for perusal. Access The Journal from any library computer. If you are looking for an article from before 1999, there is microfilm available in the Genealogy section.

[Available only at the Library]

Testing & Skill-Building

LearningExpress Library

LearningExpress Library is an interactive online learning platform featuring over 770 practice tests, tutorials, and eBooks related to job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification and licensing exam preparation, college entrance and graduate school admissions exam preparation, GED exam preparation, and basic skills improvement in reading, writing, and math, for all ages. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.