Education & Careers
Available to Central, City and Suburban Libraries
Ferguson's Career Center
Detailed and up-to-date job and industry profiles including fastest growing industries and most in demand jobs, job hunting and workplace skills, resume templates, information about apprenticeships and internships, college planning, financial aid directories, and online news articles from Career Opportunities News, offering advice, information, and insight perfect for students, job seekers, guidance counselors, college career counselors, and career professionals.
** Guided Tour of Ferguson's Career Center
Learning Express Library
Online practice for job-related and academic exams, including the GED, SAT, AP exams, ASVAB, civil service, U.S. citizenship, and more. Many titles are also available as e-books. Also includes a wide array of computer skills tutorials for today’s most popular applications, MS Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Powerpoint Corel WordPerfect, Windows XP, Vista and Mac OSX Leopard. New users should enter their OCPL library card number as the user name.
** How to Use Learning Express [PDF]
** LearningExpress Guided Tour
** Finding tests, courses and ebooks
** About My Center
BrainFuse JobNow Live Assistance
Job assistance, test preparation, and a unique academic skills center with live tutoring and Job Coach sessions available: Monday - Friday 10:00 AM -- 11:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday 2:00 PM -- 11:00:00 PM
The Test Center offers a complete library of online assessments (general assessments and standardized tests, including SAT, ACT, GED, and the U.S. Citizenship Test). Users must register in order to access the JobNow services, such as the Resume Lab and Live Interview Help.
[JobNow is made possible through a federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) award funded through the New York State Education Department/New York State Library.]
Vocations, Careers & Technical Education Collection
Provides content from over 300 largely full-text publications from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
Culinary Arts Collection
Includes 150 of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
Available to Central & City Branch Libraries*
Mango Languages Online
Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans. Use Mango Basic courses to quickly learn some basic words and phrases for your business trip or short trip overseas or, for speakers of other languages, to quickly learn some basic words and phrases in English. The Mango Complete courses are aimed at students who want to move beyond basic language skills. Instruction available in French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish as well as ESL lessons for Brazilian Portuguese, Polish and Spanish speakers. A text translator is also provided.
*Branch Libraries - Beauchamp, Betts, Hazard, Mundy, Paine, Petit, Soule, White
If your library card was issued by a suburban library, check that library's website for access.
Last updated October 4, 2011