Education & Careers

Available to Central, City and Suburban Libraries

Coin Career Library from Ebsco

A comprehensive information resource for education and careers. Five user-friendly components help you match your interests to occupations and education prospects. Includes interest and skills assessments, college majors, apprenticeships, interactive quizzes, GED test preparation and more.

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.

Available to Central & City Branch Libraries*

Ferguson's Career Center

Detailed and up-to-date descriptions of more than 2,800 of the most popular jobs in 93 industries.

Mango Languages Online

Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for nine different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Brazilian Portuguese, Polish and Spanish speakers with more languages available before the end of the year. 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 November 10, 2009