With 5,000+ interactive books, educational games, puzzles, and other learning activities, ABCmouse.com's award-winning online curriculum is an invaluable resource for young learners (ages 2-7+). From Age of Learning, Inc.
Only available at an Omaha Public Library location
Explore LearningExpress Library's Adult Core Skills Center where you can improve skills in math, reading, writing, and even prepare to become a U.S. Citizen.
Find birth, marriage, and death records, as well as military records and more from Ancestry Library Edition, the largest general collection of genealogical information.
Only available at an Omaha Public Library location
Find articles and news about leaders, inventors, athletes, writers, scientists, and other famous people from today and yesterday.
Comprehensive collection of 450,000+ biographical profiles.
Search for listings of your favorite series in order. Access provided by the Nebraska Library Commission.
Explore LearningExpress Library's Career Prep Center, where you can prepare for occupational entrance exams, explore career opportunities, and expand upon workplace skills.
Quickly and easily map Census data for your area, and understand demographic, socioeconomic, and spending trends in your market.
Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Learn to code interactively, for free. Courses cover CSS, Java, HTML, and more.
Practice tests, interactive tutorials, and eBooks from LearningExpress Library to help you prepare for college success.
Strengthen your academic skills and prepare for placement tests and graduate school entrance exams in LearningExpress Library's College Center.
Access full-text information and videos on health and wellness.
Looking for Consumer Reports? The eMagazine may be accessed via Flipster, opens a new window or MasterFILE Complete. Or, if you are looking for the Consumer Reports Buying Guide, you may find it in Flipster, opens a new window or MasterFILE Complete, opens a new window.
ConsumerSafety.org informs consumers about recalls and safety alerts, and publishes consumer-related news and safety guides.
If you are new to computers, haven't used them for a while, are a little unsure and uncomfortable, or just need a bit of a refresher, DigitalLearn has the tools to help you tackle technology at your own pace and gain the confidence you need to succeed.
Free Nebraska Drivers License practice tests. Includes motorcycle, automobile, CDL tests, and more!
Use our electronic journal and magazine search from OCLC to search or browse the titles of all full-text newspapers, magazines and journals available in our online resources.
Type in the name of the publication you’re looking for, and the journal finder will list which resources contain the publication, including the years covered. You can access each resource from OCLC.
Read the latest books in your email with excerpts from DearReader.com.
Overdrive: Children’s eBooks, audiobooks, and more, available anytime, anywhere-all you need is a library card.
Overdrive: Teen eBooks for your computer, mobile device, or eReader.
Browse by broad topic area or search by a general interest, health, legal, biographical, or other topic for full-text popular magazine and journal articles, and other resources.
Browse by broad topic areas or search by any topic for full text popular magazine articles, encyclopedia entries, and other resources.
Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Explore the world's largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources. Many restricted images may be viewed at W. Dale Clark Main Library, the only FamilySearch Affiliate Library in Nebraska.
Over 25000 bestselling author bibliographies with all the latest books, covers and descriptions.
FIMo is a research portal to find and view high-definition, color Fire Insurance Maps, Real Estate Atlases, Plat Books, and other historical maps showing building structures, building construction details, property ownership, property uses, and other useful information.
Flipster offers access to magazines across all of your favorite devices. With access to the top magazines, including Entertainment Weekly, People, Real Simple, Sports Illustrated, and Time, combined with an easy to use interface, Flipster offers users a unique reading experience that can be enjoyed anytime, anywhere.
Freegal® Music is a free music service from your library. All you need is your library card number and PIN. Freegal offers download or streaming access to more than 8 million songs, including Sony Music’s catalog of legendary artists. Download four songs each week or stream up to three hours a day.
Student-friendly online encyclopedia covering more than 25,000 topics.
Hundreds of engaging, instructor-led online courses focused on professional development, technology skills, and personal enrichment that are all free with your library card!
Search the Omaha World-Herald from 1878-1983.
A comprehensive career resource giving you an inside look at company salary details, reviews, and interview questions for thousands of companies.
Discover and share books you love on Goodreads, the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations!
Your source for information about the Health Insurance Marketplace. Learn about health plans for individuals and businesses as available through the Affordable Care Act.
Have health insurance questions? Visit HeatlhCare.gov today!
LearningExpress Library's High School Equivalency Center provides skill development and other resources and tools for preparation for high school equivalency tests including the GED, HiSET, and TASC.
Billed as a "free world-class education for anyone anywhere," Khan Academy has thousands of courses that span humanities, computer science, test prep, and more.
LearningExpress Library features online tutorials, practice tests, and eBooks to help patrons of all ages. It offers job search and workplace skills improvement, skill building in reading, writing, math, and basic science, career certification and licensure exam prep, college and grad school entrance test prep, GED® test prep, and more.
Offers free legal representation to low-income clients in a number of civil legal problems.
Find full text consumer legal information plus legal forms from all states.
Meet Libby, the new app from OverDrive for enjoying eBooks and eAudiobooks from OPL.
Lynda.com is now LinkedIn Learning! Choose from thousands of online courses to learn in-demand skills from real-world industry experts. Learn business, creative, and technology skills to achieve your personal and professional goals.
Language learning lessons with reading/writing/listening components.
Search popular magazines, journals, and other sources for info on a variety of topics.
Find answers to health questions, including overviews of conditions and diseases, information on staying healthy, drug information and the latest news from the world of medicine.
Informacion de salud para usted.
MyHeritage Library Edition includes birth, death and marriage records from 48 countries, the complete U.S. and U.K. censuses, immigration, military and tombstone records and more than 3 billion family tree profiles. Due to the ongoing content contributions by individual users, the database grows at an average pace of nearly 2 million records each day.
Take the Omaha Public Library with you wherever you go! Search for books, place holds, manage your account, create lists, and get information about our locations. Search for "MyOPL" in your app store to find the app.
The Nebraska Family Helpline is a FREE service offering 24/7 support to families dealing with a youth’s mental/behavioral health issue. Trained crisis counselors assess the family's immediate safety needs, help callers connect to emergency resources and offer other referrals in callers’ communities.
A website where financially qualifying Nebraskans can ask a Nebraska volunteer lawyer a question about a civil legal problem for free.
The Nebraska Department of Labor website of jobs.
Homepage of the Nebraska State Supreme Court and a place to access Nebraska legal forms.
A free online service that showcases the newest titles purchased by your local library. You can select to receive alerts via email and/or RSS feeds.
Enjoy unlimited access to NYTimes.com and the New York Times mobile app. When the 24-hour license expires, return to this page to checkout another one.
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New York Times Cooking is an inspiring cooking guide, innovative and interactive kitchen tool, and diverse recipe collection that helps home cooks of every level discover, save and organize the world’s best recipes, while also helping them become better, more competent cooks. Access The New York Times Cooking online or via the mobile app. When the 24-hour license expires, return to this page to checkout another one.
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Access the digital microfilm from the New York Times. The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable. Coverage: 2008 - recent (3-month embargo).
Times Games have captivated solvers since the launch of the Crossword in 1942. Engaging word and visual games stimulate and keep the mind sharp. Games are available on the web and NYT App; Crossword and Spelling Bee are available in the Crossword App.
Access The New York Times Games online or via mobile apps. When the 24-hour license expires, return to this page to checkout another one.
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Looking for the Omaha World-Herald? NewsBank gives library cardholders instant access to the World-Herald's issues and archives, plus hundreds of other newspapers in English and Spanish around the country.
Niche Academy provides tutorials on a variety of the Library’s online resources including OverDrive, Freegal, Value Line and more.
Find just the right fiction or nonfiction book. It also includes resources for teachers and parents.
Discover reading recommendations based on your favorite titles, authors, subjects and genres. Whether you read fiction or nonfiction or listen to audiobooks, you'll find your next great read/listen with NoveList Plus.
The OOH from the Bureau of Labor Statistics can help you find career information on duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations.
An index to obituaries and death notices in Omaha papers. Included are people whose item indicates that they may have lived within an hour to an hour and a half away from Omaha, but appeared in the Omaha newspapers.
Municipal Code for the City of Omaha.
The Omaha Star, in existence for over 70 years, has been Nebraska’s largest African American newspaper. Search the archives from 1938-2011.
Looking for the Omaha World-Herald? NewsBank gives library cardholders instant access to the World-Herald's issues and archives.
Search the Omaha World-Herald from 1878-1983 in the Gilbert M. and Martha H. Hitchcock Omaha World-Herald Digital Archive.
Looking for the Omaha World-Herald? NewsBank gives you free, instant access to the World-Herald's digital microfilm from 2018-present.
OPL staff shared some of their favorite books published in the past year and explained why these titles made it to the top of the list. Explore these titles and find your next favorite read! Use filters to search by categories or keywords, or browse the covers to discover something new.
eBooks, downloadable audiobooks, and streaming video for your computer, mobile device, or eReader.
Search for license information on Nebraska physicians, child care programs and more.
Find critical essays of current events with an overview and two sides of the issue.
Find popular magazine articles, encyclopedia entries, and images. Designed for elementary school students.
Search full text journal articles covering psychology, behavior, and more.
Este centro ofrece práctica para mejorar las habilidades básicas, práctica para el examen de GED® o ser ciudadano estadounidense.
ReferenceUSA is now Reference Solutions. Reference Solutions is the premier source for information for reference and research. Reference Solutions helps users of all kinds search for jobs, research U.S. businesses, create marketing and small business plans, locate specific people and more.
High-quality Information for researchers of all kinds, with profiles for over 59 million businesses and 310 million consumers across the U.S.
Resources for elementary, middle, and high school students from LearningExpress Library. Prepare for important tests, get extra help for assignments, boost skills in core subjects, and more.
Search full-text scholarly journals covering science and technology.
Business counseling services to help entrepreneurs create and grow their businesses. SCORE is the leading source of ongoing small business counseling, business training workshops and online expert business resources in Omaha.
Offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools and instructions to address a wide range of small business topics.
Learn about popular websites and Internet applications, as well as introductory digital technology topics, for free.
Studying for the ACT, SAT or other tests? Take one of the test prep courses in Gale Courses.
Kids, parents, and teachers! Reading is fun with animated talking picture books, videos, puzzles and games, and language learning in Tumblebooks.
Libros electrónicos para niños: libros de cuentos, libros nuevos, rompecabezas, juegos, aprendizaje de idiomas y libros de audio
Use Tutor.com for free homework or career help from a live, online tutor or career coach between 2 - 9 pm. Upload homework or resumes for overnight review. In addition, the Skills Center is open 24/7 and offers thousands of worksheets, tutorials, study guides, practice tests, and more.
The U.S. Small Business Administration has delivered millions of loans, loan guarantees, contracts, counseling sessions and other forms of assistance to small businesses.
U.S. Major Dailies provides users with exclusive and preferred access to current content and significant archives dating back to 1980 from five of the nation’s most respected national and regional newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal, in full-text format.
Provides online access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks
Boost your child's learning with Vroom's fast and fun tips sent every day to your phone.
Access the digital microfilm from the Wall Street Journal. The full-page images of this digitized newspaper provide genealogists, researchers and scholars with cover-to-cover access to recent newspaper content. Every page is full-text searchable. Coverage: 2008 - recent (3-month embargo).
The What's Next™: Books in Series database helps you search series fiction.
Wirecutter is a product review website owned by The New York Times Company. The website tests and reviews the best tech, appliances, gear, and more.
Search world rankings, records, top 10 lists, and more.
The world's largest catalog and another way to discover resources available to you beyond Omaha Public Library.
