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Research African American history and culture, including primary sources, timelines, audio clips, photographs, maps, and images.
Reference materials include hundreds of primary documents and thousands of images from the Inuit of Alaska to the Seminole of Florida covering precontact to the colonial era into the 21st century.
Search across all four resources in the American Mosaic collection: The African American Experience, The American Indian Experience, The Asian American Experience, and The Latino American Experience.
Research Asian American history and culture, including primary sources, timelines, audio clips, photographs, maps, and images.
BookFlix® is a digital literacy resource that pairs more than 120 animated stories from Weston Woods with a best-selling nonfiction eBook from Scholastic on a similar subject. The fiction and nonfiction pairings are designed to strengthen early literacy skills while exposing young learners to real world concepts.
Gale Legal Forms offers a wide selection of essential state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms that may be customized for the most common legal procedures. These forms are used by attorneys and law firms. Includes real estate contracts, wills, premarital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant, and many others.
Search thousands of college and graduate schools, identify scholarships, take practice tests, create resumes, and explore careers.
Guide to Indigenous Maryland is a multi-faceted community engagement initiative of the Maryland State Library Agency and Maryland’s public libraries. Through the development and curation of educational resources, the project aims to teach Marylanders about the history of local Native and Indigenous peoples and how their heritage influences contemporary life in Maryland. Content for the app and website are based on crowdsourced contributions and recommendations from individual Native and Indigenous Marylanders, as well as tribal nations heritage organizations, in collaboration with Maryland’s public libraries and the project curator Dr. Elizabeth Rule, Assistant Professor, American University.
Dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos. (Dedicado a la historia y la cultura de los latinos.)
Engage kids and young students to broaden their educational horizons with reputable, special, authoritative, and age-appropriate digital content that brings them the world in a way they have never seen before. National Geographic Kids will take them on amazing adventures in science, nature, wildlife, culture, geography, archaeology, and space.
Northstar is a free, digital literacy program to teach basic computer skills and tools to thrive online. Online, self-guided modules assess the ability of individuals to perform tasks based on these skills. Included in Northstar are basic computer digital literacy standards and modules in three main areas: Essential Computer Skills, Essential Software Skills, Using Technology in Daily Life.
Introducing the Palace Project, an e-reading experience developed by and for libraries. With the Palace app you have access to our Libby eBooks and audiobooks from Maryland’s Digital Library, plus thousands of free books from the Palace Bookshelf as well as titles we purchase through the Palace Marketplace – available exclusively in the app.
The Wall Street Journal (inside the Library)IN LIBRARY USE ONLY
Use this link if you are using the Library's computers or the Library WiFi on your own device. You will be directed to wsj.com. There should be no paywall and no registration prompt with onsite access.See more information about accessing The Wall Street Journal through St. Mary's County Library.
Using your personal computer or device outside of the Library, use this link to reach a page to register for three days of access to The Wall Street Journal or sign in if you’ve already registered. Register or login by entering your name, an email address, and password. On the fourth day, you can return to this page and select the offsite access link again and login; this triggers a new three day access period. You do not need to pay for an account. See more information about accessing The Wall Street Journal through St. Mary's County Library.
Interested in what new books, DVDs, and more we’ve added to our collection? Sign up for our What’s New newsletter through Wowbrary! You’ll receive an email newsletter every Saturday with titles we’ve added in the previous week. To place a hold on any item, just click the “Borrow” button. Most items will be on order and not immediately available, but you’ll get a head start on the hold list!