For middle school students through adults. Comprehensive source for literary research on writers and their works throughout history and the world.
Bring reading to life. Book Connections strives to joyfully enrich everyone's experience reading children's and young adult books with a collection of more than 267,000 resources.
Includes Meet-the-Author and illustrators with movies and recordings, book guides, activities, and teaching ideas. Also has read-along audiobooks and complete book readings. Makes a great reader’s advisory tool, with booklists and collection analysis.
Produced by Gale, designed for middle school through adult study.
Features discussion and analysis of plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical overviews, plots, and historical context.
For middle school students through adults. Broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.
For elementary and middle school students and educators. Resource for helping students find their next great fiction or nonfiction title to read.
For all ages. Resource of fiction and nonfiction titles to guide readers in finding their next title to read.
Produced by Gale, designed for middle school through adult study.
Provides a guide to understanding novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes, critical overviews, and style as well as the work’s cultural and historical significance.
Produced by Gale, designed for middle school through adult study.
Provides an overview of a poem, with discussion and analysis of themes, images, form, and construction. Covers poetry for all time periods, nations, and cultures.
Produced by Gale, designed for middle school through adult study.
Provides critical overviews of short stories from all time periods and cultures. Discusses plot, characters, themes, and structure along with the story's culture and historical significance.
An engaging collection that brings books to life with engaging video, audio, and online resources.
TeenBookCloud targets grades 7-12.
Contains about 1,000 graphic novels, enhanced eBooks, classic literature, National Geographic videos, educator resources, and audio books.
For middle school students through adults. Contains tools on how to write and research effectively, including a step-by-step guide to writing a good essay. Explores the fundamentals of writing, has guides for research and documents. Writing resources cover grammar, style, and research.
For college-level and adult researchers. Business research database covering marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, banking, finance, and economics.
For college-level and adult researchers. Over 10,000 comprehensive MarketLine profiles on the world’s most important companies.
For adult researchers. Up-to-date information on topics related to small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Find ratings for investments, banking, and insurance, including Medigap. Financial literacy tools are available on several topics. Working from home? Enter your KCL library card number to enter Weiss Financial Ratings.
For middle school through adults, this provides a comprehensive resource for career exploration and planning. Includes career assessments and educational planning.
For elementary school students through adults. Collection of test-preparation tools, skill-building materials, and other career and life skills resources.
Real time tutoring is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for English and Spanish speakers of all ages. Math assistance for elementary and middle grades includes math, Pre-Algebra, Algebra I & II, Pre-Calculus and Calculus, Geometry, Trigonometry, and Statistics.
Testing? SAT, PSAT, ACT, and AP test prep is available.
Assistance with Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, and Physics is available. Tutoring is available in Reading and writing, history, and foreign language.
For older learners. Spanish database for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish. Includes articles, multi-media, timelines, and more.
For students aged 7-12. Spanish elementary encyclopedia for early readers of Spanish.
For college students and adults. Comprehensive collection of academic journals for scholarly research.
For all ages. Access to three levels: Children, Young Adults, and the Reference Center for high school students and adults.
For pre-kindergarten through 12th grades. Access to encyclopedia and related content on three levels: elementary, middle school, and high school, as well as teacher resources.
For middle school students through adults. More than 600 full-text reference books on most major subject areas.
For middle school students through adults. A platform that allows the user to search multiple EBSCO databases at once, including a "Vocational and Career
Collection" database.
Information on many topics from magazines, newspapers, books and more.
For teens through adults. Information on many topics from magazines, newspapers, books, and more.
For Pre-kindergarten through 12th grades. 161,000 multimedia resources, including high-quality full-length videos, video clips, images, audio files, interactives, maps, and science experiments.
For all ages. Large collection of periodicals, reference books and more covering a wide range of general interest topics.
For all ages. A platform that allows the user to search multiple Gale databases at once.
For college-level and adult researchers. In-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine.
For high school students through adults. Designed for the everyday health care consumer and contains easily understandable health and medical information.
Welcome to Kershaw County Library System's Online Collection.
Primarily for middle school students through adults, though many clips are suitable for grades K-6. Historical primary source videos ranging from 1-9 minutes in length.
For middle school through adults, this is a comprehensive source of coverage for more that 500 years of African-American experience.
For all ages. Country reports that provide snapshots of the world’s cultures. Also includes each U.S. state and Canadian province with maps, flags, history, and more.
For all ages. Comprehensive source for biographical information.
For middle school students through adults. Comprehensive U.S. and world history reference resource.
For elementary, middle school, and high school students and educators. Website with links to South Carolina-specific web resources for K-12 homework help, projects and more.
For all ages. Collection of page images from historic newspapers for searching and browsing.
For middle school students through adults. Database of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote critical-thinking skills and information literacy.
For all ages. Provides the latest news from the leading national and international news sources.
For middle school students through adults. Database containing essays and articles that present multiple sides of current issues.
For middle school students through adults. Current events database of popular topics, including controversial opinions and viewpoints.
For college-level and adult researchers. Resources on a wide variety of applied science specialties.
For high school students, college level and adult. Includes step-by-step repair information, diagrams, maintenance schedules, parts and labor estimates, service bulletins, and recalls.
For middle school students through adults. Comprehensive database covering the major scientific fields of study.
This database is a new genealogy research product that provides instant access to more than 1.2 billion names, more than 3,000 databases, primary source documents and images, Gale's Passenger & Immigration Lists Index and, digital images of the census records from the US Federal Census between the years 1790 and 1930. Note: Access to this resource is available inside the library only.
This database combines digital, searchable images of US federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI Genealogy and Local History collection. This online database is an essential collection of unique material for both genealogical hobbyists and professionals.
Please also note our Genealogy Partner, the Camden Archives and Museum, which provides many local genealogy resources.