Digital Library – Adults

Don’t spend time Googling when you can directly link to the information you need. We’ve got government links, legal information, job search and training, health information, adult education, geneaology and general research. Plus we’ve got foreign languages, and downloadable books, movies, TV shows, and magazines!

Funding for Find It Virginia

Items with * are provided through Find It Virginia. Find it Virginia is provided by federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and ensures that all residents of the Commonwealth have equal access to essential resources for lifelong learning.

Downloadable and Streaming Items

Hoopla

Hoopla offers ebooks, audiobooks, movies and TV, digital magazines, and music. Borrow 5 flex items and 3 instant items per month. Bonus Borrows offered from the 25th to the last day of each month can be borrowed in addition to your monthly instant borrow limit.

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Newsbank Digital Newspapers

Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources from around the world to around the corner. Available remotely 24/7 on any device.

Just For Kids*

Just for Kids gives children—and their parents—a thoroughly kid-safe, advertisement-free selection of educational and entertaining videos. There are foreign language, history, math, sciences, writing sections on the site, so you can quickly find content to enhance lessons.

Magzter*

With Magzter Library you can browse, download, and enjoy digital magazines and newspapers from the Find it Virginia collection, courtesy of the Library of Virginia.

  • Go to library.magzter.com/login and follow the instructions to sign up for an account
  • You can also download the Magzter Library App (NOT Magzter Newstand app) to read magazines on a phone or tablet

Language Learning

Duolingo

Transparent Languages*

ReadIt*

Technology Learning

GCF Learnfree

Digital Learn

Universal Class*

Research

Ancestry for Virginians

Requires registering a free account with Ancestry

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Library of Congress

Yearbook Archive

Digital Public Library

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Library of Virginia

EBSCO Explora*

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National Library Service for the Blind

Logo Encyclopedia Virginia

Encyclopedia Virginia

Virginia Public Access Project

Health and Wellness

Child Mind Institute

Cleveland Clinic Health Library

Medline Plus

Mayo Clinic Research

Centers for Disease Control

National Alliance on Mental Health

Central Virginia Health District

Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

Job Training and Searching

Accel5*

GED Virginia

Adult and Career Education

Universal Class*

Brainfuse JobNow*

Virginia Workforce Connection

Legal Information

Virginia Code

Gale Legal Forms*

Information for Veterans

Virginia Military Families*

Brainfuse VetNow*

Virginia Department of Veterans Services

Federal Government Websites and Federal Representatives in Government

USA.gov

US Census

Social Security Administration

Annual Credit Report

State Government Websites and State Government Representatives

Virginia.gov

Virginia General Assembly

Local Government Websites and Local Government Representatives

Bedford County

Bedford County Public Schools

Town of Bedford