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1000 Books B4 Kindergarten
Keep track of all the books your child reads or that someone reads to your child. Research shows that reading books and sharing stories with your child is one of the best ways to help them enter school with the language skills they need to be ready to learn & grow. Sign in or create a new account to get started.
ABC-CLIO: American Government
American Government provides a complete, multifaceted examination of the foundations of our government and political system that supports any curriculum or research project focused on the government of the United States.
ABC-CLIO: American History
American History goes far beyond simply providing names and dates to memorize; it illuminates American politics, science, culture, philosophy, and economics to make the subjects as fascinating and engaging as they should be.
ABC-CLIO: State Geography
United States Geography provides information in an engaging, visual format that helps students gain a deeper understanding of the places and people that make up our country.
ABC-CLIO: World Geography
World Geography: Understanding a Changing World is presented in a highly visual format that engages users and helps them gain understanding and become informed citizens of the world.
ABC-CLIO: World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras
World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras covers early human history around the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance.
Ancestry Library Edition (only available within Library)
Ancestry® Library Edition, distributed exclusively by ProQuest and powered by Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more.
Annals of American History
Annals of American History includes the full text of primary documents in American history, including historical accounts, speeches, memoirs, poems, editorials, landmark court decisions, and cultural criticism.
Beanstack
With Beanstack, customers can get emailed recommendations, log their reading, register children for 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten, and more.
Biography In Context
Biography In Context offers authoritative reference content alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images.
Book Selection Ideas
Discover book selection ideas! A parent resources for readers of all ages.
Britannica Online School Edition
Britannica Online School Edition offers encyclopedias and related materials for students of all levels.
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database which includes peer-reviewed, business journals.
Career Online High School
Available by scholarship through the Gwinnett County Public Library, Career Online High School offers adults the opportunity to complete their high school education.
College Planning GCPL Guide
A guide for students about what to expect when it comes to getting into, paying for and preparing to go to college.
Consumer Health Complete
The single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, Consumer Health Complete is designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics.
ConsumerED.com
ConsumerEd.com was created by the Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs to help Georgians be more informed consumers by learning to make wise purchasing and financial decisions, knowing their rights, and avoiding becoming victims of scams or deceptive practices in the marketplace.
Digital Library of Georgia
The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is an online, public collection of documents and media about the history and culture of the state of Georgia.
Driving Test
Practice your state's DMV permit test or drivers license test - no registration required!
eBooks on EBSCOhost
With EBSCO's extensive collection of eBook titles on EBSCOhost, users can search within a wide range of relevant eBooks using the powerful EBSCOhost.
Enciclopedia Moderna
Britannica® Moderna es la fuente de conocimiento autorizada y confiable que le ofrece una amplia variedad de contenidos para desarrollar sus trabajos académicos.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and Web sites.
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece & Rome
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome offers a comprehensive overview of the major cultures of the classical Mediterranean world—Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman—from the Bronze Age to the fifth century CE.
Encyclopedia of Climate & Weather
Illustrated with more than 2,000 color photographs, supplemental maps, diagrams, and other images, The Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate Change takes the reader beyond simple definitions to explore where weather comes from and the roles played by oceans and water cycles.
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
The five-volume Encyclopedia of Human Rights, edited by David Forsythe, offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history in over 300 entries signed by leading scholars and human rights experts.
Escolar Online
Utiliza la cuenta y la contraseña de tu escuela para acceder a Britannica Escolar.
Explora for Elementary
Explora for Elementary is EBSCO's interface designed for elementary students. Students can browse topics of interest or search for a topic of their choice.
Explora for High School
Explora for High School is EBSCO's interface designed for high school students. Students can browse topics of interest or search for a topic of their choice.
Explora for Middle School
Explora for Middle School is EBSCO's interface designed for middle school students. Students can browse topics of interest or search for a topic of their choice.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive career research database, providing detailed and up-to-date profiles of more than 3,000 jobs in more than 94 industries.
FindMyPast - Library Edition (only available within Library)
Findmypast is a family history and genealogy resource and one of the leading suppliers of online family history records, currently offering access to a collection of over 2 billion historical records covering the United States, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and other parts of the globe. LIBRARY USE ONLY. When inside of a branch, you can either (a) view records as a guest or (b) sign up for a free account to curate your results. Outside of a branch, however, you can still sign in, but cannot access any information for free (even if you viewed it earlier in the library) and will be asked to purchase a subscription.
Flipster
Flipster is a next-generation magazine service that allows people to browse digital versions of the latest issues of popular magazines, courtesy of the library. Magazines can be downloaded to Android phones and tablets, Apple phones and tablets, and Kindle Fire tablets for offline reading anytime, anywhere. Lending periods vary by title.
Fold3 by Ancestry - Library Edition
Fold3 features premier collections of original military records. These records include the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served in the military, courtesy of the U.S. National Archives, The National Archives of U.K., and many other sources.
Foundation Center
Foundation Center databases, including Foundation Directory Online Professional, Grants to Individuals Online, and Foundation Maps, are only available within the "four walls" of the Lawrenceville library. GrantSpace is a free service of Foundation Center that can be accessed by anyone with an Internet connection.
Gale Courses
Gale Courses offers a wide range of interactive classes on topics including professional development and personal enrichment, led by live instructors.
Gale Courses FAQs
Gale Courses FAQs answers all your questions on starting courses, enrolling, and more.
Gale eBooks: Black History Month
Gale's Black History Month resources will help students gain a deeper appreciation for African-American heritage.
Gale eBooks: Business & Personal Finance
Personal Finance is designed for public library patrons and high school students who are developing the financial skills needed to transition successfully in the real world – whether in the context of college, the workplace, or their personal lives.
Gale eBooks: History & Geography
Gale eBooks: Literature & Art
Gale eBooks: Science & Medicine
With collections in more than a dozen areas, Health & Medicine eBook Collections offers access to must-have titles from industry-leading publishers including Harvard Health Publications, Lippincott, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and Springer.
Gale eBooks: Social Studies, Religion, & Law
The database is a must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework with access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, and law.
Gale eBooks: Student Resources
Student Resources In Context offers cross-curricular content aligned to national, state, and Common Core State Standards.
Gale Genealogy Connect
Gale Genealogy Connect features a wide range of comprehensive references and is powered by authoritative information from Genealogical.com — the parent company of Genealogical Publishing and Clearfield Company, leading publishers of works on genealogy and family history. With these unique references, available for the first time online in fully searchable format, users can confidently connect the dots with authoritative contextual information, where the full story lives.
Gale Legal Forms Library
Gale Legal Forms helps patrons understand common legal procedures through access to authentic, professional legal documents for businesses, and it is the only electronic reference to offer legal forms that are truly state-specific. Useful for filing patents and trademarks, developing leases, creating bills of sale, delegating power of attorney, and more, these forms are ideal for supporting legal tasks that business owners need to manage. The forms in Gale Legal Forms are drafted by attorneys.
Gale Literature Resource Center
The world's most current, comprehensive and reliable online literature database, Literature Resource Center is uniquely relevant to today's researcher.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library, updated regularly, offers a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources.
GALILEO
Search GALILEO databases, many of which have full-text newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals. GALILEO is an online library portal to authoritative, subscription-only information that isn’t available through free search engines or Web directories. Participating institutions may access over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. Over 10,000 journal titles are provided in full-text. Other resources include encyclopedias, business directories, and government publications.
GCPL Guides
Research assistance, subject guides, and useful resources compiled by your expert, friendly librarians. Know what we know - find it in GCPLGuides!
Global Newsstream
Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. This product provides one of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. All titles are cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform allowing researchers easy access to multiple perspectives, resources, and languages on the topic they are researching.
Google News Archive (US & International)
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
Green's Dictionary of Slang
Green’s Dictionary of Slang is an unprecedented 10.3 million-word collection of the impertinent, vile, censored, hip, witty, and fascinating slang words of the English language.
Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art (GEAA) deals with all aspects of American art and architecture from Native American art to Colonial art to contemporary American art.
Grove Encyclopedia of Materials & Techniques in Art
The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date information on all aspects of this fundamental area of the visual arts.
HeritageQuest
HeritageQuest® Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, convenient research guides, interactive census maps, and more.
Homework Help - Elementary School
Elementary school students will find useful homework resources in the GCPL Homework Help Guide.
Homework Help - High School
High school students will find useful homework resources in the GCPL Homework Help Guide.
Homework Help - Middle School
Middle school Students will find useful homework resources in the GCPL Homework Help Guide.
Job and Career Accelerator
LearningExpress Job & Career Accelerator™ provides personalized, step-by-step job search assistance - from exploring and matching suitable occupations from over 1,000 detailed occupation profiles to finding available jobs from a database of over 5 million up-to-date job postings. You can easily create professional and effective resumes and cover letters, master interviewing and networking techniques, improve your work skills, and prepare for occupation-related exams.
Journals of the American Physical Society (only available within library)
Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Physical Review, and Reviews of Modern Physics.
LearningExpress Library
LearningExpress is an online learning resource to advance a wide range educational and career goals.
LearningExpress Library - Español
LearningExpressLibrary is your interactive online learning site for all ages. Nearly 1,000 practice tests, tutorials, eBooks and other resources are available.
LitFinder Digital Archive
LitFinder is Gale's premier online resource for students and researchers, whether they be poems, plays, speeches, short stories or essays.
Lynda.com
Turn on. Log in. Get smart. Use your library card to learn software, creative, and business skills to achieve your personal and professional goals.
Magazines
Browse lists of magazines and newspapers available at the library and online through the GALILEO databases.
Mango Languages
Mango Languages’ PhD-created and linguist-approved software teaches real conversations in over 70 languages and makes it fun; no snoozefests here. And with free mobile apps, learning through film, and the coolest promotional materials around, it's no wonder Mango is the most popular language-learning resource in public libraries.
MasterFile Elite
Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE Elite provides full text for magazines, periodicals and reference books covering a wide-range of subjects.
MedicLatina
MedicLatina is a Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by Latin American medical publishers.
Morningstar
Investment resource specialized in fund investing. Offers news, commentary, fund information, tutorial, tools and forums.
New Georgia Encyclopedia
The first state encyclopedia designed exclusively for online publication, the New Georgia Encyclopedia reveals the state's rich history, diverse culture, and still-unfolding story.
Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source is an online resource that offers cover-to-cover full text for national, regional and international newspapers, as well as television and radio.
Novelist K-8 Plus
NoveList K-8 Plus is a database about books specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests.
Novelist Plus
NoveList Plus is the premiere database of reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Opposing Viewpoints In Context is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration, to marijuana. This cross-curricular research tool supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Its informed, differing views present each side of an issue and help students develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and the confidence to draw their own valid conclusions.
OverDrive eBooks & More
Borrow eBooks, audiobooks, and more - anywhere, anytime. All you need is a library card.
OverDrive en Español
Leer, ver o escuchar directamente desde el navegador, descargar libros electrónicos en su computadora o usar la aplicación OverDrive con cualquier dispositivo. Para leer el sitio web en español, haga clic en "English" en la esquina superior derecha y seleccione "Español." También, para instrucciones, seleccione primeros pasos con OverDrive en una computadora o primeros pasos con la aplicación OverDrive.
OverDrive for Kids
With OverDrive for Kids, parents can feel comfortable knowing their children are browsing and borrowing books that are age, grade, and reading-level appropriate all inside an eReading Room.
Oxford Companion to Architecture
The Oxford Companion to Architecture is a unique and indispensable two-volume resource for all who wish to enrich their passion and knowledge of architecture.
Oxford Companion to the Book
The Oxford Companion to the Book is the first reference work of its kind covering the broad concept of the book throughout the world from ancient to modern times.
Oxford Dictionaries Online
Find hundreds of thousands of definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and pronunciations for English and other languages, derived from our language research and expert analysis.
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
This innovative, multivolume encyclopedia charts the interdisciplinary field of Peace Studies, offering a comprehensive survey of the full range of historical, political, theoretical and philosophical issues relating to peace and conflict.
Reading At Home
Learning to read begins at home. Help your children develop early literacy skills now.
ReferenceUSA
Reference USA is a database that offers library users instant access to databases of both business and residential listings.
Sesame Street eBooks
Sesame Street eBooks offer patrons UNLIMITED access to MORE THAN 150 eBooks available anytime and anywhere. All books are based on Sesame Street's early childhood curriculum and includes eBooks, read along books, audio books, animated books, and interactive books. Download the app for mobile devices. Android and iPad app available.
Storytime at GCPL
Storytime promotes early literacy skills, exposes children to language and art, allows them to experience group activities which enhance their developing abilities, and introduces the library as an enjoyable place for lifelong learning.
Tax Resource Guide
GCPL provides access to a wide range of premium resources that you can use to gather information on a variety of tax related topics.
Treehouse
Treehouse offers over 1000 videos created by expert teachers on web design, coding, business, and more.
TumbleBooks
TumbleBooks is a collection of animated, talking picture books, suited for elementary school children. TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books, adding sound, animation, music and narration to create an electronic picture book.
Value Line
Provides investment research on stocks, mutual funds, options and convertibles, and offers a family of no-load mutual funds.
World Data Analyst
Where are the world’s highest waterfalls? Who has more internet users—Japan or the United Kingdom? What is the literacy rate in Brazil? This rich trove of current and historical statistics on the countries of the world makes historical and cross-national comparisons easy.
