Resources A to Z
A to Z Food America
Explore America’s regional food culture and recipes, as well as state specialties and ethnic cuisine. It’s a movable feast in a digital cookbook. Learn to make salads from the South, appetizers from Alaska, and desserts from the Dutch. This database cover the country!
A to Z World Food
Explore food culture and traditional recipes from around the world. It’s a movable feast in a digital cookbook. Recipes from 174 countries! Learn to make classic dishes from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
A to Z World Travel
Experience the World’s Wonders! A comprehensive travel guide providing practical information for experiencing the world and all its wonders, for travelers and students alike.
Global Road Warrior
The world’s most extensive country-by-country resource for learning about culture, travel, history, customs, and language. The world awaits.
ABCMouse
Every Dougherty County Public Library has free access to ABCmouse on the library’s public computers. The agreement with ABCmouse does not allow for use at outside the library. Personal devices may be brought (laptops, smartphones, tablets) and use the site while at the library when the app is downloaded at ABCmouse.com.
Academic Search Complete
Provides access to more than 6,100 full-text periodicals and it includes more than 5,100 peer-reviewed scholarly journals. This database is updated daily and features PDF content going back to 1887.
Albany Herald (Search 10/20/2009-Current)
Find information on community issues and events, business, education, government, sports and more. Coverage of the Albany Herald is from October 20, 2009 to Current.
America’s News
Explore and stay informed on local and national topics, people and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more. Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources spanning the U.S.
Ancestry Library Edition
Ancestry Library Edition, distributed exclusively by ProQuest and powered by Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories
Biography In Context
Biography In Context, a next-generation online portal, is built on a foundation of more than 700,000 biographies of more than 500,000 people gathered from more than 170 award-winning Gale reference sources. It delivers up-to-date, authoritative reference content integrated with the most in-demand resources.
Black Life in America Series 1-3
The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media.
Driving Tests
Driving Tests provides access to unlimited access to official state driver’s manuals, online practice tests for car, motorcycle and commercial driver’s license (CDL), an exam simulator, and a DMV-related FAQ.
eReads Kids
Build confidence, reading skills, and have fun, with eRead Kids. This free collection of of ebooks and audio books is for kids in pre k through 4th grade. Its a mix of fiction and nonfiction titles that can be downloaded onto computers, tables, and smartphones.
Gale Directory Library
The Gale Directory Library hosts a variety of directory products that particular libraries can choose from. Use it to search, sort and export information from both current directory editions as well as prior editions that are maintained as searchable backfiles. Multiple directories can be cross-searched or users can mine individual directories for the particular kinds of data they contain, such as financial information for companies, circulation figures for publications, and much more.
Gale Power Search
Gale PowerSearch is a search platform unlike any other, providing libraries with a sophisticated yet simple solution for managing a wealth of periodical, reference, multimedia and primary source information.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library offers an online collection of premier reference eBooks including encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. The collection contains the following subjects: art, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, social science, and technology.
GALILEO
GALILEO provides access to multiple information resources, including secured access to licensed products. Participating institutions may access over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. Over 2000 journal titles are provided in full-text. Other resources include encyclopedias, business directories, and government publications.
Hoopla provides access to e-books, audio books, e-comic books, music, TV, movies, and more! Hoopla provides immediate access to its’ content. Checkouts are limited to 5 per month.
The Ice House Entrepreneurial Mindset Course
Inspired by the life-story of Pulitzer nominee Clifton Taulbert and the life-changing influence of an “unlikely” entrepreneur, the Ice House Entrepreneurship Program exposes the underlying logic, the methods, and processes that enable everyday entrepreneurs – those who may not have big ideas, access to wealthy investors, or advanced degrees – to succeed.
Kanopy
Kanopy provides access TV and movies! Kanopy is a streaming service that allows instant access to it’s content with no waiting lists. Checkouts are limited to 5 per month.
Learning Express
The Learning Express Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help you succeed.
Libby by Overdrive
Georgia Download Destination offers downloadable eAudiobooks, eBooks, and digital magazines! From the convenience of your home or office, Overdrive eAudiobooks, eBooks, and eMagazines can be downloaded to your PC, or portable device.
Literature Resource Center
Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Live Homework Help
Live Homework Help is available for Kindergarten – 12th grade, college introduction level students, and adult learners seven days a week. Also, there is Proof Point where you can get a document reviewed by a live English Tutor. This program connects you to a real live tutor.
Mango Languages
Mango is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages, such as Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portugese, German, Greek, Italian and many more.
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Provides detailed coverage of Georgia history including the people, places events history and other topics that have transpired in Georgia.
Newsbank
Explore and stay informed on local and national topics, people and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more. Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources spanning the U.S.
Infinite Campus
The Dougherty County School System is offering the Infinite Campus Parent Portal as a means to enhance communication with parents in accordance with our continuing efforts to promote educational excellence. Infinite Campus allows parents to view their child’s grades anywhere, anytime via the internet.