Databases

Learn eight reading strategies to improve your understanding of stories. Each strategy features a video example and an opportunity to try the strategy yourself. Strategies include: questioning, evaluating, inferring, prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, synthesizing, and visualizing.

Video tutoring for math, science, economics, arts and humanities, computing, test prep and more. Login is not required. Click on "subjects" then select a topic to locate video tutorials.

Find information about your favorite books, series, and authors. Select reviews of the newest titles, interviews with the coolest authors, trivia games, word scrambles, and awesome contests!

Test Prep/Jobs/Careers. Seven interactive learning centers of academic and licensing/certification practice tests, elementary level testing for math and reading, and skills building tools. Click "More" for centers links. Learning centers: High School Equivalency, College Preparation, College, Career, Adult Learning, School, and Recursos para Hispanohablantes.

Fourteen new eLearning videos under four categories to help teach soft skills - Communication, Critical thinking, Collaboration, and Creativity. Watch one or all 14 at your own pace to raise awareness about 21st century key skills needed for workplace success.

Simple online stories for young children to read and interact with. Story themes on opposites, monsters, numbers, potty time, colors, emotions, and more will interest emerging readers. Also includes coloring pages, videos and games.

Intended for informational purposes only. Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. Learn about the latest treatments, look up information on a drug or supplement, find the meanings of words, view medical videos or illustrations, get links to the latest medical research on your topic or find out about clinical trials on a disease or condition.

Para pacientes y sus familias y amigos. Producida por la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina, MedlinePlus le brinda información sobre enfermedades, condiciones y bienestar en un lenguaje fácil de leer. MedlinePlus ofrece información confiable, actualizada en todo momento, en cualquier lugar y de forma gratuita. Usted puede usar MedlinePlus para aprender sobre los últimos tratamientos, buscar información sobre medicamentos o mirar los videos e ilustraciones. También puede encontrar enlaces a investigaciones sobre su tema de interés así como también ensayos clínicos sobre una enfermedad o condición.

Searchable database of Michigan authors and illustrators that provides biographical and contact information. Indicates whether person will do library presentations.

Identify the 276 bugs that live in Michigan by their appearance. Features include: color photos, taxonomy, size and color descriptions.

Encourages and produces programs and resources throughout the state that promote books, reading, authors and libraries.

Official website of the Michigan Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, providing access to court rules, opinions, guidelines, statistics and forms for both the general public and the legal community.

Search the Michigan Grants Available List (MiGAL) for federal, state, private, and other funding grant resources that relate to education and/or youth.

Catalog of environmental grants and loans in Michigan.

Job creation and economic development in one department including Talent Investment Agency, Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Michigan State Housing Development Authority, and Michigan Strategic Fund. MSHDA, MSF, TIA, TED, MEDC.

Find your representative, view their office budget allotment, calendars, committees, and more.

Listing of events across the state to connect job seekers and employers.