Kansas State Library

Free resources available to all Kansas residents.

Databases
Find information on a wide range of subjects. Includes the World Book online in English and Spanish.

Live Homework Help
Connects Kansas students and adult learners with live tutors. Includes help with GED and citizenship prep and a Career Center for help with resumes, job search and interviews.

Audio Books, Music and More
Browse and search hundreds of titles to download to your computer, transfer to a portable device, or burn onto a CD.

Thriving in Tough Times
Find help with figuring out how to refinance your home mortgage, where to turn if you've lost health insurance, and more.

More Online Resources

WyCo Help
Find community organizations in Wyandotte County.

Kansas Health Online
Find quality information and news about medical conditions, health insurance, and health care policy.

Kansas City, Kansas Public Library Online Resources

 

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Alphabetical or Subject List of Subscription Databases

Subscription Literature and Poetry Databases

Columbia Granger'sŪ World of Poetry (Available from home with KCKPL Library Card)
A definitive, one-stop reference for all poetry-related research. Includes 250,000 poems in full text.

FirstSearch (Available from home with Kansas Library Card)
Provides access to WorldCat, a database of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. A KANFIND and KAN-ED Online Database Service.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Available from home with KCKPL Library Card)
Encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. A KANFIND and KAN-ED Online Database Service.

Literature Criticism Online (Available from home with KCKPL Library Card)
Includes Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism and Children's Literature Review.

Literature Resource Center (Available from home with KCKPL Library Card)
Biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every period and literary discipline. A KANFIND and KAN-ED Online Database Service.

LitFinder (Available from home with KCKPL Library Card)
Full-text poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays from more than 80,000 authors.

NoveList (Available from home with KCKPL Library Card)
Fiction readers' advisory tool for finding books by the same author or similar books by another author. A KANFIND and KAN-ED Online Database Service.

Something About the Author (Available from home with KCKPL Library Card)
Biographical profiles of children's authors and artists.

Wilson Short Story Index (Available from home with KCKPL Library Card)
Index to more than 96,000 stories, including the full text of more than 3,400 short stories.

WorldCat (Available from home with Kansas Library Card)
A database of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. A KANFIND and KAN-ED Online Database Service.


Subscription databases offer direct and easy access to reliable citations and full text articles from a variety of publications, including newspapers, magazines, government documents, encyclopedias, transcripts and academic papers.

KCKPL appreciates the database resources provided through the KANFIND and KAN-ED Online Database Service, and sponsored by the Kansas State Library, KAN-ED, Kansas Regents Libraries, the Johnson County Library, the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, and Olathe Public Library.