Pressbooks is an easy-to-use online software that allows you to create professional-quality e-book and print ready files in ePUB, MOBI, and PDF formats. You can create and export as many items as you wish!
To login to Pressbooks, click Access Now. You will be required to make a Biblioboard Library username and password and provide an email address.
Open Education North Carolina Collection contains free, open textbooks that have been curated for the most frequently taught courses across North Carolina's 2 and 4-year colleges and universities.
Open Education North Carolina Collection contains free, open textbooks that have been curated for the most frequently taught courses across North Carolina's 2 and 4-year colleges and universities. Faculty can adopt these Open Education Resources to save their students money and lower the overall cost of higher education.
There are four curated collections available: STEM, Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business. Open the curated collection you are interested in to view textbooks available. You can search resources by keywords or use the filters on the left side of the page. Click on a title to display the description and view the textbook. Textbooks can be viewed online without an account. If you would like to highlight passages or add notes about the textbooks, you will need to create a free account. Information on creating an account is here.
Information and help for Open Education North Carolina can be found here.
Find out what computer skills you have and which ones you need to improve with Northstar Digital Literacy Assessment. This resource provides interactive online assessments* to help individuals master computer skills such as using email, navigating the internet, and basic proficiency with Windows, Mac OS, as well as Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Gain the tools you need to navigate technology in your daily life with assessments on topics such as Social Media, Telehealth, Your Digital Footprint, Supporting K-12 Distance Learning, and Career Search Skills. Certifications and digital badges are awarded when a proctored assessment is completed during a virtual library proctored assessment session. Certificates earned from Northstar assessments allow learners to demonstrate digital competency with potential employers. Utilize this resource to gain the digital skills needed to use a computer and the internet in daily life, employment, and higher education.
Visit the Digital Branch Northstar Information page to learn more.
*Practice lessons available for most topics
News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn, and share the abilities needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy.
It’s getting harder to separate fact from fiction.
News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn, and share the abilities needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy.
What is news literacy? News literacy is the ability to determine the credibility of news and other content, to identify different, types of information, and to use the standards of authoritative, fact-based journalism to determine what to trust, share, and act on.
To access the free resources News Literacy Project offers for the public, click “For Everyone”.
Checkology
Customized version of News Literacy Projects e-learning platform for the public. People of all ages can now learn how to identify credible information, seek out reliable sources, and know what to trust, what to dismiss, and what to debunk.
Get Smart About News
Get Smart About News is a free newsletter designed for the public exploring timely examples of misinformation as well as press freedom and social media trends and issues.
Informable
With News Literacy Projects free mobile app, everyone can practice four distinct news literacy skills in a game-like format: distinguishing news reports from opinion pieces; advertisements from other types of information; false claims from credible evidence; and fact-based statements from opinion-based statements.
Podcast
Is that a fact?, News Literacy Project’s podcast, informs listeners about news literacy issues that affect their lives through informative conversations with experts working to combat misinformation.
Tips & Tools
How news-literate are you? Test and sharpen your news literacy skills with short activities, engaging quizzes and shareable graphics.
Are you an educator? News Literacy Project has tools available to you to help in the classroom. Click on “For Educators.”
What is NC LIVE? The power of your library, online! We give you free access to e-books, audiobooks, videos, online magazines, newspapers, journals, and more.
LinkedIn Learning is an online educational site that includes over 3,000 courses (and over 130,000 videos) in popular fields like web design, web development, IT, education/instruction, media production, and business.
How to access LinkedIn Learning with your library card:
This database allows you to search the full-text of leading library and information science journals. This collection provides full-text coverage of 125+ core titles.
Suite of highly-acclaimed eLearning solutions which provide interactive tutorials, practice tests, e-books, flashcards and articles for academic skill-building, standardized test preparation, career development and more.
The HistoryMakers is an oral history collection highlighting the accomplishments of individual African Americans and African-American-led groups and movements.
Learn the essential skills needed to live and work in the 21st century. From Microsoft Office and email to reading, math, work skills, and more...125 tutorials, including more than 1,100 lessons, videos, and interactives, completely free.
