Free videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more. Browse by subject or by grade level.

Films on Demand offers thousands of high quality streaming videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances.

hoopla allows customers to instantly borrow e-books, comics, audiobooks, music, movies and television—with no holds, and no waiting.

Kanopy is an award-winning video streaming service providing access to more than 30,000 independent and documentary films. It also has a site dedicated to kids.

OverDrive/Libby is a collection of e-books, digital audiobooks, and digital magazines offered by the library. E-books, audiobooks, and magazines can be downloaded to your computer, tablet, (including Kindle), or mobile device for offline reading or listening.

Enjoy digital access to hundreds of U.S. and international newspapers, plus the magazine, The Economist. Read in your browser or download the free PressReader app.

Digital Charlotte is building a map of no-cost and low-cost public wireless networks access locations across Charlotte, NC.

Digital Inclusion Response Resources for COVID-19

In BiblioBoard Library, customers will discover local content from self-published North Carolina authors as well as the NC LIVE Home Grown e-book Collection.

PebbleGo Science is a research tool that covers key topics in life, physical and Earth and space science along with engineering and technology for children grades K-3.

TumbleBooks is a collection of animated, talking picture books. TumbleBooks can be read by you or read to you! Our TumbleBook collection includes story books, books in French and Spanish for language learning, read-along books, non-fiction books, puzzles and games.

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.

A nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

Wondering what to read next? NoveList provides reading recommendations for fiction and nonfiction materials for adults, teens, tweens (ages 9-12) and children (ages 0-8). Also includes Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guides, and BookTalks.

A language-learning software with over 70 world language courses and over 17 ESL/ELL courses, featuring an engaging user interface, voice comparison, fresh design, foreign language films, and cultural anecdotes.

NYTimes.com is a multi-platform news tool that provides access to New York Times and International New York Times content, including breaking news, multimedia, reviews and opinion, blogs, videos and more. NYTimes is updated 24/7.

Newsbank provides Charlotte Observer digital access. The Library has access to two databases, a current (1985-current) and historical (1892- 1985). Databases can be search separately as well as together. Articles are searchable by name, word or phrase.

Contains an index of newspaper articles from 1981 with many complete articles from 1984 to the present. The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard 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.