Education & Careers
Available to Central, City and Suburban Libraries
Coin Career Library from Ebsco
A comprehensive information resource for education and careers. Five user-friendly components help you match your interests to occupations and education prospects. Includes interest and skills assessments, college majors, apprenticeships, interactive quizzes, GED test preparation and more.
Learning Express Library
Online practice for job-related and academic exams, including the GED, SAT, AP exams, ASVAB, civil service, U.S. citizenship, and more. Many titles are also available as e-books. Also includes a wide array of computer skills tutorials for today’s most popular applications, MS Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Powerpoint Corel WordPerfect, Windows XP, Vista and Mac OSX Leopard. New users should enter their OCPL library card number as the user name.
Available to Central & City Branch Libraries*
Ferguson's Career Center
Detailed and up-to-date job and industry profiles including fastest growing industries and most in demand jobs, job hunting and workplace skills, resume templates, information about apprenticeships and internships, college planning, financial aid directories, and online news articles from Career Opportunities News, offering advice, information, and insight perfect for students, job seekers, guidance counselors, college career counselors, and career professionals.
Mango Languages Online
Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans. Use Mango Basic courses to quickly learn some basic words and phrases for your business trip or short trip overseas or, for speakers of other languages, to quickly learn some basic words and phrases in English. The Mango Complete courses are aimed at students who want to move beyond basic language skills. Instruction available in French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish as well as ESL lessons for Brazilian Portuguese, Polish and Spanish speakers. A text translator is also provided.
*Branch Libraries - Beauchamp, Betts, Hazard, Mundy, Paine, Petit, Soule, White
If your library card was issued by a suburban library, check that library's website for access.
Last updated March 2, 2010