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ABCmouse
More than 10,000 fun-filled learning activities —including more than 1,200 of them in Spanish— that cover reading, math, science, social studies, art, and music (ages 2-8+).
Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports provides unbiased ratings and reviews for 9000+ products and services, plus trusted advice and in-depth reporting on what matters most.
Available anywhere with your MPHPL library card.
Arts & Crafts
Creativebug
Go-to resource for high-quality, trendy arts and crafts instructional videos.
Available anywhere with your MPHPL library card.
Career / Employment Transition
Job Now
Live career Assistance and so much more. JobNow is designed to support every step of the job search process.
Available anywhere with your MPHPL library card.
Consumer
Gale LegalForms
Gale LegalForms offers a wide selection of essential state-specific legal forms that may be customized for the most common legal procedures.
Available anywhere with your MPHPL library card.
Indiana Legal Help
Resources for free legal assistance as well as self-help legal forms.
Available anywhere.
Legal Information Reference Center
Provides the necessary tools and detailed how-to instructions covering a wide-range of legal issues. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.
Sams Photofacts
Quickfact manuals and Photofact® manuals have been designed to provide reliable, consistent repair data for electronics repair technicians, antique electronics restorers, and hobbyists. SAMS has been the gold standard in the repair industry for TVs, VCRs, Radios, etc.
Available at any MPHPL location.
Driver's Education
Education
AtoZ World Food
Explore recipes and food culture from all over the world.
Available anywhere with your MPHPL library card.
GCF Global Learning
Free courses available on a wide variety of topics including internet skills, career planning, 3d printing, graphic design and core skills (math/reading).
Available anywhere.
Help Now
Brainfuse HelpNow is designed to help K-12 students with homework help, skills building and test preparation. It also includes an Adult Learning Center.
Available anywhere with your MPHPL library card.
INSPIRE
Indiana's Virtual Library is a collection of academic databases and other information resources. Below are just four of the great resources available through INSPIRE.
Available anywhere in Indiana.
Almost 300,000 resources about children's and young adult books including author interviews, book trailers and more.
Tests, tutorials and eBooks to help achieve education goals and prepare for future success.
Contains resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments. (Found under Research > Student Search 6-12)
Access Level One for 30 different languages for free! Lessons are 10 minutes long, and each one helps you intuitively learn specifics about a language through imagery and reasoning.
Genealogy
Ball Band Newsletters in Michiana Memory
Red Ball newsletters from 1942-1965. Collaboration with St. Joseph County Public Library.
Available anywhere.
Chronicling America
Digitized American historic newspapers dating from 1789 to 1963. Also, includes the US Newspaper Directory, containing information about American newspapers published between 1690 - present.
Available anywhere.
Fold 3
A collection of military records, stories, photos and personal documents. Information spans from the Revolutionary War to WWII.
Available anywhere with your MPHPL library card.
Heritage Quest
Searchable genealogy and history books.
Available anywhere with your MPHPL library card.
Indiana Memory
Digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, maps, and other media related to Indiana history.
Available anywhere.
Mishawaka Memories Digital Archive
Digitized photographs, letters and other media related to Mishawaka history.
Available anywhere
Newspapers.com Library Edition
Newspapers.com Library Edition is an online newspaper archive consisting of 185 million+ pages of historical newspapers from 19,000+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond.
Available anywhere with your MPHPL library card.
News
Newsbank
A premier information provider of news for more than 45 years. Below are a few of the most requested collections - including our local news, South Bend Tribune.
Powered by NewsBank, Inc. Available anywhere with your MPHPL library card.
America's News Magazines - Past and current issues of publications such as Field & Stream, Newsweek, Smithsonian and more.
South Bend Tribune Collection - Local news spanning 1994-present day.
USA - Indiana - Past and current issues of newspapers from other cities in Indiana including The Elkhart Truth, Kokomo Tribune and La Porte County Herald.