RESEARCH & LEARN

WPLS is proud to offer a wide selection of research databases and learning platforms.

Below you will find a list of resources by subject areas with brief descriptions.

Click the database’s picture to launch the resource.

Learning & Tutoring

Financial Fit

FinancialFit offers short, easy-to-understand personal finance lessons, videos and interactive tools that empower all members of your community — no matter their current financial situation — to make informed financial decisions and achieve their financial goals.

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Mango Language

Mango is the only personalized, adaptive language-learning experience that provides the tools and guidance you need to expand your language skills wherever and however you learn best.

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Brainfuse- HELPNOW!

HelpNow offers a variety of services from customized learning plans, writing assistance, and skills-building lessons to information about different college majors that match one’s skills and interests.

Live tutors are available 2-11pm daily Central Standard Time.

HIGH SCHOOL CENTER

The resources in the School Center provide skill-building for classroom and homework success. The school center helps students prepare for important tests, get extra help with assignments, and boost their skills in important subjects.

High School Equivalency Center

If you are preparing for the GED® test, HiSET® or TASC exams, the High School Equivalency Center’s practice tests, interactive tutorials, eBooks will help you reach your goal.

COLLEGE ADMISSIONS TEST PREP

This center helps students prepare for important exams like the ACT®, SAT®, AP® Tests, and more.

College Center

College Center provides valuable resources that help college students strengthen their academic skills, prepare for placement tests, and get ready for graduate school entrance exams.

COMPUTER SKILLS CENTER

Use the materials in the Computer Skills Center to learn the basics of computers, from searching the Internet to using popular software programs for word processing, creating spreadsheets and databases, implementing design and more.

Brainfuse- Adult Learning Center

Achieve your learning and career goals with our LIVE one-on-one academic coaching, practice test center, and online resources.

The Brainfuse Adult Learning Center makes going back to school, switching jobs, or just brushing up on an academic skill much more feasible and accessible.

El Centro de Recursos en Español

El Centro de Recursos en Español proporciona herramientas de aprendizaje, así como recursos de carrera y ciudadanía para ayudar a los adultos ocupados a mejorar sus habilidades básicas, obtener una credencial de GED® o convertirse en ciudadanos de los Estados Unidos.

ADULT CORE SKILLS CENTER

The Adult Core Skills Center helps adults achieve their personal, education and career goals by offering resources to help them improve their basic skills in reading, writing, and math, and prepare for the U.S. citizenship exam.

Career & Business

CAREER PREP CENTER

Are you preparing for a professional exam? Are you curious about a particular occupation or looking to improve your workplace skills? Choose the Career Preparation Center and begin your path to a bright future.

Small Business Reference Center

The Small Business Reference Center is a comprehensive resource for small business owners and those interested in starting a business, offering full-text periodicals and reports, sample business plans, U.S. tax forms, videos and reference books.

building & repairs

Small Engine Repair Reference Center

All good things must come to an end.

This resource is no longer available.

Chilton Library

ChiltonLibrary provides access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road today, as well as, many new vehicles.

Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center

From candle making, homebrewing, and quilting to geocaching, model rockets and minerals, this Center offers detailed “how-to” instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast.

Home Improvement Reference Center

Covering topics such as electrical work, plumbing, decorating and more, this database provides users with detailed, user-friendly “how-to” information covering a variety of home improvement and repair projects.

History & Genealogy

Oklahoman Historical Archives

Research history through The Oklahoman Collection with coverage from 1901 through current.

Available in-library and remotely 24/7 on any device.

Ancestry Library Edition

Here, you can unlock the story of you with sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more.

**This resource is only available in the library.

HeritageQuest

HeritageQuest is an essential collection of unique material that combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI Genealogy & Local History collection and the other valuable content dating back to the late 1700s.

History Reference Center

Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents.

Books, stories, & poetry

NOVELIST

Consider NoveList Plus your one-stop guide to great reading.
It contains lists of recommended reads and award-winning books.

POETRY & SHORT STORY REFERENCE CENTER

Poetry & Short Story Reference Center is a rich full-text database of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, plus thousands of short stories, biographies, essays, lesson plans and learning guides.

Travel

food america

If you think that spice is the variety of life and love American cuisine in its many forms, then A to Z Food America is for you!

A to Z Food America offers over 9,000 food photos, 650+ ingredient articles, 800+ food glossary terms, over 2,500 recipes, and so much more.

World Food

Explore food culture and traditional recipes from around the world through AtoZ World Food.

It’s a moveable feast in a digital cookbook with recipes from 174 countries!

Global Road Warrior

Global Road Warrior consists of 175 Country Guides of 126 modules each.

Topics include culture & society, travel, education, history, holidays and festivals, language, media outlets, music, maps, money, national symbols, and religion. Illustrated with more than 30,000 photos, maps, and flag images.

Travel USA

A large-scale encyclopedia of US state and country information. State information is arranged into 103 editorial and image datasets for each state.

Topics include history, geography, demographics, education, food and recipes, government, crime, maps, media outlets, symbols, sports, and more.

Maps

Enjoy perusing over 100,000 maps in addition to map resources, visual glossaries, video dictionaries, and geography learning games.

This resource offers everything from interactive maps, compliments of NASA, to antique Holy Land maps.

World Travel

AtoZ World Travel is a comprehensive travel resource with over 202 World City Travel Guides covering 67 topics each, plus an additional 56 travel resources.

RESEARCH

explora

This is a collection of 3 research databases: Explora Public Library Search, Elementary Student Research, Middle School Student Research, and Explora Educator’s Edition.

EBSCO host

EBSCOhost is an online reference system that offers a variety of WPLS owned databases as well as databases from leading information providers.
In addition to general reference, there are subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school library patrons.