Take music lessons online. ArtistWorks provides world-class video lessons on musical instruments and styles. Learn to play guitar, bass, ukulele, piano, banjo and more. 
Universal Class hosts over 500 courses on a wide variety of subjects. Classes are self-paced and instructor led. Learn to paint, draw, knit, use Photoshop, and more.
Make smart buying decisions with Consumer Reports. Find ratings and recommendations for new and used vehicles, car buying guide, and a maintenance & repair pricing tool.
DrivingTests.org provides practice tests for car, motorcycle, and CDL licensing in South Dakota. The SD Driver License Handbook is available to read online or download as a pdf.
Find your next book with Novelist Plus. Get expert reading recommendations for fiction, nonfiction and audiobooks. Search by appeal factors, genres, and themes.
Want to know what you should read next? Get expert recommendations, reading lists, and more from Gale Books and Authors. Browse by genre, series, author or title.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) is research database focused on library and information science. Includes full text articles from many of the journals.
AtoZdatabases provides detailed profiles on U.S businesses and consumers to create mailing lists or perform market research. Useful for new and growing small businesses, budding entrepreneurs, and job-seekers.
With Business Source Premier, search leading business journals for articles on marketing, management, accounting, banking & finance, and regional business. Includes access to over 10,000 company profiles from MarketLine.
Foundation Directory Online is a database of grantmakers & nonprofit funders. Includes profiles on over 235,000 grantmakers. Search by subject, organization, and geographic focus. Browse new RFPs, connect with funders, and view recipient profiles. *Only available on library computers and wifi.
Starting a business? Let Gale Business: Plan Builder be your guide through the entire business development cycle. The program’s easy to understand process will walk you through five essential steps of business planning
Regional Business News from EBSCO provides full-text regional business publications. Search newspapers, magazines, and other sources for business related articles dating back to the 1990s.
Get valuable investment advice with the Value Line Research Library. This resource covers 3,500 stocks across 100 industries and representing 90% of the market capitalization of all stocks traded in the U.S. markets.
Start your job search with AtoZdatabases. Access résumé & cover letter templates, interviewing tips, and learn job searching skills. Search over 7 million job listings.
If you are preparing for the GED®, HiSET® or TASC exams, the Test Prep Center’s practice tests, interactive tutorials and e-books will help you reach your goal.
LearningExpress Library has online tutorials, practice tests, and e-books to help students of all ages. Find test preps for career certification and licensure, college and grad school entrance, GED, and more.
DigitalLearn provides short beginner courses to help improve digital skills. Includes courses about online job searching, being safe online, and basic computer skills.
JobNow provides live resume help, interview coaching, and job coaching. Find resume templates, interview tips, skill building lessons, career assessments and more.
Learn to use your computer with Universal Class. Find self-paced instructor-led courses on computer basics, keyboarding, Windows 10, and more.DigitalLearn has short beginner courses to help improve digital skills. Includes courses about basic computer skills like using a pc, browsing the internet, and being safe online.
Learn a new language with today! Mango is an award-winning language and culture learning system. It offers adaptive, conversation-based lessons in over 70 languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and more.
Universal Class hosts over 500 online continuing education courses. The classes are self-paced and instructor led, and include a wide variety of subjects.LearningExpress Library has online tutorials, practice tests, and e-books to help students of all ages. Find test preps for career certification and licensure, college and grad school entrance, GED, and more.
TumbleBooks has tons of animated, talking picture books just for kids! Find early readers, chapter books, and graphic novels too!
Your child will have fun learning with BookFlix. They can listen to and watch classic animated stories from Weston Woods, and then explore the paired nonfiction eBook from Scholastic. Books are chosen to help children practice early literacy skills.
A fun, interactive, and award-winning, online kindergarten-readiness learning solution for children ages 3 to 6.
Worldbook Early Learning is designed for preschool students with tools and content that reinforce early childhood curriculum via short videos, read-aloud stories, printable activities, and matching and tracing games, among others.
ABC Mouse is an early literacy website with thousands of interactive books, games, puzzles, and other learning activities. (Only available on library computers and wifi)
TumbleBooks has tons of animated, talking picture books just for kids! Find early readers, chapter books, and graphic novels too!
Your child will have fun learning with BookFlix. They can listen to and watch classic animated stories from Weston Woods, and then explore the paired nonfiction eBook from Scholastic. Geared towards students in preschool through 3rd grade.
Worldbook Kids is an Easy-to-use encyclopedia for young readers. It has articles, videos, games, science projects and interactive tools for homework and fun.
SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database that helps upper elementary students complete their assignments by providing easy access to premium newspapers, magazines, images, and other kinds of great content.
HelpNow has live tutoring for K-12 students. Other services provided include a writing lab, language lab, flashcard creation, and virtual private study rooms.
Research your family history. Ancestry Library Edition offers access to more than 7 billion names in over 4,000 genealogical databases, including South Dakota census records from 1790-1940. (Only available on library computers and wifi)
With Fold3, you can search and browse historical military records with ease. Includes draft cards, military yearbooks, photos and stories.
Discover the amazing history of you with HeritageQuest Online. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.
The Rapid City Society for Genealogical Research is a local group that can aid with researching your family history. Services include obituary lookups, an online cemetery index, funeral home ledgers, and misc. local records. Questions? email askus@rcgenealogy.com
Writing a research paper? Start here! Academic Search Premier has access to current information in many areas of major research. Includes full-text articles, books and journals.Make smart buying decisions with Consumer Reports. Access ratings and reviews of vehicles, electronics, appliances, health equipment, and more. Includes buying guides and articles.
Doing research? EBSCO Megafile combines three major EBSCO databases into one simple search: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, and Regional Business News.
GreenFILE is a research database that covers human impact to the environment. This collection of scholarly, government and general titles includes content on global warming, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and more.
Need to find reliable information on a subject? MasterFILE Complete covers virtually every subject area of general interest and provides full text of more than 2,000 general reference publications dating back to 1922.
Doing research? Check out Proquest Research Library, a database with over 150 full-text periodicals and scholarly journals. It covers topics from arts, literature, and social science to general reference, business, science, technology, and medicine.
Medline Plus is a service of the National Institute of Health. It provides easy to understand medical information for patients, family, and friends. This resource includes up-to-date information on diseases, prescription drugs, and health care.
Consumer Health Complete can help you better understand key topics across the health and wellness spectrum — from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
The Coronavirus Research Database is a collection of journal articles, preprints, dissertations and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. It includes wide-ranging research background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS, to give background around the current crisis.
Health Source provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Access nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.
Teen Health and Wellness provides middle and high school students with straightforward, nonjudgmental answers from real teens and professionals on a variety of topics they deal with on a daily basis. Topics include diseases, nutrition, mental health, drugs and alcohol, green living, and more.
Writing a research paper? Start here! Academic Search Premier has access to current information in many areas of major research. Includes full-text articles, books and journals.
The American Indian Experience is a digital resource that illuminates the histories and contemporary cultures of the Native peoples of North America. Click here to log in from home with your library card.
If you are preparing for the GED®, HiSET® or TASC exams, the Test Prep Center’s practice tests, interactive tutorials and e-books will help you reach your goal.
LearningExpress Library has online tutorials, practice tests, and e-books to help students of all ages. Find test preps for career certification and licensure, college and grad school entrance, GED, and more.
What’s life like in other countries? Find out with CultureGrams. Explore reports on the daily life and culture of over 200 countries. Find recipes, videos, interviews, bios, and more.
Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other more.
When it comes to helping novice researchers make sense of the major issues of the day, SIRS Issues Researcher stands apart by offering balanced content selections from more than 2,000 global sources.
World Book Advanced is an encyclopedia for High School students. Look up homework answers, read world newspapers, find information for papers, and download images and videos to use in reports and presentations.
World Book Discover is an online encyclopedia for reluctant readers, English Language Learners, and adult students. Included is a Life Skills section, with advice on stepping out into the working world, getting your first apartment, and more.
HelpNow has live tutoring for K-12 students. Other services provided include a writing lab, language lab, flashcard creation, and virtual private study rooms.
The American Indian Experience is a digital resource that illuminates the histories and contemporary cultures of the Native peoples of North America. Click here to log in from home with your library card.
In this original collection of content from Rapid City Public Library you will find a wide assortment of historical documents, books, images, articles and much more. The digital collections cover the Black Hills region and are contributed to by partner libraries.
Archives Unbound is four collections of primary sources in American History. Primary sources are books, documents, diaries, recordings, and other sources of information that were created during the time of study. Includes Slavery in America, The American Revolution, The Civil War, and Travels in the West: 1800-1880.
Indigenous Peoples of North America provides insights into the cultures, politics and social histories of Native Peoples through primary source documents from the 17th to 20th centuries. Primary sources are books, documents, diaries, recordings, and other sources of information that were created during the time of study.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers provides an as-it-happened window on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America that is of interest to both professional and general researchers.
Browse maps of many South Dakota communities published by the Sanborn Map Company. Used for fire insurance purposes, these colorful maps were created between 1867 and 1970 and are stored at the Library of Congress.
A HeinOnline collection of legal materials on slavery in the US and the English-speaking world. It includes every colony, state & federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. *available on Rapid City Library computers and wifi.
Hungry to learn about international cuisine? Visit A to Z World Food to explore food culture and traditional recipes from around the world. It's a virtual cookbook for each of 147 different countries.
Where do you want to go today? Learn about the countries of the world with A to Z World Travel. With 202 city guides, this is a comprehensive travel guide providing practical information for experiencing the world and all its wonders, for travelers and students alike.
Learn a new language with today! Mango is an award-winning language and culture learning system. It offers adaptive, conversation-based lessons in over 70 languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and more.
What’s life like in other countries? Find out with CultureGrams. Explore reports on the daily life and culture of over 200 countries. Find recipes, videos, interviews, bios, and more.
With LawDepot, print or download a personalized will, power of attorney, bill of sale, agreements, and more, in 5-10 minutes.The HeinOnline Social Justice Suite is a set of databases collecting reports, publications, handbooks, and legal documents. The suite includes Civil Rights and Social Justice, Open Society Justice Initiative, Gun Regulation and Legislation in America, and Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database that helps middle school students complete their assignments by providing easy access to premium newspapers, magazines, images, and other kinds of great content.
What’s life like in other countries? Find out with CultureGrams Kids Edition. Get a kid's-eye view of daily life around the world.
Worldbook Student is an online encyclopedia just for middle school and elementary kids. Get help with your homework with articles on almost every subject you can think of. Read famous people biographies, browse current events, and even play games.
HelpNow has live tutoring for K-12 students. Other services provided include a writing lab, language lab, flashcard creation, and virtual private study rooms.
Explore and stay informed on local and national topics, people and events from news sources spanning the U.S., including the Rapid City Journal.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers provides an as-it-happened window on events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America that is of interest to both professional and general researchers.
Interested in the history of Rapid City? Looking for current news? Search the Rapid City Journal collection on Newspapers.com. This database of scanned images of the Journal from 1886-now is fully searchable. *available on library computers and wifi.
Access five of the top national and regional newspapers. U.S. Major Dailies includes the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. Updated by 8am daily, and includes archives going back to the 1980s.
U.S. Newsstream provides access to the top contemporary news resources in the U.S. Includes the most recent issues of the Argus Leader, Denver Post, and Wall Street Journal, along with over 250 other titles. Also contains archives going back to the 1980s.
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Explore Rapid City history through local news, events, and people with the Rapid City Journal Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device
