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Burbio

Burbio.com is a free and fully automated community events platform that streams all of a town's activities - library, school, government, and non-profit events - in one place and allows residents to personalize event feeds, add to their digital calendar, and receive updates. Burbio pulls event information from existing calendars so there's no additional work involved!

Canva

Canva is an online graphic design website, that offers an easy drag-and-drop feature with hundreds of fonts and millions of images. Create professional newsletters, presentations, or marketing materials with this easy to use service.

WorldCat

Find what you want in a library near you with WorldCat, the world’s most comprehensive database of information about library collections. WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories that participate in the Online Computer Library Center global cooperative. It is operated by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. The database makes library collections findable and accessible around the world.

What's Next: Books in Series Database of Kent District Library

The Kent District Library, in Kent County, Michigan, created the What's Next®: Books in Series Database of Kent District Library to help search series fiction. They define a series as two or more books linked by character(s), settings, or other common traits. The database is searchable by author last name, author first name, name of a series, book title, category or genre.

Try-It! Illinois

Beginning in 2001, the Illinois State Library in collaboration with a long list of e-resource providers launched Try-It! Illinois, an extensive database trial for Illinois libraries. Since then, each year ILLINET member libraries, their staff, and patron communities have been invited to sample and evaluate a wide variety of electronic resources for a two-month period.