Resources

Resources 1Palmetto Library Consortium

Borrow e-books and e-audiobooks for free with Libby, an easy to use reading app from Overdrive, and your library card.  

There are thousands of e-books and e-audiobooks, hand-selected by the Library’s staff, available for reading or listening.  Explore the collection through Libby.

With Libby, you can easily customize how you read and listen.  Adjust the font size, book layout, and lighting in most books.  Add bookmarks, notes, and highlights.  Pause your e-audiobook and pick up where you left off at any time.

Resources 2Tumble Book Library

Tumble Books Library targets Kindergarten through Grade 6 with over 1,400 read-aloud storybooks, chapter books, graphic novels, songs, and videos

All storybooks are read-aloud with words highlighted

Some books are available in French and Spanish

Special features include a book report organizer, puzzles and games, pre-selected playlists

Searchable by title, author, run time, genre, language, lexile, and accelerated reader level

Browsable by Storybooks, Read alongs, ebooks, Nonfiction, Videos, Graphic Novels, Playlists, Language Learning, Math, Puzzles, and Games

Resources 3Looking to learn a new language or learn phrases for an upcoming trip? Try Mango Languages, an interactive online resource providing audio tutorials to practice reading, listening and speaking in over 70 different languages. It also has ESL courses for Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese speakers.

Click here for the list of languages you can learn through Mango!

Start learning a new language by clicking here!

A collection of African American resources focused on South Carolina compiled by the South Carolina State Library.  The collection includes a special Teacher’s Resource Collection and the South Carolina African American History Calendar.

Salem Press History Resources

LOGIN HERE (password is darlingtonco)

Salem History Press is a robust online history database featuring:

  • Great Events from History – The complete resource for worldwide events
  • Great Lives from History – The definitive, worldwide biographical resource

Great Lives from History

Salem Press History’s Great Lives from History. Great Lives is a far-reaching view of history, offering worldwide coverage of important men and women in all areas of achievement.

The complete Great Lives from History series includes these titles:

  • The Ancient World
  • The Middle Ages
  • The Renaissance & Early Modern Era
  • The 17th Century
  • The 18th Century
  • The 19th Century
  • The 20th Century
  • African Americans
  • Asian & Pacific Islander Americans
  • The Incredibly Wealthy
  • Inventors and Inventions
  • Jewish Americans
  • Latinos
  • Notorious Lives

Great Events from History

Great Events from History is also a part of Salem History. As with the other series, all prior purchases of Great Events from History are available, as well as the newest installment: Great Events from History: Modern Scandals.

The complete Great Events from History series includes these titles:

  • The Ancient World
  • The Middle Ages
  • The Renaissance & Early Modern Era
  • The 17th Century
  • The 18th Century
  • The 19th Century
  • The 20th Century, 1901-1940
  • The 20th Century, 1941-1970
  • The 20th Century, 1971-2000
  • Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Events
  • Modern Scandals

Learn360

Learn360 is a FREE educational multimedia resource for pre-kindergarten through 12th grades students needing help. Educators, students, and parents have 24/7 access to a wealth of resources for success in the classroom.

You now have access to 161,000 multimedia resources, including high-quality full-length videos, video clips, images, audio files, interactives, maps, and science experiments

These resources are from more than 200 top educational producers including: A&E, Reading Rainbow, National Geographic, Jim Henson, and Weston Woods

All significant subject areas are included: English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Health, World Languages, Technical and Vocational Education, Music & Dance, and more

It also integrates with Google Classroom.

Click here to go to Learn360

FLIPSTER (Click here to access)

Free instant access to popular magazines through your computer, tablet, or smartphone with just a Library Card.

MasterFILE Premier (Click here to access)

Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premire also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.

Primary Search (Click here to access) 

Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

Local

Below are links to Federal, South Carolina, and other states’ individual and business tax forms. All locations of the Library have the basic individual Federal tax forms and instructions, while supplies last.  South Carolina does not supply tax forms or instructions. Any tax form we do not have available may be printed at the Library at the regular copy fee.

Tax forms may be downloaded from the following websites:

Federal – U.S. Internal Revenue Service

Individual 

Business 

South Carolina – S.C. Department of Revenue

Individual

Business  

Other States

Individual

Federation of Tax Administrators 

Resources 4

Click here to get started!

JUST IN TIME FOR THE NEWS SCHOOL YEAR! GET FREE HELP AT TUTOR.COM

The new school year has started.  With children heading back to the classroom, attending hybrid classes or virtual academies, or being homeschooled, helping your child get an education has become a real challenge for parents. You now have help. The Library and the SC State Library is now offering students and parents free access to Tutor.com via DISCUS- South Carolina’s Virtual Library and our website with a library card.

Tutor.com offers one-to-one learning solutions for students with qualified, expert tutors online in more than 80 subjects and test prep areas. The K-12 Student Center has a variety of ways to help:
• Reading assistance for grades K-7 and grades 8-12 including genres, main idea, points of view, & text structures
• Math assistance and drop-off for Algebra I & II, Pre-calculus & Calculus, Geometry, Trigonometry, and Statistics
• Science assistance in biology, chemistry, earth science, & physics
• Writing tutors
• Computer literacy for Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• English assistance including grammar, literature, and vocabulary
• ESL and ELL for grades K-7 and grades 8-12
• Social studies – U.S. History, European History, World History, & Civics
• World languages – French, German, Spanish, and Italian
• SAT, PSAT, and ACT Test Prep
• AP Test Prep
SC students, parents, or any resident may access real time tutoring from 8 a.m. – 10 p.m. Sunday – Saturday. Tutors are available with no appointment needed!
To get started, click on this link to go to Tutor.com via the DISCUS resource page.
If you don’t have a card, you can get one in person at any of our four locations, Darlington, Hartsville, Lamar, and Society Hill, or an eCard online by clicking on this link.
The Library’s E-Cards is your access to a 24/7 online library of classes, educational databases, children’s and adult books, magazines, audiobooks, and so much more.

Resources 5

Click here to go to Universal Class

DO YOU HAVE….
…an interview coming up and are your interviewing skills a bit rusty?
…employees needing training in conflict resolution before they go for each other’s throats?
…a garden in need of help?
…an idea for a comedy, poem, or romance but don’t know where to start?
…a business you want to start but have no idea where to begin?

ANSWERS TO THESE and other question can be found by taking any of over 500 free online classes through UNIVERSAL CLASS and the Darlington County Library System.

Universal Class IS PERFECT FOR individuals, homeschoolers, businesses, and government agencies who need free access to a quality educational and training alternative to get ahead!

THIS IS A UNIQUE ONLINE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE!! Through engaging video-based lessons, students can work through a class to master a subject. Each class has a real instructor who students may communicate with using email. Learning success in each class is measured through tests. When a class is completed certificates of achievement are provided and Continuing Education Units, based on the difficulty of the class, awarded.

Each Universal Class is designed to be taken by an individual at his or her own pace from any computer.

ENROLL IN A CLASS TODAY to set up a Universal Class online account. All you need is a Library card!

Translate »
Skip to content