Digital Books & Audiobooks
Adult Education
African American Resources
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.
Automotive
Biography / History
- Biography in Context
- Country Data
- CultureGrams
- Great Events and Lives (password is darlingtonco)
- Historic Newspapers
- History Ref. Center
- SC Newspapers
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
Business / Careers
CREDO Reference
DISCUS
EBSCOHost
Encyclopedias
Health / Nursing
Issues / Hot Topics
Learn360
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
Magazines
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.
Newspapers
Spanish Language
Tax Forms
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
- Frequently Downloaded Forms and Publications
- All Forms and Publications Pick List
- Accessible Forms and Publications for Assistive Technology Users
- Prior Years Forms and Publications Pick List
- Contact You Local IRS Office in South Carolina for Assistance
Business
South Carolina – S.C. Department of Revenue
Individual
- Individual Income Tax Forms and Instructions
- Local South Carolina DOR Taxpayer Service Center Contact Information
Business
Other States
Individual
Federation of Tax Administrators
- State Tax Withholding Forms – U.S. Department of Labor
Test Preparation
TUTOR.COM - Online Homework Help, Tutoring, and Test Prep
JUST IN TIME FOR THE NEWS SCHOOL YEAR! GET FREE HELP AT TUTOR.COM
The new school year has started in a way no one would have predicted. With children attending hybrid in-school classes, virtual academies, and 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.
Universal Class
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!
World / Country Data
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