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Resources

Digital Books & Audiobooks

  • Palmetto Library Consortium

Adult Education

  • Darlington County School District

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

  • Auto Repair

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

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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

  • Business Source Premier
  • Career e-Books
  • Career Guidance
  • Learning Express
  • SC Works
  • Small Business Ref.

CREDO Reference

  • Search – Basic
  • Search – Advanced
  • Reference Collection
  • Topics Guide

DISCUS

  • DISCUS

Darlington

  • Darlington City Government Website
  • Code of Ordinances
  • Hartsville City Government Website 
  • Code of Ordinances
  • Darlington County Government Website
  • Code of Ordinances 
  • Handbook for County Government in South Carolina 
  • Maps
  • Statistics

EBSCOHost

  • EBSCOHost

Encyclopedias

  • Britannica
  • Britannica Escolar
  • Britannica – School
  • Funk & Wagnalls

Family History

  • Census Records 1790-1940
  • County Records
  • Internet Resources
  • Historical and Other Maps of Darlington County
  • Compiling It All 
  • Five Generation Chart
  • Family Group Sheet
  • Family Relationship Charts
  • Family Relationship Terminology
  • Ancestry.com Library Edition

Health / Nursing

  • Consumer Health
  • Health Watch
  • Nursing Resources

Issues / Hot Topics

  • Opposing Viewpoints
  • Points of View

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

Literature

  • Literary Ref. Center
  • NovelList K-8
  • NovelList Plus
  • Year’s Popular Book

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

  • Historic American
  • News Source Plus
  • SC Newspapers

Local

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Science

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  • Science Ref. Center

South Carolina

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Spanish Language

  • Enciclopedia
  • Escolar

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 

  • Forms and Instruction – Filing and Paying Business Taxes
  • A – Z Index for 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  

  • Business Tax Forms and Instructions Home

Other States

Individual

  • Links to State Tax Forms and Filing Options –

Federation of Tax Administrators 

  • State Tax Withholding Forms   – U.S. Department of Labor

Test Preparation

  • Test Preparation
  • Driver’s Test
  • Learning Express

TUTOR.COM - Online Homework Help, Tutoring, and Test Prep

Resources 1

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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.

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.

Universal Class

Resources 2

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

  • Country Data
  • CultureGrams

Word of the Week

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Branch Hours & Information

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  • Lamar Library | 843-326-5524
  • Society Hill Library | 843-378-0026

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