Databases

Explore potential careers (including military service), build workplace skills, and prepare for the ACT^® WorkKeys^® Assessments, the ASVAB test, the TOEIC^® test and career licensure exams.

Visit the Adult Core Skills section and click on "Become a U.S. Citizen" or the "Recursos para Hispanohablantes" for help in Spanish.
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LearningExpress Library is an easy-to-use e-learning platform featuring online tutorials, practice tests and e-books to help you achieve your educational and professional goals. In addition to helping you improve your skills in reading, writing, math and basic science, LearningExpress Library offers tools and resources to help you search for jobs, build workplace skills and prepare for career certification exams. You'll also find college and grad school admissions test prep, GED^® test prep and much more.

• Career Preparation:  Explore potential careers (including military service), build workplace skills, and prepare for the ACT^® WorkKeys^® Assessments, the ASVAB test, the TOEIC^® test and career licensure exams.
• College Admissions Test Preparation:  Get help with writing college admissions essays and prepare for important tests such as the AP^®, ACT^®, SAT^® and more.
• College Students:  Brush up on your reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, math and science skills. Prepare for ACCUPLACER^® and ASSET^® college placement tests, CLEP^® and DSST^® exams, and graduate school admissions exams such as the GMAT^®, GRE^®, LSAT^®, MCAT^® and PCAT^®.
• High School Equivalency Center: Open the door to better opportunities with LearningExpress Library's High School Equivalency Center. You'll find resources to help you build your reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and math skills as well as prepare for the GED^®, HiSET^® and TASC^® tests.

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The Learning Express Computer Skills Center offers dynamic online multimedia tutorials that help users learn the fundamentals of the computer, the internet and popular software applications. Self-paced tutorials include Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word, as well as Computer Graphics/Illustration and Understanding Your Operating System.
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File your legal paperwork online using this free tool.

Select from legal forms using this free forms library from the Fort Bend County County Clerk's Office, including Birth & Death, Marriage, DBA, Brands, Official Public Records and Civil, Juvenile, Misdemeanor and Probate Court.

Select from legal forms using this free forms library from the Fort Bend County District Clerk's Office, including Counsel in Death Penalty Cases, Civil/Family, Subpeona, Administrative Services Requests, and Board of District Judges Approved Forms regarding Bail, Minor Funds and Sealed Records.

Legal Information Reference Center offers everyday users the necessary tools and detailed how-to instructions covering a wide-range of legal issues. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. With the Legal Forms by U.S. State feature, users can search state-specific legal forms by top subject areas including adoption, bankruptcy, name changes and more.

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A simple-to-use, powerful resource for online legal research. Visit the library for access to State and Federal case law, statutes, codes, regulations, forms, and secondary material.

Access Lexis Advance collections digitally on any device using your permanent Fort Bend County Libraries card (eCard not accepted). From within the library, link from eBooks to cases or statutes on Lexis Advance. Annotate and highlight within your eBook.

These six databases provide biographical information on sports champions, Greek and Roman mythological figures, men and women who shaped the world, important people and events in American history, and biographies of people around the world. All six databases can be searched at the same time. 

500 articles on Greek and Roman mythological figures with over 300 illustrations.

Discover literary criticisms, biographies, bibliographies, social and historical context from full-text essays, articles and reviews.  Access full-text poems, short stories, plays, author portraits, literary terms, links to websites, and links to NPR broadcasts. 

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One search box provides access to H.W. Wilson’s Book Review Digest Plus and Humanities Full Text, and EBSCO’s Literary Reference Center. Find articles, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama and poetry relating to art, classical studies, film and journalism.

Links to the official websites of cities in the Fort Bend County area.