K-12 Research

HomeworkLouisiana offers FREE online tutoring and academic resources from Tutor.com for Louisiana residents. Get help in math, science, social studies or English from a live tutor. The service can be accessed from any Louisiana public library or from your home computer. 

LearningExpress Library offers practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and eBooks. Includes Learning Centers for computer skills, HiSET (the replacement for the GED), college entrance exams,  and more. Set up your own free account and work at your own pace, easily picking up where you left off from session to session.

MAS Ultra is designed specifically for high school libraries. This database contains full text for nearly 500 popular high school magazines, more than 360 full-text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. 

Developed especially for young public library patrons, World Book Kids offers easy-to-read articles and a wealth of engaging multimedia, games, science projects, interactive tools, and activities. 

Word Book Student contains content and features designed for school-aged patrons’ homework and research needs. Based on the World Book Encyclopedia, the site features rich collections of multimedia on a variety of topics, science fair projects; a Biography Center; links to world newspapers, correlations to curriculum standards, 21st-century research guides, and much more.