Mango Languages! Sign Up Today!
DPL now offers Mango! The personalized, adaptive language-learning experience that provides the tools and guidance you need to expand your language skills wherever and however you learn best.
Discover 70 World Languages created with culturally and linguistically-specific curriculum as well as ESL courses in more than 20 different languages.
Favorite Mango Features include:
- Real-world conversations that won’t leave you lost in translation
- Voice Comparison for matching your pronunciation with native-speaker audio
- Listening & Reading Activities for reinforcing learned material and building new skills
- Personalized Review System that adapts to your individual learning pathway
- Culture Notes for unique insights into different cultures
- Mango Movies for learning through engaging, authentic content
Download the Mango app from the App Store or Google Play or open from here on your web browser
Universal Class! Take accredited CTE courses for free!
Looking for business, education, computer, crafting, accounting or even dog training courses? Check out Universal Class and learn something new today! Universal Class offers hundreds of online CE classes and they are all available now FREE from DPL with your library card!
These courses are not just tutorials; they are accredited courses and include lessons, exams, assignments, discussion boards and actual assessments of your progress. Earn a certificate documenting your CEUs, contact hours, and course completion. All courses are self-paced. This means you can learn when you want on your own time. You do not need to be online at a specific date or time. 500 courses available and each patron can take up to 5 courses at once. Click on the Universal Class icon now to browse courses and get started!
More Free Online Databases and Learning!
- Autobytel - Founded by a retired car salesmen, Autotropolis is dedicated to educating you, the consumer, on the automobile(s) you are looking to buy. In addition to connecting you with the dealerships who strive to be the most competitive and customer service oriented in the industry.
- Consumer Price Index - Consumer Price Index cost of living information, nationally and regionally and by category.
- Edmunds - New and used car prices, car reviews, safety information
- GCF LearnFree - For more than a decade, the GCFLearnFree.org program has helped millions around the world learn the essential skills they need to live and work in the 21st century. From Microsoft Office and email to reading, math, and more, GCFLearnFree.org offers more than 180 topics, including more than 2,000 lessons, 800+ videos, and 55+ interactives and games, completely free.
- Library of Congress - The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office.
- Project Gutenberg - A library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.
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BookShare.org - Bookshare was created to make a wide variety of ebooks and audiobooks available to those with reading barriers. offer totally customized reading experiences with karaoke-style highlighted readalongs, braille offerings, choices or fonts and font sizes, audio voice options and speeds and other options.