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Your Oak Park Public Library card and PIN give you access to the online resources listed here. Have questions? Get answers to FAQs, watch how-to videos, read about your data privacy, and contact us »
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Ethnic Diversity Source
Full-text database dedicated to resources covering the culture, traditions, social treatment, and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America.
Evening Standard [U.K.]
Browse (digital scan of print issue): current (March 2006-present)
Search (full-text articles): current (1998-present)
Excel Adult High School Diploma
An opportunity for Oak Park Public Library cardholders ages 20+ to earn a high school diploma (not a GED) virtually and for free through the library.
FamilySearch
Genealogical service that includes over a billion individual ancestral entries worldwide. Additional content—including millions of records and images—is available in-library only.
Get step-by-step instructions on how to set up an account (first-time users must create an account; a library card is not needed but name and birthdate are required):
FinancialFit
Curated collection of personal finance lessons to guide learners in making life’s biggest financial decisions.
Create an account
First-time users will be prompted to create an account.
- Click the link above for “FinancialFit.”
- Select “Sign In / Register” near the top right.
- Select the “REGISTER” button under “New User” on the right.
- “Oak Park Public Library – Financial Fit” should already be selected as your institution.
- Fill out the required information and select the “REGISTER” button.
FirstSearch
Access to 14 databases, including both indexes to articles and books and some full text.
Foundation Directory Online (FDO) (access available at the Main Library only)
Candid’s grant-seeking tool, which includes 232,000+ funder profiles, 18.4+ million grants, 900,000+ grant recipient profiles, and 1+ million key grant decision-makers and leaders, along with contacts, maps, charts, federal grants, requests for proposals (RFPs), and more.
As a Funding Information Network partner, the library provides access to Candid’s websites: Foundation Directory Online and Grants to Individuals, both offering information and resources to assist and strengthen nonprofit organizations.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Images, maps, and full-text articles on a wide variety of subject areas.
