A database of driving tests and study manuals.

Indiana Drivers Manual website

Indiana Driver's Manual in Spanish

Test practice, eBooks, articles, and flash cards to prepare for U.S. Citizenship.  

Your favorite consumer magazine now easily readable 24-7 from your home or office. Get ratings for refrigerators, cars, TVs, baby monitors, and more.

Create a quality resume step-by-step with this helpful resume builder program.

Searchable database of this prominent business publication.

Claim site for Indiana unemployment.

Your one-stop-shop for investment learning.

Identify NAICS and SIC Codes and descriptions for companies.  

A very simple tool for creating a resume. Just fill in the information in the blanks, and a resume is created. No formatting or Microsoft skills required.   

Use your Google Account to create and save a resume.

Get testing help guides for high school equivalency, college prep, and career skill exams.  Includes: SAT, ACT,  GRE, GMAT, AP, TASC, citizenship, and many career and civil service exams.    

Resources for those transitioning from high school to the next step. 

Search archives from 1980s to today for:  New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times.  

On-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.

Adquirir todos los conocimientos básicos y habilidades que necesitas para enfrentar tu vida laboral y cotidiana.

These tutorials will help empower you to be more comfortable with this type of technology, from learning the parts of a computer to using a mouse.

Over 300 online educational courses. Technology, languages, personal skills, test prep, and so much more. Courses are six weeks long and start each month!

Free online courses from Indiana University UITS on topics such as coding, design, productivity, and security. Courses are self-taught, and typically 2-4 hours. 

Official website for training on Microsoft applications, such as Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.  

See quick help videos and guides to get started with many BCPL online resources and introductions to social media and email.

Use these games to have fun while improving your typing skills at the same time.   

Improve your typing skills with these online typing lessons. 

Check out this great collection of digital comics, instantly available to read

PDF guides for BCPL downloadable resources

Download audiobooks, eBooks, movies, music, comics, and more.

Streaming, on-demand video service offering over 30,000 carefully selected videos, including Great Courses, PBS, independent films, documentaries, and kids content

Public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world.  

Storytime books for kids, in over 50 non-English languages!

Download eBooks and audiobooks.

The latest issues of magazines, available to instantly download and read!

Free public domain eBooks 

Kids eBooks, readalongs, and games.  

Niche Academy provides video help guides for downloadable resources, computers, social media, more.  

Search for relatives, census records, marriage and death records, and so much more. Temporarily Available for home use.  

Click to see the library's extensive list of genealogy resources, including research databases, newspaper archives, local links, and more.    

Candid Learning is your destination for trainings, webinars, and other resources designed to improve your fundraising, overall sustainability, grantmaking, and transparency.

Over 300 online educational courses. Technology, languages, personal skills, test prep, and so much more. Courses are six weeks long and start each month!

Journal articles on health-related topics

Includes housing help, clothing, mental health, hot meal sites, and other resources for those in need in the local community.  

Find information about symptoms, procedures, and tests. 

An updated, easy-to-navigate interface featuring topic portals with curated content on diseases and conditions; drugs; diagnostics and tests; and therapies, treatments, and surgeries.

A guide for senior housing and independent living in Indiana.

For seniors and their families to find housing and care. With objective, comprehensive, and up-to-date information

High-quality medical resources to help educate different groups about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.

Search for AR books by point level.  

Free resource featuring user recommendations of books and searchable database to find more books to read.  

Need an item the library doesn't own? Please contact the reference desk if you need assistance.

Now with non-fiction! Search for books by interest, author, or series. Find your next great read! Teen librarian recommended!

Weekly newsletter of the latest items added to our collection.

#1 Learning App for children ages 2–8+, with more than 8,500 learning activities that teach reading, math, science, health, social studies, art, and music.

Search for AR books by point level.  

A children's resource that makes learning math fun!

An excellent government resource for information on countries and cultures.  

Find articles on topics of interest for children in primary grades.

Curated educational videos for kids! From PBS, Jim Henson, Sesame Street, and much more.  

Kids videos for streaming! Including PBS Kids, Little Pim, and many story videos.  

Storytime books for kids, in over 50 non-English languages!

Worksheets, lesson plans, learning games, and more! Printable activities for math, science, reading comprehension, STEM, writing, and beyond!

Kids eBooks, readalongs, and games.  

Live online tutoring service for all ages and education levels, from 4-11 PM. Submit papers, problems, resumes, and more for review 24/7.

Over 300 online educational courses. Technology, languages, personal skills, test prep, and so much more. Courses are six weeks long and start each month!

Learn languages for kids by checking out these videos on Hoopla.  

Storytime books for kids, in over 50 non-English languages!

An online language-learning system to learn over 50 languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Mandarin Chinese, and more. ESL courses for over 17 native languages available as well.

Level 1 Language Courses from Rosetta Stone, courtesy of INSPIRE.  

IRS federal tax forms.

Forms for those intending to represent themselves in legal cases.  Includes forms such as divorce, name change, and child support.  

State tax forms for current and prior years.

Search a database of legal forms.  Forms can be completed online or printed for later use.  

Tools and how-to instructions covering a wide-range of legal issues. Most full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.

Digital collection of Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives.

Digital collection of Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives material on the IUPUI website. 

Ball State University Libraries' Drawings and Documents Archive is a unique resource dedicated to preserving the history of Indiana's built environment. Our collections contain over 130,000 original architectural drawings, landscape plans, blueprints, photographs, models, and building remnants that tell the stories of Indiana’s buildings, sites, and structures. 

Columbus Area Visitors Center guide to works of architectural significance.  

IHS collects, preserves, and shares Hoosier history through its premier collections on Indiana and the Old Northwest – books, photographs, early maps, letters, diaries and more.

List of public art in Bartholomew County

K-12 public school district serving most of Bartholomew County.

Searchable map of Bartholomew County by individual property (requires free registration).

Local county government. 

Local city government. 

K-12 public district serving northeastern Bartholomew County.  

Online newspaper for the Hope area.

The latest census information on each congressional district.  

Indiana's Leading Source for Economic & Demographic Data

Local current news website.

Data about the US people and economy

Search the US Census Bureau's database

Explores four generations of the Irwin-Sweeney-Miller family, the businesses located at 301 Washington, and the building's design history over nearly 100 years.

The Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives collects, preserves, and promotes the documentation of the design and construction process of the significant architecture that has made Columbus and Bartholomew County

Historic Columbus Indiana strives to provide the best, all-encompassing look at life in Columbus through scanned images and memories.  

A forum for questions and answers of local historical interest.  

Hope, Indiana has the longest continuous Rural Free Delivery in Indiana, starting as an experimental route in 1896.  This website is designed to share the history, people, artifacts, and organizations that have made significant contributions to Rural Free Delivery.  

IHS collects, preserves, and shares Hoosier history through its premier collections on Indiana and the Old Northwest – books, photographs, early maps, letters, diaries and more.

Features historical archives of newspapers throughout the state of Indiana (years vary by newspaper).  Includes coverage of the Columbus newspaper up to 1963.  

Database is available in-library only.  Featuring extensive newspaper archives of Bartholomew and surrounding counties, including Columbus coverage from the 1870s to present.  

Our library's scanned collection of Bartholomew County high school yearbooks. 

Maps and schedules for the local transit system.

Includes housing help, clothing, mental health, hot meal sites, and other resources for those in need in the local community.  

List of local hot meal sites

A search engine created by United Way Bartholomew County for community services-- jobs, food, clothing, government services, more.  

A guide for senior housing and independent living in Indiana.

For seniors and their families to find housing and care. With objective, comprehensive, and up-to-date information

Resources for those transitioning from high school to the next step. 

Take online video music courses!  Professional musicians provide instructions.  Sign in with your card, then look for the Extras collection.  

Search archives from 1980s to today for:  New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times.  

Searchable archive of thousands of academic journals.  

Historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence in U.S. history showing the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom.

An excellent government resource for information on countries and cultures.  

Test practice, eBooks, articles, and flash cards to prepare for U.S. Citizenship.  

Your favorite consumer magazine now easily readable 24-7 from your home or office. Get ratings for refrigerators, cars, TVs, baby monitors, and more.

Searchable archives to thousands of general interest magazines.  

The online searchable edition of the Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia.   

Over 300 online educational courses. Technology, languages, personal skills, test prep, and so much more. Courses are six weeks long and start each month!

A help guide from BCPL staff on false information.  

Free access to thousands of searchable journals and magazines, plus access to Indiana history resources, test preparation, citizenship, language learning, and more!

Need an item the library doesn't own? Please contact the reference desk if you need assistance.

Live online tutoring service for all ages and education levels, from 4-11 PM. Submit papers, problems, resumes, and more for review 24/7.

Search archives from 1980s to today for:  New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times.  

State information for severe weather preparedness

Federal website on preparedness for tornadoes

Safety tips for tornadoes from the Red Cross