Research & Homework Center
From free tutoring help for students to thousands of magazines and newspapers, these information sources are available to all patrons of the North Central Regional Library. A library card number and password are required to access many of these materials. Need help? Please contact us.
Homework Center
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- Helping students through one-on-one online tutoring and writing services. The Adult Education Center provides help with resume writing and U.S. citizenship testing and other adult educational topics.
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- Provides access to thousands of periodicals and newspapers.
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- Where students come for the latest word on the authors they study in class and read at home!
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- An award-winning general reference resource for beginning learners and researchers in grades 1-9, makes learning fun and intuitive.
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- History Study Center is a collection of primary and secondary sources on global history from ancient times to the present day.
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- A user-friendly search tool for all ages, but particularly useful for middle and high school students.
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- Cultural, geographical, and historical information on the countries of the world.
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- Offers strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn to read.
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Online Instruction
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- Over 500 online non-credit continuing education courses.
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- Offering free innovative online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach. Our aim is to create high-quality courses and contribute original research to improve learning and transform higher education.
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- Take free Harvard online courses through Harvard Extension School's Open Learning Initiative. Course videos feature Harvard faculty.
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- The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere. The site contains over 2,700 videos on math, physics, biology, chemistry, finance and art.
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- Mango is an online language-learning system for 12 languages.
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- Free lectures, notes, exams, and videos from MIT.
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- Offering video and slides from a set of UW CSE courses online. Anyone may view these courses free of charge, and without registration. The courses come without any instructor support, and it is not possible to use them to earn credit.
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- The Wenatchee Internet Academy is a Web-based educational environment that offers high quality online courses to students registered in the Wenatchee School District. Courses are designed and taught by Wenatchee High School instructors.
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- Provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.
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- EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that features learning designed specifically for interactive study via the web. Along with offering online courses, the institutions will use edX to research how students learn and how technology can transform learning–both on-campus and worldwide.
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- "Learn. Think. Do. Higher Education for Free."
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- "Take the World's Best Courses, Online, For Free."
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Research
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- Contains US Federal Census records from 1790-1930 and information from over 25,000 family histories.
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- Auto repair and maintenance information for 23,000 domestic and import vehicles.
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- A searchable compilation of links to recommended internet sites that have been evaluated by librarians for accuracy, authority, and timeliness.
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- Bepress Digital Commons invites you to explore a new database of open access
scholarship (600,000+ articles) that is curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, and represents thousands of disciplines and
subject areas from Architecture to Zoology.
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Children's Literacy
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- A searchable compilation of recommended internet sites related to children's literacy for parents.
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- A searchable compilation of recommended internet sites related to children's literacy for educators.
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Community Resources
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- Washington State Services.
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- Federal Government Information.
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- The Law Library serves the citizens and legal community of Chelan County providing access to current legal research materials and referral to other resources.
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