Ancestry
Ancestry allows people to build family trees, search billions of records (like birth, census, death, and marriage), and use DNA insights to find genetic relatives. You must be in the library to access this database.
Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit organization that provides unbiased reviews and ratings of consumer products and services based on its own in-house testing.
Data Axle
Data Axle Reference Solutions, formerly known as Reference USA, is a comprehensive online database for business and residential information. It provides users with detailed profiles of U.S. and Canadian businesses and residents, including contact information, company size, sales volume, executive names, and even news articles and financial data. It is used for a variety of purposes, such as market research, job searching, creating business plans, and finding potential customers.
Gale Legal Forms
Gale Legal Forms provides thousands of official documents, drafted by attorneys, for common legal needs such as wills, real estate contracts, and divorce, and has extra resources like a legal dictionary and Q&A section.
INFOhio
INFOhio is Ohio's free, PreK-12 digital library, giving parents, students, and teachers easy access to high-quality learning materials, such as ebooks, videos, and encyclopedias.
Mango Languages
Mango Languages is an interactive language-learning platform, offering more than 70 different languages and 18 different English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses. Learn real-life conversations with native-speaker audio and cultural context so that you can speak like a local.
Morningstar Investments
Morningstar Investments provides independent, in-depth research and recommendations on 11,000 stocks, 24,000 mutual funds, and 950 exchange traded funds. The format is user-friendly and includes an investment education section.
NewspaperArchive
Norwalk Public Library will be an official subscriber of NewspaperArchive beginning January 2026. Stay tuned for more details.
Northstar Digital Literacy
Northstar Digital Literacy is designed for individuals who need to gain skills for employment, education, or daily life, and offers free, self-guided online assessments, learning modules, and instructor-led courses. Assessments cover topics like basic computer skills, email, and social media, and passing them earns users an official certificate.
NoveList K-8 Plus
NoveList K-8 Plus is a database created by EBSCO that provides book recommendations and resources specifically for readers, librarians, and educators in grades K-8. It helps young readers find books they'll enjoy by searching based on story elements like mood, genre, and theme, and also allows searching by reading level (such as Accelerated Reader or Lexile) and other criteria.
NoveList Plus
NoveList Plus is a comprehensive readers’ advisory resource that helps you discover your next great read. Browse by author, title, or topic, or explore read-alikes and curated lists to see books that match your interests and mood. Perfect for readers of all ages looking for personalized recommendations, book reviews, discussion guides, and more.
Ohio Web Library (OWL)
Ohio Web Library is an evolving collection of thousands of online publications and research resources. OWL includes popular magazines, trade publications, scholarly research journals, newspapers, encyclopedias, dictionaries, speeches, poems, plays, and maps, satellite images of Ohio.
WorldCat
WorldCat is a resource for locating unique, trustworthy materials that you often can’t find anywhere except in a library. Search WorldCat in nearly 500 languages to find physical items like books, audiobooks, maps, musical scores, and recordings, along with electronic items like ebooks, e-journals, articles, and digital images you can access online.