Genealogical information from 1.2 billion+ records in 3,000+ databases, including U.S. Federal Census since 1790, American Genealogical Biographical Index, and Passenger and Immigration Lists Index.

Take quizzes, created by our librarians, to find your next read.

Photographs, letters, newspaper articles, and limestone industry archives related to Matthews Brothers Stone Company, an Ellettsville (Ind.) limestone quarry operating 1862–1978. Digital collection also includes photos from other limestone companies and artists.

Basic computer literacy assessment—plus 9 instruction modules.

Practice test for new drivers in Indiana.

Practice test for new drivers from Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV).

World Book Encyclopedia's excellent editorial content, rich media, and interactive features, in Spanish.

Your online guide to series fiction. Reading sequences for each series, with a brief description of each title. Search by character, location, or subject, as well as author and title.

Listen and read to improve listening and reading comprehension.

Practice English vocabulary, grammar, or math—and help the World Food Programme end hunger at the same time.

Learn English and grammar.  Practice with letters, words, texts and activities.

Online math games.

Monroe County newspapers 1869–1932. Searchable by keyword. Part of the Indiana State Library's Digital Historic Newspaper Program.

Photographs, letters, newspaper articles, and limestone industry archives related to Matthews Brothers Stone Company, an Ellettsville (Ind.) limestone quarry operating 1862–1978. Digital collection also includes photos from other limestone companies and artists.

Holdings of the Indiana University Libraries. IUCAT may be used by anyone.

Get extra help with reading skills, practice anywhere you have internet. (Register at the VITAL office for access and log in information).

— Mango teaches real conversational skills through fun, interactive lessons in over 70 world languages, including English.

Short videos and articles to introduce Microsoft Office programs.

City and county ordinances, city directories, documents, yearbooks, plat maps, and historical items from local businesses and organizations, Incl. Showers Bros. Factory employee magazine, Shop Notes.

  Includes obituaries from old and current local newspapers in Monroe County. Compiled by MCPL staff and volunteers.

Search by name for faculty, staff, and students in area yearbooks.

Introduction and practice navigating on a computer.

ReferenceUSA offers detailed information on more than 24 million U.S. businesses, non-profit organizations, government agencies, and churches. In addition, the residential database includes 89 million U.S. households.

Basic template to create a printable resume.

Variety of typing tutorials and practice activities.

Free customizable and printable flashcards, worksheets, and diagrams for mathematics (also science, technology, and engineering).

Test information and study resources for Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC), formerly the General Educational Development test (GED).

Lessons and activities for reading, writing, vocabulary, math, science, or finance.

Video based courses with learning activities for beginning and intermediate English and Citizenship study.

News articles and English language instruction.

The Library is proud to partner with the League of Women of Voters of Bloomington-Monroe County as your go-to place for information on voting and elections. Use the tools you find here to exercise your rights—and fulfill your duties—as a citizen of a democracy.

The Library's database of nonprofit organizations in Monroe County.

Thousands of movies, music, audiobooks, and ebooks on your computer or mobile device. Borrow up to 8 titles per month.

Learn whenever and wherever you want to with thousands of easy-to-follow video tutorials and exercise files in web development, graphic design, video production, marketing, professional development, and so much more.

Thousands of eBooks, audiobooks, magazines, and videos on your computer, tablet, or mobile device. Borrow up to 10 titles at once.

Your favorite magazines, free on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Nearly 100 popular titles, many with interactive features. No checkout limits or due dates.

Instant access to thousands of fiction and nonfiction eBook titles. Read on PC, Mac, tablet, or mobile device.

Includes more than 650,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study.

One of the most trusted and long-standing sources for information on consumer products and services.

Credo is an easy-to-use tool for research projects and homework. Search in hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files, and nearly 1200 videos.

IndianaMAP is the largest publicly available collection of Indiana geographic information system (GIS) map data.

A comprehensive consumer health resource with full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more.

Full text collection of articles covering over 140 topics, as well as magazines, books and video that focus on hobbies and crafts.

2-1-1 is a free and confidential service that helps Hoosiers across Indiana find the local resources they need.

Register to vote or check your voter registration status.  Find out voting hours, locations, election results and more.

A list and map of meeting spaces for groups in Monroe County.  Nonprofit groups can also reserve meeting rooms at the Library free of charge.

The collection includes millions of full-text articles on hundreds of today's most significant science topics as well as 200+ experiments, projects, and top reference content.

Indiana economic and demographic data with one-stop access to critical statistics for states, counties, cities and towns, townships, regions, census tracts and more.

Find your elected officials and their contact information based on your street address.

This resource guide is a compilation of local, Monroe County, and national resources to help youth in crisis. What follows is by no means an exhaustive list, but it is a starting point to help when times are hard.

Well-researched and accessible information from scholarly, government, and general interest publications. Topics from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.

List of those honored by the Alexander Memorial on the courthouse lawn: Monroe County veterans of the Mexican War, Spanish-American War, Civil War, and World War I. Also includes Revolutionary Patriots buried in Monroe County.

Digitized version of the 1922 volume compiled by Forest M. Hall. From the cover: "True tales of deeds with interesting data in the life of Bloomington, Indiana university and Monroe County." Published by Indiana University Press.

The Genealogy Collection at the Indiana State Library has developed over time to become of the largest and most respected collections of family history information in the Midwest. The collection includes over 40,000 printed items (family histories, indexes to records, how-to books, cemetery transcriptions, family history magazines, etc.) as well as microfilmed federal census records, Indiana county records, passenger lists, and military pension information.  The collection includes hundreds of CDs with family history information.  The emphasis of the collection is on Indiana and bordering states, as well as eastern and southern states.

Excel file created by Indiana Room staff and volunteers.

PDF listing of books and genealogy files donated by patrons.

List of Monroe County maps 1820-present, available for viewing in the Indiana Room.

List of Monroe County School Students by township as transcribed by the Indiana Room; includes names of parent or guardian. Available in PDF or Excel. Original book is held by the Monroe County History Center.