Research & Learning
Access nearly forty databases for free online using your library card!
Get help with school work, personal finances, business research, car repair, arts & crafts, genealogy, and more.
Please note that ancestry.com and the Colorado Grants Guide may only be accessed within the library.
Use the quick search feature below to access a wealth of information on your chosen topic from magazines, journals and other educational research databases. You will be prompted to enter in your library card #.
TEEN RESOURCES
Homework Help
Quickly find the information you need to complete homework or a research project. Explora’s simple search quickly delivers relevant results including articles, ebooks, essays, and primary source documents. For more concentrated searches, use the links to the right.
Academic Search Premier covers a broad database offered by EBSCO Services. The links to the right are all offerings of EBSCO.
The Encyclopedia Britannica is a trusted resource for factual information that has been helping students for over two hundred years.
SAT, ACT Tests at Khan Academy
Khan Academy has partnered with the College Board, the creators of the digital SAT, to help you focus on the exact skills you need to succeed on these tests.
Financial Aid
Get help applying for financial aid
Getting a Driver's License
Read up on all the rules of the road for driving in Colorado.
TWEEN KIDS RESOURCES
Homework Help
Get help with your schoolwork using Explora, a kid-friendly research experience. Explora contains complete articles from dozens of the most popular elementary school magazines.
Educate Station content is created by a team of experienced and passionate educators from across the United States. Through the content we create, we aim to provide ready-to-use, hands-on activities for kids to do at home or at school.
SKILLS & SUPPORT
Keep your brain active with craft and language tutorials, look up car maintenance schematics, access health and wellness resources, or find a new book to read.
BUSINESS & FINANCE DATABASES
Research markets, investments, businesses, economies and nonprofit resources using a variety of databases. Grant opportunites can be found in the Colorado Grants Guide ~ please note that the Guide may only be accessed within the Salida Library!
LOCAL HISTORY & GENEALOGY
Start your history search here. Look up your family history, find obituaries, and research Salida history with the most complete database of local history in the area. If you have questions about family genealogy or just need an obituary, please use the contact form to get in touch with a librarian.
Please note ancestry.com may only be used within the Salida Library
For Librarians and Future Librarians:
Library, Information Science, and Technology Abstracts — or LISTA
Research database for library and information science studies. LISTA provides indexing and abstracting for hundreds of key journals, books, research reports.