Busy Things 

Offering over 300 fun educational games for children aged 3 to 11 years, Busy Things helps children learn through play with numbers, letters, words, shapes, and language.

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LinkedIn Learning

Achieve your next career goal with LinkedIn Learning. Learn from industry experts on the most in-demand business, tech, and creative skills. Get personalized content recommendations based on your skills and goals.

To sign into the LinkedIn Learning app, download the app and choose to sign in with your library card. Enter parralibrary into the library ID box, and enter your library membership details on the following screen.

Download the app now on iOS and Android.

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Study Skills Success

Develop a range of study skills that underpin academic success in the last years of school and higher education. Learn critical thinking, independent learning, avoiding plagiarism and much more.

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Transparent Language

Take your language learning on the go with over 100 languages to learn. Practice core skills such as alphabet recognition, vocabulary, pronunciation and reading comprehension.

Download the app now on iOS and Android.

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Active Reading

Explore hundreds of practice exercises designed to build your confidence in your reading ability. Practice reading efficiently with real world texts like newspaper articles.

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Arrivals in English 

Arrivals in English provides essential, everyday English to newcomers adjusting to life in their local community. Aimed at Beginner-level learners.

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Clear Pronunciation 1 - Sounds

Learn to hear, recognise and pronounce the 43 sounds of English through audio, video and interactive activities. Work with each sound in isolation, in words, sentences and in authentic texts.

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Clear Pronunciation 2 - Speech

Learn to put the 43 sounds of English together in clear, intelligible speech. Learn about consonant clusters, word stress, sentence stress, connected speech and intonation.

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Road to IELTS

Road to IELTS includes over 300 interactive activities, 17 videos giving advice and tutorials, 40 practice tests — everything you need to get a great IELTS score!

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Tense Buster

Tense Buster helps learners break through the grammar barrier with courses on the 33 key grammar areas. Find your level of confidence with five learner levels, and grow from there.

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Ancestry Library 

Discover your family history with thousands of records from around the world. Visit the library and use a public computer or the free library Wi-Fi to access Ancestry Library

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Britannica 

Read up-to-date and rigorously fact checked stories, biographies, videos and more about the top stories from our past and impacting our world today. 

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Britannica Kids

Explore fun and engaging stories, photos, biographies, videos and games about animals, people and our world. Perfect for inquisitive minds hungry to see more and learn more.

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Britannica Teens 

Read up-to-date and rigorously fact checked stories, biographies, videos and more about the top stories from our past and impacting our world today. The perfect tool for completing school assignments.

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National Geographic

Enjoy unlimited access to digital content from the magazines, and exclusive videos, full colour maps, and hundreds of National Geographic images.

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National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids magazine gets young explorers excited about a world full of adventure! Explore videos, photos and magazine articles filled with fascinating features about nature, science, geography and history.

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World Book

World Book is the comprehensive reference tool for children, students, and adults, featuring safe, trustworthy and engaging content about our world and current events.

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World Book Kids

Encourage independent learning and creativity with World Book Kids. Explore easy-to-read articles that can be read aloud or translated and a wealth of engaging games, science projects, and activities to expand young minds.

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World Book Students

World Book is the comprehensive reference tool for children, students, and adults, featuring safe, trustworthy and engaging content about our world and current events. Perfect for school assignments.

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