Christmas
All Mobile Public Library locations will be closed on Tuesday, December 24 and Wednesday, December 25, 2024.
Online Research
Access World News Research Collection
Explore and stay informed on local, national, and international topics, people, and events. Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources from around the world.
Access World News: U.S. Newspapers
AccessScience
African-American History Online
Covering more than 500 years of the African-American history. Read about key figures and events, examine famous speeches and other primary sources, and get context from the timelines.
Alabama Virtual Library AVL
The Alabama Virtual Library provides all students, teachers, and citizens of the State of Alabama with online access a group of online databases that have magazine, journal, and newspaper articles for research.
Alt HealthWatch
Ancestry Library Edition
Atlanta Journal-Constitution on NewsBank
Explore Atlanta history through local news, events and people with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online.
Birmingham News on NewsBank
Explore Birmingham history through local news, events and people with the Birmingham News Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online.
Black Freedom Struggle in the U.S.
Historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom.
Book Collection: Nonfiction
A cross-curricular database providing abstracts and searchable full text for thousands of nonfiction books.