Research

Jobs and careers

Glassdoor allows you to research companies by industry or title. Includes reviews from people industry employees. Register for free.

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Legal help

Download legal forms, free of charge.

Look up Virginia laws. Brought to you by Virginia’s Legislative Information System.

Look up the Lynchburg City Code of Ordinances.

Local and world history

Explora includes hundreds of popular and scholarly magazines and newspapers. Find primary documents for school reports, projects, and more.

Read the current News & Advance paper, or any article from the past eight years.

Browse a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources via Access World News, covering a wide array of topics and issues.

Family history

Search for your Virginian ancestors. Free public access to select content from Ancestry.com.
Provided by the Library of VA.

Find local family records and obituaries from Jones Memorial, Lynchburg’s local history library.

Other resources

Resources from the Library of Virginia. Browse a carefully curated selection of authoritative databases, online learning products, and digital reading content (both text and audio) for Virginians of all ages.