Electronic Resources

OverDrive's Southern California Digital Library is a consortium of local libraries that have pooled their resources to share their digital book collections.

Registered borrowers of A.K. Smiley Public Library can now use their library card to download any eBooks or eAudiobook available from SCDL to their home computer in pdf or mp3 format.

Digital books are available 24/7 and have a 7 or 14 day loan period.

Gale Databases (Remote user login: 14-digit library card number or temporary ID)

General Reference Center: A database of more than 1700 general interest magazines, reference books, maps, historical images, and newspaper articles available 24 hours a day via the Internet. Records are available with a combination of indexing, abstracts or full text formats.

Use General Reference Center to find articles from magazines, reference books, and newspapers, many with full-text and images. Find articles on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

Kids Infobits: A database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Grzimek's Animal Life  In 1968 Bernhard Grzimek, the famous zoologist and Director of the Frankfurt Zoo, published the Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Gale updated the print set in 2004, including new articles and commissioning additional images. Grzimek's Animal Life on the web provides students and researchers with a dynamic, interactive resource that fosters more discussion and critical thinking skills. This product uses the content from the encyclopedia to provide unequaled coverage on more than 4,000 species, and includes more than 11,000 images, videos, illustrations, and maps.

NoveList K-8® can help students find their next book to read. This database of over 64,000 fiction titles for kids of all ages lets them use a favorite book or author to link to other books they might enjoy.

The easy to use Find box enables students to quickly find books, authors, series, lists and more! For example, a search for Harry Potter provides all of the Harry Potter books as well as additional feature content to further enrich the reading experience such as BookTalks, Grab and Go Book Lists, and the Harry Potter series. 

JSTOR Database (This database is only available at the library)

JSTOR is a not–for–profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over one thousand academic journals and other scholarly content.

Proquest Database (This database is only available at the library)

ANCESTRY LIBRARY EDITION provides unprecedented access to family history via documents that record the lineage of over 5 billion individuals. Ancestry Library Edition brings the world’s most popular consumer online genealogy resource (The Generations Network’s Ancestry.com) to your library. Answers await all your users—professional or hobbyist, expert or novice, genealogist, or historian—inside the more than 4,000 databases of family information. User-friendly search tools and comprehensive indexing make it easy to start discovering the story of you.

Renaissance Learning Database (Remote users: No login required)

ACCELERATED READER BOOK FINDER Searching for Accelerated Reader books is fun and easy with this free online tool.

Renaissance Learning is the world's leading provider of computer-based assessment technology for pre-K-12 schools. Adopted by more than 75,000 North American schools, Renaissance Learning's tools provide daily formative assessment and periodic progress-monitoring technology to enhance the curriculum, support differentiated instruction, and personalize practice in reading, writing, and math. Our products help educators make the practice component of their existing curriculum more effective by providing tools to personalize practice and easily manage the daily activities for students of all ability levels.