A.K. Smiley Public Library is pleased to offer the following electronic resources to our patrons:
eBooks – OverDrive
Remote user login: 14-digit library card number and pin
(pin default is the last 4 digits of your phone number)
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.
eBooks – Google Books
(Remote user login: no login required)
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Google Books: Download over a million full-preview public domain books available online in EPUB format from Google Books.
eDatabases - 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.
eDatabases – Kids Infobits:

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.
BookFLIX – Video Storybooks
(Remote user login: 14-digit library card number and pin)
BookFLIX – Video Storybooks: Searching for BookFLIX – Video Storybooks is fun and easy with this free online tool.
Courtesy of the California State Library, Scholastic BookFLIX is an online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic to cultivate a love of reading and learning. This engaging resource will help early readers spanning grades PreK-3 develop and practice essential reading skills, introducing students to a world of exploration and knowledge.
Ebsco Database
(Remote user login: smiley / password: smiley)
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.
eDatabases – Rosen Teen Health and Wellness:
(Remote user login: smiley / password: smiley; OR use your 14-digit library card number using the “Log in with your library card” link)
Teen Health and Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers—this award-winning online resource provides middle and high school students with nonjudgmental, straightforward, standards-aligned, curricular and self-help support. Topics include diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying, green living, financial literacy, and more. This database is developed for teens, with their unique concerns and perspective. Thoroughly updated and revised for online use, all content is reviewed by leading professionals in medicine, mental health, nutrition, guidance, and career counseling.
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)
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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.
Proquest Digital Microfilm
(Remote user login: 14-digit library card number)
Proquest Digital Microfilm solution features recent microfilmed editions of The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times cover-to-cover and in full-image.


In March of 1897, Albert K. Smiley purchased sixteen acres of downtown land to build Redlands its new library building. The A.K. SMILEY PUBLIC LIBRARY and surrounding Smiley Park, so named by a grateful city council in honor of the donor, was dedicated on April 29, 1898.