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Registered borrowers of A.K. Smiley Public Library can use their library card and PIN to download eBooks or eAudiobooks available from Libby/OverDrive to their home computer, tablet, or phone. Digital books are available 24/7 and normally have a 7 or 14 day loan period.

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LOTE4Kids is a new online database of digital books in World Languages, that allows kids to enjoy the magic of books in LOTE (Languages Other Than English). Each book also comes with English translations to help kids learn languages. LOTE4Kids has over 3,000+ digital picture books in 65+ languages, with new books and languages released each month. Download the LOTE4Kids App today!

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These resources are supported in whole or in part by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library.

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Accelerated Reader BookFinder makes searching for Accelerated Reader books fun and easy. BookFinder’s tools provide informative assessment and progress-monitoring to enhance the curriculum, support differentiated instruction, and personalize practice in reading, writing, and math.

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The California K12 Online Content Project has chosen a truly remarkable and diverse collection of Music, Dance and Theatre content, covering hundreds of genres and a wide range of content types, from instruction to performance. Leading content providers include the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Qwest TV, Smithsonian, L.A. Theatre Works, Broadway On-Demand, and many more.

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Ancestry Library Edition provides unprecedented access to family history via documents that record the lineage of over 5 billion individuals through more than 4,000 databases. User-friendly search tools allow you to easily start discovering the story of your ancestry.

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The experience and impact of Asian Americans as recorded by the news media.

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AtoZdatabases is the premier reference and marketing database. AtoZdatabases includes 30 million business profiles & 220 million residents. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more.

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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 for grades PreK – 3.

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The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today. From the early days of slavery to modern times, people of African descent have had a profound impact on American history. This primary source collection offers an expansive window into centuries of African American history, culture and daily life—as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of African descent.

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A comprehensive interactive resource for research and learning for grades K-12. Includes correlations to California Content Standards and other valuable teacher resources. Post links directly to each school level, elementary, middle or high.Need help from Britannica? See our support page. (800) 621-3900 x 7160 | edsupport@eb.com

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Cambio 16 is a Spanish language weekly current affairs magazine published in Madrid, Spain, by “Group 16”. Cambio 16 has a center-progressive and mainstream political stance.

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Flipster is a digital magazine service featuring a variety of titles for adults and children. We currently have over 35 titles available! With Flipster, you can use your library card to access current and back issues of popular titles, such as: The Atlantic, Bon Appetit, The Advocate, Consumer Reports, HGTV Magazine, National Geographic, Family Handyman, People, Rolling Stone, Sunset, Time, US Weekly, Sports Illustrated, Boys’ Life, Girls’ Life, and many more.

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Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars, researchers, and students at the college and university level. A multi-disciplinary resource, collections cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history. Collections are chosen based on requests from scholars, archivists, and students.

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Gale In Context: Biography is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world’s most influential people. Biography merges Gale’s authoritative reference content with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.

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Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.

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Gale General OneFile provides access to an unprecedented number of general reference magazines and key serials in a single resource. This database is useful to users conducting general reference queries, business searches, and current event research. The addition of a browse-by-subject feature allows users to easily view content of interest on the most popular and most-searched topics within several distinct categories, including news, current events, health, and computers and technology.

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Student Resources In Context offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state curriculum standards and reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, Smithsonian, and more. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR.

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Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.

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Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today’s hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

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Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science.

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The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today. Comprehensive coverage of the Hispanic American experience from earliest times to today. Sourced from nearly 17,500 American and global newspapers, including almost 450 Hispanic American newspapers. Provides full-text searching as well as access to content by Topic, Event, and Eras in Hispanic American History. Updated daily.

La Vida Hispana en América
La experiencia e impacto de los Hispano Américanos como ha sido escrita por los medios de comunicación del 1704 al presente.

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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.

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MedlinePlus is a free website that provides consumer health information for patients, family, and health care providers.

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Morningstar Investment Research Center offers analysis on 1700 stocks, 2000 mutual funds and 300 exchange-traded funds (ETFs). While it is primarily designed as a tool for investors, it is also an excellent place to get quick information on a company.

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News for You is America’s weekly online news source for adult learners! News for You offers easy-to-read news stories that can help you learn to read, write, speak, and understand the English language. Listen to each story in full or sentence-by-sentence.

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Explore and stay informed on local and national topics, people, and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more.  Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources spanning the U.S.

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Are you a New York Times Online reader? Please take this survey for the CA State Library to help with continued funding. The California State Library is pleased to offer the New York Times online to California public libraries! This offer features direct access to NYTimes.com from 1851 to right now. Your A.K. Smiley library card allows you 72 hour complimentary, unlimited access to the digital edition of The New York Times. To get started, follow these simple steps:

• Within the library, register or log in at nytimes.com/register. You can now enjoy unlimited access to NYTimes.com on any device during your library visit.
• For remote users, click HERE and fill out the required fields on the following page. Use code 34d45f8f19df6963 if the code is not already filled in.
• Enjoy! You now have unlimited access to the digital edition of The New York Times.

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NoveList Plus is a database of both fiction and nonfiction titles that can help people of all ages find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. The easy to use Find box enables everyone to quickly find books, authors, series, lists and more!

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Pronunciator is an online language learning platform with 75 languages. The world’s largest language-learning service.

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American dramatic writing in all its richness and diversity – over 1,500 dramatic works from the early eighteenth century up to the beginning of the twentieth.

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A free health and medical research database for openly available content related to the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Concise social, cultural, and political information on countries, U.S. states, and provinces around the world. (Grades 3-12).

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Ebook Central provides authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with powerful tools to find, use, and manage the information.

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A massive collection of multidisciplinary periodical and digital media content, designed for beginning and intermediate researchers. Editorially created pages provide valuable context for both common and unusual research topics.

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A unique collection of more than 3,900 plays in verse and prose tracing the development of drama in English from the medieval mystery cycles to the comedies of Oscar Wilde.

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Literature Online is the leading online resource for the study and teaching of literature in English, combining the texts of over 355,000 literary works with a vast library of key criticism and reference resources.

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Designed to complement other databases and collections, this database brings together or links to full text for publicly available content from a number of different sources from around the world.

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a self-guided product that supports information literacy, writing, and research skills instruction.(Grades 8+).

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eBook subscription database of over 13,000 titles that supports English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Health, Physical Education, Information Literacy and Technology. (Grades 9+, possibly some content for Middle School, also includes professional development content for faculty)

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A general reference database providing safe, reliable, curriculum-aligned content and features for use by students and educators. (Grades 3-9)

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Pros and cons on 360+ (and growing) complex social issues with relevant, credible information that tells the whole story on the major questions of the day. (Grades 6+).

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Bringing together an unparalleled collection of the most important works from the last century from the English-speaking world, Twentieth-Century Drama features plays from over 300 noted playwrights and lesser known dramatists.

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Search all of the ProQuest databases that the library subscribes to.

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Redlands Daily Facts accesses articles from the local Redlands newspaper by searching a digitized version of the newspaper.
Date Range: (9/16/2002 – Current)

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Rosen Teen Health & Wellness With comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health and much more, Rosen Teen Health & Wellness is an instant, online support network secondary students can always turn to. Developed as a resource for teens to find comfort and knowledge regarding their unique personal concerns, Rosen Teen Health & Wellness draws on Rosen’s award-winning series, including Coping, Need to Know and others. Thoroughly updated and revised for online use, all content is reviewed by leading professionals in medicine, mental health, nutrition, guidance, and career counseling. Features that teens demand, and librarians and educators expect including clean, easy-to-use, teen-friendly interface, authentic first-person teen narratives, interactive polls and quizzes, customizable local hotlines, plus national twenty-four-hour hotlines for teens in crisis, and expanded Librarian/Educator Resources.

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Free resource for all teachers & librarians in California.
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The UN Chronicle, a quarterly journal published by the Department of Public Information since 1946, covers information and debate on activities of the United Nations system. It features essays and opinions from official, non-governmental, academic, and policymaking groups connected with the Organization. The journal covers a wide-range of topics including: human rights; economic, social and political issues; peacekeeping operations: international conferences; youth related matters; women and children; and global health.

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Brainfuse VetNow carefully scrutinizes resources and rigorously screens our navigators to ensure veterans get the help they need, when they need it. Our Brainfuse VetNow navigators help veterans and their families understand and apply for the benefits they are eligible for from local, state, or federal programs. From housing and health care to education, mental health, and more, Brainfuse VetNow navigators are ready to help. Through live online assistance, veterans can get the help they need transitioning from military to civilian careers throughout all stages of the job process. Our experts can help translate military skills for civilian job managers, restructure resumes, and practice interviewing. Brainfuse assists veterans and their families prepare for college through a full suite of academic tools. Live online tutoring in a variety of college level subjects is available, along with a holistic writing support, extensive video lessons, comprehensive practice tests, and so much more.

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Coursera is the global online learning platform that offers anyone, anywhere access to online courses and degrees from world-class universities and companies. Coursera partners with more than 200 leading universities and companies to bring flexible, job-relevant online learning to individuals worldwide. We offer a range of learning opportunities—from hands-on projects and courses to job-ready certificates and degree programs. 82 million learners, 100+ Fortune 500 companies, and more than 6,000 campuses, businesses, and governments come to Coursera to access world-class learning—anytime, anywhere.

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This list features some of the best online schools in California. Each school featured is a nonprofit, accredited institution — either public or private — with a high standard of academic quality for post-secondary institutions. Our resource provides information about online colleges in California and actively supports individuals in pursuing meaningful employment within the region.

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JobScout is an online learning platform that will teach you the basic Internet skills you need to find a job.

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LearningExpress Library features nearly 1,000 online tutorials, practice tests, and eBooks to help patrons of all ages. LearningExpress helps students and adult learners improve the skills required for academic and career success. It offers job search and workplace skills improvement, skill building in reading, writing, math, and basic science, career certification and licensure exam prep, college and grad school entrance test prep, GED® test prep, and more.

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LinkedIn Learning for Library provides public library patrons with unlimited access to great content from Lynda.com plus courses offered in the following languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, and Portuguese—onsite or offsite. Learn the latest software, creative, and business skills. For users of any skill level, bite-size tutorials, or comprehensive courses, on hundreds of topics. Personalized and self-paced learning.

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NorthStar offers online, self-guided assessments to measure basic computer and software skills. Once test takers pass the assessments, they are qualified to pursue more advanced training, certifications, or career pathways elsewhere. The lessons give learners multiple opportunities to build digital literacy skills through practice tasks. Each lesson plan includes a detailed teacher prep guide.

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Resume.org offers a free, user-friendly platform for creating professional resumes with customizable templates. The site supports multiple file formats, including PDF, DOCX, and TXT, ensuring compatibility with various job application processes. With a focus on accessibility, Resume.org aims to help users increase their job application success rates with tailored resumes and continuous expert guidance.

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Resume Builder simplifies the creation of professional resumes with customizable templates and intuitive design.  Users can easily highlight their skills and experience while receiving guidance to craft standout resumes tailored to their career objectives.  Whether entering the job market or seeking a career change, Resume Builder provides helpful tools to impress potential employers.

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ResumeTemplates.com – A career development and resume design hub that offers the internet’s largest database of free resume templates in MS Word and Google Docs formats.