BookFlix inspires kids to discover the joy of reading while building both real-world knowledge and beginning reading skills. With classic animated stories from Weston Woods, thematically paired with more than 140 authentic nonfiction ebooks from Scholastic, BookFlix strengthens students’ early literacy skills, confidence, and curiosity (for ages 3 to 8).
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Books in Print Databases
Containing information about over 40 million books – in print, electronic, audio and multimedia titles and provides a global look at what’s active, what’s out of print, and what’s forthcoming.
Gale Presents: Udemy Databases New!
Gale Presents: Udemy offers thousands of on-demand video courses for self-paced learning to empower patrons to achieve both personal and professional growth, pursuing skills in business, technology, and personal interests. Courses are offered in a variety of subjects, including leadership, IT, AI, wellness, language, marketing, and data science. Also included are more than 15,0000 courses taught by native-speaking instructors across 14 different languages, allowing patrons to take courses in their preferred language. Learn how to code, prep for IT certifications, sharpen leadership skills, produce a podcast, increase office productivity, tap into your creativity, explore new ways to be happy and healthy, and much more.
Arts, History, and Humanities
ABCmouse at Home Access Databases
The award-winning ABCmouse curriculum is designed to help young children build a strong foundation for future academic success. ABCmouse is 100% educational, with more than 10,000 learning activities across all major subject areas: reading, math, science, social studies, art and music—including more than 1,200 of those learning activities in Spanish (for children ages 2-8+).
First-time users will need to make an account. When creating your account, choose Louisiana, St. Tammany Parish Library, enter your library card number, and click submit. You will then create your account using an email address and password. ABCmouse can be shared by up to three children in a household, each with their own avatar, profile and progress-tracking on the ABCmouse Step-by-Step Learning Path.
BBC Historyextra Website
BBC History Magazine focusing on ancient to modern history.
BIR Entertainment Databases Movies, Music, and TV
Provides basic information on over 200,000 film titles and 450,000 music titles.
Black Life in America Databases Newspapers and Magazines
This primary source collection offers more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications, to provide a window into African American history, culture, and daily life—as well as the ways the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of African descent. The sources in this collection covers the time period between pre-Revolution America and the early 21st century.
Book Index With Reviews Databases
Full-text searchable reviews of book, music, and DVD/video titles.
BookFlix Databases eBooks and eAudiobooks New!
BookFlix inspires kids to discover the joy of reading while building both real-world knowledge and beginning reading skills. With classic animated stories from Weston Woods, thematically paired with more than 140 authentic nonfiction ebooks from Scholastic, BookFlix strengthens students’ early literacy skills, confidence, and curiosity (for ages 3 to 8).
Books in Print Databases
Containing information about over 40 million books – in print, electronic, audio and multimedia titles and provides a global look at what’s active, what’s out of print, and what’s forthcoming.
Britannica eBooks Databases
Hundreds of full color and black and white non-fiction downloadable e-books for ages preschool to 18.
Please note: Please choose Guest User option to access the e-books.
Credo Reference Databases Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Over 550 reference e-books covering a wide variety of subjects.
EBSCOhost Academic Journals Databases
EBSCOhost offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers:
- Academic Search Complete, opens a new window
- Alt HealthWatch, opens a new window
- Audiobook Collection (EBSCOhost), opens a new window
- BIR Entertainment, opens a new window
- Book Collection: Nonfiction, opens a new window
- Book Index With Reviews, opens a new window
- Business Source Complete, opens a new window
- CINAHL, opens a new window
- eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), opens a new window
- ERIC, opens a new window
- Ethnic Diversity Source, opens a new window
- Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, opens a new window
- GreenFILE, opens a new window
- Health Source - Consumer Edition, opens a new window
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, opens a new window
- History Reference Center, opens a new window
- Humanities International Complete, opens a new window
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, opens a new window
- MAS Ultra - School Edition, opens a new window
- MasterFILE Premier, opens a new window
- MEDLINE, opens a new window
- Middle Search Plus, opens a new window
- Military & Government Collection, opens a new window
- Primary Search, opens a new window
- Psychology And Behavioral Sciences Collection, opens a new window
- Regional Business News, opens a new window
- Religion And Philosophy Collection, opens a new window
- Science Reference Center, opens a new window
- SocINDEX With Full Text, opens a new window
- SPORTDiscus, opens a new window
- Vocational And Career Collection, opens a new window
Explora Quick Search Databases
Specializing in reliable content for students and teachers, Explora provides information from the world's leading magazines and reference books in the EBSCO databases. Browse categories organized by popular topic with overviews that provide a starting point for your research, or use the simple search that quickly delivers relevant results, including primary source documents, news articles, and Associated Press videos.
Fact Monster Homework Help Website
Fact Monster is a free reference site for students, teachers, and parents. Get homework help and find facts on thousands of subjects.
Gale eBooks Databases Dictionaries and Encyclopedias eBooks and eAudiobooks
Literary criticism, author biographies and business resources. Includes Twayne's and Scribner. This resource requires a valid St. Tammany Parish Library card as a Login ID.
Gale In Context: Elementary Databases
Gale In Context: Elementary delivers trusted, age-appropriate digital content. Through newspaper and magazine articles, videos, images, and graphics, elementary students can learn about everything from animals and outer space to famous artists and favorite athletes. The database is visual and intuitive, and rewards students’ efforts by developing comprehension and research skills to prepare them for middle school—and a lifetime of learning.
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints Databases
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints covers today's hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This research database is a rich resource for debaters and includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more. The content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, and political science. This resource requires a valid St. Tammany Parish Library card as a Login ID.
Gale Literature Academic Journals Databases
Whether you're researching authors and their works, literary movements or genres, or trying to find book reviews of bestsellers, you can search across all of your library's Gale literary databases to find full text of literary works, journal articles, literature criticism and analysis, reviews, author biographies, and a rich collection of expertly written work overviews. This resource requires a valid St. Tammany Parish Library card as a Login ID.
Gale Literature Criticism Online Academic Journals Databases
Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. This resource requires a valid St. Tammany Parish Library card as a Login ID.
Gale Literature Resource Center Databases
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. This resource requires a valid St. Tammany Parish Library card as a Login ID.
Gale Literature: Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online Databases Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online provides more than 16,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. Comprised of the award-winning Dictionary of Literary Biography series, which over its 30-year history has been dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, DLB Complete Online includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Series - all delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals.
Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series Databases
Scribner Writers Series provides original, scholar signed essays on the lives and works of authors from around the world from all time periods. This resource requires a valid St. Tammany Parish Library card as a Login ID.
Gale Literature: Something About the Author Databases
Something About the Author Online provides first-time comprehensive online access to all volumes ever printed in Gale's™ acclaimed and long-standing Something About the Author series, which examines the lives and works of authors and illustrators for children and young adults and is the preeminent source on authors and literature for young people. This resource requires a valid St. Tammany Parish Library card as a Login ID.
Gale Literature: Twayne’s Author Series Databases
Twayne's is devoted to in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world within the context of the time period in which they lived. It provides insightful and original commentary on the history and influence of literary movements. This resource requires a valid St. Tammany Parish Library card as a Login ID.
Gale Presents: Udemy Databases New!
Gale Presents: Udemy offers thousands of on-demand video courses for self-paced learning to empower patrons to achieve both personal and professional growth, pursuing skills in business, technology, and personal interests. Courses are offered in a variety of subjects, including leadership, IT, AI, wellness, language, marketing, and data science. Also included are more than 15,0000 courses taught by native-speaking instructors across 14 different languages, allowing patrons to take courses in their preferred language. Learn how to code, prep for IT certifications, sharpen leadership skills, produce a podcast, increase office productivity, tap into your creativity, explore new ways to be happy and healthy, and much more.
History Reference Center Academic Journals Databases
EBSCO's History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Humanities International Complete Academic Journals Databases
An EBSCOhost database, Humanities International complete includes articles from books, journals, and other published sources.
JSTOR Academic Journals Databases
JSTOR provides access to more than 10 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Just for Kids Access Video On Demand Databases eBooks and eAudiobooks Movies, Music, and TV New!
Just for Kids offers a kid-safe, advertisement-free, media platform where young patrons can learn, explore and enjoy. Just for Kids has the educational videos that children want to watch—from Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Franklin, Arthur, to The Berenstain Bears, and more! These videos are sure to entertain, educate and inspire young patrons. Games, songs and interactives will keep these early learners interested and engaged as they discover a learning environment that is fun, safe and entertaining. Kids will also have access to audiovisual adaptations of outstanding picture books from Weston Woods®, Rabbit Ears Entertainment, Vooks, Highlights for Children, and more!
Khan Academy Website
Provides free learning tools and lessons for kids from grades K-College.
Le Raconteur Academic Journals Databases Website
A publication of Le Comité des Archives de la Louisiane, a non-profit genealogical support group for the Louisiana State Archives founded in 1978. Le Raconteur is published in March, June, September, and December. Each issue contains a variety of original genealogical and historical articles dealing with topics from around Louisiana. In order to access this journal online, you must visit a St. Tammany Parish Library branch and speak with a reference librarian, opens a new window.
Literary Reference Center Plus Academic Journals Databases
Information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Information Services.
Louisiana Digital Library Website
An online library of over 144,000 digital materials about Louisiana's history, culture, places, and people.
MIT Open Courseware Website
Take a free course with Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Courses are available on a variety of topics and include video lecture and class notes and other documents. Course credit is not available for completed courses.
National Geographic Kids Databases eBooks and eAudiobooks
National Geographic Kids provides immersive, digital content that takes kids ages 7-14 on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. This digital resource provides full issues of National Geographic Kids magazine as well as National Geographic Kids books, videos, and images on a student-friendly platform to make learning more accessible. National Geographic Kids can be used at the library, home, or on-the-go via smart phones, iPads, and tablets.
National Geographic Virtual Library Databases Newspapers and Magazines
With comprehensive, timely articles and legendary photographs and maps, the magazine documents life on our planet and beyond. This resource provides students and researchers of all ages a graphical, easy-to-use method of accessing the wealth of material from National Geographic magazine, along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images, and videos.
NoveList K-8 Databases
NoveList K-8 is especially for younger readers. It has reading recommendations for both fiction and nonfiction, for kids in grades K-8. Use it to find just the right books for every reader.
NoveList Plus Databases
Reading recommendations to help you find your next book.
Primary Search Databases
Search through over 70 popular magazines for elementary school research with primary search. All full text articles contain lexile levels.
Purdue Online Writing Lab Website
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab provides guides and tutorials for learning English grammar, research citation styles, and much more.
Religion and Philosophy Collection Academic Journals Databases
Provides extensive coverage on topics related to world religions, religious history, biblical studies, and the history of philosophy. This collection contains nearly 300 journals, including 250 peer reviewed titles. The Religion and Philosophy Collection is provided by EBSCOhost.
Salem Press Online Databases eBooks and eAudiobooks
This collection of ebooks offers information on a variety of topics, including health, history, and science.
World Book Advanced Databases Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
World Book Advanced is a powerful research tool that includes full encyclopedic and multimedia databases supplemented with online books, primary sources, website links, back in time articles, special reports, and more.
World Book Discover Databases Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
An encyclopedia designed for middle school and jr. high students, World Book Discover features easy to read articles and includes reading comprehension questions to help students focus on key concepts. Please Note: This resource works best with laptop and desktop computers.
World Book Dramatic Learning Center Databases
Improve readers’ fluency and comprehension with dramatic readings in the classroom, library, or after-school program! Dramatic Learning expands proven approaches to enhancing reading skills.
World Book eBooks eBooks and eAudiobooks
Browse a selection of World Book's acclaimed series of nonfiction titles in e-book format.
World Book Kids Databases Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Learn about people, places, animals, sports, and more. Includes videos, images, maps, and games.
World Book Online Encyclopedia Databases Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Get connected to the library's suite of World Book Online resources, which are inspired by the renowned encyclopedia.
World Book Student Databases Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
This comprehensive database includes engaging content, built-in features, and fun tools specifically designed to make knowledge accessible and easy-to-find for all kids in elementary through middle school.
World Book Timelines Databases Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Build and share timelines using your own events and images or add content and images from World Book.
World Book Wizard Databases
Offering a comprehensive set of curriculum-based drills, World Book Wizard is a personalized way to help students master skills in Science and Social Studies.