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A-to-Z Food America contains recipes in all course categories (appetizers, soups, salads, breads, main courses, side dishes, desserts, snacks, and beverages) for six US regions, all 50 states, and 33 ethnic cuisines. This resource also covers food culture for the above regions, states, and ethnic cuisines with articles such as Classic Dishes, State Foods, Top Agricultural Products, Special Occasion Foods, Ethnic and Geographic Influences, Special Ingredients, and Food Trivia.

The A-to-Z World Food database explores food culture and includes traditional recipes for 174 countries, provides food culture articles, 7,000+ recipes, 500+ ingredient articles, 6 food glossaries and more than 14,000 color photos. Students, world travelers, cooking clubs, adventurous eaters, and anyone who wants to learn about world cuisine without having to purchase individual country cookbooks will value this resource.

Contains 202 world city travel guides. These beautifully illustrated and up-to-date guides cover travel essentials, attractions, insiders' information, excursions, nightlife, shopping, culture, cuisine, restaurants, health, security, language, maps, hotels, and lots more.

Information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, covering more than 37,000 vehicles from 1954 to present. Previously called Automate.

Provides basic information on over 200,000 film titles and 450,000 music titles.

Hundreds of full color and black and white non-fiction downloadable e-books for ages preschool to 18.

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Find national statistics compiled by the Census Bureau. This website includes the latest Census statistics, data tools, and more.

Convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information from EBSCO. Search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.

Over 550 reference e-books covering a wide variety of subjects.

Locates information about a business based on the business name, SIC, or category of business. Includes small local businesses as well as national companies. Information provided includes the name of the business, location, number of employees, owner(s), subsidiaries and other data.

Access is for personal, non-commercial use only. This resource was formerly called ReferenceUSA.

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Dictionary.com provides reliable access to millions of word definitions, synonyms, spelling, audio pronunciations, example sentences, and translations; as well as offering brain building games, crossword help, and other tools designed to entertain and educate.

Driving-Tests.Org offers free access to exam materials and handbooks that will help new drivers study for their Louisiana driver's license exam. Materials include the car, motorcycle, and CDL study guides and practice tests, as well as basic information about the permit and driving test. Practice tests and exams are online only, however, all handbooks are printable.

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

EBSCO's MasterFILE Premier and eBook Collection in Spanish!

EBSCO's MasterFILE Premier and eBook Collection in French!

Want to search the Internet and save the environment? Then use a search engine that does both. Ecosia is a search engine that uses its ad revenue to fund tree planting projects around the world. This resource is available for free.

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 is a free reference site for students, teachers, and parents. Get homework help and find facts on thousands of subjects.

This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

Gale Business: Insights provides an extensive collection of business intelligence, combining Gale reference content with respected business sources and full-text periodicals to help researchers understand today’s global business environment. Users can access more than 430,000 detailed company profiles with company financial data, in-depth country overviews, and comprehensive industry profiles to stay current with the ever-evolving business landscape.

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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: Middle School empowers beginning researchers -- both inside and outside the classroom -- with trusted multimedia reference and newspapers content covering the most studied subject areas for today's middle school students.

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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 In Context: Science is an engaging online resource that provides contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. By integrating
authoritative, curriculum aligned reference content with headlines and videos, students see how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues.

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With Gale In Context World History, bring history to the forefront of your curriculum. This engaging online resource reaches back to the beginning of recorded history through today’s top headlines, putting topical issues in context. Students will gain a more complete understanding of the people and cultures that formed our collective history.

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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 OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete seeks to provide full text for titles in the ERIC database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy. This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator—from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. 

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Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture serves horticultural enthusiasts of all levels with more than 3.6 million articles from more than 100 journals, as well as more than 20 reference titles from Delmar, including Handbook of Flowers; Foliage and Creative Design; Computer Graphics for Landscape Architects; and more. Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.

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Gale OneFile: High School Edition is designed for middle- and high-school students and provides access to age-appropriate, authoritative digital content for classroom assignments. Learners can research magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies.

High School Edition's solid content features include full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources; careful editorial curation; a low-to-no embargo rate; and detailed manual indexing.

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The Gale OneFile: Home Improvement puts the research of hobbyists and professionals alike on a solid foundation with more than 4.5 million articles from more than 200 home improvement-focused titles, covering topics including architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and others. Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.

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 The Gale OneFile: Information Science is updated daily with articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including usability, cataloging, circulation, business information, and more.

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OneFile: Vocations and Careers provides access to journals and magazines that aid users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career. The database offers hundreds of current and applicable periodicals, from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.

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Gale Power Search allows you to search through thousands of magazines, journals, newspapers, and other content available through multiple Gale databases. This resource provides a variety of credible, up-to-date information from the following sources:

• Gale OneFile
  • Gale Academic OneFile
  • Gale General OneFile
  • Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete
  • Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture
  • Gale OneFile: High School Edition
  • Gale OneFile: Home Improvement
  • Gale OneFile: Information Science
  • Gale OneFile: Vocations and Careers
• Gale In Context
  • Gale In Context: Biography
  • Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
  • Gale In Context: Science
  • Gale In Context: U.S. History
  • Gale In Context: World History
• Gale Literature
  • Scribner Writer Series
  • Twayne's Authors Series
• Gale eBooks

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Gale Presents: Peterson's Test and Career Prep accommodates users of all ages with a resource for standardized test preparation, researching and selecting college and graduate schools, finding tuition assistance, exploring career paths, help with creating a résumé, and more.

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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.

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.

Information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Information Services.

Gateway to multiple resources providing eBooks and Audiobooks to Louisiana Public Library users of all ages.

Mango empowers you to communicate with confidence, preparing you for uncharted experiences with language and culture. Powered by intelligent technology and an adaptive algorithm, lessons involve a rich mix of listening and reading activities, so you can make sense of written and spoken contexts. Challenge yourself to discover a new language. Log in with your library card and start learning with three easy steps: (1) create a profile (2) select your language course (3) download the app for learning on the go. 

The Maps of the CIA gives a listing of unclassified maps available to the public.  Visitors can browse through the wide variety of maps offered by clicking on the drop-down menu and selecting a country. These maps are in the public domain and may be copied freely without permission of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra - School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines.

Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Find information on medical topics, symptoms, conditions, and more. This information is provided by the Merck Manual, a reference book for physicians and pharmacists. Content is split between the professional version and the consumer version, which is written in everyday language.

Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps and flags.

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles.

Mometrix eLibrary offers study materials for over 1,400 different standardized exams including high school, college, and graduate school admissions exams, and certification exams for teachers, nurses, civil service, and many other career paths. Study materials include study guides with instructional videos, interactive flashcards, and interactive practice tests.

MyHeritage Library Edition is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases of its kind. It contains billions of historical records from all over the world to support family history research. It includes birth, death and marriage records; the complete U.S. and U.K. censuses; immigration, military and tombstone records; and nearly 5 billion family tree profiles. New exclusive content is added daily, with more than 100 million records added every month.

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.

Published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this resources provides information on a wide variety of careers.

This website provides recent research and data on current global problems such as poverty, climate change, and war. Our World in Data is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a non-profit organization based in the United Kingdom.

PAR’s mission is to be Louisiana’s independent voice offering solutions to crucial issues for the betterment of our state through accurate, objective research and focusing public attention on those solutions.

Purdue University's Online Writing Lab provides guides and tutorials for learning English grammar, research citation styles, and much more.

Consumer Health Complete - Spanish Edition

TrueFlix® is a dynamic multimedia resource that enriches science and social studies instruction through engaging videos and Scholastic ebooks. Each unit is supported by a wide variety of related content—including primary sources, fiction, audio clips, images, and more—to deepen understanding and spark curiosity. With hundreds of units designed to supplement core curricula, TrueFlix can be used seamlessly in the classroom, the library, at home, or on the go. (For Ages 8-11)

EBSCO's Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

Provides up to date information from EBSCO on relevant topics from starting a company, operations management and sales to growing or rescuing a business. The database contains nearly 400 full-text periodicals and over 450 full-text reference books.

The government printing office keeps America informed by distributing the official publications and information products of the federal government in digital and printed formats.

A database of local community resources, including  organizations that provide housing, food, educational, and health assistance to citizens within Southeast Louisiana.

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.

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.

Browse a selection of World Book's acclaimed series of nonfiction titles in e-book format.

Learn about people, places, animals, sports, and more. Includes videos, images, maps, and games.

Get connected to the library's suite of World Book Online resources, which are inspired by the renowned encyclopedia.

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.

Build and share timelines using your own events and images or add content and images from World Book.

Developed with experts on early childhood education, the Early World of Learning offers rich resources for preschoolers and children in the early primary.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.

The Central Intelligence Agency publishes and updates the online directory of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments weekly in this World Leaders database. The directory is intended to be used primarily as a reference aid and includes as many governments of the world as is considered practical, some of them not officially recognized by the United States. Regimes with which the United States has no diplomatic exchanges are indicated by the initials NDE.  Governments are listed in alphabetical order according to the most commonly used version of each country's name.