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General OneFile - A general interest online resource that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
Health and Wellness - Have a health question? This resource is the "go-to" source with credible information that is in-depth yet simple to navigate. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, health-related videos, and thousands of articles from award-winning reference titles. variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
Archives of Sexuality & Gender - With material drawn from hundreds of institutions and organizations, including both major international activist organizations and local, grassroots groups, the documents in the Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940 present important aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond.
Literature Resource Center - A one-stop-shop for your Literature research. Access to up-to-date author information, overviews, literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods. Print material delivered in a digital format!
Literature Resource Center Instructions
Gale E-books - With Gale E-books you can browse, search and download eBook articles anytime from any Internet-connected device.
The Gale Primary Sources - Archives Unbound offers online access to primary source materials covering a vast array of topics of importance to U.S. and California history. It has more than 290 archives and over 14 million pages available, free from the California State Library. To see images requires Flash, so IE browser works best.
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies broadens student understanding of environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
Gale Interactive: Science allows students to manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand biology, chemistry, earth, and space science concepts.
Gale Presents: National Geographic Kids allows students to adventure in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.
Genealogy Online Resources from Ancestry
The Library has many resources for genealogical and family research. Click here for upcoming workshop, resources and charts.
Ancestry Library Edition
Ancestry provides information on genealogical and family records. This online resource has coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada, Europe, Australia and other areas of the world. To access in the Library on your laptop, smartphone, tablet or the Library public computers, click HERE.
HeritageQuest Online (HQO)
HeritageQuest Online provides genealogical and historical sources for more than 60 countries, with coverage dating back as early as the 1700s. The online resource is available in the library and at home through the library website. Sign in using your Calabasas Library card.
Ancestry and HeritageQuest Instructions
Newspapers.com Library Edition
Newspapers.com offers full-page images with searchable full text for millions of pages of newspapers dating from the early 1700s into the early 2000s. It contains full runs and portions of runs of known, regional, and state titles to small local newspapers in the United States and other countries. Sign in using your Calabasas Library card.
Fold3 Library Edition
Fold3 Library Edition by Ancestry combines official military records with deep first-person content, including bios, photos, letters and more. More than 470 million searchable records span hundreds of years. Sign in using your Calabasas Library card.
Visit the Free Genealogy Resources webpage.
Los Angeles Metro Collection - NewsBank
NewsBank - News content from local, regional, and national sources. Available are newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts and videos. Local papers include The Acorn, Daily News, Jewish Journal and more.
Click here for access to the Jewish Journal
Data Axle Reference Solutions
Data Axle Reference Solutions (Formerly ReferenceUSA) is a service where patrons can create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, locate people, and search for jobs. Accurate company and residential data for the U.S is available as well as business listings, residential listings, job and internship searches, historical business information, and new movers/homeowners list.
Webinars for business owners, marketing and more.
SCLC's DigiLab
SCLC's DigiLab is a California Library Services Act (CLSA) funded project, managed by the Southern California Library Cooperative (SCLC) and in cooperation with SCLC member libraries. The DigiLab project allows participating libraries to scan and share materials across a digital cloud-based platform. The project gives each library a chance to recognize the unique role their library can play in broadening the information landscape for everyone by making their library’s unique digital collection more accessible. DigiLab promotes preservation and collaboration in the sharing of materials, making information more available, benefiting not only the member libraries, but the communities they serve.
Calisphere
Calisphere is your gateway to digital collections from California's great libraries, archives, and museums. Discover over 1,975,000 images, texts, and recordings from the University of California.
PressReader
If you use PressReader on a laptop/computer, you must use one of these browsers - Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Chrome or Safari.
Britannica
Britannica School is the go-to site for K-12 research. Fifty-three thousand schools throughout the country use Britannica School to build essential information literacy skills, differentiate instruction, and support STEM education.
Britannica Escolar is the leading knowledge-building resource, universally trusted for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish, made for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish.
This project is supported by funding from COMPASS: The California Online Media Program for Access and Student Success from the California State Library.
New York Times
The Library has access to the New York Times. You first must create an account, with an email address and a password here.
If you are in the library or on the Library’s wifi, you can then browse unlimited articles.
If you are not in the library, you need to click this link. It will issue you a redeem code. Please click on Redeem for full access for 24 hours. You do need to be logged in.
Return to the Library webpage here to click the link and redeem for each 24 hours you want to have access to the NY Times.
SIRS Discoverer – Material and information to help students in Grade 3 to Grade 8 with classwork, homework and research papers.
SIRS Issues Researcher – Content presenting both sides of today’s most debated issues, geared to middle and high school students.
elibrary Guided Research – Help for students in choosing research topics and finding reliable sources of information.
ProQuest Academic – Articles from scholarly journals on a wide-range of subjects, from STEAM to humanities and social science. Geared toward upper-grade high schoolers.
CultureGrams - Learn facts, customs, and cultures of states and countries around the world.
Black Freedom - A selection of primary sources related to people and events in African American history.
Research Companion - This is an intuitive, self-paced, and self-guided research learning environment that supports information literacy, writing, and research skills. To access it at the Library, click HERE.
To access it at home, click HERE. Make an account to save any work.
This project is supported by funding from COMPASS: The California Online Media Program for Access and Student Success from the California State Library in partnership with ProQuest/Clarivate.
TeachingBooks for Students - It should automatically log you in as a California resident. If you come to a sign in page, click on "For Students" on the upper right. Browse books, listen to read-alongs, find book lists, get homework help and more.
TeachingBooks for Educators – Click on Educators and Adults. Type in your work email. Click sign in, then fill out the form for an Educator Login Registration, then click on Continue Educator Login. Click on "For Educators" in the upper right. Your Book Connections log in will work if you already signed up.
You can then share resources and access with students, create custom reading lists, save custom lesson plans, subscribe to newsletters for support and ideas. Also, find materials that support your literacy instruction, virtual teaching ideas, book lists and more.
TeachingBooks for Libraries - Click on Professionals and Adults. Type in your work email. Click sign in, then fill out the form for a Professional Login Registration, then click on Continue Professional Login. Click on "For Professionals" in the upper right. Your TeachingBooks log in will work if you already signed up.
You can then share resources and access with students, create custom reading lists, save custom lesson plans, subscribe to newsletters for support and integration ideas. Also, you can get information on materials to the children's and young adult books to use for book clubs, readers advisory, homework support.
This project is supported by funding from COMPASS: The California Online Media Program for Access and Student Success from the California State Library.
PebbleGo by Capstone have interactive articles that will strengthen basic knowledge of STEM topics for early learning. This project is supported by funding from the COMPASS: The California Online Media Program for Access and Student Success from the California State Library.