A virtual trip to the zoo, with interactive information on over 1200 animals.

The Biography Resource Center combines biographies from over 130 sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, More

Explore the United States in colorful kid friendly reports.

Experience the world through detailed cultural information on more than 200 countries.

Find specific online publications by title or by subject.

Within Ebscohost find: Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles More

Spanish language database by World Book. Based on the award winning Student Discovery Encyclopedia.

Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and a live newsfeed from Reuters® to answer questions about events, people, issues, facts, and figures of the last 60+ years.

Facts On File Biographies of important personages both past and present.

A cross searching platform of e-reference books on multiple topics.

Offers quick access to general reference articles and media resources for a visually rich research experience. For middle school students and up.

Published by Scholastic Library Publishing, Inc., it includes encyclopedia databases: Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, Amazing Animals of the World, and The New Book of Popular Science.

History Study Center provides digitized primary and secondary sources with documents and articles organized under widely-studied topics, with reference works, images, video clips and links to 2,000 Web sites.

Issues and Controversies features up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day.

LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patronsMore

Stories, poems, plays, speeches and essays searchable by genre, subject, or author.

Online tutors are available to help Grades K-12, College Intro, and Adult Learners. Subjects include: Math, Science, Social Studies and English, 2:00pm-9:00pm daily. Tambien en Español.

Self-paced web-based language learning system for Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, More

Fun, easy to use general reference resource. For elementary school students and English language learners.

In depth science, health and technology research and news. Includes photos, maps and over 2200 biographies.

The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers including: the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, More

Novelist K-8 contains reading recommendations for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles.More

Search The Wall Street Journal, and several other nationally known magazines and journals.

An excellent database for student assignments on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political, and global issues. Full text articles archived from 1989 to present many with graphics, charts, maps, and diagrams.

Search for the latest scientific discoveries and fundamental scientific concepts in health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and more.

Uses the award winning Student Discovery Encyclopedia that is simple, easy to read and understand. Grades K-5.

Expansive reference resource based on the World Book Encyclopedia. It offers over 40,000 articles, science projects and a multimedia library. Grades 4 – 12.

Encyclopedic, multimedia, e-book and primary source database integrated in a single search. Individual accounts let users create and save their work. 7th grade through adult.