AtoZ World Food is also the only database that covers food culture for 174 countries of the world in six categories: National Cuisine, Regional Cuisine, Daily Meals, Dining Etiquette, Special Occasion Foods, and Food Trivia.
Directory of programs combining real-world skills and classroom learning for young people in Washington. A partnership of business, labor, education, and community leaders creating work-based and academic programs for young people to explore, learn, and earn money or college-level credit.
A self-exploration and planning program that helps people of all ages achieve their potential in career and life. This interactive career guidance resource includes in-depth profiles of careers, colleges, and universities.
Prepare for important tests and exams such as ACT, SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, AP, TOEFL iBT, and Learn to Write a College Admission Essay.
College Admissions Test Preparation via LearningExpress Library includes tutorials, flash reviews, practice exams, and ebooks.
Biographical information on important figures in today's musical arena, covering artists working in all genres of modern music, including rock, jazz, pop, rap, rhythm and blues, folk, New Age, country, gospel, and reggae.
This research database is a premiere source of business and residential information to locate people and businesses, conduct consumer research, create marketing plans, and search for jobs. You can search against geographic areas for specific information.
Data Axle Reference Solutions was created in 1998 under the name ReferenceUSA to provide libraries with the most up-to-date business and consumer data available. Now, their product is widely available at places including the New York City Public Library, Yale University Library, and libraries of all sizes across the United States including Timberland Regional Library.
DigitalLearn.org is a collection of self-directed tutorials to improve digital literacy. Courses cover basic skills, such as using a mouse & computer, navigating a web site, creating an email address and searching.
Other courses include specific topics like applying for jobs online, using Microsoft Word, searching for quality health information and staying safe online. Modules are video-based with narration, 6 to 22 minutes long. Available in English and En Espaol.
Content can be translated into 40 languages, while the platform itself can be translated into more than 30 languages. ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology allows audio files to be downloaded and saved onto any mobile device and read aloud in nearly 25 languages.
Offers access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. Perfect for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.
What dietary habits are associated with developing adult-onset diabetes? Are antioxidants really effective? What new advances have been made in the treatment of HIV/ AIDS? Gale Health and Wellness is your first-stop resource for answers to these and other health-related questions.
Access hundreds of thousands of topic overviews, primary sources, biographies, and critical essays on core subjects ranging from the Great Depression to Malala Yousafzai. Periodical coverage includes full-text newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from reputable sources like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, and Smithsonian.
Empower learning with rich multimedia in diverse formats including images, maps, charts, graphs, videos, and audio selections that include podcasts, archival film clips, and broadcast video from BBC News, NYTimes.com Video Collection, NPR, and more.
Created specifically for middle school student research, with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Categories cover a range of the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, literature, and many more.
With over 20,000 pro/con viewpoints, approximately 19,000 reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more, students will be prepared to argue any side of the issue. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is cross-searchable with Gale In Context: Global Issues.
A wide range of media rich content offers differing views making it an ideal resource for debaters. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues.
Students can dive deeper with periodical content that covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more. Specific titles include The New York Times, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, American Scientist, and Education Week.
Video streaming platform that offers a wide selection of movies, documentaries, and TV shows from around the world. The platform provides patrons with access to high-quality, educational, and entertaining content. Stream from a vast collection of movies and other video content, including classic films, indie films, world cinema, documentaries, and more. Users can access Kanopy's content on their computers, tablets, smartphones, or TVs by using the Kanopy app, which is available on various platforms.
Kanopy now utilizes a "tickets" system for streaming, instead of play credits. Users are provided with a monthly allotment of 16 tickets. Every title will be labeled with a ticket value, allowing users to determine how many tickets will be used and how long they will have access to the title. The number of tickets required per title will vary depending on the type (movie, series, etc.) and length.
Please note, per Kanopy's Terms of Service, opens a new window users must be 18 years old or over OR have the involvement of their parent or legal guardian to use Kanopy. Set up a personalized PIN, opens a new window to keep your kids inside Kanopy Kids.
In the Kanopy Kids section, you'll see only content that's suitable for children, with a focus on ages 2-8. Kids can browse this section freely, and you can set up parental controls, opens a new window to ensure children can't view content outside of Kanopy Kids. Once parental controls are enabled, a PIN is required to exit Kanopy Kids.
The LearningExpress Career Center is a website that provides a range of resources and tools to help individuals explore and advance their careers. Offering career assessments, job search resources, resume and cover letter builders, interview preparation tools, and career development courses. Access a wide variety of practice tests and courses for standardized exams, such as the SAT, ACT, GRE, and TOEFL.
An easy-to-use online test prep resource that helps people improve their core academic skills, earn a high school equivalency, prepare for college, join the military, obtain occupational certification, find a job, change careers, become a U.S. citizen and much more.
Organized into targeted learning centers, this flagship product offers a comprehensive selection of interactive tutorials, practice tests, articles, e-books and high-stakes test preparation modeled after official tests. LearningExpress Library is designed to help students and professionals at all levels of learning achieve their educational and career-related goals.
Learn software, technology, creative, and business skills to achieve your personal and professional goals. This online learning platform provides video courses taught by industry experts and has a catalog of 16,000+ courses and learning paths.
For mobile access, download the app for android and iPhone. The library ID is 'trl'. View the LinkedIn FAQ, opens a new window for more details. **Please note: If you change your library card number you will lose access to your saved playlists and certificates under your previous library card account.
News media archive that consolidates articles from newspapers, blogs, broadcast transcripts, and more into one place. With tens of millions of articles available, NewsBank is one of the most comprehensive news databases in the world and includes newspapers from across the US, WA (Seattle Times, News Tribune, etc.) and our local area (Chinook Observer, Chronicle, Daily World, Olympian & Vidette).
NoveList has been helping readers find their next favorite book for more than 25 years and continues to develop innovative solutions for connecting readers, books, and libraries. By helping libraries help readers, NoveList empowers libraries to engage and inspire their communities.
View and download large-scale plans of Washington State cities and towns, drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. Sunborn maps were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property. The maps list street blocks and building numbers including numbers in use at the time the map was made and previous numbers.
Washington Rural Heritage is a community memory project headquartered at the Washington State Library. The project brings together unique local history materials from libraries, museums, and private collections of citizens across Washington State.
This collection of ebooks from the Washington State Library can be accessed by anyone in any community across our state! Powered by geolocation, these books are available for simultaneous use for readers of all ages, with no username or password required. Kids and Teen Comics collections, Young Adult (YA) collections of Fantasy & Sci-Fi and Mystery & Action, Adult Fiction, and Adult Nonfiction.
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