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Brainfuse HelpNow

Brainfuse HelpNow online tutoring is available from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. (PDT). Live tutors are trained not to provide answers but to help users master a problem’s underlying academic concept. Download Brainfuse HelpNow User Guide

Britannica High School

Britannica High School includes thousands of articles, multimedia, primary sources, and other resources that support student research and reinforces curriculum standards for students 9th -12th. It also includes Britannica Escolar (Britannica School Edition in Spanish).

Britannica Middle School

Britannica Middle School includes thousands of articles, multimedia, primary sources, and other resources that support student research and reinforces curriculum standards for students 6th -8th. It also includes Britannica Escolar (in Spanish).

California Online Media Program for Access and Student Success (COMPASS)

Online content from Encyclopedia Britannica, Gale, Capstone PebbleGo, ProQuest, and TeachingBooks.net are available — at school, at home, in libraries, on laptops, on phones — at no cost to California's public schools, districts, and local libraries. These databases are provided for all California students and their families from the California State Library.

Comics Plus Teen Collection

Comics Plus Teen Collection- Free digital comics, graphic novels, and mangafor teens through the library website and apps. For more information, go to Comics Plus page and see the Age Appropriate Guidelines.

CultureGrams

CultureGrams - Concise social, cultural, and political information on countries, U.S. states, and provinces around the world.(Grades 3-12)

Fiero Code

Fiero Code is a self-guided online software program that teaches you how to code through hundreds of coding tutorials and real-world projects. Get started with Fiero Code by signing up with your library card and creating your own username and password.

Gale in Context: Biography

Gale in Context: Biography has more than 440,000 biographies of authors, scientists, musicians, world leaders, and more.

Gale In Context: Environmental Studies

Gale In Context: Environmental Studiesprovides detailed information including reference works, case studies, multimedia materials, newspapers, and magazines on current environmental issues and processes from both a scientific and a social standpoint.

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints offers full-text articles including statistical charts and government data on social issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more.

Gale Interactive: Science

Gale Interactive: Science provides engaging, interactive models that bring science to life. While supporting high school curricula and university coursework, it helps students better visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science.

Gale: eBooks

Gale: eBooks offers full-text reference titles from Gale and other premier publishing partners. Special features include: on-demand machine-aided content translations into 14 languages and text-to-speech technology in 19 languages.

Gale: Gale Literary Index

Gale: Gale Literary Index provides quick and easy access to author and title listings from over 130 literature products from Gale and the imprints Charles Scribner's Sons, St. James Press, and Twayne Publishers. 

Gale: Literature

Gale: Literature provides access to Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale eBooks, Literature Resource Center, Literary Criticism Online, Something About the Author Online as primary sources, literary and cultural analysis, and biographies.

Hiveclass

Hiveclass is an e-learning platform that features of bite-sized, engaging videos that teach fundamental skills in various sports and physical and wellness activities. The content is athlete-led and designed by top physical educators, giving patrons the ability to practice in their own space and at their own pace.

LearningExpress Complete

LearningExpress Library offers interactive tutorials, practice tests, study tools for academic skill-building, standardized test preparation, career tests, as well as U.S. Citizenship classes.

LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn Learning offers courses including new business, creative, and tech skills with over 16,000 expert-led online video tutorials.For more information aboutLinkedIn Learning, go to Patron FAQ.  Library ID: tolibrary

Mango Languages

Mango Languages offers free, online language-learning in over 70 languages and dialects. Mango has English language courses for speakers of 19 different languages. Learn on the go with the Mango Mobile app for iPhone and Android.

National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids offers streaming videos and eMagazines with amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space for children aged 6–14.

NoveList K-8

NoveList K-8 provides reading suggestions for young readers from kindergarten to grade 8th.