CA Library Resources

Teaching Books - This unique resource features a suite of instructional resources that enrich the fiction and nonfiction books read by children and young adults. Databases include:

• Book Guides & Lesson Plans

• Diverse Books

• Literature-based Vocabulary Lists

• Meet-the-Author Videos and Book Readings

• Resources for Award-Winning Books

Encyclopedia Britannica - This online library database from Britannica is aimed at the digital classroom. The entries are in English and specially designed at different reading levels, allowing students to move easily to material of higher or lower comprehension levels as needed for K-6, middle school and high school: Levels 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Britannica School offers an automated translation tool for over 50 languages, as well as quick dictionary definitions and audio pronunciation — helpful for English language learners.

Britannica Escolar - Spanish Version of Britannica

ProQuest - ProQuest is an informational resource company with lots of informational assets and partnerships. It’s used by researchers and librarians around the world. Through its partnerships, ProQuest has built a growing content collection that now encompasses 90,000 authoritative sources, six billion digital pages and spans six centuries. California K-12 students and educators have access to various ProQuest collections through this project.

Culture Grams - CultureGrams has concise cultural information on countries around the world. The resource provides country reports that include basic information as well as perspectives on daily life and culture, including background, customs and lifestyles of the world’s people.

SIRS Discoverer - SIRS Discoverer consists of selected content for beginning researchers, especially elementary and middle school students and educators, and it’s helpful for elementary and middle school educators and students for reliable age-appropriate content for classwork, homework and research assignments.

SIRS Issues Researcher - Examining over 360 complex issues , SIRS Issues Researcher is a curriculum-aligned database of content geared to middle and high school students and educators, with a focus on current and relevant analysis of today’s most important controversial issues.

ProQuest Central Student - This database of millions of articles from more than 10,000 full-text scholarly journals provides information in science, technology, education, social sciences, humanities and news.

ProQuest Research Companion - Information literacy is a key component of the education process today. Research Companion tools and tutorials help guide students through the research process, helping develop critical thinking in information literacy skills.