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Top Picks for Elementary
Top Picks for Elementary
Articles for elementary school students offering a variety of browsing categories organized by popular topics.
Learn about animals, plants, music science, sports, and more
More than 80 magazines, several reference books, and thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags.
Top Picks for Middle School
Top Picks for Middle School
Articles for middle school students offering a variety of browsing categories organized by popular topics.
More than 150 magazines, thousands of biographies primary source documents, reference books, photos, maps and flags.
Biography Resource Center provides thousands of unique, credible, full-text biography articles.
An engaging student experience merges magazines, news, multimedia and more.
Top Picks for High School
Top Picks for High School
Articles for high school students offering a variety of browsing categories organized by popular topics.
International academic perspectives on global issues
An engaging student experience merges magazines, news, multimedia and more.
Provides access to practice standardized tests and to career and job preparation materials.
INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC LIBRARY CARD NUMBER REQUIRED FOR ACCESS
INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC LIBRARY CARD NUMBER REQUIRED FOR ACCESS
Continuously updated information and opinions cover hot issues.
Contains full text for 500 popular magazines, plus biographies, primary source documents, reference books, images, and more.
Full-text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals for high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the public.
Top Picks for Teachers
Top Picks for Teachers
ERIC® is the Educational Resource Information Center, providing access to education literature and resources.
A tool designed to help teachers with lesson plans, student tools, curriculum standards and valuable sites.
Full text for more than 500 high-quality education journals and nearly 230 educational reports.
Thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K–12 environment.
Spanish Language
Spanish Language
Spanish language scholarly journals. A source for academic research, providing key coverage of major subject areas.
Images, health reports, and full text for reference books, journals, and general interest magazines for a broad array of subjects.
Local Interest
Local Interest
Searchable historical newspapers from every county in Indiana.
Combines State Library databases with local history and vital records from libraries, historical societies, and genealogy societies.
Indiana's history through digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, maps and other media.
Historical full-text articles and news for Indianapolis.
Recent full-text articles and news for Indianapolis.
The Indiana State Library is digitizing its newspaper collection in partnership with Newspapers.com.
Digital images and recordings of cultural and historical interest
Home and Hobbies
Home and Hobbies
Offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas for hobby enthusiasts.
Provides users with user-friendly “how-to” information covering all manner of home improvement/repair projects.
Top Indy PL Resources for Students (Library Card Number Required)
Top Indy PL Resources for Students (Library Card Number Required)
INSPIRE is a service of the Indiana State Library. INSPIRE is supported by the Indiana General Assembly through Build Indiana Funds, The Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act and in partnership with the Academic Libraries of Indiana.
Public, school, and academic libraries from all over Marion County have come together with the support of the Library Fund of The Indianapolis Foundation to offer our county residents free access to a wide variety of high quality reference sources.
Images on these pages have been taken from the resources that they link to. Annotations were quoted or excerpted from Inspire and the Marion County Internet Library.
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