Britannica Public Library Edition For Kids

Britannica Public Library Edition for Kids  includes both the Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia and Compton’s by Britannica geared to middle school students behind an interface designed for the younger public library audience. Features of Britannica for Kids include: Video, animation, and audio clips; help on writing research papers, book reviews, science reports, and oral presentations; Biography Browse; […]

Gale Resources, K-12

Numerous distinct collections including kid-friendly, literary, cultural, health, legal and business databases.  Includes Biography in Context, Research in Context, Gale Literary Sources, Kids Info Bits, and much more.  Databases can be searched individually, by selection, or across multiple areas by using the “power search option.”  Links to the Boston Globe, New York Times, and various editions of the Encyclopedia […]

Kids InfoBits

Kids InfoBits – Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface,the popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the subject-based topic tree.

NoveList K – 8 Plus

From picture books on up to young adult, in NoveList K – 8 Plus you can find information on children’s books indexed by subject, age, awards won, Lexile Reading Levels, Common Core standards, books made into movies, and other categories.  Provides reviews in each book’s description from a variety of sources.  (Use your Plymouth Public Library card […]

Life Long Learning with Your Library Card – Learn a New Language

Is any traveling on your horizon?  Or have you just been thinking about learning a new language or brushing up on one you studied in high school?  We have some fantastic free resources for language learners. Using your Plymouth Public library card, you can access Rosetta Stone Library Solution, which offers a proven immersion method to […]

Where Can You Find More Movies Than Netflix?

The Kanopy Streaming Video Collection offers what the New York Times calls “a garden of cinematic delights.” Kanopy showcases more than 30,000 titles, including award-winning documentaries and acclaimed films, rare and hard-to-find titles, and classic films, with collections from The Great Courses, Kino Lorber, and PBS among many others.  Videos from the Great Courses are […]