101 Great Science Experiments:

Describes 101 science experiments or activities that can be done with household items and easily found ingredients.

A New World Power

Chronicles the political and social history of the United States in the aftermath of one world war through its engagement in another.

Academic Search Premier

Scholarly, multidiscipline, full text database for academic research. Covers the academic disciplines being offered in colleges and universities.

AGRICOLA

In-depth coverage of all agricultural subjects from food & human nutrition to agricultural engineering & technology, to earth & environmental sciences.

Alt HealthWatch

Focuses on many perspectives of complementary, holisitic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness.

Alternative Energy

Ebook covers issues surrounding current energy sources and alternative energy options.

America Between the Civil War and the 20th Century

Looks at American history between the Civil War and 20th century and includes firsthand accounts that reveal the prevailing ideologies of the time and shed light on significant people and events.

American Decades

A cross-disciplinary source for junior and high school users who need to analyze periods of contemporary American social history.

American Decades Primary Sources

This volume covers the first decade of the twenty-first century from monumental events and groundbreaking individuals to the details of Americans’ daily lives.

American Eras, Primary Sources: Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1878)

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era

American Eras, Primary Sources: Development of a Nation (1783-1815)

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era

American Eras, Primary Sources: Development of the Industrial United States (1878-1899)

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era

American Eras, Primary Sources: Early American Civilizations and Exploration to 1600

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era

American Eras, Primary Sources: Reform Era & Eastern US Development (1815-1850)

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era

American Eras, Primary Sources: Revolutionary Era (1754-1783)

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era

American Eras, Primary Sources: The Colonial Era (1600-1754)

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era

American Eras, Primary Sources: Westward Expansion (1800-1860)

A student-friendly reference offering full or excerpted primary sources representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the era

Bard Database

Digital titles available for download. Use limited to registered users of the Talking Book Service. Contact [email protected] for eligibility information.

Business Source Premier

Find content from journals covering all areas of business including marketing, management, accounting, finance, and economics. Includes company profiles with SWOT analyses.

Chilton Library

Step-by-step instructions for your auto repair needs. Includes videos and animations, close-up images, wiring diagrams, diagnostic information, and maintenance and specification tables.

Cities of the United States

Provides vital information on 199 of America’s top cities . City-specific profiles organize pertinent facts and data.

Complete Human Diseases and Conditions

A user-friendly, accessible and colorfully illustrated work presents basic resources for understanding diseases and conditions.

Computer Source

Covers many subject areas around computing: electronics, the internet, telecommunications, computer science, programming, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, information systems, robotics, and software.

Consumer Health Complete

Comprehensive resources for consumer-oriented health content. Designed to support the needs of patient and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Covers all areas of health and wellness.

Consumer Reports

Presents articles on health, public safety, marketplace economics and the judicial & regulatory actions that affect consumers.

Consumer Reports Buying Guides

These invaluable guides bring you 2000+ expert reviews, ratings and advice on electronics, home appliances, cars, and more. Plus, you’ll have fingertip access to brand repair histories and shopping strategies to help make the most informed buying decisions wherever you go.

Contemporary Novelists

Includes biographies, bibliographies and critical essays on approximately 650 contemporary writers. Includes nationality and title indexes.

Contemporary Poets

Provides bibliographies and biographical information on 787 of the world’s most important contemporary English-language poets.

Core Collection en Espanol

Core Collection en Español provides impartial collection development guidance, assisting libraries faced with the challenges of growing and establishing a collection for their Spanish-language readers.

Spanish-language titles are recommended for all ages and reading levels and are given one of three recommendation levels, allowing libraries to determine which materials to select based on their community’s needs.

Core Collection: Adult Fiction

The selective list presented in this collection features classic and contemporary works of fiction recommended for a general adult audience, written in or translated into English. The best authors and their most widely-read works in literary and popular fiction—old and new—are listed, including mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, Westerns, and romance.

Core Collection: Adult Non-Fiction

Nonfiction Core Collection (formerly called Public Library Core Collection: Non-Fiction) is a collection development tool for identifying the highest quality nonfiction books for the general adult reader. Tens of thousands of recommendations herein were each selected for librarians by librarians. It includes complete bibliographic data and full textbook reviews from Book Review Digest Plus. Collection development, acquisitions, and reference librarians as well as school media specialists and catalogers can all use this reliable guide to building and maintaining a well-rounded collection of the most highly recommended reference, poetry, plays, and non-fiction books for adults.

Core Collection: Children’s

This rich resource covers fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, picture books, and magazines recommended for readers in preschool through sixth grade. Professional literature for the children’s librarian—both periodicals and books—is also covered. Selected and recommended by collection development specialists, books within the Children’s Core Collection encompass a wide variety of topics, including social sciences, science, math, and reading.

Core Collection: Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels Core Collection highlights recommended titles with descriptive and evaluative annotations, plus cover art.

Features include:

• Comprehensive annotations, including review excerpts and awards the title has won
• All titles searchable by author, title, subject, genre, and grade level
• Applied standards for rating material by age appropriateness
• Cover art
• Important insights into the suitability of each novel

Core Collection: Middle & Junior High

This Collection is a selective list of fiction and non-fiction books recommended for children and young adolescents (grades 5 through 9), along with review sources and other professional aids for librarians and school media specialists. Selected and recommended by collection development specialists in library service to young people, listed books encompass a wide variety of topics for youth.

Core Collection: Senior High

Wilson’s Senior High Core Collection, a selective list of books recommended for young people in grades 9 through 12 is invaluable for collection development and maintenance, reader’s advisory, and curriculum support in the high school library. Senior High School Core Collection lists review sources and other professional aids for librarians and school media specialists.

Core Collections

Core Collections, brought to you by H.W. Wilson company & EBSCO, combines 6 distinct collections that identify the best and most current material available to your library. The seven collections include Graphic Novels, Children’s, Adult Fiction, Adult Nonfiction, Middle & Junior High School, and Senior High. Use these databases to build your library’s collection with any budget. Curated lists of essential, recommended, and supplemental titles are available, as well as full-text book reviews, weeding checklists, and more.

Day By Day Idaho

You and your child can embark on an adventure together through books and reading and many fun-filled activities every day of the year by accessing the resources available for free from this website.

Digital Public Library of America

Discover 33,092,706 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.

Drugs & Controlled Substances: Info for Students

Provides detailed information on the physiological and psychological effects of addictive drugs and substances, including illegal substances, prescription, and over-the-counter medications.

EBSCOhost

EBSCOhost is an intuitive online research platform with quality databases and search features to help researchers of all kinds find the information they need fast. The updated User Interface offers updated accessibility features and is mobile-friendly.

Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos

Enciclopedia en Español cubriendo todas las áreas de conocimiento general.

Encyclopedia of Food and Culture

Articles on food and its place in human culture and society. Find entries on everything from food preparation, distribution, holidays, cultures, nutrition and health.

Encyclopedia of Recreation & Leisure in America

This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive survey of American pastimes from the Colonial era to the present.

Encyclopedia of Science, Technology & Ethics

For information on professional ethics of science and technology, and the ethical and political issues raised by science and technology in an increasingly complex society.

Encyclopedia of the New American Nation

Provides early US history with coverage beginning routhly from 1754 to the inauguration of President Andrew Jackson (1829).

ERIC – Educational Resource Information Center

Content includes content from educational journals and other resources.

Ethics, Science, Technology and Engineering: A Global Resource

Considers both the professional ethics of science and technology, and the ethical and political issues raised by science and technology in an increasingly complex and global society.

Explora Educator’s Edition

Designed for educators, Explora Educator’s Edition has lesson plans, curriculum standards, and other professional development resources. This database includes full-text articles from thousands of academic journals and professional magazines on a wide variety of educational topics.

Explora Middle School

Explora Primary

Designed for elementary school libraries, Explora Primary is a full-text database providing popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries, and a vast image collection. Students can learn about a variety of topics, including endangered species, famous musicians, fitness, and space exploration.

Explora Public Libraries

Explora Public Library offers the largest collection of popular full-text magazines, reference books, and other highly regarded sources from the world’s leading publishers. Covering virtually every general interest subject area, it also includes an extensive collection of photos, maps and flags.

Explora Secondary

Designed specifically for high school libraries, Explora Secondary is a full-text database of popular magazines, reference books, and primary sources covering many subjects, including history, science, and health. It also includes over a million photos, maps, and flags.

Exploring Science Through Science Fiction

Material in this book forms the basis of an interdisciplinary, college-level course, which uses science fiction film as a vehicle for exploring science concepts.

Fashion, Costume and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear Through the Ages

Provides facts and information about the cultural, religious and social implications of human decoration and adornment throughout history, with a particular emphasis on the decades of the 20th century.

Food: In Context

Examines food in relationship to nutrition, world health issues, agriculture, environmental concerns, current events and political decision-making.

Fuente Academica

Colección de revistas académicas de América Latina, Portugal y España, que abarcan todas las áreas temáticas.

Gale Ebooks

A collection of electronic specialized encyclopedias and reference books on a wide variety of subject areas that can be searched individually or as a whole.

Gale Encyclopedia of Diets

Covers special diets, popular weight-loss programs, dietary concerns, nutritional basics, and some effects of a person’s dietary choices on one’s health.

Gale Encyclopedia of Prescription Drugs: A Comprehensive Guide to the Most Common Medications

This encyclopedia features entries on the most commonly prescribed drugs. It describes potential side effects, drug and food interactions, recommended dosages, and warnings/precautions.

Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual & Unexplained

Information on topics relating to magic, witchcraft, the supernatural and other mysterious phenomena with a thorough look at the history of each topic, people and practices, popular literature, television programs and movies related to the subject.

Gale Encyclopedia of US Economic History

This title presents 1,000 entries, era overviews, event/movement profiles, biographies, business/industry profiled, geographic profiles, and more.

GreenFILE

Collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles with content drawing on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines.

Grzimek’s Animal Life Encycolpedia

Features articles that familiarize readers with animals found everywhere on the globe, detailing their life cycles, predators, food systems, overall ecology and much more.

Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia: Evolution:

Covers evolution in detail and explores it from a scientific viewpoint. Includes comprehensive coverage of recent ideas and discoveries in the field of evolution.

Health Source: Consumer edition

Content from consumer health magazines, current health-related pamphlets, and full text health reference books.

Health Source: Nursing/academic Edition

Scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines, with strong coverage of nursing and allied health content.

History Reference Center

Full-text content of historical documents, biographies of historical figures, photos, maps, video, and other history reference materials.

Human Diseases and Conditions, 3rd ed., 2017:

Presents information on numerous diseases and conditions. Articles include a definition of the disease or condition, an explanation of how it works in the body, information on causes, symptoms and diagnosis, treatment or cure, and lifestyles.

Human Geography: People and the Environment

Provides insight into both regional and global issues by addressing fundamental and advanced topics critical to the study of human geography and places special emphasis on exploring the impact of human habitation and economic activity on the environment.

Idaho Court Assistance

Find free court-approved forms for civil court matters such as family, landlord/tenant, domestic violence, and other non-criminal court issues.

Idaho Digital Resources

A searchable, centralized collection of digital publications that are created by Idaho state agencies for the purpose of public information.

Idaho e-Gov resources

Check out the resources compiled at Idaho.gov.

Idaho In Session

Follow the Idaho State Legislature and Idaho Supreme Court sessions through live audio and video feeds.

Idaho Library Directory

A directory of Idaho libraries and other organizations. Maintained and provided by the Idaho Commission for Libraries.

Idaho Statehouse Tour

Take an online tour of the Idaho statehouse. Along with video and photos, background information about the building is provided.

Idaho Talking Books Catalog

Catalog of materials available to customers of the Idaho Talking Book Service for individuals with physical or visual impairments.

Idaho Works

Search for available jobs in Idaho.

Job Seeker’s Online Workshop

Step-by-step guide for job searching and preparing for the application and interviewing process.

JobScape

The Idaho Department of Labor’s JobScape is an easy-to-use tool to help job seekers and students make informed career and educational decisions through access to education, career, and labor market information.

LearningExpress Library

A comprehensive collection of test preparation tools, skill-building materials, and career resources. Use to prepare for college and career, education tutoring, software tutorials, and workforce development.

LearningExpress Library: Adult Learning Center

This center offers busy adults the resources to improve their basic skills in reading, writing, and math, prepare for high school equivalency tests, and U.S. citizenship.

LearningExpress Library: Career Center

Are you preparing for a professional exam? Curious about a particular occupation or looking to improve your workplace skills? This center will set you up for a bright career future.

LearningExpress Library: College Center

For college students, resources to help strengthen academic skills, prepare for placement tests, and get ready for graduate school entrance exams.

LearningExpress Library: College Preparation Center

Study for and practice college admission tests and application essays. From AP Exams to the ACT and SAT, this center is devoted to college entrance.

LearningExpress Library: Grades 4-8 Educator Resources

The resources here can help students and educators in elementary and middle school prepare for important tests, get extra help with assignments, and boost their skills in important subjects.

LearningExpress Library: High School Equivalency Center

Use this center to prepare for the GED™ test and other equivalency exams with tutorials, eBooks, and practice tests.

LearningExpress Library: High School Students

The resources here can help students and educators in high school prepare for important tests, get extra help with assignments, and boost their skills in important subjects.

LearningExpress Library: Popular Software Tutorials

Learn to use the most popular software programs from Microsoft Office, along with Adobe Photoshop, and the Windows and Macintosh operating systems.

LearningExpress Library: Recursos para Hispanohablantes

Recursos en Español para adultos: Mejore sus niveles académicos, prepárese para el examen de GED®, prepárese para su Ciudadanía Americana, y más.

Legal Collection

Contains content from the scholarly law journals.

Life and Career Skills Series: Employment

This book guides the reader in gaining job skills, seeking work, interviewing, negotiating salaries and benefits, and thriving in the workplace. It also offers information that applies to all job seekers, as well as guidance for first-time job applicants and workers returning to the workforce after an absence.

Life and Career Skills Series: Health & Wellness

This book guides readers in making healthy choices about hygiene, diet, exercise, and medical care. They present easy-to-understand information about health-care coverage options and offer overviews of the types of available medical care, from general practitioners to alternative medicine and mental health providers.

Life and Career Skills Series: Personal Finance

This book guides readers in making prudent decisions about spending, saving, and borrowing, walking them through major life events, such as buying or renting a home, purchasing or leasing a car, and saving for college and retirement. It also offers practical guidance about purchasing insurance, applying for government benefits, and being an informed consumer.

Life and Career Skills: Series: Social Skills

This book helps readers understand and hone the social skills necessary for success. Although the essays offer advice applicable to many aspects of life, the focus is primarily on the workplace. The essays guide readers in effective communication and conduct, emphasizing the characteristics of verbal, nonverbal, and written communication; stress the importance of ethics and etiquette; and provide tips for conflict resolution and teamwork.

LISTA

Index and abstract of core journals, books, and research reports in the area of library and information sciences.

Literary Reference Center

Provides information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Literary Themes for Students: Race & Prejudice

Examines themes of race and prejudice found in literature. Includes author profiles and highlights more than 50 major works centered around the theme.

Literary Themes for Students: The American Dream

Examines the overriding themes related to the American Dream found in literature.

Literary Themes for Students: War & Peace

Examines themes of war and peace found in literature.

Makers at Work

As all the interviews in this work show, makers have something in common: reverence for our technical past coupled with an aversion to convention. If they can’t invent new processes or products, it’s simply not worth doing.

MAS Ultra

Contains content from popular high school magazines covering a wide range of subject areas including history, science, careers and more.

MasterFILE Premier

Covers a vast array of general reference subject areas including business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and more.

MedicLatina

Una colección única de contenido médico de editoriales latinoamericanas y españolas.

MEDLINE

Content from biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development.

Middle East Conflict

Provides a comprehensive and objective overview of the people, events, and documents that are key to understanding the complex relationships of the countries and cultures of the Middle East.

Middle Search Plus

Designed for middle school libraries, Middle Search Plus is a full-text database providing popular middle school magazines and reference books. Covering subjects such as history, current events, science, and sports, it also includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents, plus over a million photos, maps, and flags.

Military and Government Collection

Designed to offer current news through a collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs for all branches of the military and government.

Newspaper Source Plus

Full text coverage of major newspapers, videos, and podcasts covering critical news topics.

Next Avenue

Resources for mid-life adults. Topics covered include health, work, home, and finances.

Next Steps Idaho

College and career planning resources for high school students from the Idaho State Board of Education.

Notable Sports Figures

Takes a close look at the people in sports who have captured attention because of success on the playing field, or controversy off the playing field.

Novelist K-8 Plus

For readers in Grades K-8, find fiction and narrative nonfiction reading recommendations by book titles, author, genre, series, or key plot points. Ready-to-go read-alike lists for popular titles.

Novelist Plus

Find fiction reading recommendations for all ages. Search by book title, author, genre, or key plot points. Find information about a book series and discussion guides for book groups.

Nutrition & Well-Being A-Z

Examines the relationship between food and health on a historical, national and personal level. It analyzes how nutrition has affected quality of life, health and fitness in various countries at different times in history.

Open Textbook Library

The Open Textbook Library contains peer-reviewed textbooks on a variety of subjects. The textbooks can be downloaded at no cost, or printed at low cost.

Parent Educational Resource Center (PERC)

This portal, created by Idaho Digital Learning, offers links to a comprehensive network of resources to assist children in every stage of their educational journeys, from Pre-K to college.

Political Theories for Students

Provides in-depth information on major political theories and systems from all time periods.

Primary Search

Contains the most popular elementary school magazine to support education needs.

ProCitizen – English

A citizenship prep course

ProCitizen – Spanish

A citizenship prep course

Professional Development Collection

Find content from more than 500 high-quality education journals.

ProLibrary – English

ProLibrary teaches 1,000 library-specific phrases in both English and Spanish to help librarians communicate with Spanish-speaking patrons, and vice versa!

ProLibrary – Spanish

ProLibrary teaches 1,000 library-specific phrases in both English and Spanish to help librarians communicate with Spanish-speaking patrons, and vice versa!

Pronunciator

Provides both guided and self-directed instruction for 163 foreign languages, and ESL for 51 non-English languages, along with Course Designer, which allows for the creation and deployment of custom courses by educators. Pronunciator uses a variety of tools (e.g., drills, quizzes, feature films, streaming music with lyrics, poetry, plays, culture notes, etc.) to provide 360-degree exposure to a language within a safe, structured learning environment. Also offer a Coronavirus language course for 101 languages.

Pronunciator – Course Designer (for teachers)

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Access to top psychology and behavioral sciences journals.

Publication Finder

Search for magazines and journals by title. Use Publication Finder.

Real Life Math

Helps students better understand commonly studied math concepts by illustrating their use in everyday life. Designed to support mathematics curriculum.

Real Life Math: Everyday Use of Mathematical Concepts

Math concepts are presented with multiple examples of how each is applied in everyday environments.

Religion and Philosophy Collection

Scholarly content for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.

Scientific Thought in Context

A comprehensive guide to the history of science. Supports curriculums in biology, chemistry, physical science, physics, and Earth science.

Scout: Classroom Edition

Video clips and multimedia tools for use in K-12 classrooms in all subject areas. Includes lesson plans. Searchable by grade level and subject.

Scout: Idaho Edition

Full length videos from Idaho Public Television in areas of adventure, culture, natural resources, Idaho, conversations with writers, and more.

Scratch Programming for Teens

Focuses on Scratch, a programming language intended to make programming easier to learn for novice programmers. It can be used to create computer games, interactive stories, graphic artwork and computer animation, and all sorts of other multimedia projects. Scratch can also be used to play digital music and sound effects.

Shakespeare for Students

A collection of essential criticism to the Shakespeare’s most-popularly-studied plays and poetry in secondary schools and undergraduate curricula.

Small Business Reference Center

Information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, help and advice, and information for creating business plans.

STEM Game

An online gameboard filled with resources for parents and early learners to explore together.

Teacher Reference Center

Topics covered include assessment, best practices, curriculum development, higher education, instructional media, literacy standards, school administration and more.

Television in American Society

Content shows how television has reflected and influenced American society and culture throughout its history.

The Bookworm

The Bookworm is a monthly early literacy newsletter containing age-appropriate literacy information and activities.

The Encyclopedia of Drug Abuse

This Gale e-book covers the full range of illegal and legal drugs and how they impact society. Taking a global perspective, this new title looks at the worldwide drug trade and the effects of drug abuse in countries and cultures around the world, as well as in the United States.

The Growth of a Superpower

Examines the trajectory of American history between the administrations of Harry Truman and Barack Obama and the factors that have shaped and sustained its development.

The Maker Cookbook: Recipes for Children’s and ‘Tween Library Programs.

This guide helps librarians create engaging K-8 programs in science and technology, arts and crafts, and home skills that are suited for a library setting. Each “recipe” includes extensions, variations, and curriculum tie-ins.

TOPICsearch

Content explores current events, social, political, economic, scientific, and other popular topics frequently discussed in the classroom.

Transparent Idaho

From Idaho State Comptroller, find out where Idaho funds come from and how they are spent.

US Imperialism and Progressivism

Examines American history between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I, considering in depth both the imperialist and progressive influences that heralded the country’s future position as a major force on the international stage.

UXL Doomed: The Science Behind Disaster

Explores the science behind some of the worst global disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries, including structural and engineering failures, natural disasters, nuclear and industrial accidents, train derailments, and plane crashes.

UXL Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes

Offers students detailed studies of approximately 88 tribes from all over the United States and Canada, including small tribes and some that no longer exist.

UXL Encyclopedia of Science

This resource provides information on scientific theories, life forms, inventions, controversies and discoveries.