Awesome Animals and the Places They Live

This e-book discusses some awesome animals and where they live, featuring animals from the land, sky, and sea. Readers will take a trip around the world to discover unique and interesting facts about animals from the depths of rainforests, the icy polar regions, the dry desert, underground tunnels, and even endangered and extinct animals.

Cities of the United States

This e-book provides vital information on 199 of America’s top cities – those fastest-growing, as well as those with a particular historical, political, industrial, and/or commercial significance. City-specific profiles organize pertinent facts, data, and figures related to demographic, economic, cultural, geographic, social, and recreational conditions.

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 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.

Createid: Exploring Creativity and the Arts in Idaho

Idaho is rich with artists, creators, and makers moved by the rugged beauty of the state and their own interior landscapes to produce compelling work of all kinds.

Creative people and projects can lift, energize, and galvanize us. They can spark important conversations, inspire a sense of belonging, and provide new perspectives. The seeds for our own ideas are nourished by the creativity of others, sparking our own ingenuity.

With its award-winning producers and videographers and our commitment to sensitive and artistic storytelling, createid brings these stories to a wide audience.

Encyclopedia of Food and Culture

This three-volume e-book is a survey of food, and its place in human culture and society presented through 600 alphabetically sorted entries. Features multidisciplinary coverage of such topics as comfort food, ethnicity and food, medieval banquets, and nutrient composition, among many others. Includes photographs, illustrations, sidebars, recipes, menus, and timelines. For students and general readers.

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 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.

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.

Idaho Experience

Focusing on state curricula for elementary school students, this collection of educational materials is based on the award-winning history series Idaho Experience on Idaho Public Television. These materials were compiled by Idaho teachers for Idaho teachers. Included are teacher-curated videos and teacher-written facilitator guides that are correlated to fourth-grade Idaho Content Standards for Social Studies.

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: 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.

Lewis and Clark: Moments in Time

Focusing on state curricula for elementary school students, this collection of educational materials features video segments from Idaho Public Television’s Lewis and Clark: Moments in Time, which brings to life excerpts from the journals of Lewis and Clark.

These materials were compiled by Idaho teachers for Idaho teachers. Included are teacher-curated videos and teacher-written facilitator guides that are correlated to fourth-grade Idaho Content Standards for Social Studies.

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.

Outdoor Idaho

Outdoor Idaho celebrates the incredible richness of Idaho. Filmed entirely on location, the program explores the beauty, the drama, and the science of nature, while examining the significant environmental and resource issues facing the intermountain West. Since 1983, Outdoor Idaho has produced nearly 300 programs, winning hundreds of national and regional awards.

PBS LearningMedia

Free, curriculum-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more for K-12 educators, curated by Idaho Public Television (IdahoPTV) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

Primary Search

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

Resilience in the Classroom

Resilience in the Classroom provides professional development resources centered around the documentary Resilience: Hope Lives Here. These tools include a variety of cards and activities that you can use in your classroom to help children throughout their day.  As well as practical professional development training for teachers to learn about ACEs and have a more trauma-informed classroom.

Resilience: Hope Lives Here investigates Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), which include abuse, neglect, divorce and other childhood traumas. Research shows that left unresolved or untreated, these experiences can lead to health conditions in adulthood—such as high blood pressure, diabetes and depression. Being a trauma-informed teacher or practitioner is critical because Idaho has the fifth-highest rate in the nation for children who have experienced three or more ACEs.

Science Trek

Science Trek is an integrated Web and broadcast project designed to introduce science topics to elementary-age school children, provide educational materials for teachers and parents, and inspire students to investigate science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) career potentials.

World Book Kids

Encyclopedia for students in early grades. Features multimedia, comparison tools, and interactive games and activities for learning.