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| Amistad Research Center Digital Collection of oral histories, photographs, and primary documents covering the Civil Rights Movement. | |
| BookConnections Book Connections strives to joyfully enrich everyone's experience reading children's and young adult books. | |
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| Britannica Escolar Britannica Escolar es una enciclopedia en dos partes con portales para estudiantes de primaria y secundaria. | |
| Britannica School Elementary Thousands of articles on a wide range of subjects. The entries are 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. | |
| Britannica School High Thousands of articles on a wide range of subjects. The entries are 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. | |
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| California Driving Permit Test In partnership with Driving-Tests.org, the Santa Cruz Public Libraries is proud to offer FREE California Driver Permit practice tests. The tests cover both automobile and motorcycle, and the site contains the Driver Handbook for each. | |
| Community Assessment Project (CAP) In-depth annual survey focusing on quality of life in Santa Cruz County. | |
| Community Information Database SCPL's comprehensive database of human service resources, nonprofit, and community organizations serving Santa Cruz County. | |
| CultureGrams A leading reference for concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural information on countries across the globe. It includes four editions: the World Edition (for junior high school students and up) and the Kids, U.S. States, and Canadian Provinces editions (for upper elementary school students) | |
| Digital Learn A collection of self-directed tutorials for people new to computers and gadgets. | |
| Ed Ready EdReady™ lets you assess your readiness for college math, see study options, and get a personalized study path to fill in knowledge gaps. | |
| Ed-Data California education data for school, district, and statewide levels | |
| ERIC Education Resources Information Center--scholarly and general articles | |
| Explora A multidisciplinary database of articles providing full text of thousands of general reference publications covering virtually every subject area of general interest. | |
| Gale PowerSearch Discover a great collection of articles from thousands of Gale resources--magazines, journals, newspapers and books along with videos, images and podcast content. PowerSearch allows you to search all our Gale resources at once. | |
| HippoCampus HippoCampus.org is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge. Part of the NROC Project. | |
| Kanopy Streaming Video Kanopy provides access to one of the most unique collections of films in the world – including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases – on every topic imaginable. Users can view 8 films per month with their account. Mobile apps and a Roku channel are available. | |
| LinkedIn Learning LinkedIn Learning has thousands of professional online business, creative, and tech courses that build in-demand skills. | |
| Monterey Bay Economic Partnership Find data insights into demographics & housing, workforce development & employment, higher education, agriculture & tourism, health & wellness, and tech & transportation in the Monterey Bay region. | |
| Monterey Bay Internships Monterey Bay Internships provides a way for students to gain valuable job experience while attending college or university and gives local employers access to the talent here at home. Employers from all industries can post paid and unpaid internship opportunities free of charge and students from across the Monterey Bay region can apply for these opportunities. | |
| Peace Corps Language Courses The Live Lingua Project is one of the largest repositories of free language learning materials. | |
| Research Companion (ProQuest) Information literacy tools and tutorials to help develop critical thinking. (Grades 8+) | |
| School & Educators Complete eBook subscription database (over 12,000 titles) to support multiple subject areas (English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Health, Physical Education, Information Literacy and Technology). (Grades 9+, possibly some content for Middle School, also includes professional development content for faculty) | |
| TeachingBooks Find book trailers, movies with authors, audio performances, discussion questions, and more. Designed to serve the PreK-12 school community and their families, as well as pre-service educators in colleges and universities. | |
| TechBoomers Excellent tool for learning about basic internet and computing, social media, and other online applications. Geared towards older adults. | |
| Tumblebook Library An online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. | |
| USA Learns USA Learns is a free website that helps adults learn English online. |
