All right – we’ve all been there.  Your child remembers Sunday evening that he or she has a project due on Monday morning, and it requires library research.  So, of course, first you lose your mind, and you scream at the aforementioned child, and then you take a deep breath and remember the fabulous array of online resources from the Cranford Public Library.

Many Cranford residents may not even realize the resources available to them from their home computer.  In addition to the wide array of resources IN the library, these can be accessed by children and young adults at any time.  And, in a pinch, it just may save their skins!

The following list is taken directly from the Cranford Public Library’s Online Resources tab.  Some of them require the input of your library card number, so have your library card handy.  Others give specific directions, usernames, and passwords, so be sure to read carefully.

 

CHILDREN’S RESOURCES

Capstone Interactive Library.   An interactive resource for use by teachers, parents, and students to enhance reading and raise reading comprehension levels.

EBSCOhost Kids Search.   A research database designed for use by students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

EBSCOhost MAS Ultra – School Edition.   Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. Also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, more than 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of more than 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs, and expanded full text back files (back to 1975) for key magazines.

EBSCOhost Middle Search Plus.   Provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.

EBSCOhost Novelist K-8.   Focuses on fiction reading materials that support the school curriculum, as well as the recreational reading interests of children and students from preschool through middle school. In addition, Novelist K-8 Plus features a section devoted to non-fiction reading materials.

EBSCOhost Primary Search.   Provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

EBSCOhost Searchasaurus.  Use Searchasaurus to access three popular primary education databases, Primary Search, Middle Search Plus, and Book Collection: Nonfiction.

EBSCOhost Student Research Center.   Search by specific topic or browse subjects in magazines, newspapers, primary source documents, and images.

Encyclopedia Britannica for Kids.

Facts on File World Almanac for Kids Online.

Marshall Cavendish Digital.   Extensive information on Dinosaurs, the Elements, Explorers and Exploration, International Wildlife, and Inventors and Inventions.

PebbleGo.   A children’s discovery database suitable for pre-K through 4th grade. Topics include Animals, Earth and Space, Biographies, and Social Sciences. To access PebbleGo, use cranford as the user name and learn as the password.

TumbleBookLibrary.   TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of talking picture books. Tumblebooks are created by adding animation, sound, music, and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book that children can read or have read to them. To access TumbleBookLibrary, use cranfordpl as your user name and libra as your password.

World Book Online.