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Library Online Subscriptions
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School Library Online Catalogs


Library Online Subscriptions - Elementary School

Your school's Library Media Specialist will give you a password to use these subscriptions at home.

Atomic Learning

  • Short, easy-to-understand tutorials for software training
  • Includes Spanish language tutorials
  • Closed captioning on many tutorials

Badgerlink

  • Resources for Wisconsin residents

CultureGrams

  • Kids Edition: Kid's-eye view of 68 countries features cultural and geographical information, history, maps, flags, and images
  • States Edition: Includes facts, symbols and timelines of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia
  • Includes photo gallery, famous people, and recipe collection

Discovery Education Streaming

  • Digital video-based learning resource
  • Features more than 5,000 full length videos
  • Contact your school library media specialist for logins and passwords

Magazines (EBSCOhost)

  • Full text articles from over 11,000 magazines and reference materials
  • Searchasaurus interface helps children access the middle school and primary databases
  • To access from home, enter the same logon and password that is used for World Book Online.

Newspapers (ProQuest)

  • Full text access to nearly 700 newspapers
  • Citations and abstracts from 2000 more newspapers

    Please Note! If you are logging into ProQuest for the first time from this computer, you may need to enter the word IPAUTO as the Account Name and Password.

SIRS Discoverer

  • Selected full-text articles and images from newspapers, magazines, and government documents
  • Current events, maps, graphics, country facts and biographies
  • Additional special features

TeachingBooks

  • Engaging author programs
  • K-12 book resources
  • Requires free registration and sign in to use Educator Area

TumbleBook Library

  • Collection of animated, talking picture books

World Book Online

  • Access to World Book articles, dictionary, maps, pictures, videos and sounds
  • Links to selected related newspaper and magazine articles and web sites
  • Includes a Spanish language encyclopedia: Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
  • Standard display or display for younger users
  • Additional special features

Library Online Subscriptions - Middle School

Your school's Library Media Specialist will give you a password to use these subscriptions at home.

Atomic Learning

  • Short, easy-to-understand tutorials for software training
  • Includes Spanish language tutorials
  • Closed captioning on many tutorials

Badgerlink

  • Resources for Wisconsin residents

Biography Resource Center

  • More than 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people
  • Biographies from published resources and periodicals
  • Searchable by name or personal facts

CultureGrams

  • Facts about 190 world countries and all U.S. states

Discovery Education Streaming

  • Digital video-based learning resource
  • Features more than 5,000 full length videos
  • Contact your school library media specialist for logins and passwords

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Lit Finder

  • Full-text poems, short stories and essays
  • Includes explanations, biographies and pictures

Magazines (EBSCOhost)

  • Full text articles from over 11,000 magazines and reference materials
  • Searchasaurus interface helps children access the middle school and primary databases
  • To access from home, enter the same logon and password that is used for World Book Online.

Newspapers (ProQuest)

  • Full text access to nearly 700 newspapers
  • Citations and abstracts from 2000 more newspapers

    Please Note! If you are logging into ProQuest for the first time from this computer, you may need to enter the word IPAUTO as the Account Name and Password.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

  • Information on the “hottest” social issues
  • Viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles

SIRS Discoverer

  • Selected full-text articles and images from newspapers, magazines, and government documents
  • Current events, maps, graphics, country facts and biographies
  • Additional special features

TeachingBooks

  • Engaging author programs
  • K-12 book resources
  • Requires free registration and sign in to use Educator Area

World Book Online

  • Access to World Book articles, dictionary, maps, pictures, videos and sounds
  • Links to selected related newspaper and magazine articles and websites
  • Includes a Spanish language encyclopedia: Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
  • Standard display or display for younger users
  • Additional special features

Library Online Subscriptions - High School

Your school's Library Media Specialist will give you a password to use these subscriptions at home.

Atomic Learning

  • Short, easy-to-understand tutorials for software training
  • Includes Spanish language tutorials
  • Closed captioning on many tutorials

Badgerlink

  • Resources for Wisconsin residents

Biography Resource Center

  • More than 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people
  • Biographies from published resources and periodicals
  • Searchable by name or personal facts

The CQ Researcher

  • In-depth analysis on current and controversial issues
  • A single “hot” issue is explored each week
  • Written by journalists with comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens

Discovery Education Streaming

  • Digital video-based learning resource
  • Features more than 5,000 full length videos
  • Contact your school library media specialist for logins and passwords

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online School Edition

  • Includes Encyclopaedia Britannica, Compton's by Britannica and Britannica Elementary

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center (Requires passwords for school and home access)

  • Profiles of more than 2000 of today's most popular jobs in over 90 industries

Historical Newspapers

  • Digital reproduction of every page of The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor and The Washington Post
  • Coverage spans from 1851 – 2001

Kenosha News Archives

  • Kenosha News articles dating back to October 1989
  • Includes current Kenosha News edition

Lit Finder

  • Full-text poems, short stories and essays
  • Includes explanations, biographies and pictures

Literature Resource Center

  • Biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline
  • More than 120,000 writers
  • In-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors

Magazines (EBSCOhost)

  • Full text articles from over 11,000 magazines and reference materials
  • To access from home, enter the same logon and password that is used for World Book Online.

Newspapers (ProQuest)

  • Full text access to nearly 700 newspapers
  • Citations and abstracts from 2000 more newspapers
  • To access from home, you may need to enter your Wisconsin public library card barcode number.

    Please Note! If you are logging into ProQuest for the first time from this computer, you may need to enter the word IPAUTO as the password.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

  • Information on the “hottest” social issues
  • Viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles

Science Resource Center

  • Topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations
  • Articles from over 200 magazines
  • Links to quality web sites

SIRS Knowledge Source

  • Full-text articles selected from domestic and international publications and respected organizations
  • SIRS Government Reporter  – historic and government documents, directories and almanacs
  • SIRS Researcher - student reference, social issues, health, science, and business

Social Studies Websites (ABC-CLIO)

TeachingBooks

  • Engaging author programs
  • K-12 book resources
  • Requires free registration and sign in to use Educator Area

World Book Online

  • Access to World Book articles, dictionary, maps, pictures, videos and sounds
  • Links to selected related newspaper and magazine articles and websites
  • Includes a Spanish language encyclopedia: Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
  • Additional special features

KUSD Library Catalog - combination of all the district library resources including elementary and secondary libraries.

Elementary Library Catalogs
Bose Elementary Harvey Elementary Prairie Lane Elementary
Columbus Elementary Jefferson Elementary Roosevelt Elementary
Durkee Elementary Jeffery Elementary Somers Elementary
EBSOLA Elementary KTEC Southport Elementary
Forest Park Elementary Lincoln Elementary Stocker Elementary
Frank Elementary McKinley Elementary Curtis A. Strange Elementary
Grant Elementary Nash Elementary Vernon Elementary
Grewenow Elementary Pleasant Prairie Elementary Whittier Elementary
    Wilson Elementary
High and Middle Library Catalogs
Bradford High KTEC Mahone Middle
Bullen Middle Lakeview Technology Academy McKinley Middle
Hillcrest Lance Middle Reuther Central High
Indian Trail Academy Lincoln Middle Tremper High
    Washington Middle
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