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CultureGrams World Edition provides information that ranges from mile-high views of a nation, its society, and institutions to close-up views of communities, families, and individuals. Culture Grams also provides the World Edition, Kids Edition, States Edition, Famous People, Photo Gallery and the Recipe Collection. Click here for a helpful brochure. |
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Lands and Peoples provide descriptions of the country's land, people, economy, history, and government, as well as a Facts and Figures box and a full-color map. |
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SIRS Discoverer Maps of the World click on Maps of the World under Database Features on the right-hand side. |
General Information: |
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Colorado Virtual Library for Kids is a directory of resources specifically for kids. Subjects include About Colorado, Facts and Current Events, Science and Math, History, Geographyand Biography, Health and Well-Being, The Arts, Reading, Writing and Speaking, Literature, Society and Government, Computers and the Internet, Machines and Transportation, Sports and Recreation, Religion and Mythology, Popular Entertainments, Home and Household, the Weird and Mysterious and much more. |
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Funk Wagnalls New Encyclopedia is a SIRS Discoverer encyclopedia that is suitable for children and adults. Click on Encyclopedia at the bottom of the page in the Reference box. |
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General Reference Center Gold provides access to hundreds of full text periodicals, newspapers, general interest sources and major reference books. (GRGM is formerly known as Infotrac.) |
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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is packed with the sights and sounds that make learning fun! This encyclopedia is appropriate for younger students. |
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Grolier Online is a collection of five reference databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Popular Science, and Lands and Peoples. New - Check out Grolier's Amazing Animals of the World too! |
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SIRS Discoverer is a research database designed for children and young adults. Its special features include: Current Events, Spotlight of the Month, World Almanac for Kids, and Funk Wagnalls New Encyclopedia. |
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World Almanac For Kids is a fundamental reference resource for students. It provides biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics. Click on World Almanic for Kids at the bottom of the page in the Reference box. Click here for a helpful brochure. |
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EBSCO offers a broad range of full text and bibliographic databases including Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Novelist and the Auto Repair Reference Center. Student Research Center - High school and Middle School; Kids Search - Middle and Elementary School and Searchasaurus - Elementary School. |
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Encyclopedia Americana is a Grolier Encyclopedia suitable for students and adults. |
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FirstSearch is a collection of twelve reference databases covering a wide range of subjects for students and adults. The most popular databases are WorldCat, Medline, ERIC and the WorldAlmanac. Other databases include ArticleFirst, ClasePeriodica, ECO, GPO, Ebooks, PapersFirst, Proceedings, and WorldCATDissertations. |
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NewsBank contains information from newspapers and newswires including the Daily Camera, Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, and the Broomfield Enterprise. |
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AskColorado is a free online information service provided by Colorado libraries. Chat live with a librarian anytime, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week except major holidays. Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library participates in this program. |
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Teen Health and Wellness provides students with comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more. Developed for teens, with their unique concerns and perspective in mind. |
Reading and Literature: |
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TumbleBook Library provides e-books for e-kids - Storybooks, Life Learning, Puzzles & Games and Language Learning. Sit back and listen or read along at your own speed to these entertaining and amusing picture books. |
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NoveList K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in your classroom. You can also browse hundreds of theme-oriented book lists for readers at all grade levels through Explore Fiction, and look for award-winning and recommended titles in Best Fiction. Many title records have direct links to Web sites with information about the author or with teacher resource materials. You can also access the Learning Center by clicking on its link in the left hand column of your screen. |
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NoveList is an electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. |
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Litfinder provides a wealth of primary literature content, including full-text poems, poem citations and excerpts, full-text short stories, full-text essays, full-text speeches, and full-text plays. LitFinder also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. |
Science: |
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Facts On File's Science Online offers biographies, essays, definitions, diagrams, experiments, timelines and more representing significant achievements, discoveries, or natural phenomena related to the development of science. |
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The New Book of Popular Science is a leading science encyclopedia geared to student readers. |
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The Science and Education Center is located on the library’s first floor. The collection contains books, databases, CD-ROMS, videos, posters, study kits, games, models, and scientific equipment designed to enhance learning on a variety of scientific subjects for children age 18 months to 18 years old. The interactive and exploratory nature of the collection makes this a unique center for scientific learning. |
Study Skills and Exam Preparation: |
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Learning Express provides access to interactive skill-building courses and a broad range of practice tests based on such official exams as the ACT, SAT, GED, ASVAB, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, Firefighter, Police Officer, Paramedic, EMT Basic, U.S. Citizenship, Postal Worker, Cosmetology, Real Estate Agent & Broker Exams. |
Spanish: |
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La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre is the only full-length online encyclopedia conceived and developed with the Spanish-speaking peoples of the Americas as its focus. |
Parents and Teachers: |
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TumbleBook Library provides e-books for e-kids - Storybooks, Life Learning, Puzzles & Games and Language Learning. Sit back and listen or read along at your own speed to these entertaining and amusing picture books. |
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Children’s Magazine Guide Online provides fast access to a wealth of carefully annotated citations of recent articles (fiction and nonfiction) from more than 27 children's magazines carried at our library, plus Web sites. Please use the following to login: User name: Broomfield Password: library |
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Colorado Virtual Library is a cooperative project of the Colorado State Library and the Colorado library community to provide access to other libraries collections, resources for kid and teachers, and AskColorado. This website also provides digital collections, historic papers, geospatial data and interlibrary loan. |