Welcome to Liverpool Library's
School Survival for Parents
This guide provides library and community resources available for parents partnering in their child's education. Liverpool Public Library is here to help you! If you are looking for materials or suggestions, please email, call, or stop in and see us.
Academic OneFile
This link opens in a new windowThis database provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
Britannica Schools
This link opens in a new windowThousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended web sites, and three separate databases for elementary, middle, or high school students. There is Read-aloud, a font size adjuster, and built-in translation tools support students with special needs and ELLs.
Culinary Arts Collection
This link opens in a new windowThousands of recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information from over 150 major cooking and nutrition magazines.
Gale: In Context - Elementary School Research
This link opens in a new windowFacts about plants, animals, people, geography, science, history, and more for middle and high school students. Includes Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary
NoveList Plus, for K-8
This link opens in a new windowNoveList K-8 Plus is a comprehensive reading resource for fiction and nonfiction. With a fun and intuitive interface, NoveList K-8 Plus will help you support young readers by finding books by grade level, reading level or genre.
Remote use: Liverpool Cardholders Only.
Research in Context
This link opens in a new windowResource for students in grades 6 to 8. Offers magazines, newspapers, primary sources, over 12,000 videos and more on a variety of topics. Supports national and state curriculum standards in language arts, social studies and science.
Brainfuse
Online test preparation, homework help, study aids, skill building, and live tutoring resource for children and adults. Live Tutors are Available from 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM daily.
LinkedIn Learning
An extensive collection of award-winning online courses and video tutorials to help you learn business, technical and creative skills.
Mango Languages
This link opens in a new windowStart the conversation in your choice of over 70 world languages and dialects through courses crafted using conversational methodology. Every self-paced language course introduces the learner to cultural insights and grammatical nuances specific to their language of choice, delivered through native speaker dialogue, and created with each individual learner in mind.
Remote use: Liverpool Cardholders Only.
CodeCombat
This link opens in a new windowCodeCombat is an educational video game for learning software programming concepts and languages. Recommended for students ages 9–16. Students learn to type coding languages like JavaScript, Python, HTML and CoffeeScript, as well as learning the fundamentals of computer science.
Remote use: Liverpool Cardholders Only.
Libby by Overdrive
This link opens in a new windowExtensive collection of audiobooks, e-books, and video. All free with your library card!
Hoopla
This link opens in a new windowInstantly borrow digital movies, music, eBooks and more, 24/7 with your library card.
