Ancestry Library Edition (ProQuest) - For Use in K-12 Libraries
The world's most popular consumer online genealogy resource is available to use in Maine K-12 school libraries. This collection holds billions of records in census data, photos, directories, vital records, and more. Video tutorial from Niche Academy.
Ancestry Library Edition (ProQuest) - For Use in Public Libraries
The world's most popular consumer online genealogy resource is available to use in Maine public libraries. This collection holds billions of records in census data, photos, directories, vital records, and more. Video tutorial from Niche Academy.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
Over 2,000 curated primary-source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. Our intention is to support a wide range of students, independent researchers and anyone interested in learning more about the foundation of ongoing racial injustice in the U.S. – and the fights against it.
Have fun when exploring great title recommendations and reading lists for genre fiction and essential non-fiction. Everyone can easily find their next book to read when using the "What Do I Read Next?" feature!
Congress.gov (Legislative Information)
Provides full-text access to the Congressional Record, bills, public and private laws, roll call votes, and schedules of both houses.
Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Included is an attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language. Video tutorial from Niche Academy.
Gale Literary Sources allows searching across these three Gale's literary databases: Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writer Series and Twayne's Authors Series.
Gale Literature Resource Center
Up-to-date author biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Gale PowerSearch contains over 375,000,000 articles found in a collection of authoritative periodicals, scholarly journals, newspapers, and reference content.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. You can search for articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Google's free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages.
Interdisciplinary content that reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, communication, collaboration, and innovation. Learners can access news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections.
This educational resource is for Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content.
In Context: Environmental Studies (Gale)
This resources focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development.
In Context: High School (Gale)
Presented at the High School level. Provides support for papers, projects, and presentations that reinforce development of academic skills like critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity and innovation. Offers a selection of overviews, primary sources, videos and images.
In Context: Middle School (Gale)
Created specifically for middle school students, this resource combines reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, and primary sources. It includes more than 1.6 million articles.
In Context: Opposing Viewpoints (Gale)
Contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. It features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio and links to vetted websites.
Get the latest information about the COVID 19 pandemic in Maine and listen to Maine CDC Briefings.
Maine Secretary of State Kids' Page
Information for K-12 on the State of Maine as well as links to other student programs from the Secretary of State's Office.
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families for reliable, up-to-date health information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand.
MyHeritage (Library Edition) (EBSCO)
MyHeritage Library Edition contains internationally diverse genealogy databases. Access to billions of historical documents, millions of historical photos and resources that span the past five centuries. Remote access from home is allowed and it is and a mobile-friendly.
Niche Academy is an award winning online learning platform that includes quick video tutorials for many of the resources you’ll find in the Digital Maine Library.
Created especially for children and the adults who work with them. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Parents, teachers, and librarians can also find tools to teach with books and engage young readers.
A database for reading recommendations to help readers of all ages find information on books. Includes expert recommendations, read-alikes, reviews, articles, lists and more. Also provides audiobook information and recommendations. Video tutorial from Niche Academy.
PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
Offers over 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.
A collection of references to literary figures of America, Great Britain and the world. Includes biographical information, major works, and critical responses.
Value Line Investment Survey for public libraries
This financial newsletter monitors information important to analysts and investors on hundreds of stocks over dozens of industries, and is an invaluable resource for understanding the fluctuations of the stock market. Video tutorial from Niche Academy.
Value Line Research Center for academic libraries
The Value Line Research Center includes online access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.
For advanced secondary and college students, this is a reference tool that includes full encyclopedic and multimedia databases supplemented with online books, primary sources, website links and more. Optimized for tablets.
Aimed at learners reading below year level (as well as adult literacy, reluctant readers or ESL), World Book Discover engages with easy-to-understand content, interactive multimedia and text-to-speech. Includes activities aimed at teaching life skills.
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