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Online Databases

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Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, magazines and more from your local library for free! Libby is the newer library reading app by OverDrive, loved by millions of readers worldwide.

Learn how to build your resume, find success in an interview, and find job coaches who will help you search for a job that fits your needs and skillset. 

The completely revised African-American History Online offers a fresh new way to explore the full spectrum of African-American history and culture.  Read about key figures and events, examine famous speeches and other primary sources, and get context from the in-depth timelines. An important new feature is the full cross-searchability across all the Infobase history databases for an even more comprehensive view of history.

ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers offer essential primary source content and editorial perspectives of the most distinguished African American newspapers in the U.S. Each of the thirteen Historical Black Newspapers provides researchers with unprecedented access to perspectives and information that was excluded or marginalized in mainstream sources. 

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Search essential historical records for African Americans, including Federal Censes, Marriage and Cohabitation Records, Military Draft and Service Records, Registers of Slaves and Free(d) Persons of Color, Freedman's Bank, and more.

A one stop shop for comic books for all types of genres!

TumbleMath is the most comprehensive collection of math picture books you will find anywhere. All in the amazing TumbleBook format complete with animation and narration. The books are accompanied by supplementary materials such as lesson plans and quizzes.

Create a free account using your library card and use Tutor.com to receive live, on-the-spot help with homework assignments and projects.

Mometrix provides different learning tools for different learning styles including online study guides, flashcards, tutorials, and practice tests.

WIth more than 600 courses, there is something for every learner in UniversalClass. You can sign up for a free account using your library card and access courses in crafts, computer training, health and fitness, finance, music and more!

Craft & Hobby is an extensive online platform that aims to provide library patrons with access to creative educational resources. With Craft & Hobby, library patrons can explore in-depth online instructional videos and classes that span 22 different creative categories, allowing them to learn a new hobby or improve their skills in an existing area.

Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELny is an online virtual library connecting New Yorkers to 21st century information via libraries and library systems statewide. NOVELny is an electronic resource access project that enables libraries across New York State to give their communities online access to the full text of thousands of journals, newspapers and other references.

 

New Yorkers accessing the databases through a library website or the NOVELny portal while in New York will be able to enter the databases via geoIP authentication (also referred to as geolocation) without entering a username/password or library card number.

KANOPY is a video streaming service now available to all ROOSEVELT PUBLIC LIBRARY cardholders. Kanopy offers a wide variety of movies, documentaries, foreign films, classics, children’s content and more.

 

How does it work? Tickets are used to play videos on Kanopy. Each month, you receive a set number of tickets from your library. Your tickets reset on the first day of the month, and unused tickets don't roll over to the next month.

 

The children’s content – Kanopy Kids – is a little different. Once you watch your first Kanopy Kids video, you have access to the entire children’s selection for the rest of the month without having to use your credits.

 

(Note: Kanopy Kids doesn't use tickets.)

 

Kanopy works with most devices, including Roku, Chromecast, and AppleTV.

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