The Great Courses offers engaging and understandable lectures by esteemed professors, professionals, and experts in topics ranging from history, science, and much more. Check them out here.
North State Cooperative Library System (NLS) has boxed sets of multiple copies of books with discussion questions available for community books clubs to borrow. The Book Club in a Box sets are available for checkout at St. Helena Public Library through the Butte County Library. Please allow for shipping time, books will come from Butte County.
eBook subscription database (over 12,000 titles) to support multiple subject areas (English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Health, Physical Education, Information Literacy and Technology). (Grades 9+, possibly some content for Middle School, also includes professional development content for faculty)
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An online database designed to assist the general public in legal matters of all kinds. It includes exclusive full text for many top consumer legal reference books, as well as thousands of legal forms, and how-to instructions.
Brainfuse HelpNow provides free online homework help through its HelpNow service — a unique blend of one-to-one homework help, skills building, test preparation, and writing assistance. LIVE tutoring assistance in math, reading, and writing is available 24/7. Tutors in other subjects are available from 10:00am - 10:00pm. There are bilingual tutors in Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Tagalong, and Vietnamese.
Learn 70 foreign languages and 17 English courses taught in the user’s native tongue.
TeachingBooks.net is for anyone who reads, teaches, or enjoys books for children and teens. This resource identifies exceptional books that reflect diverse cultural experiences, interests, and ability levels and obtain resources paired with your book titles that further reading enjoyment, contextual knowledge, and educational relevance.
Designed specifically for public libraries, this database provides full-text magazines, reference books and primary source documents. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.
Discover & Go is a nationally recognized museum pass program developed by Contra Costa County Library that provides California library cardholders with free and discounted tickets to local museums and cultural institutions.
Kanopy showcases more than 30,000 of the worlds best films, including award-winning documentaries, rare and hard-to-find titles, film festival favorites, indie and classic films, and world cinema with collections from Kino Lorber, Music Box Films, Samuel Goldwyn, The Orchard, The Great Courses, PBS and thousands of independent filmmakers.