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Click Here for In-Library Use
Click Here for Home Use
ABC Mouse can be used on mobile devices, but you must first register using your computer browser (not a mobile browser). One you have registered on your computer through one of the links above, you will download the ABC Mouse mobile app and sign in with the email address and password you created during registration.



This database is only available for use in the library
Ancestry has made a portion of their records freely available to anyone, anywhere. Ancestry has digitized and made searchable more than half a million records related to the Chinese Exclusion Era. During this 60-year period in the U.S. and Canada, laws were enacted to restrict immigration and rights of people of Chinese descent. Many of these Exclusion Era records contain photos and rich details about family relationships that can help descendants learn more about their ancestors’ experiences. You can access that collection here:
https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/chineseexclusionera/

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This website contains approximately 1,600 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom:
- Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860)
- The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877)
- Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932)
- The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945)
- The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975)
- The Contemporary Era (1976-2000)


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If you are accessing this resource outside of California, you will need an active Peninsula Library System card to login.
The California State Library is providing California libraries with access to this program through September 2024.
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The collection is not available remotely, so you will need to come into the library to view these documents, but they can be accessed from any computer in the library. Click Here for Access.
The collection contains scans from:
- The Boutique, the Village, and the Boutique and Villager
- The Broadway Editor and Editor of Burlingame
- The Advance, The Advance Star, and the Burlingame Advance Star
- The Independent
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for the City of Burlingame
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Offers online courses from the top universities, for free. Learn from world-class professors, watch high quality lectures, achieve mastery via interactive exercises, and collaborate with a global community of students.
The California State Library is pleased to offer this resource to all public libraries in California to help communities recover from the pandemic. These platforms will be available for one year using primarily American Rescue Plan Act federal funding.
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- Find jobs by job skills, location, and industry
- Find business opportunities
- Locate companies nationwide
- Research business executives
- View historical market trends
- Track down addresses and phone numbers
- Discover news articles for research
Data Axle was formerly called ReferenceUSA.
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- More than 1.6 million records
- Links to nearly 750,000 full-text documents
- Coverage dating back to 1966
- An education-specific thesaurus containing over 11,700 terms
ERIC contains records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents. It includes records for a variety of source types, including journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, dissertations and policy papers. Further, researchers can limit search results by education level such as Early Childhood Education as well as on the intended audience such as Counselors or Teachers.





The Educator’s Edition of Explora highlights content relevant to teachers, including lessons plans, curriculum standards, and other professional development resources.


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The California State Library is pleased to offer this resource to all public libraries in California to help communities recover from the pandemic. These platforms will be available for one year using primarily American Rescue Plan Act federal funding.
Access will be available to library users until September 2024.
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Provided by the California State Library
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Test, Tutorials, eBooks and more, including:
Career Preparation
Job and Career Accelerator
High School Equivalency Center
College Preparation
School Center
College Student Center
Adult Core Skills
Basic Computer Skills
Recursos Para Hispanohablantes
The California State Library is pleased to offer this resource to all public libraries in California to help communities recover from the pandemic. These platforms will be available for one year using primarily American Rescue Plan Act federal funding.
Access will be available to library users until September 2024.
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The California State Library is pleased to offer this resource to all public libraries in California to help communities recover from the pandemic. These platforms will be available for one year using primarily American Rescue Plan Act federal funding.
Access will be available to library users until September 2024.


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username: missions
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The California State Library is providing public libraries with free online access to the New York Times (NYT). You can access the NYT on Internet computers in libraries or get 24-hour offsite access through our website by code activation.
Getting Started
Access on library computers:
- Go to the New York Times
- “Sign Up” to create an account with your personal email address, or log in if you have already created an account.
- Click through 11+ articles during your session to ensure you do not hit the NYT pay wall.
Offsite/remote access
- Open a web browser.
- Click on the remote access link.
- *Click “Redeem” to get 24 hours of continuous access.
- **Register with your personal email address, or click on “log in here” if you have already created an account.
Once you have created your account (or have logged in), you will receive an email confirmation of your 72-hour, unlimited access to New York Times Digital.
* After the first 24 hours have passed, you will need to redeem another code for another 24 hours of remote access (i.e. Repeat Step 2). This is the licensing model that New York Times has negotiated with public libraries.
** Please be advised that registering an email address with New York Times Digital will opt you into receiving email marketing communications from the New York Times. To opt out of receiving mailings, follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of these messages.
Using New York Times Digital App
The New York Times Digital app is free and available for the following operating systems:
- Android
- iOS
- Fire tablets
Please visit your device's app store to get the app. You will need to follow the "Offsite/remote access" instructions above to access New York Times Digital on the app.
If you're using a mobile device, open your device’s browser to the New York Times page with the remote access link to get the access code, not the New York Times app itself. Then, once you launch the NYT app and sign in with the email address you used to register, the code will have already been applied.
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How easy or difficult is it for you to get news you find trustworthy?
This resource was created by the Pacific Library Partnership's News Literacy Taskforce as a tool for librarians. It has been modified here for our library patrons who would like to take a more informed approach to navigating the news.

Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
To search Newspaper Source Plus directly, with the option of viewing a publication list, click here:
Newspaper Source Plus (standalone collection)
If you'd like to search Newspaper Source Plus as part of the Explora package, which might return other helpful resources from different sources, click here:
Newspaper Source Plus (Through the Explora Interface)
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The California State Library is pleased to offer this resource to all public libraries in California to help communities recover from the pandemic. These platforms will be available for one year using primarily American Rescue Plan Act federal funding.
Access will be available to library users until September 2024.
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Kindle - Overdrive

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timely and objective information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications.



Pronunciator is a fun and free way to learn any of 163 languages with Personalized Courses, movies, music, and more. Includes new COVID-19 language course in 101 languages.
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With over 1000 titles to choose from you're sure to find something that interests you. You’ll also find Chinese and Spanish language magazines. You can check out as many magazines as you want and there are never any wait times or due dates. Once you download the title, it stays on your device until you delete it.

- Find jobs by job skills, location, and industry
- Find business opportunities
- Locate companies nationwide
- Research business executives
- View historical market trends
- Track down addresses and phone numbers
- Discover news articles for research

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Fact Cards are a series of research resources designed for quick reference for students in grades 4 through 8. The topics covered by Fact Cards are those California, United States, and World topics included in the social studies curriculum in California.
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Tax Season 2023 (For Filing 2022 Taxes)
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IRS forms and instructions by mail:
https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/forms-and-publications-by-us-mail
CA forms and instructions by mail:
https://webapp.ftb.ca.gov/contactus/home/formsbymail
For information about where to locate Free tax Preparation help:
https://irs.treasury.gov/freetaxprep/
The San Mateo County Libraries have created a great resource page for tax preparation.
https://smcl.org/tax-resources/

These digital resources are provided for all California students from the California State Library.
Encyclopaedia Britannica (PreK-12)
A comprehensive interactive resource for research and learning for grades K-12. Includes correlations to California Content Standards and other valuable teacher resources. Post links directly to each school level, elementary, middle or high.
Need help from Britannica? See our support page. (800) 621-3900 x 7160 | edsupport@eb.com
Gale (Grades K-12)
Gale STEAM resources provide essential, curriculum-aligned digital content for California K-12 learners. Include links to resources for elementary, middle and high school content.
Please note: If you wish to have location specific URLs for your school please visit: https://support.gale.com/cak12.
- Gale In Context: Environmental Studies - Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
- Gale Interactive: Science - Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science
- Gale Presents: National Geographic Kids - Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.
Please note: If you wish to have location specific URLs for your school please visit: https://support.gale.com/cak12.
Need help from Gale See our support page. 800-877.4253 option 3 | gale.technicalsupport@cengage.com
Book Connections
Personalize and enjoy digital connections to books for kids and teens.
Need help from Book Connections? See our support page. 510-239-7391 | accounts@bookconnections.org
ProQuest (Grades 3-12)
- CultureGrams - Concise social, cultural, and political information on countries, U.S. states, and provinces around the world. (Grades 3-12)
CultureGrams Off-Campus Access - SIRS Discoverer - A general reference database providing safe, reliable, curriculum-aligned content and features for use by students and educators. (Grades 3-9)
SIRS Discoverer Off-Campus Access - SIRS Issues Researcher - Pros and cons on 360+ (and growing) complex social issues with relevant, credible information that tells the whole story on the major questions of the day. (Grades 6+)
SIRS Issues Researcher Off-Campus Access - eLibrary - Guided Research edition delivers one of the largest general reference collections of periodical and digital media content including more than 11,000 Research Topics (Grades 6+)
eLibrary Guided Research Off-Campus Access - eLibrary - Database Edition General reference aggregation of periodical and digital media content with editorial guidance for novice researchers. (Grades 6+)
eLibrary Database Edition Off-Campus Access - ProQuest Research Companion - a self-guided product that supports information literacy, writing, and research skills instruction.(Grades 8+)
Research Companion Off-Campus Access - Schools & Educators Complete - eBook subscription database of over 13,000 titles that supports 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)
Need help from ProQuest? See our support page. 800-521-0600 | customerservice@proquest.com

Password: teachingbooksK12library
Compile, organize, analyze, and share instructional materials associated with the books in your curriculum.
- Create your own booklists
- Manage text sets
- Analyze text complexity differentiation
- Seamlessly edit, sequence, and annotate lists Immediately have instructional materials
- Distribute lists with QR codes, emails, or permanent links

Password: teachingbooksK12library
Include diverse cultural experiences in your instruction as reflected in quality fiction and nonfiction books.
- Identify exceptional multicultural books for all content areas
- Bring culture and race to the forefront of literary conversations with authentic, primary source instructional materials

Password: teachingbooksK12library
Have the author reveal, anytime, the author's purpose, writing, and research processes with these TeachingBooks.net exclusively created primary source materials.

Password: teachingbooksK12library

Password: teachingbooksK12library
Have ready-to-use vocabulary lists — often organized by chapter — for the books that you're teaching. Vocabulary lists include:
- Definitions
- Example sentences pulled from each book
- Audio pronunciations
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Tutor.com

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Learn a new skill with over 500 online non-college credit Continuing Education courses (from Accounting to Human Resources Management) you can access 24/7 on the internet. Attend classes, do assignments on your
own schedule and "meet" with a real instructor with whom you may communicate with using e-mail. Available remotely to Burlingame cardholders only. Available to any other San Mateo County resident within the library.
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Provided by the California State Library.
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