This website contains approximately 1,600 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom:

1. Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement (1790-1860)
2. The Civil War and the Reconstruction Era (1861-1877)
3. Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression (1878-1932)
4. The New Deal and World War II (1933-1945)
5. The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (1946-1975)
6. The Contemporary Era (1976-2000)

• 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

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.   

• 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

• 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

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. 

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. 

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. 

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:

1. Go to the New York Times
2.  “Sign Up” to create an account with your personal email address, or log in if you have already created an account.
3. Click through 11+ articles during your session to ensure you do not hit the NYT pay wall.

Offsite/remote access

1. Open a web browser.
2. Click on the remote access link.
3. *Click “Redeem” to get 24 hours of continuous access.
4. **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.

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)

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. 

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.

• 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

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.

• 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

• Identify exceptional multicultural books for all content areas
• Bring culture and race to the forefront of literary conversations with authentic, primary source instructional materials

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