Homework Resources

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Kim Day, Teen Services Librarian - day at plsinfo.org / 650-558-7496

  • Tutor.com Learning Suite (links to login page):Use your Burlingame library card to access free, one-on-one, live tutoring sessions in all subjects including AP. Utilize Princeton Review’s comprehensive college readiness resources, including full practice tests, and comprehensive study guides with online help.
  • California Digital Newspaper Collection: A freely accessible repository of digitized California newspapers from 1846 to the present
  • The Economist Country Briefings has profiles and current articles concerning each country
  • Gale Databases (including all subjects, both current and historical)
  • General OneFile : Millions of full text articles in magazines, journals, reference, newspaper, and audio content, easily searchable
  • InfoTrac Newsstand: Provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world.
  • PubMed: is a powerful database developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of Medicine containing or linking to over 20 million citations, many of them free
  • Safari Tech Books (View online only) offers current and popular IT and technology titles.
  • The World Factbook includes key facts, maps, statistics, demographics, and a nutshell history of many countries: