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The world's largest database of American food, culture, and recipes.

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Thousands of maps including outline, antique, political, and biologic maps and flags of the world, crossword puzzles, and other teaching tools.

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An encyclopedia of the 55 U.S. states and territories. Includes images, antique and modern maps, states’ animal and flower, and more.

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Contains traditional appetizer, main course, and dessert recipes from 174 countries around the world. Explore recipes by country, browse by ingredients, create your own own recipe list, and more.

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An engaging online literacy resource to help build a love of reading and learning in all your children. Requires Adobe Flash and cookies to be enabled.

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Educate Station offers weekly and monthly lesson plans for teachers and home school parents of students in per-kindergarten through 2nd grade.

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Provides research collections on thousands of topics from the world's leading magazines and reference books. Search hundreds of professional journals, popular magazines, reference books, images, primary sources, and more.

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Gale Courses offers online courses in computer skills, personal enrichment, medical, financial, and more.

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Reference eBooks on biography, business, environment, history, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nations/world, religion, science, social science, and more. Formerly called Formerly called Gale Virtual Reference Library.

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Found in: Science | Student Resources

Authoritative resource for student research. Includes a wide range of information, primary sources, overviews, videos, and more.

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Provides periodical and news information for researchers at all levels.

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Learn everything about anything with access to over 3,500 in-depth and engaging video lectures on subjects like science, history, travel, cooking, and more from award-winning experts and professors from the most respected institutions in the world. Loan period is 7 days. Access Great Courses through the Libby App under the "Extras" section.

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Covering topics in U.S. and world history from the earliest civilizations through the 21st century, History Reference Source contains full-text journals, magazines, reference books, and thousands of primary source documents.

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Practice tests for all levels of standardized tests, study guides, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information for students of all ages.

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Search for the title or author of a literary work to see where it's discussed in Gale's literature criticism series.

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Provides access to biographies of authors and critical analyses their works.

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LOTE4Kids offers a collection of over 5,750+ digital children's books in 80+ languages with English translations. Kids can enjoy the magic of books in LOTE (Languages other than English) or watch each book translated and narrated in English to help with their reading and literacy development. You can access LOTE4Kids on your computer or install the app on the App Store or Google Play.

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An interactive language learning system offering everyday conversational skills; beginning and advanced student coursework; and ESL courses. Register with a valid email or use Mango as a guest.

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Contains the largest collection of full-text magazines, reference books, and other highly-regarded sources from the world's leading publishers. Ideal for research and school projects.

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Provides access to a wide range of information on business, business resources, and newspaper and magazine articles.

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Visit Nexis Uni, then in the Find your organization section type "Elk Grove Village Public Library" in the search box and click on the search result. Finally, enter your Elk Grove Village Public Library card number and PIN.

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Find titles chosen to support the school curriculum as well as the pleasure reading needs of students.

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An interactive and immersive language-learning program available in nearly 30 different languages with over 200 hours of instruction per language. Log in with an email and a password, then select a language from the drop down menu to begin.

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Access Rosetta Stone remotely, then enter your Elk Grove Village Public Library card barcode number. You will then be asked to sign in with an email and a password and select a language from the drop down menu.

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Tutor.com offers free live homework help to students in grades 4-12 succeed in Math, Science, Social Studies, and English.

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World Book Encyclopedia plus an atlas and background information on current news stories.

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