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Florham Park Public Library is proud to offer a wide variety of resources, all listed below.

Arts & Music

  • Creativebug

    Creativebug offers unlimited access to thousands of online art and craft video classes taught by artists and creative experts. The program...Continued

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  • Freegal

    Stream or download the music you love. Enjoy 5 songs/music video downloads a week and unlimited audio streaming. Available from...Continued

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  • Kanopy

    Stream more than 30,000 titles, including award-winning documentaries, critically acclaimed films, rare and hard-to-find titles, independent films, foreign films, and...Continued

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Business

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Business & Legal

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Career

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Children

  • Help Now

    Students communicate with live, online tutors using an interactive, virtual whiteboard to chat, write, draw, copy/paste text or images, and...Continued

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  • Hoopla Kids

    Hoopla is a digital media service offered by the Florham Park Public Library that allows you to borrow movies, music,...Continued

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  • Kanopy Kids

    Kanopy Kids provides thoughtful entertainment for children aged preschool and up. Parents and caregivers can stream videos from a curated...Continued

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  • NoveList K-8

    Suggestions for fiction books and series. Find plot summaries, background on authors, reviews and questions for book groups, series titles,...Continued

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  • Primary Schools Explora

    Contains complete articles from elementary school magazines and encyclopedia entries.

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  • Primary Search

    Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in...Continued

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  • Tumble Book Library

    TumbleBooks is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a...Continued

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  • TumbleMath

    TumbleMath has the most comprehensive collection of math stories available anywhere- all in our world famous TumbleBook format which combines...Continued

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  • World Almanac for Kids

    A resource for student reports and research, including extensive, up-to-date articles; videos; interactive games; science projects; and Homework Help; plus...Continued

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Digital Content

  • Freegal

    Stream or download the music you love. Enjoy 5 songs/music video downloads a week and unlimited audio streaming. Available from...Continued

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  • Hoopla

    This on-demand digital media platform allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics, and TV shows to enjoy on...Continued

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  • Hoopla Kids

    Hoopla is a digital media service offered by the Florham Park Public Library that allows you to borrow movies, music,...Continued

    Visit Hoopla Kids
  • Kanopy

    Stream more than 30,000 titles, including award-winning documentaries, critically acclaimed films, rare and hard-to-find titles, independent films, foreign films, and...Continued

    Visit Kanopy
  • Kanopy Kids

    Kanopy Kids provides thoughtful entertainment for children aged preschool and up. Parents and caregivers can stream videos from a curated...Continued

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  • LinkedIn Learning

    Stream online business, creative, education, and tech skills tutorials taught by expert instructors.

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  • Newspaper Source Plus

    Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers...Continued

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  • Pressreader

    Get digital access to more than 7,000 of the world’s top magazines and newspapers on your computer, tablet, or phone....Continued

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  • The Palace Project

    Introducing the Palace Project, an e-reading experience developed by and for libraries. With the Palace app you have access to...Continued

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Do-It-Yourself

  • Chilton Library

    Step-by-step auto repair instructions, maintenance schedules, recalls, diagrams, and more.

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  • Consumer Reports

    Unbiased ratings for more than 9,000 products and services.

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  • Creativebug

    Creativebug offers unlimited access to thousands of online art and craft video classes taught by artists and creative experts. The program...Continued

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Education

  • Brainfuse

    Brainfuse is a personalized, live tutoring platform built for students, job seekers, and veterans.   Students communicate with live, online...Continued

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  • Curriculum Resource Center

    For teachers and home schoolers: access fact sheets, visual aids, classroom activities, and other resources to help you plan your...Continued

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  • Educator’s Edition Explora

    Find primary source documents, informational texts, and curriculum support materials.

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  • ERIC

    ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research. The database provides access to information from...Continued

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  • Help Now

    Students communicate with live, online tutors using an interactive, virtual whiteboard to chat, write, draw, copy/paste text or images, and...Continued

    Visit Help Now
  • Kanopy

    Stream more than 30,000 titles, including award-winning documentaries, critically acclaimed films, rare and hard-to-find titles, independent films, foreign films, and...Continued

    Visit Kanopy
  • Primary Schools Explora

    Contains complete articles from elementary school magazines and encyclopedia entries.

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  • Secondary Schools Explora

    Search online databases for articles in academic journals, magazines, and newspapers.

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  • Teacher Reference Center

    A complimentary research database for teachers, Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 230 peer-reviewed journals.

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  • TumbleMath

    TumbleMath has the most comprehensive collection of math stories available anywhere- all in our world famous TumbleBook format which combines...Continued

    Visit TumbleMath
  • World Almanac for Kids

    A resource for student reports and research, including extensive, up-to-date articles; videos; interactive games; science projects; and Homework Help; plus...Continued

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Entertainment

  • The Palace Project

    Introducing the Palace Project, an e-reading experience developed by and for libraries. With the Palace app you have access to...Continued

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Foreign Language

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Genealogy & Local History

  • Ancestry.com

    Ancestry Library Edition delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more. The world’s most popular...Continued

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  • Florham Park Historical Newspapers

    Access and search through digitized copies of The Florham Park Eagle and Florham Park Weekly News from 1960 to the present day. Available...Continued

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  • Heritage Quest

    With more than 4/4 billion records, it delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources-with coverage dating back to...Continued

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General Research

  • Academic Search Premier

    A popular resource found in many scholarly settings worldwide, Academic Search Premier is a leading multidisciplinary research database.

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  • Britannica Library

    Encyclopedic entries on everything from history and science to geography and biography provide the perfect starting point for your research...Continued

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  • EBSCOhost

    Choose a database and search for abstracts, full text journal articles, and encyclopedia entries on a wide variety of topics....Continued

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  • Gale Virtual Reference Library

    Online access 24/7 to a generous collection of encyclopedias, almanacs and specialized reference sources in eBook format for multidisciplinary research.

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  • Image Collection

    The Image Collection database consists of more than 1 million total images in these categories, broken down as follows: Photographs Images from...Continued

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  • Infobase Facts on File

    Access up-to-date information from authoritative sources on a wide variety of subjects.

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  • MasterFILE Elite

    Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,050 general reference publications with coverage...Continued

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  • Military & Government Collection

    Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection...Continued

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  • Referencia Latina

    Esta base de datos a texto completo en español cubre una amplia gama de temas dentro y fuera de la...Continued

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  • USA Facts

    Our nation, in numbers. Government data from over 70 sources organized to show how the money flows, the impact, and...Continued

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Government & Politics

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Health & Medicine

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Literature

  • Bloom’s Literature

    An online database of relevant content on core authors and works.

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  • Libby

    Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines to read on your phone or tablet using the Libby app. You can even send...Continued

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  • Literary Reference Center

    A literary database covering all genres and time frames. It includes thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals...Continued

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  • Literature Resource Center

    A comprehensive online database for literary criticism, analysis, biographies, and more.

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  • NoveList

    Suggestions for fiction books and series. Find plot summaries, background on authors, reviews and questions for book groups, series titles,...Continued

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  • Project Gutenberg

    Project Gutenberg offers over 46,000 free ebooks: choose among free Nook books and free Kindle books; download them or read...Continued

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News

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Periodicals

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Science

  • GreenFILE

    GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles...Continued

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Science & Technology

  • Northstar Digital Literacy

    Find out which computer skills you need to brush up on with the Northstar Digital Literacy. These free, self-guided online...Continued

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  • O’Reilly for Public Libraries

    For over 40 years, O’Reilly has educated generations of technologists and entrepreneurs who have shaped the future of the industry....Continued

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  • Science Online

    Coverage of the full range of scientific disciplines through essays, videos, diagrams, definitions, interactives, and experiments.

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Social Studies & History

  • African American History

    An online encyclopedia including articles, maps, videos, and slideshows.

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  • American History

    Spanning our nation’s history—from prehistory to the present day including articles, images, primary source documents, timelines, videos, and slideshows.

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  • American Indian History

    Access to more than 15,000 years of culture and history, covering more than 600 Native American groups.

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  • Ancient & Medieval History

    Provides thorough coverage of world history from prehistory through the mid-1500s, with special Topic Centers on key civilizations and regions.

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  • Modern World History

    World history from the mid-15th century to the present with thousands of subject entries, biographies, images, videos and slideshows, maps...Continued

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  • Points of View Reference Center

    Points of View Reference Center is a full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial...Continued

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  • World Geography & Culture

    Resource for the study of countries, cultures, and geography with maps, flags, videos, images, gazetteer entries, biographies, a timeline, and...Continued

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Teens

  • Help Now

    Students communicate with live, online tutors using an interactive, virtual whiteboard to chat, write, draw, copy/paste text or images, and...Continued

    Visit Help Now
  • Middle Search Plus

    Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the...Continued

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  • Points of View Reference Center

    Points of View Reference Center is a full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial...Continued

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  • Secondary Schools Explora

    Search online databases for articles in academic journals, magazines, and newspapers.

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Test Prep

  • Aztec

    Aztec provides computer-based and personalized programs designed specifically for adult learners, from ABE through HSE and beyond. With a focus...Continued

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  • Brainfuse

    Brainfuse is a personalized, live tutoring platform built for students, job seekers, and veterans.   Students communicate with live, online...Continued

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  • Learning Express Library

    An e-learning solution that provides tools to students and professionals for academic skill-building, standardized test prep, career certification test prep...Continued

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  • Peterson’s Test and Career Prep

    Prepare for standardized tests with eBooks, online courses, and full-length practice tests for GED, SAT, ACT, AP, PSAT, GRE, LSAT,...Continued

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