Virtual Library Resources High School

EBooks Minnesota

Thousands of easily accessible ebooks including fiction and non-fiction for all ages

Open Library

A project of the Internet Archive, offering access to millions of books.

Project Gutenberg

Offers over 75,000 free eBooks.

AAS Historical Periodicals

Digitized images from the American Antiquarian Society of the pages of American magazines and journals published between 1684 and 1912.

History Day – The Research Process

Doing History Day research? Check out this guide to the research process.

Britannica School High

Encyclopedia content for high school grades plus multimedia, timelines, world atlas, country comparison, and primary sources.

Points of View Reference Source

Pro vs. con essays that present multiple sides of current or controversial issues. Plus magazine and newspaper articles, primary sources, and more related to those issues.

Hennepin County Public Library:

Need a library card?  Get a Library Card Here:  Library Cards

Check out locations and hours here:  Locations & Hours

Check out their children’s library catalog here:  Childrens Books

Hennepin County Book Lists & Recommendations for children can be found here:  Recommendations

Have a chromebook?  Use the Overdrive Website to download ebooks and audiobooks here:

Link:  https://www.hclib.org/

Science Reference Source

Science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources covering numerous science topics for middle and high school students. Included in Explora Teens and Explora Library databases.

ProQuest U.S. Newsstream

U.S. news content as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s from national and regional news sources including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.

Explora High

Contains high school-appropriate magazine, journal, and encyclopedia articles and also includes primary source documents, reference books, and multimedia. Includes Academic Search Premier, Consumer Health Complete, MAS Complete, MasterFILE Complete, Middle Search Plus, Newspaper Source, and Science Reference Center databases.

Gale In Context: High School

Encyclopedia, magazine, and journal articles, plus primary sources, images, video, and more for middle and high school students. Includes the InfoTrac Student Edition database.

LearningExpress Library

Encyclopedia, magazine, and journal articles, plus primary sources, images, video, and more for middle and high school students. Includes the InfoTrac Student Edition database.

MasterFILE Complete

Offers the largest collection of popular full-text magazines, reference books and other highly-regarded sources from the world’s leading publishers. Covering virtually every general interest subject area, it also includes an extensive collection of photos, maps and flags.

Merriam-Webster Unabridged

An authoritative source of information on the English language. Includes up-to-date information, definitions, and usage notes.

MAS Complete

Designed specifically for high school libraries, MAS Complete is a full-text database providing hundreds of popular high school magazines and reference books. Covering subjects such art, history, sports and music, it also includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents, plus over a million photos, maps and flags.

New York Times

Articles from the New York Times. From June 1, 1980 to current. One of the newspapers in ProQuest U.S. Newsstream database.

Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America empowers people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse and better-functioning society by maximizing access to our shared history, culture, and knowledge. Primary source collections explore topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use.

Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.  The Internet Archive includes:  Today our archive contains:

LearningExpress Library

  • LearningExpress Job & Career Accelerator
  • LearningExpress Computer Skills Center