Secondary Online Subscriptions
Online Catalogs
These sites are for use by all students of Polk County schools. Some require a password. This may be obtained from your school library media specialist.
Destiny is used for the Polk County Schools district library catalog. Select your school from the list. If you want to check out a book, contact your media specialist with the title, author, and call number.
Grades: All Grades
The Polk County Library Cooperative (PCLC) is a group of libraries and government entities who have chosen to unite and cooperate to provide excellent library services to Polk County residents, businesses, and organizations.
Grades: All Grades
Online Subscriptions
Click the icons below to access the online subscriptions offered by Polk County Schools. These sites are for use by all students of Polk County schools. Some require a password. This may be obtained from your school library media specialist.
Searching for Accelerated Reader books is fun and easy with this free online tool.
Grades: All Grades
Ask a Librarian is a free online service that allows Floridians to chat live with a librarian for immediate assistance. A trained information professional can guide you to the answers you need in minutes.
Grades: All Grades
The Florida Electronic Library is a gateway to select Internet resources. Available resources include electronic magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias, and books, providing information on topics such as current events, education, business, technology, and health issues.
Grades: All Grades
Infobase eBooks are Web-based versions of Infobase Publishing's outstanding print reference books. Infobase offers students, librarians, and educators authoritative, reliable resources supporting the curriculum across a wide range of subject areas.
Grades: Middle, Senior
TeachingBooks.net is a time-saving portal to thousands of online resources you can use to explore children's and young adult books and their authors.
Grades: All Grades
A collection of electronic books offered by Polk County Schools. Books are separated by category and come in English and Spanish.
Grades: Elementary, Middle
Another great source of cultural, historical, and statistical country information. Includes a new Kids section.
Grades: All Grades
CountryReports provides over 35,000 pages of online content on the cultures and countries of the world.
Grades: All Grades
Salem History is a robust online database that includes the complete content of printed reference sets. Purchasing printed reference delivers online access at no additional cost.
Grades: Secondary
ABC-CLIO Products
The American History database is designed to move students and young adult library patrons beyond memorizing names and dates toward a deeper understanding of America’s fascinating, complex story—its precontact origins, westward expansion, social movements, internal conflicts, and contemporary defining moments.
Grades: Middle, Senior
World History: The Modern Era covers a broad range of topics in depth—the evolution of modern Europe since the Renaissance; concurrent developments in Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; the global impact of the Industrial Revolution; and the last 100 years of conflicts and international cooperation.
Grades: Middle, Senior
World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras covers human history in all corners of the globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance.
Grades: Middle, Senior
Gale Products
Gale Databases - This is the Product Selection Page for the Gale online resources. From here you can search all the databases below from one search as well as additional databases. This is a great place to start researching.
Grades: All Grades
The Biography Resource Center (BioRC) is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 380,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
Grades: Middle, Senior
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
Grades: Middle, Senior
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
Grades: Middle, Senior
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is the premier database covering today’s hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center helps students develop critical-thinking and information literacy skills by bringing together a variety of information on social issues.
Grades: Middle, Senior
Student Resource Center - Gold offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts.
Grades: Middle, Senior
World Book Products
Full featured online encyclopedia and reference center. Resource selection page.
Grades: All Grades
Includes the articles of the World Book Encyclopedia, a Biography Center, dictionary, atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to curriculum standards, and much more.
Grades: Middle
Designed for high school and college students, World Book Advanced is a powerful reference tool that includes encyclopedic, multimedia, e-book, and primary source databases, fully integrated in a single search.
Grades: Senior
Includes the articles of the World Book Encyclopedia, a Biography Center, dictionary, atlas, an extensive multimedia collection, thousands of editor-selected Web sites, correlations to curriculum standards, and much more.
Grades: Middle
Dramatic Learning contains lesson plans tailored to meet curriculum-based standards and specifically related to their play unit’s content. Nearly all these lesson plans contain both an Educator Page on-site and a Student Page as a downloadable Word document.
Grades: All Grades
Offers World Book's excellent editorial content, rich media, and interactive features in Spanish.
Grades: All Grades
Offers World Book's excellent editorial content, rich media, and interactive features in Spanish.
Grades: All Grades