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176 Long Beach Road
Island Park, NY 11558
Phone: 516-432-0122

Director: Ronnie Swett

Library Hours

Monday-Thursday
10:00AM - 9:00 PM

Friday-Saturday*
10:00AM - 5:00PM

*Saturdays from
June 15-September 15

9:00AM - 1:00PM



Electronic Resources

Student Resources

Career Cruising In the Library Remote Access
An interactive reference guide which provides in-depth profiles of hundreds of different careers. In addition to the job profiles, you'll find: (1) multimedia interviews with real people in each and every career, (2) career search tools which help users find careers that suit their interests, and (3) a comprehensive database of colleges and universities, so that users can learn where to get education and training.

Opposing Viewpoints Reference Center In the Library Remote Access
  • A source for information on social issues and current events
  • Pros and Cons, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents and links to websites

  • Learning Express Library In the Library Remote Access
    LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons-students and adult learners-succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.

    Kids Infobits In the Library Remote Access
    Magazine and newspaper articles for students K-5    

    Greenwood Daily Life Online In the Library Remote Access

    Provides continually updated content from a number of reference works, monographs, and primary documents.  Based on the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life and the Daily Life through History series, which  explore everyday life past and present.


    Daily Life in America In the Library Remote Access
    A searchable, and ever-expanding, website that spotlights the day-to-day lives of average Americans, past and present; A virtual library of thousands of diverse sources: award-winning reference works, primary documents, illustrations, maps; A key resource supporting courses in American history and literature at the high school and college level—but with a fresh approach.

    Pop Culture Universe

    In the Library Remote Access
    Pop Culture Universe: Icons | Idols | Ideas (PCU) is an authoritative, yet irresistible, digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present.

    African American Experience
    In the Library Remote Access
    The African American Experience (AAE) is a full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora.

    Latino American Experience In the Library Remote Access
    LAE is the first-ever full-text database focusing on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States. Its content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos.

         
         
         

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