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The West Springfield Public Library is dedicated to
serving patrons of all ages. The Children's Services
Department focuses its efforts on children and young
adults from birth through high-school. We maintain a
collection of more than 100,000 items, including books in
a variety of formats and languages, video, music, puppets
and educational thematic kits. We provide references
services for children and teens as well as storytimes for
a wide variety of age groups, craft and entertainment
programs, an annual summer reading program, specialized
teen programs and volunteer opportunities, including
membership in our Teen Advisory Board.
See the lower left for links to more
specific information about WSPL's Children's Services
Department.
Downloads, Services and other Fun Stuff...
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Download three songs each week from the Sony Music catalog. New music is added regularly. A West Springfield library card is required. Funded by the West Springfield Public Library.
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Learn something new today! Over 500 instructor-led, self-paced courses online. Many
offer IACET certified CEUs to fulfill your professional development requirements.
Funded by the West Springfield Public Library.
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Download thousands of ebooks, audio books or video right to your computer. In many
cases, transfer to your mobile device and enjoy on the go! Funded by CWMARS, card
required for login.
Tools for Readers
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NoveList is a comprehensive tool to help you get the most our of your reading
time. Browse recommendations, find series lists, retrieve author read-alikes, find
discussion guides for your book group or search for more books like the one you
just finished that you absolutely loved. Hundreds of thousands of titles, both fiction
and non?fiction are included. Funded by CWMARS, card required for login.
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Books & Authors offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations
of books, authors, genres and topics. Combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000
authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian’s favorites lists,
Books & Authors helps bring readers and literature together. **
General Research
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From the explorers of the Americas to the issues of today’s headlines, American History
investigates the people, events, and stories of our nation’s evolution.
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World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras covers early human history around the
globe—from prehistoric times to the beginnings of the Renaissance.
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Now with over 1100 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed
for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines,
newspapers, podcasts, and reference books for information on current events, the arts,
science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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Now with over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this periodical database is designed
for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and
full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the
arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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Kids InfoBits is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten
through Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, the
most popular search method is moving from a broad subject to a narrower topic using the
subject-based topic tree. The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from
the best elementary reference sources and magazines. This database includes coverage of
geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history and
sports.
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Salem History is a robust online database that includes the complete content of printed reference sets.
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Salem Health is a state-of-the-art online reference source that is as up-to-theminute as you can find.
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World Book Online for Kids features activities in three categories:
Make It! activities, which include hands-on activities, such as "Paper Maker",
recycling new paper from old paper.
Think It! activities, which include analytical exercises and puzzles, such as "Triangle
Hunt".
Be It! activities, which include "Dig In! Pretend to Be a Geologist!", and activity
that teaches about the soil and its contents.
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Contains: Biography Center, Citation Builder, Curriculum Correlations, Current Events,
Dictionary, E-Book Center, Encyclopedia Articles, How to do Research, Interactive Earth, My
Research, Pictures and Videos, Primary Sources, Timelines, World Book Explores, World
Newspapers.
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Contents: Activities, Diccionario Visual, Encyclopeida Articles, Periodicos del Mundo
Hispanico, El Mundo de los Animales.
* Funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. These resources are funded with Massachusetts state
monies and federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library services, unless otherwise noted.
** Funded by the Massachusetts Library System.
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