Preschool Thru 3rd Grade

COOL APP – for cell phones & computers
Wherever you go, you will want to take the Consortium of Ohio Libraries with you! COOL Libraries lets you search JR Clarke Public Libraries or other COOL libraries for books, movies, audiobooks, music, and more.

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What can you do with COOL Libraries?

• Available 24/7, now the library comes to you
• View your library account and renew items
• Search and reserve library materials from the online catalog
• Use your device as a library c

Use COOL Libraries to access these COOL Ohio Libraries:

• Arcanum Public Library
• Blanchester Public Library
• Cardington-Lincoln Public Library
• Community Library (Sunbury)
• Galion Public Library
• 
Germantown Public Library
• J. R. Clarke Public Library
• Marvin Memorial Library
• Mount Gilead Public Library
• Selover Public Library
• Worch Memorial Public Library
• Wornstaff Memorial Library

About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free, high-quality books to children from birth until they begin school, no matter their family’s income.

After launching in 1995, the program grew quickly. First books were only distributed to children living in Sevier County, Tennessee where Dolly grew up. It became such a success that in 2000 a national replication effort was underway. By 2003, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library had mailed one million books. It would prove to be the first of many millions of books sent to children around the world.

Dolly’s home state of Tennessee pledged to pursue statewide coverage in 2004 and global expansion was on the horizon. After the United States, the program launched in Canada in 2006 followed by the United Kingdom in 2007,  Australia in 2013 and the Republic of Ireland in 2019.

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How It Works
Each month, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library mails a high quality, age appropriate book to all registered children, addressed to them, at no cost to the child’s family. Countless parents have shared how excited their child is when their new book arrives each month. Many groups and individuals work hard behind the scenes to make that special moment possible for each child.

The Imagination Library provides the infrastructure of the core program including managing the secure central database for the Book Order System and coordinating book selections and wholesale purchasing. It also incurs the cost of the program’s administrative expenses and coordinates the monthly mailings.

Discover 41,880,883 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.

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.

The DPLA amplifies the value of libraries and cultural organizations as Americans’ most trusted sources of shared knowledge. We do this by collaborating with partners to accelerate innovative tools and ideas that empower and equip libraries to make information more accessible.

We work with a national network of partners to:

• Make millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available to all in a one-stop discovery experience.
• Provide a library-controlled marketplace and platform for libraries to purchase, organize, and deliver ebooks and other e-content to their patrons.
• Convene library leaders and practitioners to explore and advance technologies that serve, inform, and empower their communities.

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Three interactive learning environments for preschoolers and children in early grades.
https://www.worldbookonline.com/wbel/#/home

The Learning Network

Teach and Learn With The Times: Resources for Bringing the World Into Your Classroom.

An online learning tool provided by the New York Times offering:

• Lesson Plans
• Current Events
• Student Opinions
• Contests
• Film Club
• Activities for Students
  • Writing Prompts
  • Articles & Questions
  • Quizzes and Crosswords
  • Multimedia
  • Contests
• Coronavirus Resource Page for Students
• Professional Development Webinars
• Resources for Teachers
  • English Language Arts
  • Social Studies
  • E.L.L & Arts
  • Science & Math
  • Current Events

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The Ohio Web Library is an evolving collection of thousands of online publications and research resources. The Ohio Web Library includes: popular magazines, trade publications, scholarly research journals, newspapers, encyclopedias, dictionaries, speeches, poems, plays, maps, satellite images of Ohio, and more. The Ohio Web Library supports quality education, a skilled workforce, business growth, and lifelong learning in Ohio.

In addition to the Ohio Web Library, Ohio’s three library networks — INFOhio, OhioLINK and OPLIN — offer more research resources and services that serve the specialized needs of their school, public and academic library communities. Where the needs of Ohio’s school, public and academic library users intersect, Libraries Connect Ohio, a partnership of the three library networks and the State Library, can cooperatively buy statewide access to resources to cost-effectively provide necessary information resources to all Ohioans, regardless of their location, age, education or economic status.

Imagine the possibilities if from the moment Ohioans registered for kindergarten, until life’s last library card expired, they could access a vast collection of electronic research resources. This is the vision Libraries Connect Ohio (LCO) is working to achieve. While the ideal Ohio Web Library collection has not yet been realized, work has begun.

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How can the Ohio Web Library help me?

The Ohio Web Library has resources to help Ohioans of all ages and at all stages of life.

• Ohio Students and Home Schooling Students — Get help with your homework, find research sources for term papers, or explore topics of personal interest.
• Teachers and Professors — Use resources to support your teaching, engage students and enhance your professional development.
• Employees and Business Owners — Find reliable business information, access trade journals and keep current on industry trends.
• All Ohio residents — Stay current with world events, professional news and topics of personal interest.

Who can use the Ohio Web Library?

Although there are a few links to some resources that are publicly accessible, the vast majority of Ohio Web Library resources are available to Ohio residents only.

These resources are paid for by a blend of state, local, and federal dollars and there may be terms and conditions attached to that funding. These resources are also licensed to the LCO partners by third-party vendors and there are contractual obligations regarding authorized use and users, branding, and use of the name of the resource and company name in press releases. Please inquire about specific terms and conditions and contractual obligations if any agency or entity is interested in incorporating or linking to these resources outside of library websites or other established channels.

How do I access the Ohio Web Library?

Ohio residents can get easy access to the Ohio Web Library (http://ohioweblibrary.org) in several ways.

• Use your mobile computer or a public access computer at your local Ohio public, academic or school library.
• When at home, work or on the road, our system will try to verify that you are using a computer located in Ohio; if that can be verified, you will be granted access.
• If our system cannot verify that your computer is in Ohio, you will need one of the following forms of identification to log on: an Ohio public library card number, a name and ID information from a participating Ohio college/university, or a password from a K-12 Ohio school library.

Visit the Ohio Web Library home page to connect and begin using these resources. You can also access the Ohio Web Library resources via OhioLINK (if you attend or work at a participating Ohio college or university), or INFOhio (if you attend or work at an Ohio PreK-12 school), or your local library’s Web page.

Why should I need identification?

Ohio Web Library resources were purchased by Ohio libraries and library organizations for exclusive use by Ohio residents. If our system cannot verify that you are located in Ohio, use of an Ohio public library card, a name and ID information from a participating Ohio college/university, or a password from a K-12 Ohio school library provides reasonable assurance to the database providers that the user is an Ohio resident.

How do I sign up for identification?

Contact your J.R. Clarke Public Library at (937) 473-2226 to sign up for a library card. Ohio college/university students, faculty and staff should use their institution’s existing ID information. Ohio school students and teachers need to contact their school library for the required password.

The Ohio Digital Library is a program of the State Library of Ohio and is supported in whole or in part by federal Institute of Museum and Library Services funds, awarded to the State Library of Ohio.

• You need a library card to borrow digital titles, place holds, and add titles to your wish list.
• Begin typing your library’s name to see if it’s a member of this website, or click the down arrow to select from a list. Once you select a library, we’ll show you the best way to get a library card.
• You will need to download the Overdrive App or you can also download on a Kindle.
• You can search for books by Subjects, Collections, Kindle only Books, Kids, Teens Magazines and Romance.

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Thousands of colorful illustrations, diagrams, and maps enrich thousands of articles, with teacher guides.

https://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/home