DATABASES
Library Chef – Cooking Classes
Welcome to Library Chef!
We’re excited to offer you access to LibraryChef—your go-to platform for adults to build kitchen skills, explore nutrition, and enjoy wellness programs, and for kids and teens to have fun with cooking classes! With your library card, you can dive into live cooking classes, exciting recipes, and more.
Here’s What’s Cooking:
For Adults:
- Live Cooking Classes: Learn essential skills with interactive monthly classes.
- Nutrition Sessions: Join live talks with professional nutritionists.
- Wellness Sessions: Explore wellness topics to support a healthy lifestyle.
- Guest Chefs: Experience cooking with chefs from around the world.
- On-Demand Access: Missed a class? Replays are always available for you to watch anytime.
For Kids & Teens:
- 2 Live Cooking Classes per Month: 1 for kids (ages 5-9) and 1 for teens (ages 10+), featuring hands-on cooking fun and exciting kitchen challenges.
- On-Demand Access: Replays are available, so kids and teens can catch up and cook at their own pace!
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Novel Effect – Read alouds e-books!
Welcome to Novel Effect and a world of magical read-alouds!
The Novel Effect app responds to your voice with interactive music and sound effects as you read aloud from a popular children’s book to make story time together magical. Choose to read aloud from old-fashioned print books or their selection of in-app ebooks.
Your child’s engagement, interest, and love for reading will soar with Novel Effect, and you’ll find yourself having more fun too! As a benefit of your library membership, you get FREE access to this one-of-a-kind resource. Join the thousands of educators, librarians, and families using Novel Effect to make reading aloud together the best part of the day.
To activate your access, click or tap ACCESS NOVEL EFFECT HERE below, then follow the instructions to:
- In the username field, type your complete library card number (ALL 14-DIGITS). In the password field, type your PIN (last 4 of phone number)
- Download the Novel Effect app on the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
- Create a profile in the Novel Effect app.
- Start reading aloud with magic!!!
Blackstone Unlimited
Blackstone is a provider of digital audiobooks. Choose from over 6,000 titles in every genre imaginable. Titles are always available, so you never have to place a hold – you’re always first in line! All you need to create an account is an email address and your library card. (This service is open to ALL – cardholders.)
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Niche Academy
Instructional video tutorials for digital library resources, such as Hoopla Digital, Gale, BrainFuse, Overdrive; Tutorials in social media applications such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter; and for software programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel.
Scholastic Teachables
Educational Worksheets & Lessons
Scholastic Teachables offers a wide variety of learning resources for teachers, parents, and students. The thousands of resources include teacher-created lesson plans, activity sheets, and mini-books. Print, save, and share content for your kids and students. Teachables content extends from Pre-K to 6th grade, covering a variety of subjects.
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Educate Station
Educate Station provides easy-to-use, comprehensive learning plans with a robust range of extension activities across a wide range of subject areas and grade levels.
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Hoopla Digital
A service offered by your local public library that allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics and TV shows to enjoy on your computer, tablet, or phone – and even your TV! With no waiting, titles can be streamed immediately, or downloaded to phones or tablets for offline enjoyment later. We have hundreds of thousands of titles to choose from, with more being added daily. hoopla is like having your public library at your fingertips. Anytime. Anywhere.
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Service limited to library cardholders who live or own property in the City of Clarinda, Rural Page County, or a contracting community.
Chilton Library
Automotive Repair
Authoritative automotive repair information. Thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.
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Transparent Languages
Language Learning
The fast, easy, and most effective way to learn to speak a foreign language! An online language learning system that teaches real conversation skills for practical communication using fun and engaging interactive lessons.
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Bridges
eBooks & Audiobooks
The library has a growing collection of eBooks and Audiobooks that can be downloaded to eReaders, mobile devices, and personal computers. Titles automatically expire at the end of the lending period or you can return them early and check out another. Either way, there are no late fees!
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Service limited to library cardholders who live or own property in the City of Clarinda, Rural Page County, or a contracting community.
Mometrix eLibrary
Study Materials for Over 1,500 Standardized Exams
Mometrix eLibrary offers study materials for over 1,500 standardized exams including college entrance, graduate school, finance, nursing and medical, civil service, K-12, teacher certification exams, and many more.
(NO password required, must allow location acess)
NoveList
Literature Reading
A fiction database designed for readers in all genres. Describe a plot with author readalikes, find reviews, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. Other content of interest to fiction readers includes ‘What We’re Reading’, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists.
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Clarinda, Iowa Newspapers 1858-2013
Library Digital Newspapers
This database contains more than 250,000 historical newspaper pages from Clarinda Herald Journal. The full-page newspapers, dating back to 1858, are searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content.
(In Library Use Only)
People’s Law Library
The People’s Law Library of Iowa is meant to be an easy-to-understand, basic information website about the law. The assumption is that the user has no prior knowledge of law or legal topics. This website can be a good starting point for understanding some legal issues. It seeks to help users find primary law, so anyone can read the original text being summarized, and to collect and link to accurate, authoritative sources, like the Iowa Judicial Branch or Iowa Attorney General websites, for example. Lastly, because people learn and retain information in different ways, the website contains video explanations of some topics, as well as navigation and training videos for how to best use the website.
The People’s Law Library is not legal advice, nor is it a replacement for a lawyer. The contents should be read as providing basic, introductory information only. The law can be complicated and many aspects of the law change regularly. More information about how to find a lawyer, including free and low-cost options, is available by visiting their website below!