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Learn the essential skills you need to live and work in the 21st century. From Microsoft Office (Word, Excel & PowerPoint) and email, to reading, math, and more—GCFGlobal.org offers more than 300 topics, including more than 6,000 lessons, more than 2,000 videos, and more than 50 interactives and games, completely free.
Provider: Open Source
Subject: Business, Career & College, Education
Comprehensive information on every country in the world. Get maps, airport information, view pictures of their currency, and learn about their culture all in one location. Anything about World travel can be viewed here.
Provider: Chicopee Public Library
Subject: Geography, Travel
Created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals, Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics. With more than 2,500 embargo-free, full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries, Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine ensures that researchers get current, scholarly, comprehensive answers to health-related questions.
Provider: MBLC
Subject: Health
hoopla is a digital media service 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 the Chicopee Public Library at your fingertips. Anytime. Anywhere.
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Provider: Chicopee Public Library
Subject: ebooks, e-audiobooks, Movies, Music, TV
The Chicopee Chamber of Commerce created video resources that will walk you through some of the imperative steps and departments involved in establishing a business in Chicopee, MA.
Provider: Chicopee
Subject: Business
Library science students, information science and technology professionals, and others will value the Gale OneFile: Information Science. It is updated daily with articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology, including usability, cataloging, circulation, business information, and more.
Provider: MBLC
Subject: Science
Protection of assets—physical or intellectual—is a concern for those ranging from the individual property owner to multinational corporations. The Gale OneFile: Insurance and Liability connects researchers to hundreds of thousands of updated articles from leading journals, including: Business Insurance, Claims, Employee Benefit News, National Underwriter Life & Health, Pensions & Investments, Risk Management, and more.
Provider: MBLC
Subject: Government & Law
Analyzes hundreds of controversial topics and provides more than 650 in-depth articles on current issues in the news in a language and format for students. Features include weekly updates, new articles added biweekly, “Issues: Pro and Con” lists that highlight important debate topics, “By Numbers”statistical overviews of key issues, research topics, “What Happened That Day” and other features.
Provider: Chicopee Public Library
Subject: Current Events
Kanopy is a video streaming service that provides instant access to thousands of critically acclaimed movies, documentaries and Kids favorites. We partner with studios like A24, The Criterion Collection, PBS and more to bring your library access to thoughtful entertainment.
Using a mobile device? Download the Kanopy app (ios or android)
Already a Libby app user? Kanopy is also discoverable on the Libby. Look for “Extras” to access Kanopy.
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Provider: Chicopee Public Library
Subject: Movies
Targets the research needs of students in Kindergarten thru Grade 5. Featuring a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface with full-text curriculum related topics.
Provider: MBLC
Subject: General Reference, Kids
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. Explore it’s digital collecitons here.
Provider: Library of Congress
Subject: General Reference, History
Lingo LITE uses images, text, and native speaker video to help you learn vocabulary up to four times faster than any other method. Lingo LITE uses Associative Multimedia Learning to help your brain associate an image with the correct word in a language without first translating it from your native language, for a faster and easier learning experience.
Provider: Chicopee Public Library
Subject: Languages