Offers resources for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities, including a collection of Deaf resources in digital formats and access to information regardless of location. Provides assistance to Virginia residents as well as public and academic library staff throughout the state.
Explore guided tutorials focus primarily on library resources, from OverDrive eBooks, eAudio, and eMagazines, to our reading challenge platform Beanstack. Find tutorials on other commonly used tools, including Google and an array of social media platforms. Create an account to track your progress or take tutorials at will. Read more here about Niche Academy.
Offers resources for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities, including a collection of Deaf resources in digital formats and access to information regardless of location. Provides assistance to Virginia residents as well as public and academic library staff throughout the state.
Junior Library Guild Digital is an unlimited synchronous access collection of eBooks and eAudio for students K-12. The content is refreshed every 30 days so there is always something new to read! Note the filter in the upper right hand of the search bar to control grade levels, fiction, non-fiction, eAudio and eBook versions. You should not be prompted for a login, but if you are, use the following: username: VirginiaReader, password: VirginiaReader
Just for Kids, by Infobase, provides access to over 11,000 streaming videos for children. Subjects include ABCs & 123s, Arts & Music, Health & PE, History, Math, People & Places, Reading & Writing, Sciences, TV Shows & Movies, and World Languages. You can find videos produced by the Jim Henson Company, PBS, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, Weston Woods, and more. Create a free personal account to create and customize playlists, save favorites, sign up for newsletters based on your interests, and take advantage of other features. Provided by Find It Virginia.
Learn how to use Just for Kids Access Video through this tutorial on Niche Academy.
Thoughtful entertainment for children aged preschool and up. Parents and caregivers can stream videos from a curated selection of educational and enriching videos on Kanopy Kids with developmentally appropriate, age-based ratings from Common Sense Media, as well as additional parental controls to help keep kids safe. Read more here.
Learn how to use Kanopy Kids through this tutorial on Niche Academy.
Kanopy has educational videos and documentaries, as well as classic and foreign films. For more information on this service, read our introduction to Kanopy.
Learn how to use Kanopy through this tutorial on Niche Academy.
Explore guided tutorials focus primarily on library resources, from OverDrive eBooks, eAudio, and eMagazines, to our reading challenge platform Beanstack. Find tutorials on other commonly used tools, including Google and an array of social media platforms. Create an account to track your progress or take tutorials at will. Read more here about Niche Academy.
Download complete digital copies of current and back issues of popular magazines. They never expire and are never overdue.
Magazines are now available through the Library of Virginia, opens a new window via the Libby app, opens a new window or the Find It Virginia collection, opens a new window. To access all of the Library of Virginia’s OverDrive collections, “Add a library”, search for “Library of Virginia,” and sign in with your library card.
