Learning Resources

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National Library Service (NLS) is a free braille and talking book library service for people with temporary or permanent low vision, blindness, or a physical, perceptual, or reading disability that prevents them from using regular print materials.

Provides access to reading recommendations for both fiction and nonfiction.

ParentTV offers thousands of on-demand parenting videos and courses with content designed to support those who care for children, from pregnancy through to teenage years.

Lists of passengers and immigrants are compiled from naturalization records, government documents, ship manifests, and historical sources.

The Smithtown Library is an officially-designated Patent & Trademark Resource Center (PTRC), part of a nationwide library network maintained by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO).

PressReader offers access to more than 6,000 newspapers and magazines from more than 100 countries in 60+ languages.

Offers fun and personalized language-learning courses in 163 languages as well as courses for ESL speakers of 50 non-English languages.

Proquest/US Newsstream provides access to local, regional, and national newspapers (1980-current).

The premier source for business and residential information for reference and research.

Contains proprietary book and journal articles, images and videos, topic-specific timelines, tables and charts, and diagrams that provide a thorough grounding in all areas of the science curriculum.

Access science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals with a wide range of subjects.

Access to biographical profiles of authors and illustrators for children and young adults.

Access to local newspapers covering nearly 100 years of Suffolk County, NY history and obituaries.

The Andrew Heiskell Library operates a books-by-mail program that delivers thousands of recorded and braille titles postage-free

A research database for teachers, providing indexing and abstracts for more than 230 peer-reviewed journals.

Tech-talk is composed of articles, videos, and webinars to help non-techies learn the basics of modern technology.

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events 1857 – 1922.