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38 Farmedge Road
Island Trees, NY 11756-5200
Phone: 516-731-2211
Fax: 516-731-3798

Director: Frank McKenna

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Monday - Friday
9:30AM - 9:00 PM

Saturday
9:30AM - 5:00 PM

Sunday
12:00PM - 4:00PM*
*October through May






Electronic Resources By Subject

Literature

Magill OnLiterature Plus
MagillOnLiterature Plus, produced by Salem Press, is the premier literary database, combining MagillOnLiterature and MagillOnAuthors. This database includes all the literary works, reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries that are included in MagillOnLiterature, as well as all the biographies and author essays included in MagillOnAuthors.

Novelist
A fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.

Novelist K-8
A database of young adult, children's, and easy titles designed for children in pre-K, elementary or middle schools or your library's children's room. NoveList K-8 uses the same great database engine as NoveList.

Scribner's Writers Series
The Scribner Writers series, "long the gold standard for literary criticism" according to the American Library Association's Reference & User Services Quarterly (Vol. 38, No. 1), includes some 1,600 full-text articles on writers and literary genres drawn from thirteen acclaimed print sets. Each signed article was written by a noted scholar and concludes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources for further study.

Tumblebooks
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks, animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.

Twayne Authors Series
Comprises 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, 200 each from Twayne World, US, and English Authors.

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