E-Resources by Subject
Genealogy | Jobs | Learning Resources | Newspapers & Magazines | Resources for Writers | Student Resources
These resources are accessible from anywhere with your library card. While most resources are available to all MARINet patrons, some are limited to patrons whose home library is San Rafael. If you need help with your library card number, please contact us.
Popular Resources
San Rafael patrons only.
San Rafael patrons only.
All Marin County residents.
Community Collections
San Rafael Creates
Digital collections featuring local art, history, music, and writing. Submissions are welcome!
eBooks, eAudiobooks, and Streaming
Books, Magazines, Movies, TV, Music, and Performing Arts.
Here you’ll find: Hoopla Digital, Libby/Overdrive, The Palace Project, Proquest Book Central, O’Reilly Learning, Kanopy, and Proquest Music & Performing Arts Collection.
Genealogy
Ancestry.com Library Edition — Access available in-person at the library.
Genealogical information and records including the U.S. and Canadian Census, and the Social Security Death Index.
Jobs & Careers
BrainFuse Adult Learning Center
Provides resume writing help, career resources, MS Office help, practice tests and resources for US Citizenship, practice tests and coaching for High School Equivalency. Also, provides live 1 on 1 help from 1pm – 10pm.
Learning Resources
A comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.
Driving-Tests.org — Access for San Rafael Public Library patrons only.
Free California DMV practice tests and guidebooks for cars, motorcycles, and commercial licenses (in English and Spanish).
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars, researchers, and students at the college and university level. A multi-disciplinary resource, collections cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Particular strengths include U.S. foreign policy; U.S. civil rights; global affairs and colonial studies; and modern history. Collections are chosen based on requests from scholars, archivists, and students. Access for San Rafael Public Library patrons only. Use password: sanrafael
Online language learning program in a variety of languages, focusing on everyday conversational skills. Also includes English as a second language.
Free access to 35K+ books, 30K+ hours of video, curated learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials, audio books, and O’Reilly conference videos about computer science, programming, engineering, data science, and more. Formerly Safari Tech.
Provides audio/video, books, and articles from magazines, newspapers, as well as peer reviewed journals. For upper-level researchers this is a combination of many databases including Coronavirus Research Database, eBook Central, eLibrary, Global Newsstream, LA Times, Publicly Available Content Database, SIRS Discoverer and SIRS Issues Researcher. Access provided courtesy of the California State Library.
Newspapers & Magazines
A comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues from all over the world. Includes Marin Independent Journal from 2002-present, SF Chronical from 1985-present, and many more. San Rafael residents only.
California Digital Newspaper Collection
The CA Digital Newspaper Collection contains over 1,500,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-present, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California.
County-wide access the current issue of Consumer Reports online via Flipster.
Marin IJ (NewsBank) articles or images with searchable full text from 2002-current. SR residents only.
Free, 3-day access, county-wide, to NYTimes.com, the digital version of The New York Times. Note: You will need to log in or create a NYTimes.com account.
Available through the Libby App or on a computer. Thousands of magazines in several languages, including popular magazines like The New Yorker, The Economist, Newsweek, OK, and US Weekly.
Find articles from current major national and international newspapers including Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
San Francisco Chronicle (NewsBank) articles and images with searchable full text from 1985-current. SR residents only.
The Wall Street Journal
Access to The Wall Street Journal, is now only available inProQuest Newstand – an American business-focused, international daily newspaper with access from 1984-present.
Free, county-wide, 7-day access of today’s news when you create an account with your email. A link will be sent to your email to connect to the publication.
Resources for Writers – California Author Project
We’ve partnered with BiblioBoard to offer you a suite of products to allow you to create and share your work and discover work from other indie authors near and far.
Pressbooks Public
Pressbooks Public gives you easy-to-use tools to get your work in stylish eBook and print-ready formats.
Indie Author Project
Submit your work to BiblioBoard’s Indie Author Project to share your book with libraries across your region. If your work is selected by BiblioBoard’s curation partners it will be available to a wider audience across the US and Canada!
BiblioBoard® Library
Enjoy digital books, images, videos and more from libraries, artists, authors and others from your community and around the world.
Student Resources (K-12 & Academic)
Provides students of all ages with homework help, skill-building, eLearning tools, 24 hour writing lab, help with homework questions, foreign language lab, and Spanish speaking support.
The go-to site for learning more about any subject—for all grades and all reading abilities—offering thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Web sites, and three separate databases—Elementary, Middle, or High. School
El recurso principal que ofrece miles de artículos, imágenes, videos, clips de audio, fuentes primarias, mapas, herramientas de investigación, y sitios web recomendados, todos actualizados, seleccionados y relevantes para el plan de estudios. Se ofrece dos niveles: primaria y secundaria.
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars, researchers, and students at the college and university level.
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies
Broadens student understanding of environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
Allows students to manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand biology, chemistry, earth, and space science concepts.
Access to National Geographic Kids photos, videos, books, and magazines, all with school-appropriate citations included.
Provides audio/video, books, and articles from magazines, newspapers, as well as peer reviewed journals. For upper-level researchers this is a combination of many databases including Coronavirus Research Database, eBook Central, eLibrary, Global Newsstream, LA Times, Publicly Available Content Database, SIRS Discoverer and SIRS Issues Researcher. Access provided courtesy of the California State Library.
Concise cultural information on countries around the world. (Grades 3-12)
ProQuest Music and Performing Arts Collection
A diverse collection of Music, Dance and Theatre content provided by Alexander Street. This resource covers hundreds of genres and a wide range of content types, from instruction to performance. Leading content providers include the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Qwest TV, Smithsonian, L.A. Theatre Works, Broadway On-Demand, and many more.
General reference collection of periodical and digital media content with editorial guidance for novice researchers. Includes newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, books, videos and audios, dissertations and theses, reports and more. (Grades 6+)
Selected content for beginning researchers, especially elementary and middle school students and educators. (Grades 3-9)
School & Educators Complete (eBooks)
Collection of over 12,000 eBooks supporting multiple subject areas (English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Health, Physical Education, Information Literacy and Technology). (Grades 9+ and professional development content for faculty).
TeachingBooks.net Book Connections
A collection of instructional materials about children’s and young adult books and authors, including booklists, meet-the-author videos, and many other author and book resources.
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