11 Digital Resources
Science, Environment & Technology
Club Sandwich
Club Sandwich is a Palmerston North City Library initiative, connecting you with clubs in Palmerston North.
Browse the Club Sandwich website for clubs that suit your taste, then contact a club through the site, or by using the contact details provided on a club’s profile. Clubs can register a club profile, manage and update their details on Club Sandwich for free.
Computer Science (Gale OneFile)
Access leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries.
This database includes more than 600 journals and periodicals, providing information on computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.
Culinary Arts (Gale OneFile)
Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, and industry information.
Find a variety of information from major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as key reference titles.
Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale OneFile)
Answers inquiries about environmental concerns, with coverage of more than 5.4 million articles from more than 300 journals and books.
Environmental Studies and Policy provides access to journals, magazines, and other reference sources covering environmental issues and policies. The database includes diverse perspectives from the scientific community, policymakers, and corporate interests.
Fiero Code - NEW
Learn how to make video games, websites, apps, animations and more.
A learn to code software program designed for ages 8 -18. Through fun and engaging tutorials and projects, Fiero Code teaches kids coding languages, such as HTML, Python and JavaScript that they can use to build their own websites, video games, apps and more. As they progress through the activities they’ll unlock gear that they can use to customize their own avatar.
Create an account the first time you use Fiero Code.
Global Issues (Gale In Context)
Integrates news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more in a single search.
Global Issues offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal.
LinkedIn Learning for Library
LinkedIn Learning for Library offers free access to thousands of online courses.
LinkedIn Learning for Library, helps users learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Library members have access to a video library of top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts.
A LinkedIn profile is not required to access LinkedIn Learning for Library, only a library card and PIN. Your learning history is tied to your library card.
Download the LinkedIn Learning app from your app store. Click on Sign in, then click on Sign in with your library card to log in through our Library. You’ll be prompted to enter our Library’s ID, and then your library card number and pin.
Note: the Library ID is at the end of the LinkedIn Learning invitation link, and is palmerstonnorthcitylibrary (lower case and one word).
National Geographic Kids (Gale)
Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology and space.
Includes the complete run of the magazine from 2009 to the present. Provides authoritative, age appropriate digital content suitable for younger readers.
National Geographic Virtual Library (Gale)
A collection containing digital content from National Geographic.
National Geographic Virtual Library includes the complete archive of National Geographic magazines from 1888 to the present, National Geographic : People, Animals and the World and National Geographic Kids. Along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos.
Science (Gale OneFile)
Access information on the latest developments across a range of scientific disciplines.
Remain current with the latest scientific developments in the biological sciences, computing, engineering, technology and more. Updated daily.
Smithsonian Collections Online (Gale)
Search nineteenth and twentieth-century archives from the Smithsonian.
This database provides access to the following collections from the Smithsonian, Evolution of flight 1784 - 1991, Trade Literature and Merchandising of Industry, World's Fairs and Expositions : Visions of Tomorrow, and the Smithsonian and Air & Space magazine archive.