Resources

Powered by EBSCOhost for middle and high school students, MAS Ultra - School Edition is a collection of magazines, books, and multimedia covering a wide-range of subject areas including history, science, careers, etc.

Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE Premier covers virtually every area of general interest and also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents.

Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary is powered by Britannica Digital Learning for students and educators. It is the largest, most comprehensive American dictionary containing more than 700,000 definitions with 143,000 etymologies.

Powered by EBSCOhost, MiddleSearchPlus includes magazine and primary sources suitable for middle school students.

NoveList has been helping readers find their next favorite book for over 20 years and continues to create solutions for connecting readers, books, and libraries.

Powered by EBSCO for children and pre-teens, NoveList K-8 is a children's fiction recommendation resource with read-alikes, discussion guides, reading lists and more.

For elementary, middle, and high school students and educators, PBS Wisconsin Education contains hundreds of educational videos, images, and animations spanning all curricular areas.

Full-text classic and contemporary poems, short stories, biographies, essays, lesson plans, and learning guides (previously named Poetry & Short Story Reference Center)

Resources presenting multiple sides of an issue to help assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues, and develop analytical thinking skills.

Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research.

TeachingBooks share the spirit of books and reading by bringing authors into your classroom. Provided by BadgerLink.

Learn something new today! UniversalClass offers hundreds of online CE classes. Our courses are not just tutorials; they are real.

WISCAT is a statewide union catalog of library holdings containing over 7 million titles and more than 33 million holdings from over 1,200 contributing Wisconsin libraries, including Mead Public Library. 

WorldCat.org is a new product that includes a search box which allows Web users to search the entire database of library materials by keywords. You may then put in geographic information and find out how to get the item.