ERS Resources

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Visit ERS online at www.erslibrary.org or call 651-3031 for more information on how to access our resources.

Through the Media Plus Contract, Educational Resource Services offers a wide range of instructional resources including videocassettes, CD-ROMs, laser disks, computer software, sound recordings and more. The ERS Teacher Resource Center aids teachers in curriculum planning and presentation. As an added benefit, repair of audio-video equipment is available free of labor charges. In addition, ERSPortal gives you access to a spectrum of online resources:

L4U online booking system allows clients to search the entire 80,000 item ERS collection by subject, phrase or keyword.
Standards Resource Guide aligns resources from the ERS online catalog and websites to the California State Standards.
EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system available via ERSPortal. If offers a variety of full text and popular databases from leading information providers.
UnitedStreaming is a digital video-based learning service containing over 4,000 videos (40,000 clips) that are correlated to state education standards.
Visual Thesaurus is a visual representation of over 145,000 words and 115,000 meanings.
BrainPOP is a collection of standards-based animated movies for grades K-8.
Textbook Resource Guide aligns the ERS online catalog with Houghton Mifflin and Open Court Reading/Language Arts K-6 educational themes.
California Streaming is a digital video-based learning service containing thousands of quality streaming videos, images and audio files, along with a growing list of content hand-selected by California curriculum experts.
Associated Press - Extensive Photo Archive offers tons of online images in the Associated Press AccuNet Photo Archive!
Marco Polo offers free K-12 standards-based lesson plans across many disciplines including art, economics, humanities, mathematics, science and geography.