Unless otherwise noted all resources are accessible from home with your Sanibel Public Library Card. Enter your Library Card Number (found on the back of your card) and your Pin (typically the last 4 digits of your library card number) to login. Cookies must be enabled on your browser to access these resources.
 Should anyone find information or functionality which is inaccessible, please contact the library by phone at (239) 472-2483 or by email at accessibility@sanlib.org and we will make every reasonable effort to accommodate accessibility requests.

Art, Culture, Music, & Film

  • A to Z World Food: With thousands of international recipes, hundreds of fascinating culture and ingredient articles, and essential culinary resources, AtoZ World Food brings international cuisines to you, from Albanian byrek to Zimbabwean matemba! Recipes and Food Culture. 6,500 recipes for every course.
  • A to Z Food America: Get a Taste of America Today with hundreds of fascinating ingredients, articles, and essential culinary resources . Explore flavors from around the United States with AtoZ Food America.
  • Brainfuse HelpNow: Online Tutoring, and So Much More! Get real-time assistance through the intuitive Brainfuse online classroom. Brainfuse offers tutoring services in Spanish for all subjects offered in English.
  • Britannica ImageQuest: Premium image database featuring the best and broadest offering of curriculum-relevant imagery and clip art materials (infographics, signs and symbols, graphic concepts, and cool vector illustrations), all rights-cleared for educational, non-commercial use. Use this link for inside library use.
  • Fine Arts and Music Collection: With more than 100 full-text magazines and journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection provides users with resources to support research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
  • HooplaAccess thousands of movies, television shows, music albums and audiobooks, all available for mobile and desktop use. Digital content from Hollywood studios, major-label record companies and publishers can be borrowed for instant streaming to smartphones, tablets, and computers, or for temporary downloading to smartphones and tablets. Note: Streaming requires continuous access to an Internet connection via wireless, ethernet, or cellular data plan. Visit www.hoopladigital.com to sign up for an account with your valid Sanibel Public Library card number, or visit your device’s app store to download the free hoopla mobile app. Check out a maximum of 5 items per month (borrow audiobooks for 21 days, music albums for 7 days, and movies/television shows for 2 to 3 days). No overdue fees; items are automatically returned to the library at the end of the lending period. View our Hoopla Guide to find customized downloading instructions for your device.
  • Internet Movie Database: IMDB is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.
  • Kanopy: Stream classic cinema, indie film, top documentaries and more! Kanopy offers more than 26,000 films streaming to a wide range of devices and platforms including Roku, Apple, Android, and Windows.
  • LibbyStream and download music, television shows, and movies! To sign in to Sanibel Libby, enter your library card barcode and PIN. (Your PIN is the last 4 digits of your library card number) This collection is hand-selected and built from the ground up with a focus on quality selections that meet the diverse reading and listening preferences of the Sanibel community. This collection can be enjoyed on your computer (PC or Mac) or on a compatible eReader or tablet (including iPad, iPhone, Android devices, Kindle, Nook, and Sony). Check out a maximum of 15 books at a time for up to 14 days. No overdue fees; books are automatically returned to the library at the end of the lending period. Visit Libby’s guide to find customized downloading instructions for your device.

Books & Reading

  • Book Spot: Book spot simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web. Featured sites are hand-selected by BookSpot.com editors and organized into intuitive categories, such as bestseller lists, genres, book reviews, electronic texts, book news and more.
  • Books in Print: Books In Print® combines the most trusted and authoritative source of bibliographic information with powerful search, discovery and collection development. Having trouble accessing the resource? Use this link for inside library use.
  • eSequels: eSequels is current and complete so you can find the newest title by your favorite author or spot a title that you may have missed. When using the inside library link, enter username: dunlop, and pass: 33957. Use this link for inside library use.
  • HooplaAccess thousands of movies, television shows, music albums and audiobooks, all available for mobile and desktop use. Digital content from Hollywood studios, major-label record companies and publishers can be borrowed for instant streaming to smartphones, tablets, and computers, or for temporary downloading to smartphones and tablets. Note: Streaming requires continuous access to an Internet connection via wireless, ethernet, or cellular data plan. Visit www.hoopladigital.com to sign up for an account with your valid Sanibel Public Library card number, or visit your device’s app store to download the free hoopla mobile app. Check out a maximum of 5 items per month (borrow audiobooks for 21 days, music albums for 7 days, and movies/television shows for 2 to 3 days). No overdue fees; items are automatically returned to the library at the end of the lending period. View our Hoopla Guide to find customized downloading instructions for your device.
  • Fantastic Fiction: Fantastic Fiction is a unique online resource that is centered round authors, rather than books. Each author has their own page so you can see at a glance everything they have written in the order in which they were published, plus any new or forthcoming books.
  • Florida Electronic Library: Full text from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources.
  • Fresh Fiction: Fresh Fiction is a website designed to provide easy, accessible, and informative data to popular fiction readers on current authors and their available books. Find books and authors in national media.
  • NoveList Plus: A reader’s advisory database that provides subject heading access, reviews and annotations for both fiction titles and nonfiction titles; and custom created articles and lists, including readalikes and book discussion questions. Having trouble accessing the resource? Use this link for inside library use.
  • LibbyRead and listen to great eBooks and audiobooks! To sign in to Sanibel Libby, enter your library card barcode and PIN. (Your PIN is the last 4 digits of your library card number) This collection is hand-selected and built from the ground up with a focus on quality selections that meet the diverse reading and listening preferences of the Sanibel community. This collection can be enjoyed on your computer (PC or Mac) or on a compatible eReader or tablet (including iPad, iPhone, Android devices, Kindle, Nook, and Sony). Check out a maximum of 15 books at a time for up to 14 days. No overdue fees; books are automatically returned to the library at the end of the lending period. Visit Libby’s guide to find customized downloading instructions for your device.
  • Random House Reader’s Circle:Random House Reader’s Circle is dedicated to publishing the very best for book groups—thought-provoking books selected because they have a compelling narrative guaranteed to spark a lively discussion.

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Business

  • Business Collection (Gale): The Business Collection provides coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.
  • Business Economics and Theory: Business Economics and Theory Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics and related fields. The database has an emphasis on titles indexed in the American Economic Association’s EconLit bibliography.
  • Business Insights Essentials: Essentials combines all of the content formerly found in Business & Company Resource Center with a new interface designed around the research goals and workflows of your diverse business research community.
  • Florida Small Business Development Center: Business Collection provides coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.
  • MorningStar Investment Research Center: Find comprehensive financial information on thousands of funds, information on hundreds of exchange-traded funds, and up-to-date information on returns, reports and more. Use this link for inside library use.
  • Small Business Reference Center (Gale): Features a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding.
  • U.S. Small Business Administration: The U.S. Small Business Administration provides support to small businesses and entrepreneurs. They provide information on starting and managing a business, loans and grants, and training.

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Children & Teens

  • Brainfuse HelpNow: Online Tutoring, and So Much More! Get real-time assistance through the intuitive Brainfuse online classroom. Brainfuse offers tutoring services in Spanish for all subjects offered in English.
  • Britannica for Kids: Provides resources for homework, reports, and projects in a fun format while encouraging online research skills. Contains biographical, career, history, science, and readers’ advisory resources. Having trouble accessing the resource? Use this link for inside library use.
  • Britannica for Teens: Provides resources for homework, reports, and projects in a fun format while encouraging online research skills. Contains biographical, career, history, science, and readers’ advisory resources. Having trouble accessing the resource? Use this link for inside library use.
  • Fact Monster: Fact Monster is an online reference site for students, teachers, and parents. Get homework help and find facts on thousands of subjects.
  • Farmer’s Almanac for Kids: The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids includes information like weather forecasts, farmers’ planting dates, tide tables, and other interesting information.
  • Florida Kids: This site can provide you with knowledge to help with your Florida projects and assignments. You can learn about Florida’s people from 12,000 years ago to the present, people of all cultures who have made our state their home.
  • Florida Electronic Library: The Florida Electronic Library (FEL) is a gateway to: electronic magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias and books.
  • Hoopla KidsAccess thousands of movies, television shows, music albums and audiobooks, all available for mobile and desktop use. Digital content from Hollywood studios, major-label record companies and publishers can be borrowed for instant streaming to smartphones, tablets, and computers, or for temporary downloading to smartphones and tablets. Note: Streaming requires continuous access to an Internet connection via wireless, ethernet, or cellular data plan. Visit www.hoopladigital.com to sign up for an account with your valid Sanibel Public Library card number, or visit your device’s app store to download the free hoopla mobile app. Check out a maximum of 5 items per month (borrow audiobooks for 21 days, music albums for 7 days, and movies/television shows for 2 to 3 days). No overdue fees; items are automatically returned to the library at the end of the lending period. View our Hoopla Guide to find customized downloading instructions for your device.
  • Kids InfoBits: Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related content.
  • NoveList Plus: A reader’s advisory database that provides subject heading access, reviews and annotations for both fiction titles and nonfiction titles; and custom created articles and lists, including readalikes and book discussion questions. Having trouble accessing the resource? Use this link for inside library use.
  • Research In Context: Created specifically for middle-schoolers, Research in Context combines the best of Gale’s reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Students will find outstanding support to complete assignments.

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Encyclopedias & Almanacs

  • Britannica LibraryThe entire encyclopedia plus a dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, timelines, video clips and rated and reviewed subject related web sites, with searching options for children, young adults and adults. Having trouble accessing the resource? Use this link for inside library use.
  • Encyclopedia of Life: The Encyclopedia of Life is an unprecedented effort to gather scientific knowledge about all animal and plant life where pictures, information, facts, and more.
  • Farmer’s Almanac: The Old Farmer’s Almanac includes information like weather forecasts, farmers’ planting dates, tide tables, and other interesting information.

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Florida and the U.S.

  • Florida Electronic Library: The Florida Electronic Library (FEL) is a gateway to: electronic magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias and books.
  • Florida Fish and Wildlife Licenses & Permits: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission balances the needs of wildlife species’ with the needs of nearly 19 million residents and the millions of visitors who share the land and water with Florida’s wildlife.
  • Florida Online Voter Registration: This system can be used to submit an application online for new registration or to make changes to your existing registration record or to prefill a voter registration application form.
  • Get Help Florida: Website which includes thousands of e-government federal, state and county programs & services, organized by category. As a statewide portal, this website is intended to provide government and non-profit resources for those in need.
  • My Florida: The official portal of the State of Florida which includes all online government services.
  • U.S. Government: The official portal of the United States Government which includes government forms, passport information, benefits, grants, and loans..
  • U.S. Internal Revenue Service: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is a U.S. government agency responsible for the collection of taxes and enforcement of tax laws.
  • U.S. Jobs: As the Federal Government’s official employment site, USAJOBS provides resources to help the right people find the right jobs.
  • U.S. Passports and Visas: U.S. Department of State department responsible for the welfare and protection of U.S. citizens abroad and for the issuance of passports and other documentation to citizens and nationals.
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: The agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property identification.
  • U.S. Social Security Administration : Social Security has provided financial protection for citizens of the United States for over 80 years by providing retirement, disability, and survivors benefits.
  • U.S. Student Aid: Federal Student Aid, a part of the U.S. Department of Education, is the largest provider of student financial aid in the nation.

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Genealogy

  • Ancestry Library: Genealogical and historical information from census, military, church, vital, court, land and probate records (Inside Library Only). 
  • Bible Records: Bible Records Online is a site dedicated to transcribing and digitizing the contents of family records that were written inside family Bibles and in other important documents from as early as the 1500s through today.
  • Civil War Soldiers and Sailors: The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS) is a database containing information about the men who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. Other information on the site includes histories of Union and Confederate regiments, links to descriptions of significant battles, and selected lists of prisoner-of-war records and cemetery records.
  • Cyndi’s List: A comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online.
  • Dead People Server: The Dead People Server is a database of interesting people who are long dead or newly dead.
  • Ellis Island Search: Search passenger lists provided by the Statue of Liberty – Ellis Island Foundation.
  • Find a Grave: Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials or add photos, virtual flowers and a note to a loved one’s memorial. Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the world.
  • Florida Heritage Collection: The Florida Heritage Collection is an ongoing cooperative project of the State University System (SUS) of Florida to digitize and provide online access to materials broadly representing Florida’s history, culture, arts, literature, sciences and social sciences.
  • Florida Memory: Florida Memory is a digital outreach program providing free online access to select archival resources from collections housed in the State Library and Archives of Florida. Florida Memory digitizes materials that illuminate the state’s history and culture.
  • Fold3 by Ancestry: Fold3 provides convenient access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. Use this link for inside library use.
  • Genealogy Today: Resource which includes 6,690 transcriptions including Masonic lodge rosters, funeral notices, school catalogues, telephone directories, insurance claims, directories, church member lists, prison records, etc. — from original documents.
  • Genebase: Use Genebase to build your family tree, invite relatives to collaborate, preserve your family history, and discover new relatives.
  • Geni: Geni is used for documenting historical profiles and finding important family connections between historical figures.
  • Heritage Quest: A comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids, with coverage dating back to the 1700s. Having trouble accessing the resource? Use this link for inside library use.
  • Rootsweb by Ancestry: Powerful genealogy search engine funded and supported by Ancestry Library.
  • U.S. GenWeb Project: Diverse and creative genealogy site include query boards, listings of local sources for records, county and state histories, online genealogy books, research tips, maps, and links to helpful internet resources.

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Health & Medicine

  • Health and Wellness Resource Center: Health and Wellness Resource Center from Gale is a comprehensive resource for libraries, schools, and hospitals that provides integrated access to medical, statistical, health, and related information.
  • MedlinePlus: MedlinePlus, produced by the National Library of Medicine, offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free. Learn about the latest treatments, look up information on a drug or supplement, find out the meanings of words, or view medical videos or illustrations, get links to the latest medical research on your topic or find out about clinical trials on a disease or condition.
  • Merck Manuals: Medical information resources for both medical professionals and consumers. The Manuals are created by medical experts worldwide and are editorially independent from Merck & Co.
  • Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Nursing and Allied Health Collection provides access to academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration.
  • Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection: Both researcher and practitioner alike will find relevant, authorative content in this collection, which includes over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine.
  • Science and Medicine: Series of eBooks dealing with Medicine and Science.

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History & Social Sciences

  • African-American History Online: Provides expansive and in-depth information on the people, events, and topics important to the study of African-American history.
  • American Civil War History Database: Sources in U.S. History Online is a series of archival digital collections intended for public library patrons as well as high school, community college, and university students.
  • American History Online: Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.
  • American Indian History Online: Offers thorough access to more than 15,000 years of Native American people, culture, history, and heritage.
  • American Women’s History Online: Covers the important people, events, legislation, and issues relevant to the study of women’s history in the United States.
  • Florida Electronic Library: The Florida Electronic Library (FEL) is a gateway to: electronic magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias and books.
  • General OneFile: Reference database in science, history, literature, geography, health and career guidance, plus a curriculum resource center for grades K-5 and 6-12.  Also includes a database of personal and business forms.
  • World History Collection: World History Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work.

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Languages & Travel

  • Duolingo: Duolingo is a science-based language education platform that has become a popular way to learn a language online.
  • Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Database: The Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure database contains thousands of articles covering a variety of travel related topics.
  • Mango Languages: An online language learning system that teaches real conversation skills for practical communication. Through fun and engaging interactive lessons, Mango makes learning a new language fast, easy and incredibly effective. The system is completely web-based and remotely accessible, so you can learn anywhere you have an Internet connection. As you listen to and repeat after native speakers, you’ll learn more than just words and phrases. In addition to lessons, Mango also offers language learning through a selection of streaming, full-length films with interactive content. Languages include Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian, Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more. English courses are available for non-English speakers. On the go? Set up a free account through our Mango database or download the free Mango Mobile Library Edition app, and start learning! Having trouble accessing the resource? Use this link for inside library use.

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Legal

  • Criminal Justice Collection: Criminal Justice Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines on topics in criminal justice and related fields. Key subjects covered in the database include law, law enforcement, security, and terrorism.
  • Florida Laws and Legislature: A verbatim publication of the general and special laws enacted by the Florida Legislature in a given year and published each year following the regular session of the legislature.
  • Justia Law and Legal: Justia provides case law, codes, regulations and legal information for lawyers, business, students and consumers world wide.

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Magazines & Journals

  • Academic OneFile: Abstracts and full text articles from thousands of academic and peer-reviewed publications.
  • Consumer Reports: Access full text articles from this perennially popular consumer review publication. Find ratings on hundreds of products, from dishwashers to automobiles (Inside Library Only).
  • Times of the Islands: Times of the Islands is your online source for the people and places that create the island lifestyle in Sanibel and Captive Florida.

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Newspapers

  • Islander Newspaper: The Islander Newspaper is a community paper with information and news about Fort Myers, Sanibel Island and Captiva Island.
  • Island Reporter Newspaper: The Island Reporter is a Sanibel Island Newspaper which focuses on human interest stories, published authors, and editorial content..
  • Island Sun Newspaper: The Island Sun Newspaper is a community newspapers with information and news about Fort Myers, Sanibel Island and Captiva Island.
  • Sanibel Public Library Newspaper Archive: Library newspaper archive containing Sanibel Island and Captiva Island newspapers dating as far back as 1961.
  • The Wallstreet Journal: Find ratings on hundreds of products, from dishwashers to automobiles. Use this link for inside library use.

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Sanibel & Lee County

  • Bailey Matthews Shell Museum: The Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum is a museum devoted to every aspect of seashells, conchology, and malacology, including the paleontological and archeological/anthropological aspects of the study of shells.
  • Barrier Island Group for the Arts – Big Arts: Provides an array of quality entertainment, arts and education programs that enrich and nurture the lives of Sanibel and Captiva residents and visitors.
  • City of Sanibel: Sanibel is a city in Lee County, Florida, United States, on Sanibel Island. The population is 6,741. Sanibel is a barrier island – a collection of sand on the leeward side of the more solid coral-rock of Pine Island.
  • Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge: The J. N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge is part of the United States National Wildlife Refuge System, located on Sanibel Island.
  • Lee County Library Services: Serving Lee County Florida with 14 libraries, library services, a bookmobile, talking book program and books by mail program.
  • Lee County Government: Visit Leegov.com to find useful information for residents, businesses and visitors of Lee County in Southwest Florida.
  • Lee County Supervisor of Elections: This office is responsible for shaping the future of voting in Lee County by empowering every eligible citizen with the tools and education necessary to exercise his or her right to vote.
  • Sanibel Historical Museum: Sanibel Historical Museum and Village was founded in 1984 with a mission to preserve and share Sanibel history.
  • Sanibel Historic Collection (P.A.L.M.M): A visual history chronicling the development of Sanibel Island.
  • Sanibel Island Oral History Collection: The Sanibel Memory Project is an oral history archive supported with a grant from the Roni Jo Freer Fund of the Sanibel Public Library Foundation.
  • Sanibel Island Natural Heritage Collection: The Sanibel Island Natural-Heritage Collection is supported by the Sanibel Public Library.
  • Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation: SCCF is dedicated to the conservation of coastal habitats and aquatic resources on Sanibel and Captiva and in the surrounding watershed.
  • Sanibel Public Library Digital Archive: A collection of historical images, documents, and video curated by the Sanibel Public Library.
  • Sanibel School: The Sanibel School is a National Blue Ribbon School and is a member of the Lee County School System.
  • Sanibel Newspapers (DigiFindIt): Library newspaper archive containing Sanibel Island and Captiva Island newspapers dating as far back as 1961.
  • Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce: When you arrive on Sanibel Island, be sure to stop by the Sanibel-Captiva Chamber of Commerce, your trusted source for local tourism information.
  • Times of the Islands: Times of the Islands is your online source for the people and places that create the island lifestyle in Sanibel and Captive Florida.

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Science

  • Agriculture Collection: Agriculture Collection provides a comprehensive view of agriculture and related fields. The database provides access to current and authoritative content that spans the industry.
  • Brainfuse HelpNow: Online Tutoring, and So Much More! Get real-time assistance through the intuitive Brainfuse online classroom. Brainfuse offers tutoring services in Spanish for all subjects offered in English.
  • Environmental Studies and Policy Collection: Environmental Studies and Policy Collection provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and other reference sources covering environmental issues and policies.
  • Florida Electronic Library: The Florida Electronic Library (FEL) is a gateway to: electronic magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias and books.
  • General Science Collection: Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.     
  • Psychology Collection: Psychology Collection provides access to academic journals and magazines that cover the study of emotions, personality, and the human mind. The database offers content of interest to both researchers and general users.

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