Educators
Services provided by the library
Databases for Students
Check our list of databases, where students can find quality, online resources to use for their assignments.
- Books 2 U
- Booktalkers visit schools and afterschool programs.
- School Corps
- School Corps provides curriculum support (Buckets of Books, booklists and webliographies), as well as teacher workshops and classroom visits to present library resources.
- Talk It Up!
- Find great ideas for running a book discussion group, along with more than 150 discussion guides for individual titles.
- Educator library cards
- How to get a library card to use at work.
- Library card applications
- Print out a PDF of the Multnomah County Library card application to share with your students. Students can take the application into any Multnomah County Library location to get a card, or educators can contact School Corps about getting library cards through the mail.
- Central Library Tours, Trainings and Group Visits
- Are you taking your students to visit Central Library? Find out what services the library offers for student groups.
Resources to help you educate
- Booklists
- The library has created lists of books for kids, books for teens, and curriculum-related books to use in the classroom.
- Websites about kids' books
- These sites will help you find reading suggestions for your students.
- Homework Center
- Homework websites by topic, selected by library staff, including Live Homework Help.
- Homeschooling
- Everything you need to teach at home from guides to booklists and other services.
- Public-School Library Planning Project
- Read the final report of this grant-funded project.
- Reading Levels for Books
- Resources to help you identify the reading levels for books.


