Culture, Geography & Travel

A comprehensive collection of royalty-free downloadable maps.

Includes:

• Modern Maps -  World, Country, Regional and Continent
• Historical Maps - World, Country, City, Ancient & Medieval Maps
• Climate Maps - Temperature, Global Weather Visualization, NASA Sea Level
• Geology Maps - USGS Topographic, Tree Species, Bird Species, Global Volcano
• Video Guides - Geography (U.S. States, Capitals, Major U.S. lakes and rivers)

One-stop reference for state reports, projects, and presentations with extensive historical, economic, biographical, and genealogical information.

Contains more than 115 country-specific articles and 115 state articles for each of the 50 US states, five US territories, and the District of Columbia.

From Alabama to Wyoming, explore the great American experiment with A to Z the USA.

BENEFITS

• One-stop reference for state reports, projects, and presentations.
• Supports educators with lesson plans and class activities.
• Extensive historical, economic, biographical, and genealogical information.

Food database that contains traditional recipes for 174 countries of the world in all course categories: appetizers, soups, salads, breads, main courses, side dishes, desserts, snacks, and beverages.

AtoZ World Food is also the only database that covers food culture for 174 countries of the world in six categories: National Cuisine, Regional Cuisine, Daily Meals, Dining Etiquette, Special Occasion Foods, and Food Trivia.

FEATURES:

• 174 Countries
• 9,000+ Food Photos
• 1,700+ Food Quotes
• 7,000+ Recipes
• 650+ Ingredient Articles
• 1,400+ Food Culture Articles
• 800+ Food Glossary Terms
• Personal Recipe Book

View the AtoZ World Food tutorial.  

Biographical information on important figures in today's musical arena, covering artists working in all genres of modern music, including rock, jazz, pop, rap, rhythm and blues, folk, New Age, country, gospel, and reggae.

Appreciation of the world's countries and peoples with concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural content.

Areas:

• World Edition: Cultural information on more than 200 counties and territories.
• States Edition: Explore all the US States
• Kids Edition: Get a kid's-eye view of daily life in countries around the world.
• Provinces Edition: Tour all the Canadian provinces and territories.

Watch the CultureGrams tutorial.

A comprehensive resource for learning about culture, customs, history, and language worldwide. Global Road Warrior consists of 174 Country Guides with 119 topics each. No other single resource covers so many topics so well for so many countries.

• Research issues in international and cross-cultural studies, international business, the social sciences, women’s studies, language studies, and study abroad programs.
• Deep coverage of difficult-to-find country information related to culture, business, travel, and local living.
• Global Road Warrior is mobile friendly, automatically adapting to the screen size of any desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

Watch the Global Road Warrior tutorial.   

Read thousands of digital magazine titles and single topic issues including:

• Popular titles such as Us Weekly, National Geographic, Good Housekeeping, Vanity Fair, and Rolling Stone.
• Special interest titles such as PC World, Bon Appetit, Minecraft World, and Women’s Fitness.
• Titles in a variety of languages including Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, German, French, and more.
• Rolling 3 years of back issues, wherever available.

Mobile access will be through the Libby app, either downloaded to your device or used in a web browser. 

Search TRL's digital collection of eBooks, Audiobooks, and Magazines on a desktop through the OverDrive website. Place holds, checkout, manage your account, and read/listen from the desktop. If you would like read or listen on your smart device, your items will sync up in the Libby App. (Learn more about Libby, opens a new window)

Collection categories update frequently, don't miss these:

• Available Now
• Lucky Day Collection
• Book Clubs
• World Languages: Español, 한국어, русский

Set website language to English or en Español.

Get access to more than 7,000 of the world’s top newspapers and magazines. Find content from over 120 countries in 60 different languages. Read online or download. Save publications to read later, listen to content out loud, and instantly translate up to 19 different languages. Newspapers include up to 3 months of back coverage. 

Watch the PressReader tutorial.   

View and download large-scale plans of Washington State cities and towns, drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. Sunborn maps were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property. The maps list street blocks and building numbers including numbers in use at the time the map was made and previous numbers.

Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years.

Watch the Sanborn Maps tutorial.