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Lakeside

Latest Releases

BRANCH EVENTS

LAKESIDE LIBRARY Storytime

Mon, Jun 18, 5:00PM - 6:00PM

Listen to great stories and make amazing crafts every Monday!

LAKESIDE LIBRARY - Summer Reading: Around The World Activity

Mon, Jun 18, 6:00PM - 7:00PM

This week's summer activity for kids will be an interactive games day -- learn about animals, history, and the world from Australia to Zimbabwe.

LAKESIDE LIBRARY - Summer Reading Program: Puppet Show - "The Princess and the Pirates"

Mon, Jun 25, 6:00PM - 7:00PM

Franklin Haynes Marionettes will present this popular show with a pirate theme.

LAKESIDE LIBRARY - Summer Reading Program: Magic Lands and Mapmaking

Mon, Jul 02, 6:00PM - 7:00PM

Maps are valuable for both reality and fantasy! Come make maps, play games, and learn skills for this week's magical summer program.

LAKESIDE LIBRARY - Summer Reading Program: Digging Up Dinosaurs

Mon, Jul 09, 6:00PM - 7:00PM

We will be learning about and excavating dinosaur bones. Put on your paleontologist's hat and join us!

LAKESIDE LIBRARY - Summer Reading Program: Outer Space Ice Cream Party

Mon, Jul 16, 6:00PM - 7:00PM

Come eat ice cream and celebrate the end of summer reading events as we blast off toward the next school year. A prize drawing will be held -- parents will have the chance to win a gift basket for themselves.

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Today's hours

Closed

Tomorrow's hours

We're open 3:00PM to 8:00PM

All opening hours

Mon, Jun 18	3:00PM to 8:00PM
Tue, Jun 19	3:00PM to 8:00PM
Wed, Jun 20	3:00PM to 8:00PM
Thu, Jun 21	3:00PM to 8:00PM
Fri, Jun 22	Closed
Sat, Jun 23	10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sun, Jun 24	12:00PM to 5:00PM

Darrin McGraw

Address

32593 Riverside Dr.
Lake Elsinore
92530

Tel: (951) 678-7083

Fax: (951) 678-7018

More about this branch

The Lakeside Vick Knight Community Library opened in the fall of 2005 on the Lakeside High School campus in Lake Elsinore, California. The ten thousand square foot facility has one conference room and a small story room that originally was where story time activities were conducted when the participation was not as high as it is now. There are fourteen public computers and wi-fi is available for patrons. There library provides outreach services to the local elementary school year round, and a Summer Reading Program for children annually.

Featured Resources

eResources Databases

Ancestry

Ancestry Library Edition

Search your family heritage online.
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Authors and Biography

Biography in Context

A biographical reference database that covers the areas of literature, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, arts and news.

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Literature Resource Center

Contains thousands of entries from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors New Revision series, the Dictionary of Literary Biography and Contemporary Literary Criticism Select. Includes plot summaries and critical essays from sources such as Novels for Students as well as resources for criticism of modern and classic poetry.

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Business and Legal

California State Bar Publications

California State Bar Publications provides practical legal facts in a handy Consumer Education Pamphlet.

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Reference USA

The premier source of business and residential information for reference and research. ReferenceUSA is used by top libraries throughout the US for research, small business marketing, job searching and more.

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Careers, Tuition and Learning

ABCmouse

Early Learning Academy online education program for children ages 2 - 7. Access only available within the library.

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Brainfuse

Brainfuse Learning Site offers easy to connect one-to-one online tutoring free. (Please have your library card available to use this link)

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Career Transitions

Career Transitions provides a practical and personalized experience for users of all backgrounds and technology comfort levels. Users can easily discover and target fast-growing careers and industries in their immediate locations -- and locations across the United States. Career Transitions also features quick assessments to help people identify new opportunities based on their current skills, occupational knowledge, and interests.

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Scholastic Go

Engaging online age-appropriate reference resource to help build a love of research through reading and learning!

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Tuition Funding Sources

Tuition Funding Sources is a private website designed to help students find scholarships, college and career information. TFS offers students the largest scholarship database in the world with over $41 Billion in scholarship awards along with a career personality test and detailed college and career information. Pepsi-Cola sponsors the TFS program nationwide. Pepsi-Cola and TFS have been helping students find scholarships and other sources of financial aid for more than 20 years

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Cultures and Religion

Oxford Islamic Studies Online

This authoritative, dynamic resource brings together the best current scholarship in the field for students, scholars, government officials, community groups, and librarians to foster a more accurate and informed understanding of the Islamic world.

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eAudiobooks, eBooks, eMagazines, Other Library Services

Braille Institute

Free library service for the blind, visually impaired or have reading or other physical disabilities.

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Enki

Thousands of New eBooks are Available to You!

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Overdrive

A growing collection of eAudiobooks and eBooks that can be downloaded directly to your home computer.

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RB Digital

RB Digital is now your home for over 6000 eAudioBooks and 130 eMagazines

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Scholastic Countries Collection

Countries Collection for Ages 9 - 13. Explore a destination today.

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Health and Fitness

Health & Wellness Resource Center

Periodical and journal articles as well as videos on a wide range of health topics from ADD&ADHD to Alternative Medicine, HIV, and various surgical procedures.

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Health Reference Center

Health Reference Center is a one-stop, full service resource for health-related research. It combines indexing of approximately 195 periodicals, eight reference books, and over 700 pamphlets; more than 1,800 overviews from Clinical Reference Systems; selective indexing for articles in approximately 1500 additional general interest titles; and full text for more than 185 periodicals, all reference books, overviews, and pamphlets.

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Languages

Pronunciator

World's largest language learning service. Free at your library.

News and Magazines

InfoTrac Newstand

This newspaper database contains a collection of more than 140 cover-to-cover newspapers from around the world plus an additional 300 sources of selected news and business coverage.

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InfoTrac® General Reference Center Gold

Periodical, newspaper and reference articles from over 5,000 publications on such diverse topics as humanities, art, current events, technology and general interest topics. Full-text articles from over 3,000 periodicals.

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