Teacher Resource Guide
Class Visits and Tours
The Youth & Teen Services department offers library instruction, tours, booktalks, and opportunities for individual and group research. Please remind your students to bring their library cards for their visit so that they can check out materials and access our online resources during their visit.
Please email youthservices@lincolnwoodlibrary.org to set up a visit.
Assignment Support
Lincolnwood Library can provide the following support for homework and projects:
- Displays of materials related to the assignment
- Booklists for whatever topic or genre you need
- Collaboration with your school librarian to provide additional books
- Classroom visits
- Help if you’re not certain what you need. Just send us your lesson plan!
School Library Cards
Lincolnwood Library provides designated library cards to Lincolnwood schools via the school librarians, who place all requests for materials with the Youth & Teen Services Department. Teachers must go through their school librarian to check out materials on these accounts. See more information about loan lengths and library cards.
Digital Resources
Individual student and school library cards have access to our wide array of databases and digital resources such as TumbleBooks and Tutor.com.
Beanstack
Beanstack is a platform for tracking reading to encourage everyone to have fun while learning. You'll be able to track your reading anywhere you go with a free account for Summer Reading and more.
Comics Plus - Children's Library
Hoopla
Kanopy
Libby/Digital Library of Illinois
LOTE4Kids
LOTE4Kids is a database of digital picture books in World Languages that allows kids and their families to enjoy the magic of books in over 65+ world languages.