With the COVID-19 situation continuing to develop globally, many schools across China and the world remain temporarily closed. Classes have moved online, and e-learning has become the norm for students. Due to these school closures, libraries have also been focusing more and more on their online resource offering.

At YCIS Shanghai, there is already an extensive number of online material and platforms that the school’s libraries offer to students of all ages, parents, and teachers. Early Childhood Education (ECE) teachers have great support from the school’s library staff and can request different online material daily to fit the children’s constantly evolving interests. Primary students, teachers, and parents can access the school library’s homepage, where numerous online resources are available for consultation. And Secondary students can access the vast array of subscription databases offered by the school for their research, such as Gale, Encyclopedia Britannica, JSTOR, BrainPOP, and Ancient Europe Encyclopedia, among others.

In addition to the school’s online resources, numerous tech and education developers and providers have taken steps to expand their online learning resource offerings, with many making their online services available for free. Some of these resources include:

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YCIS Shanghai’s resources, combined with those offered by other platforms and providers, help students with their e-Learning. They will help parents engage ECE children at home, while also benefiting the students’ reading, writing, and language development. At the same time, reading and writing resources, audiobooks, videos, online competitions, and reading challenges represent an invaluable support for Primary and Secondary students to continue excelling in their learning by expanding the amount of resources at their disposal. As students can’t go to the school’s libraries at this time, the libraries will go to the students instead!