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Off-Campus Access for Affiliated High School Students

International High School, Middle College High School, and Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Secondary School for Arts and Technology students may access these collections with their LaGuardia barcode. Students can get a barcode at the Library circulation desk.

Academic OneFile
Full-text books and articles from a variety of academic disciplines.


Business Insights: Essentials
Provides company and industry profiles, histories & investment reports. Industry and brand news, information and articles. Formerly known as Business and Company Resource Center.


General OneFile
Full-text books and articles.


Grolier Online
Includes Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and the New Book of Knowledge.


Health Reference Center Academic
Articles on: fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, etc.


Infotrac Newsstand
Search a collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international.


National Newspaper Index
Index search (no full-text) for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.


New York State Newspapers
Searches ten major New York newspapers including the NY Times and the NY Post.


Nursing and Allied Health Collection
Journal articles covering nursing and health fields.


Primary Search
Mostly for elementary to high school students. Searches 60 popular magazines as far back as 1990. Some articles provided with Lexile reading level.


Twayne's Author Series
Six hundred books by US, English and world authors devoted to literary criticism and discussion.


Additional Resources:

Public Libraries: Access with your public library card barcode


New York State: Access with your New York State Driver License ID, DMV non-Driver Photo ID, or public library card