What is the Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center?
Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center is an online database that provides information about many of the most popular hobbies, crafts, and recreation activities today such as collecting, games and electronics, model building, needlework, outdoors and nature, scrapbooking, and paper craft.
Including full-text articles for more than seven hundred magazines and books, as well as access to more than seven hundred videos and over one hundred hobby reports, this database offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby-enthusiast. The database was created by EBSCO Publishing, and is available through INSPIRE, a service of the Indiana State Library.
Who is the Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center for?
While the database can be used by anyone, many of the articles and projects are aimed at Middle School and High School level students. If you are in elementary school (or younger), you might need a parent or older sibling's help reading the articles or creating some of the crafts and projects described in the database.
Why do I need this?
Sometimes it can be difficult to find high quality project ideas or research information on arts-related topics. Specialty magazines on topics such as knitting or sewing can be really expensive! All of these resources are available to you for absolutely free. What's more, you can access this information from anywhere in the world - as long as you have a computer or mobile device and are connected to the Internet. Read the 'Suggested Uses' from the left-hand menu to find out more about how you can use this database and its resources.
How do I get to it?
For access to Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center, please go to your library’s database/electronic resources web page. Alternatively, you may be able to access it from: http://search.ebscohost.com. Find out more by clicking 'Accessing the Database' from the left-hand menu.
Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center is an online database that provides information about many of the most popular hobbies, crafts, and recreation activities today such as collecting, games and electronics, model building, needlework, outdoors and nature, scrapbooking, and paper craft.
Including full-text articles for more than seven hundred magazines and books, as well as access to more than seven hundred videos and over one hundred hobby reports, this database offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby-enthusiast. The database was created by EBSCO Publishing, and is available through INSPIRE, a service of the Indiana State Library.
Who is the Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center for?
While the database can be used by anyone, many of the articles and projects are aimed at Middle School and High School level students. If you are in elementary school (or younger), you might need a parent or older sibling's help reading the articles or creating some of the crafts and projects described in the database.
Why do I need this?
Sometimes it can be difficult to find high quality project ideas or research information on arts-related topics. Specialty magazines on topics such as knitting or sewing can be really expensive! All of these resources are available to you for absolutely free. What's more, you can access this information from anywhere in the world - as long as you have a computer or mobile device and are connected to the Internet. Read the 'Suggested Uses' from the left-hand menu to find out more about how you can use this database and its resources.
How do I get to it?
For access to Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center, please go to your library’s database/electronic resources web page. Alternatively, you may be able to access it from: http://search.ebscohost.com. Find out more by clicking 'Accessing the Database' from the left-hand menu.