Resources

OverDrive

The new digital branch of the Cameron Parish Library is powered by OverDrive. Thanks to a cooperative effort between the library systems in the Libraries Southwest, or LSW, there is a growing digital library of E-Books and Audiobooks that you can access 24/7. Other libraries in the LSW consortium are Allen Parish Libraries, Calcasieu Parish Public Library, Evangeline Parish Library, Jefferson Davis Parish Library, and Vernon Parish Library.

Capstone Interactive Library

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Password: parish
Capstone Interactive Library is your personal collection of award-winning interactive books! Available in different subjects and formats, interactive books use audio and animation to engage readers.

TumbleBookCloud Junior

With over 600 titles and reading levels from grades 3-8, TumbleBookCloud Junior is a great option for adventurous young readers who wish to go beyond the picture book collection in TumbleBookLibrary! TumbleBookCloud Junior contains early reader chapter books, children’s classics, graphic novels, children’s audio books and new National Geographic videos – many of which are paired with our e-books – a perfect complement to support Common Core Curriculum!

TumbleBookCloud

TumbleBookCloud is our middle school AND high school collection which contains over 600 titles! This collection contains a vast array of YA/Teen novels, classics, poetry, short stories, YA/Teen audiobooks , our very popular graphic novels, and world class educational videos from National Geographic.

LiveHomeworkLouisiana

HomeworkLouisiana offers FREE online tutoring and academic resources from Tutor.com for Louisiana residents. Get help in math, science, social studies or English from a live tutor. The service can be accessed from a Louisiana public library or from your home computer.

GCF

Aiming to provide education and employment opportunities to those who want to improve the quality of their lives.

Ancestry.com

The world’s largest online genealogy resource. Ancestry.com has more than 6 billion records from all over the world. Find your ancestors today.

Cameron Parish School Yearbooks

Cameron Parish Fur & Wildlife Festival Cookbooks

In an effort to solve our increasingly urgent preservation problems caused by the hurricanes in our parish, we are making an effort to extend our collections into new media. I hope you enjoy our attempt at preserving our past in the digital archives of the Cameron Parish Library collection.

Cameron Parish Photos

Part of Cameron’s persona is it’s ability to withstand all that nature throws our way.  Hurricanes Audrey and Rita devesitated our home, but the people stood strong and are rebuilding more and more each day. 

In 2008, three years after Rita, Hurricane Ike came ashore and brought a 22-foot (6.7 m) storm surge, which was far worse than Rita’s 10-foot (3.0 m) surge. Nearly every square inch of the coastline in that area was flooded heavily, with surge and floodwaters reaching 60 miles inland, as far north as Lake Charles. In Cameron Parish the communities of Cameron, Holly Beach, Hackberry, Johnson Bayou, Creole, and Grand Chenier were essentially destroyed. Hundreds of people had to be rescued from rooftops, including 363 people who were rescued by Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Search and Rescue teams in conjunction with the Louisiana National Guard and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Check out the links below to see what the people of Cameron Parish had to overcome and why we are some of the hardest working people in Louisiana!

Hurricane Rita – More Photos

Hurricane Rita damage by air – September 25, 2005
Hurricane Rita damage by land – September 30, 2005
Cameron Parish Sherriff’s Office – October 3, 2005 and October 4, 2005
Little Chenier and Creole
Damage to the Cameron Parish Public Library – Cameron, Johnson Bayou, and Grand Chenier Libraries

Cameron Parish Pilot Digitized Newspapers

The Digitized Cameron Pilot Newspaper Project is a project that was undertaken by the Cameron Parish Library & the Cameron Pilot to digitize more than sixty years worth of historical Cameron Parish Pilot newspapers and make them accessible to anyone, anywhere, on-line for free on the Cameron Parish Library’s website.

To date, only a few of historical newspaper issues have been digitized and the files are available as a test.  There are some gaps in files that we will hope to fill soon. Many more newspapers are still being digitized from original newspapers, microfilm and Cameron Parish Pilots PDF files.

This test of the Pilot Newspaper Project hopes to have searchable text available to users to ease in their searching.  Just download the file, click CTRL & F, then type in your search term.

Note: Missing issues reflect gaps in the original newsprint or microfilm collections scanned.

**Cameron Parish Library generally does not own the rights to material in the digitized newspaper collection and, therefore, cannot grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute the material. It is the responsibility of the user to seek permission from the copyright holder for any purpose other than research and private study.

1958- 2002 were digitized from microfilm and not as clear as the later (2002) PDF files from the Cameron Pilot. These digitized from microfilm download a whole year at a time.

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