CultureGrams:One-stop "shopping" for country/state information

The Washington County Cooperative Library Services offers those who use the county website, either in-house at a library or online from home, access to many excellent online databases. To access the website from home use either of the following websites: for the county website: www.wccls.org/ or from the Beaverton City Library website: www.beavertonlibrary.org/

Check out the database CultureGrams that you can find by searching under Online Databases or by Database name.

CultureGrams allows one to learn about the history, customs, and everyday life of countries around the world. There are four editions avalailable: World - to experience the world through detailed cultural information on more than 200 countries, Kids - to get a kids- eye view of daily life in countries around the world, States - to explore the states in colorful, kid-friendly reports, and Provinces(Canadian) - to tour all the Canadian Provinces in 13 image-fileld reports.

One can use the information on this site for recreational / business traveling, homework reports , and just for plain old arm-chair traveling:

• land and climate


• history


• population


• language


• religion


• general attitudes


• personal appearances


• Customs and greetings: greetings, gestures, visiting, eating


• Lifestyle: family, housing, dating and marriage, diet, recraetion, the arts and holidays.


• Society: government, economy, transportation and communications, ecuation, health.


• One can also find a photo and video gallery of scenes, slideshows, interviews, famous people, and delicious recipes for countr/city/province of your choice.

HAPPY TRAVELING!!!