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Ancestry Plus

A source for conducting genealogical and local history research. (Can only be used inside the library.)

Auto Repair Reference Center - Tutorial

Information on repair procedures, service bulletins, service recalls, wiring diagrams, labor and quick tips for automobiles produced since 1954.

Baltimore Sun

Cover-to-cover access to the Baltimore Sun.

Biography Resource Center - Tutorial

More than 300,000 biographies covering more than 220,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Books and Authors

Find a new book to read, create a list, and rate your favorites.

BookFlix

Pairs classic video storybooks with related nonfiction ebooks.

BrainPOP

Fun, animated lessons support curiculum and enhance the learning experience. Also available in Spanish.

Britannica Online

Thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites. Now with a K-12 section.

Business and Company Resource Center

Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

Career Guidance Center

A comprehensive career research database focusing on jobs, skills, and resources.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database

Children's Literature reviewers read and critically review more than 4,000 books annually. Our mission is to help teachers, librarians, childcare providers and parents make appropriate literary choices for children. Each month Children's Literature features interviews with children's book authors and illustrators. Also each month Children's Literature features several sets of themed reviews and these are archived for continued reference.

Culturegrams

Goes beyond facts and figures to deliver an insider's perspective on the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.

Discovering Collections

Allows students to get the "whole picture" on any curriculum topic.

General OneFile

A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

General Reference Center Gold

A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use General Reference Center Gold to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

This virtual reference library includes the titles "Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law," "Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco: Learning About Addictive Behavior," and "Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations."

Health and Wellness Resource Center

Includes reference information, full text journals, and disease information.

Heritage Quest Online

A unique and growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Includes more than 25,000 family and local histories.

History Resource Center: US

The History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more then 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes access to the citations for over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

History Resource Center: World

History Resource Center: Modern World has always featured extensive coverage of the 20th century. History Resource Center: World broadens this focus both geographically and chronologically, with the addition of new content on the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From antiquity to the present, world history curricula is reflected by content from over 2,000 primary sources, 25 reference titles and from 110 academic journals.

Home Improvement Collection

Home improvement info, tips, and tricks.

Kent County News

Online archives from November 30, 2006 to the present.

Kids Infobits

A database developed especially for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through grade 5.

Legal Forms, Thomson-Gale

Downloadable legal forms available from all 50 United States

Literature Resource Center - Basic Tutorial, Advanced Tutorial

The Literature Resource Center is a literature reference database. It features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. Literature Resource Center contains Contemporary Authors Online; Contemporary Literary Criticism Select; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online. The Literature Resource Center also includes selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from Literature Criticism and For Students Series.

Live Homework Help

An online tutoring service for students in fourth through twelfth grades. Availabe from 2 P.M. until 12 A.M. Subject areas include: Math, English, and Science. Tutor works one-on-one with the student using a chata/white board environment. Sessions last approximately twenty minutes.

Mango Languages

Mango Languages is an online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages. Mango uses real-life situations and actual conversations to more effectively teach a new language.

OCLC First Search

Lists bibliographic information on resources from around the world.

Opposing Viewpoints

A collection of essays and overviews designed to aid students in the study of today's hottest social issues.

ProQuest Direct

Access to more than 2,050 current Periodicals. Updated daily and contain full-text articles from 1986. Offers "image page" which includes graphics and tables.

Sanborn Maps

1867-1970. Produced for over a century, more than 660,000 Sanborn maps chart the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. They are large-scale plans drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch.

Science Resource Center - Tutorial

With Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites.

Small Business Resource Center

Search this database to learn how to start, finance, or manage your small business.

Star Democrat

Online archives from November 16, 2005 to the present.

Student Resource Center Bronze

Content based on national curriculum standards featuring primary source documents and periodicals and newspapers that are updated daily.

Testing and Education Reference Center - Tutorial

Online practice tests, entrance exams, and test prep ebooks, including SAT, GRE, PRAXIS, and more. Also college and career searches.

TumbleBooks E-Library

E-books for kids.

World Book - Tutorial

The Online version of the popular World Book Encyclopedia.