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Click to access Books in Print
Booksinprint.com is a comprehensive and authoritative bibliographic database with over 34 million titles.  Look up books, audios and videos.  Find the latest Oprah selection, award winners, bestsellers, publisher addresses, author biographies, and book reviews.
Click to access Business and Company Recource 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. This database is part of the NOVEL project, made available through Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds by the New York State Library.
Click to access Children's Literature Comptrehensive Database Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database has over 150,000 reviews of children's books. This is a searchable database with more than 260,000 awards, prizes, best book list s and reading lists

Click to access Custom Newspapers

Custom Newspapers is a collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international, including the latest 365 days of The New York Times, indexes and abstracts for the Christian Science Monitor.
Click here for the list of newspapers this database contains

Click to access EBSCO Host

EBSCO MasterFILE Premier has the full text and indexes for 2,000 magazines, newspapers, and other databases. Look up current topics or use it for in-depth research. Gain access to information on a broad range of topics including general interest, business, health and multi-cultural subject areas. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Hoover's Company Profiles and Company Capsules are also available here.

Click to access Health Reference Center Academic

Health Reference Center Academic  1980 - Jul 2003
Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

Heritage Quest Logo

Heritage Quest Online Provides libraries with a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Beginning or professional genealogists can now use this powerful online library, with original page images for all documents, from the convenience of their home or at the library. This database includes access to the U.S. Federal Census Records from 1790-1930.
** However, the only searchable names are those of Heads of Households.**

NOTE: If you are accessing Heritage Quest from outside of the library you will have to use your library card number to access Heritage Quest. 

 

Click to access Informe

Informe  1994 - Jul. 2003
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.

Click to access Junior Edition K-12

Junior Edition - K12  
Formerly SuperTOM Junior, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
          Click to access Learn a test Learn A Test has over 50 online practice tests such as the ACT, SAT, GED, ASVAB, Police Officer, Paramedic, US Citizenship, and more. You may access the site from any computer in the library. You will need to create a user account to use the tests. From your home or office, you will need your library card to create an account, and the username must be your library card number. If you have any questions, feel free to ask any Library staff member.
NOTE: If you are accessing Learn A Test from home, you must come to this page first. Do not go directly to the LearnATest website.

Click to access National Newspaper Index

National Newspaper Index  allows quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers (The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post) from 1977 - Jul 2003 in one search.
Click here for the list of newspapers this database contains

Click to access New York State Newspapers

New York State Newspapers  is a database of ten major newspapers (1996-present) published in New York: Buffalo News, New York Times, New York Post, New York Observer, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Syracuse Herald American, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Journal News (Westchester, NY), Post-Standard (Syracuse), and Press & Sun Bulletin (Binghamton).
Click here for the list of newspapers this database contains

Click to access Online book club

Join an OnLine Book Club and start receiving books in your daily e-mail. Monday through Friday we’ll deliver a five-minute selection from a book. After emailing two or three  complete chapters, we’ll start a new book. Just give us your e-mail address and start reading tomorrow. If you like a book, you can check it out from our library to finish. 

Click to access Oxford Reference online

Oxford Reference Online is a searchable database with 100 dictionaries and reference books, plus an encyclopedia, covering general reference, language, quotations, science, medicine, humanities, social sciences, business and professional topics.

Click to access Reference USA

Reference USA is a comprehensive directory of business and residential telephone numbers and addresses.  Search by name, company name, geographic area or zip code. Find out company size, top personnel, year established, type of business, credit rating, yearly sales ranges and more. 

Click here to access The Albany Times Union

Times Union online library contains most locally written stories published since 1986. Headlines and summaries can be viewed for no charge. Your public library has a special arrangement with the Times Union to view full stories on-site in the library, though not from home or office. Please ask a librarian for assistance.
Click to access Twayne's Author Series Twayne's Author Series features the content of nearly 600 books that comprise three print series - United states Authors, English Authors and World Authors. 
  Click to access World Book Online Reference Center World Book Online Reference Center contains every article from the 22-volume print set and more, including multimedia, maps, Web sites, links to articles from major newspapers and magazines, photographs, and special reports.
   

On-line Databases

Books in Print

Business and Company Resource Center

Children's Literature

Custom Newspapers

EBSCO Host

Health Reference Center Academic

Heritage Quest
Informe

Junior Edition K-12

LearnATest

National Newspaper Index

New York State Newspapers

Online Book Club

Oxford Reference Online

Reference USA

Times Union

Twayne's Author Series

World Book Online Reference Center

 

 

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