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Featured Database:
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Bookflix is fun! It's an interactive reading & learning resource for preschoolers, kindergartners, and primary grade children. Watch the Story! Read the Book! Bookflix pairs together classic children's animated video picture storybooks with true fact non-fiction eBooks. Your child can first watch a story and then read a book by themselves, or have the book read aloud to them. Choose from 9 exciting categories: Fun and Learning; Animals and Nature; Earth and Sky; People and Places; Music and Rhyme; Family and Community; ABCs and 123s; Adventure; Imagination; and Celebrations. Included too are 20 Spanish storybook video and book pairs. This resource is available as a trial from June 1, 2008 through December 1, 2008. (Note: Animated storybooks are from Weston Woods, and the ebooks are from Scholastic.) |
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Ancestry.com is the largest genealogy database available and includes over 4,000 databases and 4 billion names. Collections from the U.S., UK, Ireland and Canada cover census data, maps, military, immigration and DAR records, plus more.This database complements HeritageQuest Online. (This particular database is not available from home or from this online resource listing. You must be in one of our 16 member libraries to access this database through a special online resources menu or icon on a public internet access computer. Please consult a librarian to assist you in locating this resource.) |
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Business & Company Resource Center covers information on companies, products and industries from business news, journals, trade publications and press releases. Information from PROMT (Predicast's Overview of Markets and Technology), Thompson Financial, Investext Select and Datamonitor is included. Content includes Market Share Reporter, Business Rankings Annual, International Directory of Company Histories and Brands & Their Companies. |
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First Research. Leading provider of industry intelligence tools that help performance of sales and marketing teams. Four essential core tools are industry profiles for 600 industry segments, call prep sheets for helping you to understand the issues before making sales calls, email alerts that deliver at-a-glance insight directly to your inbox on a quarterly basis, state & province profiles bring regional insight to your clients. NEW! |
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HeritageQuest Online is a digital resource that combines searchable images of U.S. federal genealogical census records with digitized books containing family and local histories from around the country. |
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Hoover's Online. Search database of over 16.5 million companies and 14 million executive biographies in this comprehensive business intellingence tool. Find in-depth profiles of the most important business enterprises in the world. Locate potential customers, analyze your market and competition and find listings and bios of corporate officers and board members. Additional features include: "Build a List" from a base of over 60,000 companies associated with specific industries, with links to each company. IPO Central contains everything you need to know about initial public offerings, including proposed and pending transactions. NEW! |
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LearningExpressLibrary.com is the leading source for test preparation materials and interactive practice exams based on official tests such as, GEDs & SATs. Start improving your scores with LearningExpressLibrary.com. |
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Live Homework Help from Tutor.com is a unique Internet-based tutoring program that allows students to connect to Math, Science, Social Studies and English teachers via an Online Classroom. Free Live Homework Help is available Sunday through Saturday, from 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm, for 4th - 12th grade students. New Spanish language interface is now available! PLEASE NOTE: Live Homework Help requires a browser plug-in to be downloaded the first time it is used. On slower dial-up connections, this could take over 30 minutes. |
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Mergent Online. Electronic version of Moody's Financial Service. Covers over 10,000 US public companies. Includes description of business with SIC and NAICS codes, subsidiaries, list of officers and directors, company history, full financials including balance sheets and ratio analysis, executive biographies, industry reports and financial calendar. Search SEC filings via EDGAR and view Equity Portraits for a picture of a company's health in the financial markets. |
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Morningstar Investment Research Center takes you through the entire investing process - finding up-to-date information on over 30,000 stocks, mutual funds, and exchange traded funds, evaluating them from seeing how they work together in a portfolio. Powerful screeners help you build a list of stocks and funds based on different criteria. Access Morningstar analyst reports for independent opinions on 1,900 stocks and 2,100 mutual funds. Use a variety of Morningstar's well-known proprietary tools such as fund and stock star ratings, stock fair value estimates, investing style box. NEW! |
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Plunkett Research Online Includes 26 industry research centers containing information on industry analysis; market research; profiles of thousands of leading companies; current and historic industry statistics; industry contacts database including trade associations and government agencies sorted by industry; glossaries; search, print and export capabilities. Top reasons for using Plunkett are: industry-specific analysis, research and competitive intelligence; business plans/market research; sales prospecting/business development; sales planning and support; product development; job search/recruiting/placement. |
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POWER Library. One click opens the Pennsylvania Online World of Electronic Resources. Select from a variety of valuable databases. Find newspapers such as USA Today and magazines, such as Time, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated and People. Access databases for information about art, authors, auto repair, biographers, children's resources, homework resources, consumer health, literature, music, photographs, poems and more. Join book clubs and get recommendations for what to read next! |
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Price It! Antiques & Collectibles Powered by GoAntiques.com, this is a comprehensive database for identifying, researching and pricing art, antiques and collectibles. This pricing tool can be used by collectors, dealers, appraisers and anyone that is curious about all those items in your attic. |
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ProQuest. Online service provides access to over 1,500 current periodicals & newspapers (including New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Lancaster Intelligencer Journal & New Era, & Central Penn Business Journal). Many are updated daily & contain full-text articles from 1986 to present. NOTE: ProQuest will be unavailable from 10pm Saturday,
July 26 to 10am Sunday, July 27 for system maintenance. |
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Reference USA. Select from several searchable databases within ReferenceUSA: 14 million US Businesses; 210 million US Residential; 1.5 million Canadian Businesses; 12 million Canadian Households; 855,000 Healthcare Professionals (doctors & dentists); over 2.6 million new businesses; 15 million new movers. Create prospective customer or potential competitor lists by SIC or NAICS, geographic area, size of company by number of employees or sales, and more. Results can be downloaded to Excel to create mailing labels and customized letters. OneSource (International Businesses) contains in-depth information on over 3 million global companies located in the US, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia Pacific, with some coverage of companies in Latin America and the Middle East. |
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Science Resource Center. Science Resource Center is a one-stop source for
your science research needs. Concepts such as earth, life, physical, and space science, as well as history and technology,
are featured. Search through major reference titles, magazines, academic journals, multimedia, websites and science experiment
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TumbleBooks™ - e-books for e-kids. The TumbleBook Library is a fun and interactive library of animated, talking story books for preschoolers, beginner readers and older independent readers. Read along and listen, or read on your own. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing story books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic (e-book) story book. TumbleBooks will help teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love! Flash Plug-In required. TumbleBooks is created in Flash animation and require a Flash plug-in to view and hear the animation. Many computers today already are equipped with Flash. |
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Uniworld. This authoritative source of information on American and foreign
firms operating internationally covers 190 countries and 500 industries. American and foreign firms with branches, subsidiaries
or affiliates that have a substantial interest in the US or in foreign countries are represented here. |
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World Book Online has been redesigned to appeal to a broader audience through three separate components.
World Book Online Reference Center includes over 40,000 articles from the 22 volume set and is geared for middle school and high school students. World Book Kids, based on World Book Student Discovery Encyclopedia, is designed for elementary and middle school students. A new World Book Advanced is a powerful tool for high school and college students and includes ebooks and primary source documents. NEW! |
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