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CQ Researcher
The essential source for current critical events and controversial subjects. Topics addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner.
CQ Researcher (Outside the Library)

EBSCO Host Magazines
Full text articles from over 1,100 periodicals covering nearly all subjects, including general reference, business, health, and more. Our most comprehensive magazine database.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Looking for career guidance? Find it in this comprehensive database. Career descriptions, industry overviews, scholarships, academic and non-academic program listings, employability checklists and websites to further your career.

LearningExpress Test Preparation
Online practice tests and tutorial courses for GED, SAT, GRE, reading, writing, math, U.S. citizenship, civil service, military and much more.

literature resource center

Literature Resource Center
Find biographical information, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Includes the contents of Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select and Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Mango Languages LogoMango Languages NEW!
An online language learning tool that you may access from home or your neighborhood library. Employing linguistic expertise from around the globe, it features a one-of-a-kind teaching approach and offers a broad range of popular language courses, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, and English.

opposing viewpoints resource center

Opposing Viewpoints
An online library of current events. Pro and con arguments for each topic, as well as articles, overviews, statistics, primary source documents, and links to websites from Opposing Viewpoints and other reference sources.

Oxford African American Studies Center
An authoritative and comprehensive source on the African American experience. Includes the full content of five major encyclopedias, 100 primary source documents, 1,000 images, charts, tables, and graphs, maps, timelines, and more.

Primary Search (for kids)
Full text articles, reports and special issues from over 50 kids magazines and reference sources.

ProQuest Newspapers
Access to newspaper and magazine articles from 1970 to the present. Includes New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe and full text of the Los Angeles Times from 1985 to current.

Science Online
Need a diagram of a barnacle? The internal structure of a bat? Science-oriented diagrams, experiments, essays, definitions, and biographies.

Searchasaurus for kids
Don your backpacks and pack your binoculars! Take a trek through a jungle of information led by the dinosaur Searchasaurus. Useful for elementary and middle school students.

TumbleBook Library

An online collection of animated talking picture books which teach children the joys of reading in a format they'll love. Colorful and fun!

World Book Encyclopedia
The premier encyclopedia for schools and libraries includes more than 26,000 articles as well as more than 12,000 pictures and maps, and 7,000 links to editor-approved Web sites to help students constructively explore topics.
World Book Encyclopedia (Outside the Library)

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