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Age Group: Adult Database
Subject: Business

AtoZdatabases is the Premier Job Search, Reference & Mailing List Database including 30 million business & executive profiles & 240 million residents. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more!


This scholarly collection provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study, including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies.


Age Group: Adult Database
Subject: Genealogy

Browse the Ancestry Library Edition - an unprecedented online collection of data on over 4 billion individuals from North America, Europe, Australia, and more. Please Note: This is only available on site within the Library.


Age Group: Adult Database
Subject: Do-It-Yourself

This database contains repair and maintenance information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. New repair procedures, technical service bulletins and updates are added to the product on a regular basis.


Age Group: Adult Database

Explore Aurora area history through local news, events and people with the Beacon News Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online. Available remotely 24/7 on any device.


Age Group: Adult Database

Find full text management, economics, finance, accounting, international business articles, company profiles, plus industry and market reports, and more.


Age Group: Adult Database

Explore and stay informed on Chicago area topics, people and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more.  Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources including the Beacon News, Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, Kane County Chronicle and others. Available remotely 24/7 on any device.


Age Group: Adult Database

Explore Chicago history through local news, events and people with the Chicago Sun-Times Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online. Available remotely 24/7 on any device.


Index of Spanish-language journals in the sciences and humanities. Some full-text available. 


Subject: Books/Reading

Thousands of digital comics for patrons of all ages. Our subscription to Comics Plus® includes digital access for every patron on desktop, mobile, or tablet. Every title is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.


Age Group: Adult Database
Subject: Health/Wellness

This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. It is designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics.Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.


Age Group: Adult Database

Get immediate online access to print issues of the well-respected Consumer Reports Magazine as well as special online-only content. Find buying guides, product reviews and even links to shop online for the best products and services available.


Subject: Do-It-Yourself

Creativebug.com has thousands of award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists.


Age Group: Adult Database
Subject: Education

Driving Tests provides patrons with unlimited access to official state driver's manuals, online practice tests for car, motorcycle and commercial driver's license (CDL), an exam simulator, and a DMV - related FAQ. Patrons can access Driving Tests to start preparing for their DMV knowledge exam by visiting https://messengerpl.driving-tests.org/illinois/. The program is designed to help aspiring as well as more experienced drivers (teenagers, newcomers, renewal applicants or senior citizens). Tests can be accessed from any computer or mobile device.


ECO

Age Group: Adult Database

Index of academic journal articles.  Some full-text available.


Age Group: Adult Database

Index of articles and reports in education.  Some full-text available. 


Age Group: Kids Database

Explora provides easy-to-use features and reliable content from the world’s leading magazines and reference books.  For Kindergarten to 5th Grade.


Explora provides easy-to-use features and reliable content from the world’s leading magazines and reference books.  For teens and adults.


Subject: Homework Help

For students and adults alike, this database provides over 25,000 full-text encyclopedic entries, images and offers brief biographies covering a variety of subject areas.


Age Group: Adult Database

Index of U.S. government publications.


Age Group: Adult Database
Subject: Genealogy

Explore your family history with the premier collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices for in-depth genealogical research from 1704 - today. HeritageHub helps you easily identify relatives, uncover new information and potentially unknown family members. Includes deep coverage from all 50 states, hard-to-find content from the mid 1900’s, and original obituary images. Access is available 24/7.


Age Group: Adult Database
Subject: Genealogy

One of the largest and useful online data collections for family historians, HeritageQuest Online has the US Census from 1790 thru 1930, more than 26,000 family and local history books, Revolutionary War pension files, the Periodical Source Index (PERSI) to 2.1 million-plus articles in genealogy and history periodicals, Freedman's Bank records of former slaves and petitions to Congress back to 1789. For online tutorial, click here.


Find full text entries for magazines and journals, reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers, historical documents, biographies of historical figures, plus historical photos, maps, and video.


Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center provides information about many of the most popular hobbies, crafts, and recreation activities today such as collecting, games and electronics, model building, needlework, outdoors and nature, scrapbooking, and papercraft.


Age Group: Adult Database
Subject: Careers/Jobs

Job and Career Accelerator


Age Group: Adult Database

Explore Kane County area history through local news, events and people with the Kane County Chronicle Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online. Available remotely 24/7 on any device.


Students and adults will find resources and practice courses for skill building in math, reading writing, popular software programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and Publisher. Plus exams including the ACT, SAT, GED, ASVAB, Allied Healthcare, Firefighter, Police Officer, Paramedic, EMT Basic, U.S. Citizenship, Postal Worker, Cosmetology, Real Estate Agent and Broker.


Age Group: Adult Database

Legal Information Reference center has over 220 full-text publications including many of the top consumer legal reference books and thousands of legal forms, with more content added on a regular basis.


Find plot summaries, synopses, and work overviews, articles of literary criticism, author biographies, book reviews, author interviews, images of key literary figures, classic and contemporary poems and short stories, plus the full text of over 7,000 classic novels.


Age Group: Kids Database

LOTE (Languages Other Than English) Online for Kids is an online database of digital picture books in World Languages, that helps libraries to engage multilingual families in their communities, while allowing kids to enjoy books and learn language through the magic of storytelling.


Mango Languages is an online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages (Spanish, ESL, French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Russian and more). Mango uses real-life situations and actual conversations to more effectively teach a new language. By listening to and repeating after material designed from native conversations, you'll not only learn the individual words and phrases, you'll know how they're used in practical situations and conversations. You'll learn more than grammar, vocabulary and conjugation, you'll learn how to communicate.


Subject: Homework Help

Find full text  reference books, primary source documents, images, maps and flags, plus periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more.


Age Group: Adult Database
Subject: Health/Wellness

Index of medical journal articles.  Some full-text available.


Subject: Homework Help

This database is designed for middle school students, and contains full text articles for popular middle school magazines, assigned to Lexile reading level indicators.  Find biographies, historical essays, reference books, photos, maps, flags and primary source documents.


All the info about books, authors, and series you could want! Includes book descriptions and suggests similar books and authors to read, plus you can search for different topics or Lexile.


Find a good book to read! NoveList Plus provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-A-Likes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Feature Articles.


Age Group: Teen Database

This database contains a balance of pro and con materials from all viewpoints, including more main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books.


Age Group: Kids Database
Subject: Homework Help

This database is designed for elementary school students, and contains full text articles from popular elementary school sources, assigned to Lexile reading level indicators.  Find biographies, historical essays, reference books, photos, maps, flags, the American Heritage® Children's Dictionary, the Encyclopedia of Animals™, and the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.


Subject: Education, Genealogy

ProQuest invites you to explore this website which focuses on Black Freedom, featuring select primary source documents that are related to critical people and events in African American history.

Proquest Black Freedom Struggle


Age Group: Adult Database

Access full text entries for nearly 100 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications (including titles from Crain Communications)


Subject: Homework Help

Find full text documents dealing with science, biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, math, environmental science, life science, medicine, space science, computer science, technology, history of science, and more.


Age Group: Adult Database

The Small Business Reference Center is a database that offers a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding.


TumbleBook Library collection has over 1100 titles and is perfect for public libraries and elementary schools, with content most appropriate for those in grades K-6. It includes animated talking picture books, chapter books, videos, non-fiction titles, graphic novels, playlists, and books in French and Spanish.


Age Group: Adult Database

U.S. Major Dailies provides access to current content and significant archives dating back to the 1980s for five of the nation’s most respected national and regional newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal, in full-text format.


Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. 




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