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AncestryPlus (ProQuest): Over 1.2 billion records in over 3,000 databases. A source for conducting genealogical and local history research. Included are digitized images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 on, The American Geneaological Biographical Index, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, and more. * in library use only
Auto Repair Reference Center (EBSCO): The Auto Repair Reference Center is a full text database containing information on Repair procedures, service bulletins, service recalls, wiring diagrams, labor and quick tips for automobiles produced between 1954-2001. Not all types of automobiles are represented in the database and not all information is available for those automobiles that are represented in the database.
Biography Resource Center (Gale): Gale Biography Resource Center includes more than 300,000 biographies from throughout history, the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Reference resources, periodical articles and portraits.
Black Women in America: Winner of the Dartmouth Medal for Outstanding Reference Publication of 1994, the first edition of Black Women in America broke new ground — pulling together for the first time all of the research in this vast but underrepresented field to provide one of the strongest building blocks of Black Women's Studies. Since the first edition was published, a new generation of American black women has flourished, demanding this landmark reference be brought up to date. Women such as Venus and Serena Williams, Condoleezza Rice, Carol Moseley Braun, Ruth Simmons, and Ann Fudge have become household names for their remarkable contributions to sports, politics, academia, and business. In nearly 600 entries, Black Women in America celebrates the remarkable achievements of black women throughout history, highlights their ongoing contributions in America today, and represents the new research the first edition helped to generate.
BookFlix: Scholastic BookFlix pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic to build a love of reading and learning. By linking fact and fiction, BookFlix reinforces early reading skills and introduces children to a world of knowledge and exploration.
BrainPop: BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. Ideal for both group and one-on-one settings, BrainPOP is used in numerous ways, from introducing a new lesson or topic to illustrating complex subject matter to reviewing before a test.
BrainPOP Jr: BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. Ideal for both group and one-on-one settings, BrainPOP is used in numerous ways, from introducing a new lesson or topic to illustrating complex subject matter to reviewing before a test. BrainPOP Jr. is specifically designed for grades K-3.
BrainPOP en Español: Desde 1999, BrainPOP ha creado contenido educativo animado en línea, tanto curricular como de interés general, para asistir a docentes, motivar a estudiantes y promover la participación de los padres de familia.
Britannica Online: Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites.
Business and Company Resource Center (Gale): Gale 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.
Byki: Byki is a powerful and personalized language-learning system. It locks foreign language words and phrases into your memory so that you can recall them perfectly and remember them forever. Byki can be used to learn 74 different languages. Users will need to sign up for a free account on their first visit.
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 (ProQuest): CultureGrams goes beyond mere facts and figures to deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.
Daily Times (ProQuest): Provides free access to The Daily Times.
Dictionary of American Family Names: A dictionary like no other, the Dictionary of American Family Names documents 70,314 surnames giving their meaning, nationality, alternate spellings, common forenames associated with them, and the frequency of each surname and forename. For students studying family genealogy, or others interested in finding out more about their own lineage, the Dictionary is an ideal place to begin research.
Encyclopedia of Global Change: Encompassing tsunamis, elephant conservation, ocean pollution, mining regulation, and permafrost melt, the 300 authoritative articles in this unique and wide-ranging encyclopedia investigate all types of phenomena that change life on Earth.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries. Searchable by subject or keywords within the entry. This source provides full text for all articles.
Grants Direct: Grants Direct provides 6,000 in-depth foundation profiles linked to more than 450,000 grants paid to organizations in all 50 states and more than a dozen foreign countries. Please use the username: hurlock and password: loginhurlock to gain access.
Heritage Quest (ProQuest): Research tools for tracing family history and American culture, for beginning and professional genealogists. Includes original page images for all documents.
History Reference Center (EBSCO): History Reference Center is the world's most extensive full-text history reference database, featuring full text for more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers.
Legal Forms From Thompson - Gale: Gale's Legal Forms has thousands of legal forms available from all 50 of the United States. Each state has at least 1000, and some as many as 3000, unique legal forms in the database. Each form is downloadable in at least Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat, while many also are available in WordPerfect and Text formats. Forms are arranged by state, then by topic, such as Divorce, Real Estate and Wills. Each topic is subdivided when appropriate, such as divorce/child custody and divorce/property. A great do-it-yourself resource for legal assistance.
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Literature Resource Center (Gale): Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, supplemented by the scholarly materials of the Scribner Writers Series and Twayne's World, U.S., and English Authors Series.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO): MasterFILE Premier contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text more than 500 reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags.
National Newspapers Expanded (ProQuest): Provides free access to The Baltimore Sun, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Atlanta Jounal Constitution, USA Today, Seattle Post Intelligencer.
NetLibrary: NetLibrary offers a wide selection of contemporary and classic audiobook titles that you can download to your computer or transfer to your portable device. The collection includes more than 1,200 MP3 titles that play on iPod, iPhone, and many other portable devices. Please click here for help getting started with NetLibrary, or here for a demonstration of the One Click Audio software which you can download to your home computer.
Newsbank Local Newspapers of Delmarva: Search full-text current and archived local and state articles on issues, events, people, government and more including the Bay Times (8/2/06-Current), The Capital (1/1/02-Current), Dorchester Star (6/30/06-Current), Kent County News (11/30/06-Current), Record Observer (8/4/06-Current) , Star Democrat (11/16/05-Current), Sunday Star (11/13/05-Current), and the Times Record (8/2/06-Current).
Novelist: NoveList is a readers' advisory service which provides access to information on 155,000 fiction titles as well as a wide range of feature content including author read-alikes, book discussion guides, reading lists and more. NoveList also includes over 60,000 juvenile fiction records.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale): Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a virtual library of resources from Gale designed to aid students in the study of today's hottest social issues.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History: International in scope and spanning all time periods of human history, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History includes 900 original articles by noted scholars from more than thirty-five countries. With coverage ranging from accounting and advertising to zoning and zoos, this landmark works stands at the busy intersection of history and the social sciences.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America: A collaboration of nearly 200 contributors from academia, industry, and the culinary world, the 700 original articles in The Encyclopedia cover the significant events, inventions, and social movements in American history that have affected the way Americans view, prepare, and consume food and drink.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States: With an unprecedented scope and cutting-edge scholarship, the Encyclopedia draws together the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Over 900 A-to-Z articles written by academics, scholars, writers, artists, and journalists, address such broad topics as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History: The Encyclopedia covers the entire history of seafaring, from ancient Egyptian shipbuilders to Viking sea-raiders, to the nuclear submarines and supertankers of today. Placing maritime affairs in their larger historical context, the Encyclopedia shows how seafaring has both reflected and influenced the major economic, cultural, military, and political developments in world history.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, edited by Bonnie G. Smith, captures the experiences of women throughout history in a far-reaching, four-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no other text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. With over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies, Women in World History is the definitive reference work in the field.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation: The definitive source for information about the entire range of religious and social changes that altered the face of Europe in the sixteenth century, encompassing not only issues of church polity and theology but also developments in politics, economics, demographics, art and literature.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance: Provides authoritative and up-to-date information about theatre and performance from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments in London, Paris, New York, and around the globe. In addition to performances in playhouses, it covers dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance, including carnivals, circus, and public executions.
Oxford Language Dictionaries Online: Oxford Language Dictionaries Online features essential language resources never before available online - fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. Offering over 4 million words, phrases and translations in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese, OLDO also features native speaker audio pronunciation - allowing you to hear how words actually sound!
Overdrive: Download digital audiobooks and eBooks.
ProQuest Research Library (Periodicals): ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 4,050 titles—nearly 2,800 in full text—from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
Sanborn Maps of Maryland: Sanborn maps are large-scale plans of a city or a town drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. The maps list street blocks and building numbers including numbers in use at the time the map was made and previous numbers.
Science Reference Center (EBSCO): Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content.
Student Research Center (EBSCO): The Student Research Center provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools for easily obtaining the information that they seek from their EBSCO databases.
Testing and Education Reference Center (Gale): This online education resource provides everything a student needs to learn more about further education and assists in making informed decisions on their future from one single, handy database. Testing & Education Reference Center also features interactive online practice tests for preparatory examinations including entrance exams and certification and licensing tests. Some of the standardized tests included are: AP exam, SAT, GRE, civil service exams for places of employment like the U.S. Post Office, NCLEX for nurses, real estate, military, PRAXIS for teachers, and GED. In addition to the standardized tests, this resource offers online information about private high schools, colleges and universities, graduate schools, and specialty schools.
Tumblebooks: The TumbleBook Library is a collection of free interactive animated talking storybooks for children. Children can chose to read the text or have the stories read to them. Some books feature "Word Help" to assist children in sounding out words. There are also book-related puzzles and games to play. Stories are available in English, Spanish, French and Chinese.
Tutor.com: Live homework help is available seven days a week from 2 p.m. through 12:00 a.m. Eastern time in the subjects of math, science, social studies, and English. It is also available in Spanish Sunday through Thursday 5 p.m. - 10 p.m.. Students can connect to a tutor through any computer with Internet access, including computers at their local public library or at home. This service is brought to you by Eastern Shore Regional Library and provided to the eight county libraries on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Virtual Reference Library (Gale): Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.