Grolier Online represents the best of a legacy of critically acclaimed, age-appropriate print sets, over 110 years old, available today through one powerful educational portal for students, teachers, librarians, and patrons – anyone with an information need. Built around five encyclopedia databases, Grolier Online puts the world at researchers’ fingertips with 117,760 encyclopedia articles, plus a wealth of additional resources available only in the online format.
- Encyclopedia Americana
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
- The New Book of Knowledge
- La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre
- Lands and People
LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons—students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. Click on a category to the right so that you can start on your path to success right now.
The Kankakee County Legal Self Help Center provides Kankakee County Residents with: Easy to access information about their legal rights and repsonsibilities, quick referrels to free and low cost legal aid offices, pro se forms for self-representation if necessary, self-help instruction for common legal problems, and much more.
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The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American history and culture.
NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.
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book clubs and every day you'll be sent a 5-minute sample from a book. By the end of the week, you'll have read 2-3 chapters. If it's a book you've just gotta finish, and we hope it is, visit your local library or your favorite bookstore and pick up a copy. Have fun.
HeritageQuest is the largest
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FirstSearch is an online service that gives library professionals and end users access to a rich collection of reference databases. With FirstSearch, materials in your library’s collection are highlighted in results from searches in dozens of leading databases. Choose a database below:
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ClasePeriodica
ECO
ERIC
PerAbs
MEDLINE
WorldCat (books)
WilsonSelect Plus
WorldAlmanac
