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Find Books
and Magazine Articles Online - A Massachusetts
public or campus library card and a computer with Internet access are your
gateway to web-based electronic resources that contain thousands of popular
magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, newswires, business directories,
investment reports, biographies, health and prescription drug information,
literature reviews, and more. Read the latest AND back issues of your
favorite magazines and newspapers ranging from Time, Newsweek,
Consumer Reports, Science
News, Forbes,
the Harvard Health
Letter, Sports
Illustrated for Kids, Ranger
Rick, The
Boston Globe, The
New York Times and Fodor's Travel Guides to name a few. The
latest magazines are often online BEFORE they even hit the newsstands!
Academic OneFile - Academic OneFile contains 8,000 academic journals, mainly in
full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. It also contains hundreds of
podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text
New York Times content from 1995.
America's News - Search current
and archived local, state, regional and national full-text articles on
isues, events, business, education, government, sports and more with over
1,500 newspapers, newswires, news videos, transcripts and other news
sources including the Daily Hampshire Gazette (1/3/94-Current), The
Republican (6/13/88-Current), Valley Advocate (9/26/96-Current), and USA
Today (7/1/87-Current).
American Women's History Online - Covers the important people, events, legislation,
and issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States.
American History Online - Spans more
than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history,
highlighting the important people and events of the American experience. .
African-American History Online - Provides expansive
and in-depth information on the people, events, and topics important to the
study of African-American history.
Biography Resource Center - Biographies
covering literary figures, science, multicultural studies, business,
entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and
the arts.
Biography Resource Center: African Americans - A subset of
Biography Resource Center with in-depth essays on the most frequently
researched historic and contemporary African American figures and 30,000
thumbnail biographies covering a wide variety of fields.
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select - An extensive
collection of critical essays & biographical information on
contemporary writers.
Educator’s Reference Complete - Use this mainly
full-text collection of over 1100 periodicals and 200 reports for educational
research from preschool to college. Every educational specialty can be
found here including technology, health and bilingual education, testing,
and issues in administration, funding and policy.
Expanded Academic ASAP Plus - Scholarly
content covering arts & humanities, the social sciences and general
sciences.
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Over 20
full-text reference books covering the arts, biography, business,
environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies,
geography, and science.
Gale World
History in Context -A comprehensive online collection that
uses an intuitive, Web-like interface to provide multicultural, global and
research-based dynamic content that supports today’s history research
requirements.
General BusinessFile ASAP - Full-text
business and management topics. Includes directory listings for over
150,000 companies as well as investment analysts’ reports on major companies
and industries.
General OneFile - Gale’s
General OneFile is a comprehensive periodical
resource that puts more than 39 million database records at researchers’
fingertips. More than 9,200 titles (5,156 full-text) and backfile coverage from 1980 — from mainstream to
specialized sources — and an intuitive search interface make this an
unequaled source for virtually every popular, business and professional
topic.
General Reference Center Gold - Full-text
magazines, newspapers & reference books containing information on
current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.
Health Reference Center Academic - Full-text resources
including consumer health, nursing & allied health.
Info Trac Junior Edition (grades 5-12)
- Mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for junior
high and middle school students covering current events, the arts, science,
popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
Info Trac Student Edition (grades 9-12) - Mainly
full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for grades 9 - 12
covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health,
people, government, history, sports and more.
Grove Art Online - Grove Art
Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed.
Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed.
Hugh Brigstocke (2001). It offers ongoing
additions of new and updated articles, over 3,000 thumbnail art images and
line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and
sophisticated search and navigation tools.
Kids InfoBits - Covering 75
full-text curriculum-related magazines and 7 reference books, InfoBits targets the research needs of K- 5 students.
It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface and
a subject-based topic tree search.
Massachusetts History Online - Combining
selections from their vast periodical content, Massachusetts History Online
contains full-text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly
relate to Massachusetts history, both past and present, including people,
places, historical events and more. Containing data from a range of
publications, Massachusetts History Online provides a targeted resource for
information relating to the study of Massachusetts History.
New York Times 1995 - Search the full text of The New
York Times (starting in 1995).
NoveList - NoveList is a
comprehensive online readers’ advisory tool. Patrons can search among
hundreds of thousands of popular fiction titles, and also retrieve author
read-alikes, book lists, book discussion guides
and more.
RDS Business
Suite-
The RDS Business Suite is a collection of three highly complementary
business information databases - Business & Industry, Business &
Management Practices, and TableBase.
Science Online - Presents a
broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive definitions,
essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.
Gale Science
In Context – Science in Context delivers integrated content
through 150+ comprehensive reference sets.
Student
Resources in Context - Provides holistic perspectives by integrating
a multitude of content, including: 79,000 reference articles from
acclaimed publications, 15 million periodical and newspaper articles, 4,200
primary sources, 100,000 multimedia records, including charts, graphs, maps
and tables, video and audio content from NBC, NPR and other respected
sources.
Thomson Gale Powersearch - PowerSearch makes it
possible to find subjects from A-Z in one or several of the Gale’s
periodical databases in a single search. This is especially good for
subjects that may be covered more than one database, such as diets,
careers, etc.
U.S. History
in Context U.S. History in Context delivers comprehensive,
contextual, media-rich results from the most extensive online collection of
historical information available today.
Massachusetts Newsstand - Residents of
Massachusetts can search the full-text (including back issues) of the
following twelve Massachusetts newspapers:
Berkshire Eagle 2005-
Boston Globe 1980-
Boston Herald 1991-
Business West (Chicopee) 1992-
Gazette (Haverhill) 12/31/92-8/9/07
Lowell Sun 2004-
North Adams Transcript 2005-
Patriot Ledge (Quincy) 1991-
Plymouth County Business Review 1991-
Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg) 2005-
Standard-Times (New Bedford) 1/4/92-8/19/97
Worcester Telegram & Gazette 1989-
Learning
Express Database You must have a Northampton (Forbes)
Library card to use this database. This interactive online database
features more than 300 practice tests based on official school and career
exams, including ACT, SAT, GED, ASVAB, Firefighter, Police Officer,
Paramedic, EMT Basic, U.S. Citizenship, Postal Worker, Cosmetology, and
Real Estate Sales Agent & Broker Exams, among others. Includes math
& reading practice for 4th grade through high school, school and
college admission tests and Advance Placement tests.
Weather
WWLP News 22 Western
Massachusetts weather and news.
WGGB
News 40 Western
Massachusetts weather and news.
Weather
Underground Provides weather
forecasts for around the world.
Weather Channel National
and Local weather.
National Weather Service National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Local
History
City
of Northampton Brief History of Northampton and Florence
David Ruggles
Center for
Information on Early Florence History & Underground Railroad Studies.
Leeds Civic Association provides a short
history of Leeds and information on events.
The Northampton
Association of Education & Industry Website giving
the story of the NAEI and its development in the 1840’s.
Sojourner Truth Memorial
This
website was created as a memorial to Sojourner Truth a former slave who
lived in Florence, MA in the mid 1800’s. This group also built a statue
of her on the corners of Pine & Park Street..
History of the
Northampton Silk Industry A website designed by Smith College
about the Silk Industry in Northampton and Florence.
Florence Kindergarten
The Hill Institute website describes the history of the school founded by
Samuel T. Hill in 1876, one of the first in the United States.
Florence
Congregational Church Located at 130 Pine Street, has
its beginnings in Florence from 1857.
Florence
Saving Bank History of the bank founded in 1873 with the help
of Alfred T. Lilly.
Historic Northampton
Museum & Education Center of Northampton History.
Forbes Library
Local History page has many resources and online exhibits.
Williamsburg Fire
Department history
of the Williamsburg Fire Department.
Chesterfield MA historic photos.
Reader's
Advisory
ALA
Notable Book Adult List
ALA
Notable Books Children's List
National Book Award Award Wilnners
American
Booksellers Association - Listing of Award winner list includes
Pulitzers Prize.
Book Lust
- Nancy Pearl's book lists by category.
NoveList - NoveList is a comprehensive online readers’ advisory
tool.
Whichbook.net – A British website allowing
users to find books based on personal preferences.
Adult
Literacy
The
Adult Literacy Project The
Literacy Project offers free classes to adults in Western Massachusetts in
beginning literacy as well as GED preparation.
Massachusetts Adult
Literacy Hotline Adult Literacy Hotline and Resources.
Job
Searching
General Job Search Sites
Franklin-Hampshire County Career Center
www.masslive.com/jobs/
www.craigslist.com
www.indeed.com
www.net-temps.com
www.monster.com
www.careerbuilder.com
Networking
www.linkedin.com
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