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house_icon Chicago Tribune
Access to the full text of the Chicago Tribune from 1985 through the present is available through ProQuest.
house_icon Chicago Tribune Historical Archive
Historical access to the Chicago Tribune from 1849 through 1988 is available through ProQuest.

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College Source
Complete catalogs for over 28,000 colleges and universities. Includes 2 year, 4 year, graduate, professional and international schools. Available in- house and remotely.

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Facts on File
Collection of databases on history, geography, science, and health. Includes career and curriculum resources.

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FirstSearch
Collection of databases including WorldCat, Medline, Government Publications (GPO) and ERIC that provide both citations and full- text. WorldCat is the largest international database featuring more than 54 million items from the 50,000 plus OCLC member libraries. Available in- house and remotely.

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Grolier Online
Offers access to several online encyclopedias geared toward student users. Includes Encyclopedia Americana, The New Book of Knowledge, the New Book of Popular Science, Lands and Peoples, America the Beautiful, the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and Nueva Encyclopedia Cumbre Un Linea. Also features an online dictionary. Available in- house and remotely (your browser must be set to accept all cookies).

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InfoTrac
A collection of four databases including Business Resource center, Health Resource Center, Literature Resource Center, and General Reference. Provides citations and full- text information on a variety of subjects. Available in- house and remotely.

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Netlibrary
Contains a large collection of online e- books, available with your library card. Available in- house and remotely.
Please Note: NetLibrary has ceased, but its collection is available through EbscoHost, another of the library's database vendors. Please see the Ereader and Content Page of the website for more information.

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Newsbank: America's Newspapers
Find current and archived local, state, and national full-text articles on issues, events, people, government and more including the Chicago Sun-Times (1986-Current),Herald News (1997-Current),Naperville Sun (1997-Current),The Reporter (2/9/07-Current),New York Times (1985-Current), and theWashington Post (1977-Current).

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NoveList
Search for fiction books by author, title, series title, plot, or genre. Available in- house and remotely.

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Oxford Music Online
Offers the searchable full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes) as well as the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music. Provides links to more than 3000 related Websites.

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PrairieCat
Fountaindale Public Library District online catalog. This resource allows you to borrow materials from over 100 different libraries and have them sent to your local library.
house_icon ProQuest Newsstand
Access to the full text of over 1300 newspapers, news websites and blogs from leading publishers throughout the world. Major newspapers include the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, The Guardian, and many other national and regional titles.

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ReferenceUSA
Resource for addresses and phone numbers in the U.S. for a business or a person. Available in- house and remotely (your browser must be set to accept all cookies).

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World Book Encyclopedia
Online encyclopedia available in- house and remotely.

Websites

globe_icon Bartlett Quotations (bartleby.com)
Includes collections of poetry, classic fiction works, nonfiction works, as well as reference works.
globe_icon Illinet
Online catalog featuring the resources of 45 Illinois libraries, mostly academic. Available in- house and remotely.
globe_icon Information Please
Reference source that allows you to search the contents of an encyclopedia, atlas, dictionary and both the TIME and ESPN almanacs.

 

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