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Current Research Database Spotlight: Infotrac General Reference Center Gold Quick Tour (pdf)
 
Resource Group Description
Mango Languages All  Online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills. 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.
AllData Pro Consumers  Resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information. NO HOME ACCESS AVAILABLE.
Quick Tour (pdf)
America's Genealogy Bank Genealogists  Easily search and browse millions of genealogies, obituaries, marriage and birth announcements, and more from 1652-the present. Includes historical newspapers, books and documents, along with modern obituaries and the social security death index.
Quick Tour (pdf)
America's Newspapers on Newsbank News Seekers Students  Local, State and National Newspapers including Elgin Courier News (1997-current), Chicago Tribune (1985-current), Chicago Sun-Times (1986-current), Daily Herald (1995-current), and Kane County Chronicle (12/9/05-current). Search by name, date, or text such as institutional name, social affiliation, and geographic location.
America's Obituaries and Death Notices Genealogists News Seekers  Search newspaper obituaries and death notices from around the United States.
Ancestry Plus Genealogists  Genealogy Resource. Gain instant access to more than 1 billion names, more than 3,000 databases,and a variety of genealogical research features.
NO HOME ACCESS AVAILABLE.
Chicago Area News News Seekers  Full text articles from 170 sources of News covering Chicago and surrounding suburbs.
Chicago Sun-Times From (1986-Current) News Seekers  Search unique coverage of local and regional news including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community.
Courier News News Seekers  Access news articles from 1997.
eLibrary Researchers Students  Search a variety of sources such as newspapers, encyclopedias, etc.
ERIC Educational Database Researchers Students  Journal articles and reports on education topics.
Facts.com News Seekers Researchers Students  Brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60+ years.
FirstSearch Researchers Students  Links to many indexes and full-text resources and scholarly articles including ArticleFirst, ClasePeriodica (Latin America), ECO (Journals), PapersFirst (Conferences), PerAbs (Periodical Abstracts), and WorldCatDissertations.
Gale Virtual Reference Library Business Users Researchers Students  Search and read online some of our most popular reference books including business, medical, and educational titles.  Alphabetical list of titles.
GPO Consumers Researchers  U.S. government publications.
Heritage Quest Genealogists
Students
 
Genealogy Resource: Start your family history search here. Includes complete US Federal Census images.
Hoover's Job Seekers Business Users  Covers public and private companies along with detailed company and industry information. Includes information from Hoover's Industry Database and D&B Company Database.
NO HOME ACCESS AVAILABLE.
Hoover's First Research Business Users  Search by SIC or NAICS codes for industry profiles (ex. employment, unemployment, personal income, tax revenues, and exports) across state boundaries.
NO HOME ACCESS AVAILABLE.
Illinois Clicks Students  It is an information website with quality internet resources, reviewed and selected by Illinois librarians, well-organized for easy access by all Illinois citizens.
Infotrac General Reference Center Gold Researchers Students  Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, etc.
Quick Tour (pdf)
Kane County Chronicle From (12/9/05-Current) News Seekers  Search unique coverage of local and regional news Including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community.
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Express
Library.com
Job Seekers Students  (formerly Learnatest.com)-Interactive practice exams and test preparation. Follow directions about how to become a new user or access your tests.
Quick Tour (pdf)
Medline Health Database Consumers  All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing.
Morningstar.Com Business Users  Identify stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs that meet your needs.
Quick Tour (pdf)
Newspapers on Newsbank News Seekers Students  Local, State and National Newspapers including Elgin Courier News (1997-current), Chicago Tribune (1985-current), Chicago Sun-Times (1986-current), Daily Herald (1995-current), and Kane County Chronicle (12/9/05-current). Search by name, date, or text such as institutional name, social affiliation, and geographic location.
NoveList & NoveList K-8 Fiction Readers Kids  Explore by fiction types, describe a plot, match a novel, or best fiction. You can choose level of adult, young adult, children, or easy.
Quick Tour (pdf)
Record Information Services Consumers  Find local public information in Kane and surrounding counties on new homeowners and businesses, foreclosures and auctions, and bankruptcies.
Quick Tour (pdf)
Reference USA Business Users Job Seekers  Gain Business and Residential Database Information.
Quick Tour (pdf)
Thomas Register Business Users  The most comprehensive resource for industrial information. Go straight to the source of product, company information, CAD drawings and more...
Value Line Research Center Business Users
Investors 
Includes on-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, and more.
NO HOME ACCESS AVAILABLE.
WorldCat Business Users Researchers Students  Find Books in Library Catalogs all over the world.
World Book Online Kids Students  Offers more than 25,000 encyclopedia articles, more than 14,000 Web sites, dictionaries, atlases, etc. that are carefully edited to suit the educational level of the users most likely to use them, from grades 4 through 12 and adults.
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