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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.| Resource | Group | Description |
| Chilton Library | Auto Repair | Represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models. ChiltonLibrary.com gives you the confidence to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle. |
| Gale Legal Forms | Business, Consumer Info & Health | Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language. |
| Price IT! Antiques and Collectibles | Consumer Info and Health | An electronic database antique/collectibles pricing tool, containing data from a variety of sources, including online auctions (eBay), online antique dealers (GoAntiques & TIAS) and land-based auction houses. The database currently has over 23 million prices realized for art, antiques and collectibles in more than 100 categories and subcategories with over 10 million images. |
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| Mango Languages | All, Foreign Language, Homework and Test Prep | 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 | Consumer Info and Health, Auto Repair | Resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information. NO HOME ACCESS AVAILABLE.
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| America's Genealogy Bank | Genealogy | 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.
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| America's Newspapers on Newsbank | Homework & Test Prep, Magazines & Newspapers, Researchers | 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 | Genealogy, Magazines & Newspapers | Search newspaper obituaries and death notices from around the United States. |
| Ancestry Plus | Genealogiy | 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 | Magazines & Newspapers | Full text articles from 170 sources of News covering Chicago and surrounding suburbs. |
| Chicago Sun-Times From (1986-Current) | Magazines & Newspapers | Search unique coverage of local and regional news including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. |
| Courier News | Magazines & Newspapers | Access news articles from 1997. |
| eLibrary | Researchers, Homework & Test Prep, Arts & Literature, Magazines & Newspapers | Search a variety of sources such as newspapers, encyclopedias, etc. |
| ERIC Educational Database | Researchers, Homework & Test Prep | Journal articles and reports on education topics. |
| FirstSearch | Researchers, Homework & Test Prep, Magazines & Newspapers | 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, Homework & Test Prep, Researchers, Arts & Literature | Search and read online some of our most popular reference books including business, medical, and educational titles. Alphabetical list of titles. |
| GPO | Consumer Info and Health, Homework and Test Prep | U.S. government publications. |
| Heritage Quest | Genealogists Students |
Genealogy Resource: Start your family history search here. Includes complete US Federal Census images. |
| Hoover's | Jobs & Career, 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. |
| Infotrac General Reference Center Gold | Researchers, Homework & Test Prep, Arts & Literature, Magazines & Newspapers | Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, etc.
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| Kane County Chronicle From (12/9/05-Current) | Magazines & Newspapers | Search unique coverage of local and regional news Including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. |
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Learning Express Library.com |
Jobs & Career, Homework & Test Prep | (formerly Learnatest.com)-Interactive practice exams and test preparation. Follow directions about how to become a new user or access your tests.
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| Medline Health Database | Consumer Info and Health | All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. |
| Morningstar.Com | Business Users, Personal Finance | Identify stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs that meet your needs.
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| 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 | Arts & Literature | Explore by fiction types, describe a plot, match a novel, or best fiction. You can choose level of adult, young adult, children, or easy.
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| Record Information Services | Consumer Info and Health | Find local public information in Kane and surrounding counties on new homeowners and businesses, foreclosures and auctions, and bankruptcies.
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| Reference USA | Business Users; Jobs & Career | Gain Business and Residential Database Information.
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| 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, Personal Finance | Includes on-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, and more.
NO HOME ACCESS AVAILABLE. |
| WorldCat | Business Users, Researchers, Homework & Test Prep, Arts & Literature, Magazines & Newspaper | Find Books in Library Catalogs all over the world. |