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| Online Public Access Catalog | Allows you to access and request all materials held by libraries in the Four County Library System | ||
| Inter-Library Loan | Allows you to request books from other libraries in the Four County Library System, Broome County Public Library, New York State Library, and other libraries in the United States | ||
| Internet Access | Four computers with Road Runner service - Parent's signature required for those under 18 | ||
| Large Print Books | Library collecion and one rotating collection | ||
| Audio Cassettes | Library collection and two rotating collections | ||
| Books on CD | Library collection of over 150 and one rotating collection | ||
| Compact Discs | More than 400 Music CDs for adults and children | ||
| Video Cassettes & DVDs | A growing collection of more than 1,850 Videos and 335 DVD's. Also a rotating Video and DVD Collection | ||
| Magazines | 42 Titles plus donated magazines - All circulate except latest issue | ||
| Newspapers | The Chenango American, The Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin, Norwich Evening Sun, Sunday New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal | ||
| Local History & Genealogy Area | General Genealogy Materials, Marriage, Birth, & Death Index from Chenango American from 1855, 1880 U.S. Census on CD-ROM, AncestryPlus available online, & much more! | ||
| Microfilm Reader Printer | Automatic with zoom lens - Printing costs 10 cents per page | ||
| Photocopier | 10 cents per page | ||
| Tax Forms | State & Federal forms available during tax season - Binders of current & past State & Federal reproducible forms available year round | ||
| Meeting Room | Available for community groups any day or evening - Call to reserve: 656-9349 | ||
| Children's CD/ROM Computer | Contains various learning and reference CD/ROMs for children 18 months and older - Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult | ||
| Computer Room | Internet, Word, Access, Excel, Power Point, Publisher & Front Page available. CD/ROM tutorials for Windows and Microsoft Office. CD/ROMS: National Geographic Magazine, Barron's Book Study Notes, Art Gallery, & Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, Microsoft Digital Image Suite and Photo Printer available. Photo Printing Prices vary - Sign up at circulation desk | ||
Electronic Databases |
Description | ||
| BUSINESS AND FINANCE | |||
| Business and Company ASAP | Provides researchers with information on companies, markets and industries -- from market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Get access to business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images. | ||
| Business and Company Resource Center | Brings together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Find detailed company and industry news and information. | ||
| Morningstar.com | Get data reports covering more than 20,000 securities. Identify stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs that meet specific needs. Delve into the data of a stock or mutual fund. Research two or more stocks and/or mutual funds to see how they work together as a portfolio. | ||
| CHILDREN’S RESOURCES | |||
| Junior Edition – K12 | Formerly SuperTOM Junior, this periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. | ||
| Kids Search | EBSCO has created a search interface designed specifically for elementary/middle school students according to their needs and search abilities. The Kids Search interface combines a state-of-the-art search engine (powered by EBSCOhost®) with a child-friendly, graphically-rich design that is both powerful and fun to use. | ||
| Primary Search | Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular magazines for elementary school research. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full-text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost. | ||
| Kids Searchasaurus | Three popular elementary and middle school databases can be accessed via Searchasaurus®, EBSCO Publishing's user search experience for kids in elementary or middle schools. This animated interface with a dinosaur theme encourages students to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. Searchasaurus offers Lexile limiters (reading level), making it easy for students to read and research only appropriately challenging materials. | ||
| GENEALOGY | |||
| Ancestry Library Edition (ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE LIBRARY) | Search family histories and genealogies from the U.S. census records, Social Security records, birth and death records, immigration records, military records, biographies, and more. Over 1 billion names in 3,000 unique databases for genealogy research | ||
| HEALTH AND WELLNESS | |||
| Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module | Find alternative medicine-focused magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, videos and reference information on: Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Pregnancy, Herbal remedies and more. Included are links to diet, cancer, health assessment sites and government databases. Easily access 700+ videos from Healthology, Inc.'s consumer health video library. | ||
| Health Reference Center Academic | Use this database to find articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs and more. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only. | ||
| LITERATURE AND POETRY | |||
| Literature Resource Center | This complete literature reference database is designed for both the undergraduate and graduate student as well as the sophisticated casual user. Rich in biographical, bibliographical, and critical content, it is the premier Internet resource for information on literary figures from all time periods writing in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism and more. | ||
| LitFinder | The ultimate reference for full-text poems, thousands of full-text stories, explanations, biographies, just-published stories, pictures, essays, study guides, a glossary, pictures and more. Complete single-source of full-text plays covering the full range of dramatic expression. LitFinder also includes the best-known speeches of the past 2,500 years. | ||
| NoveList | This fiction database provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for more than 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. Children, Teen and Adult Fiction. . 1,200 pre-made lists of award winners. | ||
| The Twayne Authors Series | This is the premier literary reference resource series, comprising Twayne's U.S. Authors, Twayne's English Authors, and Twayne's World Authors. Each of these individual titles provides literary criticism for approximately 200 authors, bringing the total number of authors covered in the Series to nearly 600. Each author selected for coverage is tied to the high school and college curriculum. | ||
| MAGAZINE ARTICLES | |||
| MasterFILE Premier | This multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, it also includes nearly 500 full-text reference books; 84,000 biographies; 83,000 primary source documents; and an Image Collection of 193,000 photos, maps and flags. | ||
| TOPICsearch | This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. It contains full text for 103,000 articles from 2,500 diverse sources, including 1,550 full-text periodicals. | ||
| NEWSPAPERS AND CURRENT EVENTS | |||
| CQ Researcher | For researchers seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news on health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc. | ||
| Custom Newspapers | Search a collection of 150 newspapers, both national and international, containing full-text articles from newspapers in major U.S. cities and the U.K. | ||
| Cyber Times Navigator (New York Times) | The Newsroom Navigator has been used by New York Times reporters and editors as the starting point for their forays onto the Web. Its primary intent is to give the news staff and the public a solid starting point for a wide range of journalistic functions without forcing all of them to spend time wandering around to find a useful set of links of their own. The list is by its nature highly selective and constantly changing | ||
| National Newspaper Index | Get quick access to the indexing of America's top-five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. | ||
| New York State Newspapers | Search this database of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times, the New York Post, Buffalo News, Post-Standard (Syracuse), New York Observer, and the New York Magazine. | ||
| New York Times Historical Edition | Provides the New York Times in full-page view back to the first issue in 1851. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue since the New York Times began publication. | ||
| NewsBank | Contains the electronic editions of valuable local, regional and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Each newspaper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including local companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded. | ||
| PRACTICE TESTS | |||
| Testing & Education Reference Center | An online interactive database of practice tests including the GED, civil service, military exams; licensing tests for law enforcement, real estate; plus entrance exams for college and graduate school . Provides an online searchable database for training in specialty careers and occupations. Includes a searchable database of colleges and graduate schools with online and distance learning programs. | ||
| REFERENCE RESOURCES | |||
| Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia | More than 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. Articles are full text with embedded links to other related articles. | ||
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | A database of encyclopedias, almanacs and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Subject areas include history, health and business. | ||
| SCIENCE AND NATURE | |||
| EBSCO Animals | In-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. Indexes, abstracts and full-text records describing genus and species name plus the nature and habitat of familiar animals. | ||
| General Science Collection | Information on the scientific world, plus full-text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications dating back to 1992. Explore Archeology, Astronomy, Geology Today, Popular Science, Scientific American, Technology Review, Worldwatch, and other magazines today. | ||
| SPANISH LANGUAGE RESOURCES | |||
| Informe | Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. | ||
| EBSCOhost Espanol | Esta base de datos multidisciplinaria ha sido especialmente diseñada para bibliotecas públicas. Abarca el texto completo de casi 750 publicaciones generales de referencia, con información desde 1984. MasterFILE Select engloba casi todas las áreas de interés general y contiene el texto completo de 35 libros de referencia y una colección gráfica compuesta por 193,000 fotos, mapas y banderas. Esta base de datos se actualiza a diario a través de EBSCO host. | TEACHING AND LIBRARIANSHIP | |
| LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) | This world-class bibliographic database is a free resource to anyone interested in libraries and information management. It provides coverage on such subjects as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports and proceedings. It is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science, with coverage dating back to the mid-1960s. | ||
| Teacher Reference Center | This index of more than 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now also offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. Find coverage of key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics and more. | ||
