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MAGAZINES, JOURNALS & NEWSPAPERS
Business & Company Resource Center
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A business research tool for the job seeker, casual investor, or business student, offering up-to-date topical business information and company and industry intelligence on thousands of global companies. Provided by NOVEL. |
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A portal for exploring careers and locating jobs, education and training. |
JobNow! powered by Brainfuse
Available from home to Crandall Public Library card holders. |
Provides live interactive online help as well as online resources to guide you through the necessary tasks to get a job. Provided by the New York State Library through an ARRA BTOP grant. |
Resources for starting and managing home-based and small businesses. |
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| NYS Civil Service Exam Schedule | Exams are posted by the NYS Department of Civil Service and updated approximately every two weeks. |
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Available to Crandall Public Library card holders. |
Detailed information on 12 million businesses and 120 million households. Business information includes executive names, number of employees, credit ratings, SIC code, and more. Search using whatever information you have, even if it is incomplete. |
| College Source | Information on over 18,000 colleges compiled by the Career Guidance foundation. |
Apply for Federal financial student aid online. |
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This site, developed by the Oswego City School District, helps high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. The project is supported by a federally-funded Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant. |
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Descriptions, contact information and active email and website links for hundreds of (day & residential) arts, sports, and academic summer camp programs for kids 8-18 on college campuses throughout New York State. |
Teacher Reference Center (TRC), provided by EBSCO
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This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians. |
EBSCO Primary Search for Elementary Students
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Contains full text of children's magazines, children's pamphlets, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, and Encyclopedia of Animals. Provided by NOVEL. |
| EBSCO Searchasaurus- Kid's Version | A current events and magazine database for elementary school students. Search 120 magazines, including American Heritage, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated for Kids and the World Almanac. The reading level of articles is included. Provided by NOVEL. |
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Three online encyclopedias: Encyclopedia Americana (grade 8 and above), Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (grade 5 and above) featuring an interactive Atlas, and the New Book of Knowledge (grade 3 and above). Provided by NOVEL. |
For more information on local history contact the Folklife Center
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Available in the library only-Access from computer desktop. |
Start your own genealogy using the U.S. Census (1790-1930), New York Passenger lists (1851-1891), World War I Draft Registration Cards (1917-1918), Civil War Service Records, the Social Security Death Index, and the England, Wales, Scotland & Ireland Parish and Probate Records plus much more. |
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Available to Crandall Public Library card holders ONLY. |
Research your family history online. This collection assembles every extant U.S. federal census, banking and military records, genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials. |
For more help finding health information check out our Consumer Health Information Center
Health Reference Center Academic
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Multi-source database providing access to full-text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources that offer reliable health information to researchers, including nursing and allied health students. Provided by NOVEL. |
| MedlinePlus | MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, NIH, and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Included is extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news. |
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Available in the Library ONLY. |
Find information on Foods, Herbs, and Supplements; Health & Wellness; and Genomics & Proteomics. Also includes: conventional & integrative therapy options for a variety of medical conditions; information on brand name products; and many interactive tools. |
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Citations and abstracts to the world's biomedical literature back to 1966, from the National Library of Medicine. |
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A gathering of authors who live in New York's Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren and Washington Counties. |
BookTalk - Resources for Readers
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Find out about your favorite author or others that have similar styles, local literary events and book discussions. You can also reserve a book online and select where you want to pick it up. All you need is an MVLS/SALS library card. |
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Useful sites for adult learners, tutors, educators, and program coordinators of Basic English Education and English as a Second Language |
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Your guide to reading, NoveList Plus allows readers to use a favorite author or title to locate other authors and titles of interest. It provides subject access, reviews, annotations, and includes Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Feature Articles. Provided by EBSCO. |
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Critical interpretation and discussion of the works of 600 authors. The discussions of each author in the series are between 175-200 printed pages. Provided by NOVEL. |
Cornell's Legal Information Institute (LII)
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Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute is probably the most expansive legal reference tool online. Useful features include Law About with links to every legal topic imaginable, constitutions and codes, court opinions, law by source or jurisdiction (the 50 states and DC), and the American Legal Ethics Library. Key features are The United States Code, U.S. Supreme Court (1990-date), and New York State Court of Appeals opinions. |
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Best legal information starting point for the consumer. Serious researchers can find Supreme Court Decisions from 1983-date. |
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This site offers a powerful search engine that searches every word of every U.S. government document in a quarter of a second or less. Includes a separate search engine for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (1976-date). |
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Official Federal government information from the US Government Printing Office. Included here are popular regulatory materials such as the Federal Register (1994-date) and The Code of Federal Regulations, critical Congressional products such as the Congressional Record (1994-date) and Congressional Bills, and important business materials such as Commerce Business Daily (CBDNet). |
Legislative information for the current session. |
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State and Local Government on the Net
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A directory of official state, county, and city government websites. |
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Current Congressional legislative information, a service of the Library of Congress. |
United States Copyright Office
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Key publications, including informational circulars, application forms for copyright registration and links to the copyright law. |
| CaDiLaC Online 2.0 | This regional union catalog includes materials in the New York State Library, academic, special and public libraries. |
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. |
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The Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes nearly 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings, and is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science. Provided by EBSCO. |
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MVLS: Serving Fulton, Montgomery, Schenectady & Schoharie Counties. |
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Search the records of the New York State Library, including Manuscripts and Special Collections, and the New York State Archives. |
Southern Adirondack Library System
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SALS: Serving Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren & Washington Counties. |
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UHLS: Serving Albany & Rensselaer Counties. |
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WorldCat connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide |
MAGAZINES, JOURNALS & NEWSPAPERS
| Academic OneFile | Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Provided by NOVEL. |
| Gale Newsstand Formerly Custom Newspapers | This full text newspaper database has more than 95 major newspapers, including the Albany Times Union (full text from Mar 1, 1986), The New York Times (full text from January 1, 2000). Provided by NOVEL. |
| General OneFile | News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics. Provided by NOVEL. |
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GreenFILE is a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Provided by EBSCO. |
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An index to the Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Dates covered are 1977 to the present. Provided by NOVEL. |
| New York State Newspapers | Provides the full text of several major newspapers published in New York State, including the Albany Times Union, New York Times and the New York Post. Content in this database is also available in the "Custom Newspapers" database. Provided by NOVEL. |
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Available to Crandall Public Library card holders ONLY. |
The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-1993) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times (1851-2005). |
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Access to these research tools is provided by your public library through its membership in the Southern Adirondack Library System or the Mohawk Valley Library System. Part of the licensing costs for some of these databases was paid for from New York State central library grants to Crandall Public Library and Schenectady County Public Library. Local public funds from six area libraries also support these costs.