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American Museum of Natural History: North American Ethnography Collection - online database of artifacts from every Native American cultural region in North America.

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Consumer Health Complete

ChiltonLibrary.com - 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. (Requires a Library Card)

Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection - This project includes digital versions of more than 60 newspapers from Colorado, dating from the 1850s to the 1920s. The database includes thousands of articles, graphics, letters to the editor, and advertisements. Searchable, or browsable by newspaper and date or by featured topic. Includes a FAQ. A collaborative project of the Colorado Digitization Program, the Colorado State Library, and the Colorado Historical Society. Note: "best viewed using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x (or higher)." 

Colorado Revised Statutes

Culture Grams contains information on the cultures of more than 200 countries, 13 Canadian provinces, the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.  The information contains maps, statistics, a glossary, symbols, time lines, photo galleries, famous people, and recipe collections.  (In Library)
Culture Grams (Outside the Library)

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EBSCOhost: Powerful online reference system that offers a variety of proprietary full-text databases and popular databases. (Requires a Library Card)

Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition offers two ways to access this wealth of information. (Requires a Library Card)
1. You can search all the content at once to see results for students at every level.
2. You can choose a library appropriate for your grade level:
" Encyclopædia Britannica for high school students and up
" Compton's by Britannica for middle school students and up
" Britannica Elementary for elementary students and up Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Public Library Edition. Use this powerful resource to search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and Web sites.

Encyclopædia Britannica Online Library Edition offers two ways to access this wealth of information. You can choose a library appropriate for your grade level: (Requires a Library Card)
1. Britannica Reference Center for high school students and up
2. Britannica Kids for middle school or elementary students and up

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Go Green GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well. 

Government Publications Library The Government Publications Library consists of over five million items including over 10,000 current serials.

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HeritageQuest Online Database - From Home
HeritageQuest Online Database - In Library

History Study Center covers global history from ancient times to the present day.  Contents include reference books essays, journal articles, historical newspaper and magazine articles, maps, rare books, government documents, transcripts of historical speeches, images and video clips.  Study Unites offer editorially selected material on over 500 historical topics.
History Study Center (Outside the Library)

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Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 115484 records.

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Learning Express: provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. (Requires a Library Card)

Literary Reference Center a database designed to assist with homework and research assignments of a literary nature. (Requires a Library Card)

Live Homework Help from 4pm to 9pm seven days per week. (Requires a Library Card) 

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Morningstar (In Library)Identify stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs that meet your needs.  Get data reports which cover more than 20,000 stocks, mutual funds and ETFs.  You can also Input two or more stocks and/or mutual funds to see how they work together as a portfolio and print out the results.
Morningstar (Outside Library)

 

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NoveList K-8 NoveList K-8 allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers. (Requires a Library Card.)

NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 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. (Requires a Library Card)

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Opposing Viewpoints your one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. (Requires a Library Card)

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Poets.org - Launched in 1996, Poets.org is the award-winning website of the Academy of American Poets. Visitors to Poets.org will find thousands of poems as well as hundreds of poet biographies, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings—with new material being added constantly. Also available are resources such as the National Poetry Map, a national events calendar, and poetry lesson plans for teachers. Poets.org receives a million visitors each month, making it the most popular site about poetry on the web.

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Science Resource Center researching science topics has never been easier -- with Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. (Requires a Library Card)

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Teen Health and Wellness  Developed for teens, with their unique concerns and perspective in mind, Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers draws on Rosen's award-winning series, including Coping, Need to Know, and others. Thoroughly updated and revised for online use, all content is reviewed by leading professionals in medicine, mental health, nutrition, guidance, and career counseling.

Thomson Gale Legal Forms 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. (Requires a Library Card)

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World Book online (In Library Use) reference source-containing every article from the 22 volume print set plus thousands more.  This has state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, editor-reviewed Web sites and much more.  Contains World Book Online Reference Center, World Book Advanced, World Book Kids and a Spanish Language Encyclopedia.

World Book online   (Remote Access) reference source-containing every article from the 22 volume print set plus thousands more.  This has state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, editor-reviewed Web sites and much more.  Contains World Book Online Reference Center, World Book Advanced, World Book Kids and a Spanish Language Encyclopedia.

WorldCat:  Find where materials are located.  WorldCat is the world's largest network of content and services.

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