Resources
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*You may need your library barcode (located on the back of your library card) to access listed databases.
Archives and Records
Albany County Clerk's Office Hall of Records: www.albanycounty.com
Hartwick College Archives: info.hartwick.edu
Manuscript Reading Room: www.loc.gov
National Archives, The: www.archives.gov
New York City Dept. of Records and Information Services: www.nyc.gov
New York State Archives: www.archives.nysed.gov
Ontario County Records: raims.com
Children's Resources
A Harry Potter Web Ring: www.openflame.com
A Learning to Read Tool: www.starfall.com
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government: bensguide.gpo.gov
Book Adventure's Bookfinder: www.bookadventure.com
Dr. Suess's Seussville!: www.randomhouse.com
Internet Public Library's Kidspace: www.ipl.org
KidsClick! Web Search: www.kidsclick.org
Lemony Snicket: www.lemonysnicket.com
New York Public Library's OnLion for Kids: kids.nypl.org
Yahooligans!: www.yahooligans.com
Databases
Database, Auto Repair
EBSCO Auto Repair Reference Center
Database, Business
Business & Company Resource Center: This comprehensive database brings together a wide variety of global business
information including company profiles, Thomson Financial Securities Data, and Investext reports as well as business magazines and newspapers. It contains 2850 full-text titles.
Business Plans Handbook v.5: A collection of actual business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses throughout North America.
Business Plans Handbook v.6
Business Plans Handbook v.7
Business Plans Handbook v.8
Business Plans Handbook v.9
Business Plans Handbook v.10
Encyclopedia of e-Commerce: Provides access to the world of Internet commerce and addresses the concerns of
those who want to join the ranks of the Internet business community.
Encyclopedia of Small Business 2nd. Ed.: Designed to provide entrepreneurs with how-to information that they can apply to
their own business.
Reference USA: This database contains essential information on 14 million US Businesses, from the largest employers to single owner/operator and home-based businesses. More than 2 dozen unique criteria gives you the power to customize your search for best results.
Weiss Ratings: TheStreet.com Ratings is a source for accurate ratings that you can rely upon to make sound, informed financial decisions.
Database, Computer Tutorials
LearningExpressLibrary: LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, 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. In order to sign on, you will need to use your 14 digit barcode as the user name and choose your own password.
Databases, Full-Text
NOVEL - New York Online Virtual Electronic Library: Full-text access to NOVEL databases. To be accessed with NY State Driver License or Non-Driver Photo ID only.
Database, Genealogy
Heritage Quest: This is a premium database which allows you to research your ancestry through America's largest commercial genealogy archive.
Database, General
EBSCO Masterfile Select: Contains full text for nearly 750 journals relating to a broad range of topics including general reference, social sciences, business, health, general science and current events.
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Takes eBooks to the next level of usability — delivering reference content in a database format.
LearningExpressLibrary: LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, 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. In order to sign on, you will need to use your 14 digit barcode as the user name and choose your own password.
Marquis Who's Who: Provides accurate, concise biographies of notable Americans, including millions of leaders and achievers from the world, and from every significant field of endeavor.
Reference USA: This database list contact information for more that 120 million US Households. Search by several unique criteria, including home values and household incomes.
Database, Health
Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine: Presents current, unbiased information on alternative and complementary medical
practices, including reflexology, acupressure, acupuncture, chelation therapy,
kinesiology, yoga, chiropractic, Feldenkrais, polarity therapy, detoxification,
naturopathy, Chinese medicine, biofeedback, Ayurveda, and osteopathy.
Encyclopedia of Cancer: Includes entries covering cancers, cancer drugs, treatments, side effects, and diagnostic procedures.
Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders: Provides clear, complete information on genetic disorders, including conditions, tests, procedures, treatments and therapies, in articles that are both comprehensive and easy to understand in language accessible to laypersons.
Encyclopedia of Medicine: Includes information on more than 1,600 medical disorders and concepts. Each article includes in-depth discussion of causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, procedures, and other related topics.
Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health: Written for students and professionals in the field. Entries cover topics in body systems and functions, conditions and common diseases, issues and theories, techniques and practices, and devices and equipment.
Health and Wellness Resource Center: This database delivers up-to-date reference material as well as full-text magazines, journals, and pamphlets from a wide variety of authoritative medical sources.
LearningExpressLibrary: LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, 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. In order to sign on, you will need to use your 14 digit barcode as the user name and choose your own password.
Database, History
American Civil War Reference Library: Covers the events and people of the Civil War period and provides students with
all the in-depth information they need for reports an class assignments,
including biographical profiles and primary source materials.
American Revolution Reference Library: Covers the events and people of the Revolutionary War period in
easy-to-understand language.
History Behind the Headlines, v. 1-6: Presents in-depth information on conflicts appearing in today's headlines. Users
are provided with historical background and analysis to events to give a greater
understanding of the politics, players, and layers of current affairs.
Major Acts of Congress: An illustrated encyclopedia of congressional acts from the earliest days of the American republic up through recent years.
Database, Newspaper
InfoTrac Custom Newspapers: Get the scoop with an innovative Web-based, full-text ASCII-formatted newspaper
database that lets you electronically search articles by title, headline, date,
author, section or other assigned fields.
National Newspaper Index: Provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search. The New York Times Book Review and The New York Times Magazine are also included.
New York State Newspapers:
Search this database of ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post.
Database, Science
General Science Collection: Provides information on all aspects of the scientific world and offers full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications.
Database, Spanish Language
¡Informe! Revistas en Español: Created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, this full-text electronic reference tool is the first system to provide indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines -- not just translations. ¡Informe! also features title annotations in both English and Spanish to help non-Spanish speaking staff to easily assist users.
Database, Test Preparation
LearningExpressLibrary: LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, 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. In order to sign on, you will need to use your 14 digit barcode as the user name and choose your own password.
Database, Youth
EBSCO Animals: Provides indexing, abstracts and full-text records on a variety of topics relating to animals.
Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia: Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries, geared toward the younger student.
InfoTrac Junior: This database is designed especially for junior high and middle schools. It
features 147 full-text titles most critical to their libraries and the
curriculum as identified by school librarians. Additionally, the databases
include full-text newspaper articles from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, and more than 300 full-color Rand McNally maps.
Kids Search: Search interface designed for students in grades K through 5. Searches American Heritage Dictionary, EBSCO Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Newspaper Source and Primary Search. Includes Teacher Research interface, which searches Academic Search Elite.
Searchasaurus: Searchasaurus is a friendly, colorful, graphical search interface. This useful service will help both children and their parents by enabling them to search thousands of articles, an online general encyclopedia and a ton of information about animals from around the world.
Topic Search: Explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms.
Twayne's Author Series: This database features the content of over 600 books that comprise three print series: United
States Authors, English Authors and World Authors. This series is devoted to
literary critical interpretation and discussion for readers ranging from high
school students through college and above.
Employment Information
CareerZone/Job Seeker Portfolio: www.labor.state.ny.us
Job Training and Education: www.labor.state.ny.us Provides information on job training and preparation. Links to occupations licensed and certified in New York State.
Jobs in Demand/Occupational Projections: www.labor.state.ny.us
LearningExpressLibrary: www.LearningExpressLibrary.com: LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, 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. In order to sign on, you will need to use your 14 digit barcode as the user name and choose your own password.
Library Careers Website: www.librarycareersny.org A new website created as part of the Making It REAL! library recruitment grant project. This unique website will inform people of all ages and diverse backgounds about careers in librarianship and information science with a particular focus on New York State.
NYMentor: www.nycareerzone.org Provides information on colleges in New York State.
Occupational Employment Survey: www.labor.state.ny.us Uses these tables to find wages for major occupations, available for state and regions.
O*Net: online.onetcenter.org The Occupational Information Network, hosted by the U.S. Department of Labor, provides indepth descriptions of occupations and their eduction and training requirements.
WD Suite: www.labor.state.ny.us
Genealogy
Albany County Clerk's Office Hall of Records: www.albanycounty.com
Census Online: www.census-online.com
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites: www.cyndislist.com
Ellis Island Foundation: ellisisland.org
FamilySearch: www.familysearch.org
New York City Dept. of Records and Information Services: www.nyc.gov
New York Genealogy and History: www.rootsweb.com
New York History Net: www.nyhistory.com
NY GenExchange: www.genexchange.org
Schenectady County Historical Society: www.schist.org
Historical Research
New York State Historical Association - Research Library: www.nysha.org
Homework, Children's & Teens
Clinton Essex Franklin Library System's Homework Help for Children: www.cefls.org
Clinton Essex Franklin Library System's Homework Help for Teens: www.cefls.org
Google's 49 Homework Help Web Sites: www.google.com (click on Homework Help)
Internet Public Library Kidspace: www.ipl.org
KidsClick! (Web search for kids by librarians): www.kidsclick.org
Landmarks Son of Citation Machine (How to do a biography): citationmachine.net
NY Online VirtualElectronic Library: www.novelnewyork.org
NY Public Library "On-Lion" for kids!: kids.nylp.org
Mid-Hudson Library System's Lifelines - Resources for parents and librarians to help students in grades 5 - 12: lifelines.midhudson.org
Yahoo Kids!: kids.yahoo.learn
Identify that Book!
Amazon.com: www.amazon.com
Books 'n' Bytes: www.booksnbytes.com
FictionDB: www.fictiondb.com
Hennepin County Library - Books & Reading: www.hclib.org
Kent District Library - Research Tool: www.kdl.org
Mid-Continent Public Library - Juvenile Series and Sequels: www.mcpl.lib.mo.us
Morton Grove Public Library - Readers' Services: www.webrary.org
Overbooked: www.overbooked.org
Stop Your Killing Me!: www.stopyourekillingme.com
Thompson Nicola Regional District Library System - Reader's Robot: www.tnrdlib.bc.ca
Whichbook.net: www.whichbook.net
Investment Websites
BigCharts: bigcharts.marketwatch.com
Bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com
DailyStocks: www.dailystocks.com
Investor Guide, The: www.investorguide.com
MarketWatch.com: cbs.marketwatch.com
Money Central: moneycentral.msn.com
Morningstar: www.morningstar.com
Motley Fool, The: www.fool.com
Silicon Investor: www.siliconinvestor.com
Stock Exchanges Worldwide Links: www.tdd.lt
Suburban Library System - Stock Answers: www.sls.lib.il.us
Value Line: www.valueline.com
Yahoo! Finance: finance.yahoo.com
Law Sites
FindLaw: www.findlaw.com
New York State Unified Court System: www.nycourts.gov
Library Special Collections Departments
Hamilton College Library Digital Collections: library.hamilton.edu
Law Library Resource Xchange: www.llrx.com
Plattsburgh State University P.O.L.A.R.I.S: banweb.cc.plattsburgh.edu
Plattsburgh State University Special Collections: research.plattsburgh.edu
St. Lawrence University Special Collections: www.stlawu.edu
Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center: libwww.syr.edu
Local Colleges
Clinton Community College: clintoncc.suny.edu
Plattsburgh State University: www.plattsburgh.edu
Miscellaneous (or Curious Things)
Calendars: calendarhome.com
New York State Public Libraries: www.nysl.nysed.gov
Radio Stations: windowsmedia.com
Parents Resources
Eager Readers: www.eagerreaders.com
SchoolWorld: www.schoolworld.asn.au
Plattsburgh and Clinton County, New York (or Information About our Area)
City of Plattsburgh: www.cityofplattsburgh.com
CVPH Medical Center: www.cvph.org
Development Corporation, The: www.thedevelopcorp.com
Lake Champlain Business Directory: www.lakechamplain.com
Plattsburgh City School District: plattsburgh.neric.org
Plattsburgh Community Profile: www.epodunk.com
Plattsburgh North Country Chamber of Commerce: www.northcountrychamber.com
Radio Stations in the Area
99.9 the Buzz: www.999thebuzz.com
106.7 WIZN: wizn-wbtz.site.yahoo.net
Onion River Radio: www.onionriverradio.com
WIRY Hometown Radio: www.wiry.com
Science Encyclopedia
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology: AccessScience.com
Search Engines (or Questions, Questions... Where is the Answer?)
About: www.about.com
AltaVista: www.altavista.com
Ask Jeeves: ask.com
Dogpile: www.dogpile.com
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Google: www.google.com
Librarians' Index to the Internet: lii.org
LookSmart: search.looksmart.com
MetaCrawler: www.metacrawler.com
MSN: www.msn.com
Open Directory, The: www.theopendirectory.com
Teoma: www.teoma.com
Vivismo: vivisimo.com
Tax Forms (National, New York and Other States)
Internal Revenue Service: www.irs.gov
Federation of Tax Administrators: www.taxadmin.org
New York State Dept. of Tax and Finance: www.tax.state.ny.us
Teens Resources
Cool Teen Links: www.teenlit.com
Favorite Poem Project: www.favoritepoem.org
Internet Public Library for Teens (Teenspace): www.ipl.org
Meryln's en, Teen Writing Web Sites: www.merlynspen.com
MindZone - A Mental Health Site for Teens : www.copecaredeal.org
Monroe County Public Library's Teen's Top Ten: rimbaud.monroe.lib.in.us
Poemfinder: www.poemfinder.com
PoetryKafe: www.poetrykafe.com
Teen Authors Website: www.cplrmh.com
Teen Ink - Poetry Written by Teens: www.teenink.com
teenreads.com: www.teenreads.com
Teen Writers Workshop: www.dbldog.com
Urban Legends and Folklore: urbanlegends.about.com
Youngbiz Teens: Teen's Guide to Business, Careers & Investing: www.youngbiz.com
youth(wired): www.youthwired.sat.lib.tx.us
More Resources to Come...
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