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Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com is the world’s largest online family history resource. Access hundreds of years of history in billions of historical documents and millions of historical photos from all over the world.
Book Connections
Book Connections offers an exclusive, ever-growing, vetted collection of instructional materials about children's and young adult books and authors. Identify exceptional books that reflect diverse cultural experiences, interests, and ability levels. Obtain resources paired with book titles that further reading enjoyment, contextual knowledge, and educational relevance. Share resources with easy-to-use flyers, emails, texts, embeddable links, and social media.
ChiltonLibrary
ChiltonLibrary provides access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road today, as well as, many new vehicles. This continuously updated resource provides step-by-step repair procedures, troubleshooting guides, diagnostic trouble codes, photos, illustrations, diagrams, and multimedia (videos and animations) to simplify even the most complicated tasks.
Fold3 Library Edition
Fold3 provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. This continually-growing collection contains millions of records from world-class archives, many of which are exclusively available on Fold3.
Gale LegalForms
Take the law into your own hands and create accurate, reliable legal documents with no hassle with Gale LegalForms. It offers Indiana-specific “attorney forms” – officially approved forms actually used by law firms. Many of the forms and documents are available in Word and Adobe format so you just need to simply “fill in the blanks.”
HeritageQuest Online
HeritageQuest Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. 18th Century or 20th Century. European or Native American. Farm or Factory. East Coast or West Coast. Where does your American past begin? Discover the amazing history of you with HeritageQuest Online. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.
INSPIRE: Indiana’s Virtual Online Library
INSPIRE is Indiana's Virtual Online Library. INSPIRE is a collection of online academic databases and other information resources that can be accessed by Indiana residents. INSPIRE includes full-text magazine and journal articles, websites, pamphlets, images, almanacs, full-text historic newspapers, multimedia, library catalogs and much more. In most cases, INSPIRE provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts of all articles that appear in every periodical with the exception of some newspapers. Only letters to the editor, advertisements, and some images are excluded for copyright reasons.
Newspapers.com
Newspapers.com Library Edition is an extensive online database of 4,000+ historical newspapers from the early 1700s into the 2000s. Distributed by ProQuest into libraries, it contains a diverse blend of well-known regional and local newspapers in the U.S. and other countries.
NewspaperArchive
NewspaperArchive is an online database of billions of newspaper articles and obituaries from all over the world, spanning from 1607 to 2024. NewspaperArchive is a great tool for genealogists and historians, providing dates, names and stories, about individuals, communities, and the world.
NoveList: What should I read next?
Created especially for people who love books, NoveList is the premier online database for reading recommendations. Helping readers of all ages find just the right book to read, this comprehensive source of popular and professional book information includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.
Reference Solutions (formerly ReferenceUSA)
Reference Solutions is the number 1 source of information on businesses and people specifically designed for small business owners, marketing professionals, researchers and job seekers.
Reference Solutions helps users create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, raise funds and locate people.
World Book Online
World Book Online is an engaging, verified, and trustworthy digital resource for grades pre-K through high school. It is a suite of online research tools that includes encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, educational games, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related Web sites.