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Community History Archive

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Our Advantage Archives page with a searchable Inner City News archive from 1978 to 2002.
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Consumer Guides from Weiss Ratings

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Tools to protect your finances, invest wisely, grow your wealth, and learn more about your finances.

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Drama for Students Gale eBooks

Drama for Students Gale eBooks

Provides critical overviews of the most-studied plays of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, critical reception, dramatic devices and traditions as well as cultural and historical context.

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Driving-Tests.org

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Introductory DMV tests, including sign identification and a brush up course for seniors featuring some of the changes to fines, limits, and regulations over the years. You can also prep for your motorcycle license, look over handbooks, and get a step-by-step checklist of what you need when headed into your written test.
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eBooks on Alabama Virtual Library

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A collection of databases with full-text eBooks. Includes Britannica, Consumer Health Reference, TeachingBooks and more reference titles.

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EBSCOhost Search

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Search of full text databases provided by EBSCO. Databases can be searched individually or can be searched simultaneously in related groups by clicking Choose Databases and selecting or deselecting databases.
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ERIC

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The Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database contains more than a million records and provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
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Ethnic NewsWatch

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Resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives.

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Explora Elementary Schools

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An interface for schools and public libraries that supports both student research and classroom instruction with reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.
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Explora High Schools

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An interface for schools and public libraries that supports both student research and classroom instruction with reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.
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Explora Public Libraries

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An interface for schools and public libraries that supports both student research and classroom instruction with reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.
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FirstSearch and WorldCat From OCLC

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Searches libraries all over the world for books, articles, papers, Government Publications, etc.
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Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

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This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
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Gale Business | Insights

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Explore the world's companies through SWOT analyses, financial statements, case studies and articles from academic journals, trade magazines, news outlets and more.
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Gale eBooks

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Collection of e-books that covers a multitude of subjects including early learning, history, education, business, science, arts, and more.
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Gale General OneFile

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Explore a range of topics broken down by subject for targeted results based on your interests.
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Gale In Context | Elementary

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Provides elementary students with access to an age-appropriate resource that is designed to develop research skills.
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Gale In Context | Middle School

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Provides middle school students with access to age-appropriate documents for research.
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