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Special Interest Resources
Automotive
- Auto Repair Source: Offers a user-friendly search experience and access to help diagnose, repair, and maintain vehicles. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM).
- Gale Chilton Library: Provides step-by-step automotive repair procedures. Includes manufacturer recommended maintenance schedules and recalls.
- Small Engine Repair Source: From EBSCO, contains over 400 reference books with photos and illustrations for small engine repair assistance and detailed, user-friendly repair guides.
Business & Legal
- Business Source Ultimate: Works like a solid business plan, offers peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources that provide historical information and current trends in business. **Also Available through the McDermott Library**
- Gale Business: Entrepreneurship: Access to all aspects of starting and operating a business from accounting, finance, marketing, and personnel management.
- Gale Business Plan Builder: Offers a successful step-by-step strategy for building a successful business.
- Gale Legal Forms: Provides access to state-specific (and multi-state) legal documents, real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others.
- Legal Information Source: An online database designed to assist in legal matters of all kinds. Includes “how-to” information and thousands of legal forms.
Finance
- MorningStar Investment Research Center: Provides access to information on mutual funds, stocks, investments, daily market news, and snapshot investments.
- Weiss Financial Ratings (Grey House Publishing): The source for unbiased, accurate, trusted ratings that you can rely on to make sound informed financial decisions.
Genealogy
- Ancestry Library Edition: Offers access to billions of names from more than 4,000 genealogical databases. Censuses from the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom (U.K.) Ireland, and more than 150 million military records are available.
- Fold3: Collections of original military records dating back to the War of 1812, both World War I and II, up through recent military conflicts.
Health & Wellness
- Gale Health and Wellness: Includes curated content on diseases and conditions; drugs; diagnostics and tests; and therapies, treatments, and surgeries.
Hobbies
- Craftsy: An online resource for all creative makers to find everything needed from basic instruction to advanced techniques from quilters/sewers, cake decorators, painters, etc.
- Creativebug: An online art and craft video e-resource which offers thousands of classes taught by industry leading instructors across a variety of topics like sewing, knitting, painting, cake decorating and more.
- Hobbies and Crafts Source: Provides detailed instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of hobby enthusiasts.
Home
- Home Improvement Source: Features content from leading home improvement magazines, books, and more.
Reading & Art
- NoveList Plus: Helps readers of all ages find their next favorite book and develops innovative solutions for connecting readers, books, and libraries.
- ArtistWorks for Libraries: Part of the OverDrive collection, provides world-class instruction with self-paced videos from award-winning musicians and artists.