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Mobile Register on Newsbank - Full text for Mobile news
from 1993 to the present, including obituaries! (News obits only, no paid funeral
notices.) 
Biography Resource Center and The Complete Marquis Who's Who®
- a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than
one million people from throughout history, around the world,
and across all disciplines and subject areas. It combines more than
242,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with nearly one
million biographies from The Complete Marquis Who's Who®. The database
also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals.
ReferenceUSA -
A searchable database of information for over 12 million U.S. companies.
Includes company name, address, phone number, yellow page heading, executive names, and line of
business, number of employees, SIC code etc. Residential info includes name, address and phone
number.
African American History and Culture --
Many of Facts On File's highly-acclaimed print titles have been combined with an extensive array of stunning multimedia
content to form this incredible resource. This collection covers
the breadth of African-American history.
Learning Express Library Practice Tests Online
- Learning Express Library provides completely interactive online practice tests and tutorial courses
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.
Tests and courses included:
NoveList Fiction Guide
- look up books by author, title and topics like mystery, science fiction and romance! With NoveList you can search 92,000 titles for your favorite
kind of book to read. Many include reviews from Booklist, Library Journal, Publisher's Weekly, etc.
(username=1st five digits of your library card number; password=library)
Fiction Connection -
You can now use Fiction Connection to find book suggestions based on
books you have already read, authors you like, or topics of interest.
Easily create a personalized list of recommended titles based on
characteristics you enjoy. Fiction and biography titles are included and
suggestions can be printed or e-mailed for later review. Use your Zipcode
to log in.
Patron Books In Print -
Find what you’re looking for quickly and easily, using Bowker’s
comprehensive database of 5 million book, audio book, and video titles.
Search the "Children’s Room," "Fiction Room," or "What Year Were You Born?"
room, which allows you to search over 100 years of bestsellers. You can
browse the winners and nominees of over 400 book industry awards, titles
by your favorite author, or fiction titles in a favorite series or
featuring a favorite character. Users can also browse by fictional
genre, children’s genre, or by intuitive drill-down subjects,
such as: House & Home, Travel, Medical, and Cooking. Use your Zipcode to Log in.
, Clinical Pharmacology, Professional Development
for Educators, Health Resource, and Communication & Mass Media databases
. Daily news feeds from the
Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News and Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service are also
available.
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The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution
of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed
guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million
words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5
million quotations from a wide range of international English language
sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film
scripts and cookery books.
The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world,
from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand
to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis
and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using
the International Phonetic Alphabet. - Oxford Reference Online brings
together language and subject reference works from one of the world's
biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. It
contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference
works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed,
cross-searchable database of these books with added functionality
and more detailed information across a broad subject range
from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series.The following research resources represent a yearly
expenditure of over $50,000 to provide access to customers at
all Mobile Public Library locations.
Galenet - a suite of databases including:
- more than 1,400 full-text magazines,
magazines, newspapers, reference books, and TV, radio, and government
transcripts-plus thousands of maps, pictures, and streaming audio and
video.
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