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Ancestry Library
This database is a genealogical research tool that provides access to more than 1.5 billion names in more than 4,000 databases, including census records, immigration records, and passenger lists.

Books in Print
Search for books, audios and videos as well as information about publishers and book awards.

Britannica Online
Includes the complete encyclopedia as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the year.

Career Cruising
An interactive career resource designed for people of all ages. It can help you find the right career, explore different career options, and plan for future education and training.

Community Resource Database of LI

The Community Resource Database of Long Island provides instant, easy access to accurate information about Long Island agencies, organizations, and programs. Search the CRD database of over 11,000 Health, Human Service and Educational resources on Long Island to find agencies and programs that can help you.

Computer Skills, Beginner to Advanced   

This computer skills tutorial program offers instruction in Microsoft Office Applications, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and Internet Explorer, and Adobe Acrobat from home or from the library. From beginner to advanced user, there is a lesson for you.

CountryWatch
an information provider for schools, universities, libraries and individuals who need up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world. Includes a currency converter.

EBSCOHost
Search EBSCOhost for information on business, health, current events, arts, science and entertainment from magazines and newspapers. It includes links to Searchasaurus for children, Novelist and TopicSearch. You will need to enter your library card barcode to access this service.

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ELibrary
Provides resources from magazines, newspapers, reference book, TV/radio, transcripts, pictures and maps. Users can search by keyword or browse topics.

FACTS.com
The Reference Suite @ FACTS.com is an award-winning site for current events research including Facts on File World News Digest, Issues & Controversies, Today’s Science, and World Almanac Reference Database.  Complete content from the Facts on File World News Digest; live newsfeed from Reuters® to answer questions about events, people, issues, facts, and figures from 1940 to the present; maps, photographs, historic documents, and special overviews of key issues, newsmakers, and events since 1940; links articles directly to related information in this and other Reference Suite databases, by means of more than half a million internal editorial hyperlinks.

Findarticles
is an archive of articles from 1998 on, from over 300 magazines and journals.

FindLaw
Is a web portal for law, government, and legal resources for use by legal professionals, consumers and small businesses.

Gale Group
A web version of Gale Research products: Associations Unlimited, Biography Researach Center, Literature Resource Center, Student Resource Center, Student Health Module, History Resource Center, Opposing Viewpoints, Consulta (en espanol), and Biography and Genealogy Master Index.

GreenFILE
A database of information about environmental concerns. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.

Grolier Online
Contains the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia; the New Book of Knowledge; Popular Science; Lands and Peoples, America the Beautiful and the nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre en linea.

Hempstead Library Card Catalog

View our holdings as well as the holdings in all Nassau County libraries. With your library barcode and PIN number you can check your account by clicking on My Library Account

Information Please
is a collection of almanacs and reference books loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records.

¡Informe!
A Spanish language online database.

¡Infórmese Aquí!

InfoTrac
Use InfoTrac to search magazine, newspapers (NY Times daily updates), and reference books for information on business, health, industry, current events, the arts, science, entertainment, etc.

InfoTrac Kids and Juniors Editions

Use these databases to search magazines, reference books and newspapers for information on the elementary and middle-school levels.

Learning Express Library

LearnATest.com is the leading source of test preparation materials and interactive practice exams, based on official tests that will help you improve your scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams. They provide immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and individualized analysis of your score.

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Computer Skills
This tutorial program, available through Learning Express Library, offers instruction in Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Office applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook and Internet Explorer. From beginner to advanced, there is a lesson for you.

Literature Resource Center
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world, supplemented by the scholarly materials of the Scribner Writers Series and Twayne’s World, U.S. , and English Authors Series. The MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.

LitFinder
Includes PoemFinder, StoryFinder and EssayFinder.

Magill on History
MagillOnHistory, produced by Salem Press, combines content from their critically acclaimed history reference sets in a fully integrated single database. This database is comprised of approximately 10,000 records, more than 1,800 historical images, charts, graphs and maps, and an index of more than 13,000 names. In addition, this database includes more than 4,000 biographical essays which examine the lives of more than 3,800 historical figures.

Net Library

netLibrary offers an easy-to-use information retrieval system for accessing the full text of several thousand reference, scholarly, and professional books. You must create a netLibrary account before the collection can be accessed from home. This may be accomplished at the Library's Reference Desk.

Newsday
Access to full text articles from Newsday's archives from 1985 to present.

NOVEL Databases

NOVEL databases are provided by the New York State Library through a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the New York State Library. Databases include: Health Reference Center, Business and Company Resource Center, Twayne Author Series, Custom Newspapers, New York State Newspapers and the National Newspaper Index.

Novelist
A readers' advisory database will full-text reviews and annotations for over 20,000 titles. Searches can be made for children's, young adult, and adult levels.

Oxford Art Online
This comprehensive reference tool for visual arts includes articles and images as well as links to additional online resources.

Oxford Music Online

The print edition of this dictionary spans 29 volumes. It is widely used throughout the academic and professional community as well as by music lovers worldwide.

Points of View Reference Center

Points of View Reference Center is a full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further though and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world's top political and societal publications.

Tax Forms

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Federal forms.

World Book Online
Includes the complete World Book Encyclopedia, an atlas, and the Enciclopedia Estidiantil Hallazgos.

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