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Legal Forms ~NEW ~

Legal forms for Oregon. If you need a form this is the source. Stop looking online and look within your Library's resources.

Small Business Resource Center ~NEW~

If you are in Business, or are thinking about a new business, you will want to explore these resources.
Win the next Spelling Bee! This is THE dictionary and has been improved via the power of technology. If you like words, if you like quotations, try it.
Career Information; College Information; Scholarships

Small Engine Repair Reference Center

Motorcycles, boats, ATV's, tractors, generators, and more!

Columbia Grangers World of Poetry

Index to poetry, first lines, and lots of full text.

Global Road Warrrior   in library            home or office     user name - albany ~~ password - library card # - no spaces - all 14 characters

Traveling? School Reports? Don't leave home without trying out the Global Road Warrior ~ it has the world covered!

Paper Trail

login: pioneers ~ password: Albany      Select 'search'.

The 19th Century migration on the overland trails to the far West is illuminated by the writings of thousands of pioneers who took this long and dangerous journey. Great for genealogists, great for first person accounts of life on a wagon train.

Salem Health

(available from home ~ look for the 'remote' link)

Online Medical Guide and don't overlook EBSCO for more timely medical and health information.

Mango Languages - learn 12 different languages.

~ Brazilian Portuguese ~ Spanish ~ Japanese~ French

~German ~ Italian~ Greek ~ Russian ~ Mandarin Chinese

~ ESL Polish ~ ESL Spanish ~ ESL Brazilian Portuguese

eBooks

eBooks from home or office

Access the Library's ebook collection of over 10,000 eBooks. If you do not have a free account, create one either at the Main or Downtown Libraries.

FirstSearch Databases

This family of databases includes Worldcat (just about every book in the world) and the Government Printing Office (just about all their documents in full text).

World Book Encyclopedia

Inside the Library | From home

Includes the content of the classic World Book along with a Kid's edition.

... and La Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos en Línea está basada en la Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos producida y desarrollada por World Book, Inc.

Switch to another World Book Site
Switch to another World Book Site
Switch to another World Book Site

Heritage Quest

A gold mine for genealogists. HeritageQuest is cosponsored by:

NOTE: If your library card # ends in a non-numeric or non-alphabetical character, substitute a number or letter for the last character on your library card to log in.

NoveList

Reader Advisor's database helpful in deciding what to read next or more about what you just read.

NoveList K-8 Novelist K-8 graphic

Reader Advisor's database helpful in deciding what youth books to read next or more about what you just read.

Oregon Newspapers Index

indexing for Eugene Register Guard and Portland Oregonian

Auto Repair Reference Center

Everything except the socket set! It's easy. Click here for a test drive.

Reference USA

Business and residential phonebook for the country. Searchable by first name, street address, telephone number, Standard Industrial Classification Code, and customizable to your search needs.

These databases are accessible from the computers at both Main and Downtown Libraries:
ancestry - library editionSearch through centuries of immigration, death/birth, and marriage records.
Not for the average grease monkey, but full of fuses and camshafts for the automotive repair expert.
Mitchell 1 is the first choice of automotive professionalsMitchell's Vintage Auto Service Information for older models (1960-1982).
At the Main Library only:
Albany Democrat-Herald on microfilm from 1859.

 

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