Featured Database

It always seems to happen at the most inopportune time. You need to fix your car or small engine, but you don’t have a repair manual. What’s more, the library is closed.  Don’t worry!  Instead of waiting for the library to open and driving all the way there, you can get the same information at home using two of our online databases. Best of all, they are available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Auto Repair Reference Center has information on cars including repairs, wiring diagrams, bulletins, and more. Small Engine Repair has information on all types of small engines, including outdoor equipment, motorcycles, tractors, and more.

A lot of “natural” or complementary medicines and practices sound more appealing to patients than drugs with fancy chemical names.  But the question is—do they do any good? Do they, perhaps, rather do harm? Even seemingly harmless ingredients (grapefruit juice, green coffee extract) can have dangerous effects when combined with other necessary medications or complicating conditions. And then there’s the placebo effect, the often-studied quandary that any medicine or technique, if the patient is told it will be effective, will be for a certain percentage of the time.

The database Natural Standard (available to CRRL cardholders at www.librarypoint.org/research) takes on this dilemma and provides additional helpful information besides. According to its site’s statement, Natural Standard is impartial—not supported by any interest group, professional organization or product manufacturer. 

What shall I read next?
How do you decide which books to take home?  There’s a gold mine of information in NoveList Plus, an online database that answers those questions for readers of any age.  You are just a few clicks away from recommended book lists, author readalikes, or finding out “what book comes next? “  NoveList gives you all these things- 24/7--and you don’t even have to be in the library to use it.

No matter where you are on your career path, the Testing and Education Center has information to help you prepare for that perfect career.

After accessing the Testing and Education Center, you will be able to select from 5 tabs: High School Tools, College Prep Tools, Career Tools, Grad School Tools or International Tools.

High School Tools: Students in Middle School and High School will find drills and practice tests in math, reading and writing. Students taking advanced placement classes will find practice exams. Looking at Catholic high schools or private high schools? You will find practice entrance exams for private schools in this database.

Want to earn college level credit before attending college? Through CLEP you can earn college level credit through a series of exams. At the Testing and Education Center you will find practice tests to help you prepare for CLEP exams. The DSST Program is another way to earn college credit. Find these exams on this site.

EBooks are one of the hottest things around right now.  Luckily, you can read eBooks on your reader for free just by borrowing them from your library.  Although the library has a couple of eBook services available, one particularly popular service is OverDrive.

OverDrive has popular fiction and nonfiction books available and right now, it’s the only place you can borrow eBooks for your Amazon Kindle (other formats are also available).  

A series is defined as two or more books that share the same characters, setting,  and/or locale, and the story arc develops in each subequent book in the series.

If you like to read books in series, you will love the eSequels database!  Click on the eSequels link from the library's "articles and databases" page. You will need to enter the 14-digit barcode from your library card when prompted.  Based on the print title Sequels, eSequels is the always-being-updated online version and has listings for adult titles, from Christian fiction to gritty noir mystery series.  You can search eSequels by author, title or character, or by location, subject or keyword.  Each entry will give you information about the author and the series, a link to the author's homepage and and annoated listing for the titles, in series order.  (Don't worry, the annotations will not "give away" any crucial plot points).

Research any field – from Business to Education to the Humanities to the Sciences – with the JSTOR database’s access to more than a thousand scholarly journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources. JSTOR is accessible within the library and remotely from the Articles & Databases page.