Authors, Criticism, and What to Read

• Literature Resource Center: The Literature Resource Center is a current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature database. The Resource Center's rich critical, biographical and contextual materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

• NoveList Plus: This online readers' advisory tool will help you find the perfect book to read, as well as provide information about books and authors.

• NoveList K-8 Plus: Information about books, authors and what to read next.

Biography

• Biography Resource Center: Information about people from throughout history, around the world and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Business Information

• Foundation Directory Online Professional: Available for in-Library use only. Provides access to timely, comprehensive information on grantmakers and their grants. Included is a database of nearly 100,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S.; a database of more than 3,800 sponsoring companies; a database of over 2 million recently awarded grants; and a keyword-searchable database of nearly 650,000 recently filed IRS Forms 990 and 990-PF.
• Reference USA: Research the business industry with this superior source, which includes information from business journals, company profiles, and country economic reports.

Jobs & Careers

• Career Transitions : Offers complete, personalized and guided help to find a new job. Includes a resume and job application wizard; a personal profile that stores a user’s references and more; an assessment tool that identifies career interests and helps explore related careers; interviewing, networking and job application help; low-fee distance learning classes to enhance specific skills and increase employment prospects; access to unemployment services, health benefits and other social services.

Encyclopedias

• World Book Online Reference Center: Provides every article from the 22-volume print set plus thousands more, along with photographs, maps, animations, audio/video clips and Special Reports that broaden coverage for selected topics.

Language Learning

• Mango Languages: Mango Languages is an online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages. Mango uses real-life situations and actual conversations to more effectively teach a new language.

Magazines

• Gale Reference Center Gold: The resource center integrates a vast array of key business and general interest titles to fully answer your patrons' reference questions -- all in a single database. From national news magazines and encyclopedias to core business journals, General Reference Center GoldTM has the full-text and image resources students and researchers need.

Newspapers

• Proquest: full text of the Desert Sun, Los Angeles Times, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Science

• Science Resource Center: Science related topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures, illustrations, magazine and academic journal articles and links to websites.