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This premier company directory database provides information for job seekers, small business owners, entrepreneurs and students.  

Avotaynu, Inc. is the leading publisher of products of interest to persons who are researching Jewish genealogy, Jewish family trees or Jewish roots. The books we sell are meant to assist you in your research—from beginner guides to books about Jewish surnames.

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Search for current books by title, author, publisher. Login as “anonymous user”.

Bankrate is a personal finance company that guides people through pivotal steps of their financial journey. Whether you’re a recent college graduate searching for your first mortgage, or a retiree seeking effective ways to safely grow your savings, Bankrate provides accurate rate information, intuitive calculators and curated editorial content to help you reach your goals.  

Reference Books including quotations.

Features hundreds of Harold Bloom’s essays examining thge lives and works of great writers throughout history and the world, as well as thousands of critical articles by noted scholars from the Bloom’s Literary Criticism series.  

BookPage is a discovery tool for readers, highlighting the best new books across all genres. BookPage is editorially independent; only books we highly recommend are featured. Any publisher-sponsored content is clearly labeled as such.

HelpNow, a tutoring service from Brainfuse, is a unique blend of one-to-one homework help, state-sligned skills building, test preparation, and writing assistance. Coverage includes K through adult.  

An integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reposts, and company histories. Offers interactive charting tools.  

Current resources for small business.

To be the nation’s most trustworthy provider of comprehensive, integrated, relevant, and personalized workforce information tools and resources on any desired electronic delivery system. These tools and resources serve job seekers, students, workers, workforce intermediaries, and employers to enhance their employment opportunities and business prosperity.  

ClinicalTrials.gov is a database of privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world.

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Get unbiased ratings and reviews for 9000+ products and services from Consumer Reports, plus trusted advice and in-depth reporting on what matters most.

Creativebug.com has thousands of award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists.

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ABC-CLIO is an award-winning publisher of reference, contemporary thought, and professional development content, created to help students, educators, librarians, and general readers of all ages wrestle with complex challenges. Throughout our history, we have invested resources in the development of new content genres, giving our diverse customer and reader communities the opportunity to explore deep factual treatments of the topics that matter, and delivering the most current scholarship and perspectives on those topics.

Cases in New York State courts.

The Statue of Liberty – Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.

Designed especially for children in grade K-5.

Find your family. Discover yourself. Bring to life your family’s history by exploring the lives of those that came before you.

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World’s largest gravesite collection. Over 180 million memorials created by the community since 1995.

Available only inside the library. A connection to information in a wide range of subjects in 12 databases, including WorldCat, a catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

Welcome to Home and Learn’s free computer courses and tutorials site. All the courses are aimed at complete beginners, so you don’t need experience to get started. Simply click the computer course below or to the left that interests you. You’ll then be taken to the contents page for that course, and away you go. No need to sign up for anything!  

The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources.

A database of encyclopedias and reference books for research on many subjects. Some of these reference materials are also available in the Library but now you can search them and manu other reference books from your own computer at any time.  

(formerly InfoTrac General OneFile) A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily. Includes complete centent of InfoTrac General Reference Center Gold.

Gale General OneFile provides access to an unprecedented number of general reference magazines and key serials in a single resource. This database is useful to users conducting general reference queries, business searches, and current event research. The addition of a browse-by-subject feature allows users to easily view content of interest on the most popular and most-searched topics within several distinct categories, including news, current events, health, and computers and technology.

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today’s hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies and illustrations, plus articles from scientific magazines, with emphasis on curriculum-related science topics.

An integrated resource which includes primary documents, reference articles, and over 65 full-test journals.

Full-text articles from leading scholarly publications, reference titles, primary sources, images, maps and charts for the study of world history – from ancient Europe to Latin American and from the Far East to the Renaissance.

(formerly Gale Literary Sources) Comtemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, and Childrens’ Literature Review in electronic format, beginning with the volumes published after July 2007. Earlier volumes of these titles, which reprint literary criticism, are available in print at the Main Library.  

Biographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.  

(formerly Health Reference Center Academic) Created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers and health care professionals, Gale OneFile Health & Medicine integrates millions of articles from a wide range of full-text nuring and allied health journals, magazines, newsletters and health reference sources.

(formerly InfoTrac Newsstand) Provides access to more than 2,000 newspapers, both national and international.

The Great Neck Public School District encompasses Great Neck, North New Hyde Park, and a portion of Manhasset Hills. It is home to some 40,000 people on the suburban North Shore of Long Island, in Nassau County, 30 commuting minutes from Manhattan. District residents value public education and have high expectations for their school system.

This database provides full text coverage going back to 1997.

GreenFILE comprises scholarly, government and general interest titles covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.

This microsite is coordinated by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Indexing with the full text of the New York Times from 1851, with an embargo of the current three years.

Historical Newsday provides full text access to Newsday from 1940 to 1984.

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In 1995, DIANCO, an innovator in the field of web-based Yellow Pages, created the first fully functional toll free directory on the World Wide Web. The Internet 800 Directory has become the definitive site on the Internet for people to locate products or services via a toll free number.

Investopedia strives to empower every person to feel in control of their financial future. Our editors and experts have been simplifying complex financial information and decisions for readers since 1999.  

The Global Home for Jewish Genealogy

National Employment Network  

The mission of the New York State Department of Labor is to protect workers, assist the unemployed, and connect job seekers to jobs.  

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.

Magazine articles and reference books for kids in kindergarten through grade 5.

Helping people find solutions to their legal problems

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Online tool for creating professional quality legal documents.

Explore the richest database of legal professionals

Designed specially for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides access to 1,700 general interest publications, several hundred reference books, and over 164,000 primary source documents.

Includes hospitals and nursing homes comparisons.

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Preschool through Kindergarten educational games.

Job search site  

Morningstar Mutual Funds in electronic format: Detailed analyst guidance on 1,900 stocks, 2,100 funds, and more than 150 ETFs.  

Morningstar Mutual Funds in electronic format: Detailed analyst guidance on 1,900 stocks, 2,100 funds, and more than 150 ETFs.  

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My Perfect Resume takes the hassle out of resume writing. Choose from several templates and follow easy prompts to create the perfect job-ready resume effortlessly.  

Established in 1967, the Board of Cooperative Educational Services of Nassau County (Nassau BOCES) is the largest BOCES in New York State. Serving 56 school districts in Nassau County, our mission has always been to enhance public education and the opportunities available to students of all ages and abilities by providing access to innovative and cost-effective services.  

The purpose of the Nassau County Civil Service Commission is to administer New York State Civil Service Law to ensure Nassau County taxpayers a qualified public workforce pursuant to the principles of selection according to merit and fitness. Civil Service currently services all County departments as well as more than 200 municipal agencies that include the Towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay, and Nassau County’s school districts, libraries, villages and special districts.  

CourtHelp can help you when you don’t have a lawyer

New York State records for genealogy research available to use in the library or remotely.

New York Legal Materials

Indexing and articles back to 1985.

Guidance for readers of all ages.  

The Licensed Professions in New York State In 1891, medicine became the first profession licensed by the New York State Board of Regents. New York’s unique system of professional regulation, recognized as a model for public protection, has grown to encompass nearly 900,000 practitioners and over 30,000 professional practice business entities in more than 50 professions.

The New York State Higher Education Services Corporation (HESC) is working to protect New York’s students and borrowers during the COVID-19 public health emergency. HESC has determined that impacted students receiving financial aid will not suffer negative consequences regarding their current or future awards and is offering borrowers student loan debt relief through multiple programs.  

A connection to information in a wide range of subjects in 12 databases, including WorldCat, a catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.  

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Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas

Online free typing tutor teaching kids and adults how to type on a computer keyboard

Digital magazines.

Recommending new books each month to spark lively conversation.

Almanacs, dictionaries, and more.

Finding our roots together.

Salem American History has access to the following resources: Encyclopedia of American Immigration Decades, Great Events from History, Milestone Documents (primary documents).

The electronic version of an authoritative encyclopedia for the general reader. Also available in print.

One of the most comprehensive databases of its kind, MCPL’s very own Based on the Book is an up-to-date, ever expanding list of books, plays, short stories, and graphic novels that have been made into feature-length movies or adapted for TV.

Guidance for readers of all ages  

Free courses on technology.

Our solutions inform, support, and empower industry, from the half-million suppliers that rely on us to help them grow their businesses, to the million-plus buyers, engineers, and other purchase decision-makers that turn to us each month for tools and information that help them find exactly the supplier they need.  

Extensive collection of the prominent weekly news magazine is presented in comprehensive cover-to-cover format.

The Byki learning method takes users through a series of simple steps to memorize words and phrases in a new language, including their meanings and proper pronunciation. Available for learning over 80 languages and English as a second language.

USAJOBS connects job seekers with federal employment opportunities across the United States and around the world. As the Federal Government’s official employment site, USAJOBS provides resources to help the right people find the right jobs.  

Hospital and nuring homes rankings.

Value Line: Includes Investment Survey, Small & Mid-Cap, Mutual Funds, Options, Convertible, Special Situations, News Alerts, and more.  

Doctor reviews.