Research From Home
Last Updated on Friday, 02 July 2010 15:31
Use your Bettendorf Library barcode number to do your research from home! Click on the links to gain access to information of all types, for all ages and needs.
In Alphabetical Order
America's Newspapers: mostly full text index of over 1500 newspapers across the nation, including the Bettendorf News, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times and USA Today.
Antiques Reference Database: prices and information for a wide variety of antiques from about fifty leading regional auction houses located throughout the United States, plus other selected specialist auctions.
Auto Repair Reference Center: contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945.
Business and Company Resource Center: up-to-date business, company and industry information for more than 300,000 companies.
Business Source Elite: full text for more than 1,120 business publications. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, click on EBSCOhost and choose this database from the ones listed.
EBSCOhost: largely full text indexes of magazines and newspapers covering a broad range of topics. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, click on EBSCOhost and choose this database from the ones listed.
Encyclopedia Americana: an encyclopedia containing over 45,000 articles and targeted at grades 8 and above. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, choose Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia from the options. The Friends of the Bettendorf Library pay for this subscription.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, click on EBSCOhost and choose this database from the ones listed.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia: an encyclopedia based on the Academic American Encyclopedia and targeted at grades 5 and above. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, choose Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia from the options. The Friends of the Bettendorf Library pay for this subscription.
Health and Wellness Resource Center: access to authoritative health information, including full-text medical encyclopedias, several hundred medical and general interest periodicals, and more than 800 pamphlets.
Job and Career Accelerator: a comprehensive job search tools, including an Occupation Matcher, wizards to create resumes and cover letters, occupation descriptions and job listings.
Kids Search: an easily searchable collection of magazines, newspapers, images and more, designed for elementary and middle school students. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, click on EBSCOhost and choose this database from the ones listed.
Lands and Peoples Online: an encyclopedia of countries, cultures and current events for middle and high schoolers. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, choose Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia from the options. The Friends of the Bettendorf Library pay for this subscription.
Learning Express Library: online resume and interviewing classes, as well as practice employment exams, such as the ASVAB, Civil Service Exams, the CDL and more. Also has online practice exams for elementary students and up, including 4th grade assessment, ACT, SAT, PSAT, GED, Citizenship, Civil Service and many more.
Literary Reference Center: contains biographical and critical information on literary figures from all time periods as well as plot summaries, full-text poems, book reviews, and author interviews.
Morningstar: stock and mutual fund quotes, research reports and tools for making better investing and 401k decisions.
Novelist Plus: book annotations, author suggestions, book reviews and more information designed to help you find books you want to read.
Opposing Viewpoints: viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites
Quad Cities Newspaper Index: a cooperative index of local newspapers, compiled by several public libraries in and near the Quad Cities area of western Illinois and Eastern Iowa. The index does not include the full text of articles, but photocopies of individual articles may be requested from the libraries.
Reference USA: telephone and address listings for 14 million U.S. Businesses and 100 Million U.S. Residents.
Regional Business News: comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, click on EBSCOhost and choose this database from the ones listed.
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated: contains biographies of over 236,000 individuals, plus more than 36,000 images.
Tutor.com: online tutoring service with resume writing help, as well as numerous links to information on writing resumes, interviewing and finding a job.
By Subject
- Address and Phone Directories
- Antiques
- Auto Repair
- Biography
- Business and Finance
- Current Events
- Encyclopedias
- Examinations
- Genealogy
- Health
- Job Search Information
- Literature
- Magazines and Newspapers
- Youth
Address and Phone Directories
Business and Company Resource Center: up-to-date business, company and industry information for more than 300,000 companies.
Reference USA: telephone and address listings for 14 million U.S. Businesses and 100 Million U.S. Residents.
Antiques Reference Database: prices and information for a wide variety of antiques from about fifty leading regional auction houses located throughout the United States, plus other selected specialist auctions.
Auto Repair Reference Center: contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945.
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated: contains biographies of over 236,000 individuals, plus more than 36,000 images.
Business and Company Resource Center: up-to-date business, company and industry information for more than 300,000 companies.
Business Source Elite: full text for more than 1,120 business publications. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, click on EBSCOhost and choose this database from the ones listed.
Job and Career Accelerator: a comprehensive job search tools, including an Occupation Matcher, wizards to create resumes and cover letters, occupation descriptions and job listings.
Learning Express Library: online resume and interviewing classes, as well as practice employment exams, such as the ASVAB, Civil Service Exams, the CDL and more.
Morningstar: stock and mutual fund quotes, research reports and tools for making better investing and 401k decisions.
Reference USA: listings for 14 million U.S. Businesses with verified, accurate data updated monthly, including business name, executive title, business type, sales volume, employee size, year established and more.
Regional Business News: comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, click on EBSCOhost and choose this database from the ones listed.
America's Newspapers: mostly full text index of over 1500 newspapers across the nation, including the Bettendorf News, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times and USA Today.
EBSCOhost: largely full text indexes of magazines and newspapers covering a broad range of topics. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, click on EBSCOhost and choose this database from the ones listed.
Opposing Viewpoints: viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites
Quad Cities Newspaper Index: a cooperative index of local newspapers, compiled by several public libraries in and near the Quad Cities area of western Illinois and Eastern Iowa. The index does not include the full text of articles, but photocopies of individual articles may be requested from the libraries.
Encyclopedia Americana: an encyclopedia containing over 45,000 articles and targeted at grades 8 and above. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, choose Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia from the options. The Friends of the Bettendorf Library pay for this subscription.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, click on EBSCOhost and choose this database from the ones listed. The Library Foundation pays for this subscription.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia: an encyclopedia based on the Academic American Encyclopedia and targeted at grades 5 and above. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, choose Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia from the options. The Friends of the Bettendorf Library pay for this subscription.
Lands and Peoples Online: an encyclopedia of countries, cultures and current events for middle and high schoolers. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, choose Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia from the options. The Friends of the Bettendorf Library pay for this subscription.
Learning Express Library: online practice exams for elementary students and up, including 4th grade assessment, ACT, SAT, PSAT, GED, Citizenship, Civil Service and many more.
HeritageQuest Online: a collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture with over 25,000 family and local histories, the entire U.S. Federal Census, and other expanding collections.
Health and Wellness Resource Center: access to authoritative health information, including full-text medical encyclopedias, several hundred medical and general interest periodicals, and more than 800 pamphlets.
Business and Company Resource Center: up-to-date business, company and industry information for more than 300,000 companies.
Job and Career Accelerator: a comprehensive job search tools, including an Occupation Matcher, wizards to create resumes and cover letters, occupation descriptions and job listings.
Learning Express Library: online resume and interviewing classes, as well as practice employment exams, such as the ASVAB, Civil Service Exams, the CDL and more.
Reference USA: listings for 14 million U.S. Businesses with verified, accurate data updated monthly, including business name, executive title, business type, sales volume, employee size, year established and more.
Tutor.com: online tutoring service with resume writing help, as well as numerous links to information on writing resumes, interviewing and finding a job.
Literary Reference Center: contains biographical and critical information on literary figures from all time periods as well as plot summaries, full-text poems, book reviews, and author interviews.
Novelist Plus: book annotations, author suggestions, book reviews and more information designed to help you find books you want to read.
America's Newspapers: mostly full text index of over 1500 newspapers across the nation, including the Bettendorf News, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times and USA Today.
EBSCOhost: largely full text indexes of magazines and newspapers covering a broad range of topics. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, click on EBSCOhost and choose this database from the ones listed.
Quad Cities Newspaper Index: a cooperative index of local newspapers, compiled by several public libraries in and near the Quad Cities area of western Illinois and Eastern Iowa. The index does not include the full text of articles, but photocopies of individual articles may be requested from the libraries.
Kids Search: an easily searchable collection of magazines, newspapers, images and more, designed for elementary and middle school students. After logging in with your Bettendorf library card number, click on EBSCOhost and choose this database from the ones listed.