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The Grayslake Area Public Library District provides access to
special subscription databases to our patrons. This service is free
24/7 for Grayslake Area Library card holders only!
To connect from home, have your Grayslake library card barcode
number ready to login.
If you have trouble logging into any of our databases please be sure your web address begins with
www.grayslake.info (not www.grayslake.lib.il.us). Thank you.
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Business Source Premier
Provides company profiles, industry profiles, country
reports, and market research reports. |
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CultureGrams
Search U.S. and World information for population and information on
world cultures. |
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Ebsco Host
Search a master database for articles
and news.
An electronic journals service
available to through the library. It aggregates access to electronic
journals from various publishers. Please have your library card number ready
to enter. |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Premier encyclopaedia--includes all the information
contained in the print version plus a video collection,
timelines, world atlas, country comparisons, the
Merriam-Webster Dictionary and more. |
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FirstSearch
Search a variety of databases through OCLC databases
including libraries
throughout the country. |
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Gail Virtual
Reference Library
Search 180 reference books in 16 subjects from Art
to Social Science individually or simultaneously. |
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Grolier Online
Includes
seven encyclopedia databases:
Encyclopedia America, Grolier
Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book
of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia
Cumbre, America the Beautiful,
Lands and Peoples, and
The New Book of Popular
Science. |
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HeritageQuest
Find genealogical information here.
Search in census images, books, articles,
Revolutionary War records, and the
Freedman's Bank from this site. (In the
library we have the Ancestry Library database for you use too.) |
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Historical
Newspapers
Search Chicago Tribune and New York Times for full text articles
from the 1850s.
There are also special sections of timelines
and obituaries of famous people. |
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LearningExpressLibrary
Provides
a completely interactive online learning platform of practice
tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons
prepare for academic tests, real estate exam, ems tests,
firefighter exam and much more. To begin click on "New User" or
"Returning User". Then enter a user name (your library card
number) and create a password (your choice). |
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Literary Reference
Center includes plot summaries, synopses, articles
of literary criticism, author biographies, full text from
over 300 literary journals, book reviews, poems, short
stories, author interviews, and images of key literary
figures. |
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MyLibraryDV
Access hundreds of hours of DVD-quality programming. |
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MyMediaMall
Check out and
download eAudiobooks, eBooks, and eVideos any time of the day or
night from the comfort of your home. MyMediaMall, powered by
Overdrive, allows users to download to a personal computer, as
well as enjoy digital content on a wide array of devices
including MP3 players, CDs, Smartphones, and PDAs. |
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NetLibrary
You can now download eAudiobooks to your home computer or MP3 player. You will need an MP3 player that supports
protected WMA files.
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NewsBank
Search the online
editions of the Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald,
Grayslake Review, and the Chicago Sun-Times newspapers. Includes full-text articles.
Availability varies. |
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NoveList is a fiction database that
provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much
more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other
content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes,
What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and
Annotated Book Lists.
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Reference USA
The No. 1 source of information on businesses and people for
researchers, students, job seekers, and government agencies. |
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Student Research Center
Search for magazine articles in this database designed for
students in Middle and High Schools. |
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TumbleBook Library
e-books for e-kids! Have a story read to
you, some in foreign languages too. Read
a book, or play some games. |
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