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Small Engine Repair Reference Center

~NEW~

Motorcycles, boats, ATV's, tractors, generators, and more!

Columbia Grangers World of Poetry

  Index to poetry, first lines, and lots of full text.

Global Road Warrrior ~~~ NEW! ~~~

in library from      home or office

user name - albany ~~ password - library card # - no spaces - all 14 characters
Traveling? School Reports? Don't leave home without trying out the Global Road Warrior ~ it has the world covered!

Classical Music Library

Smithsonian Global Sound

African American Song

Listen to a 'track' or listen to an album. Do you like Maria Callas? You are at the Opera House. Got the Blues? Listen to Bumble Bee Slim. Want to hear what a dobro sounds like? Listen to the dobro played.

Moving West Songs, With Historical Narration, Disk 2American Song
(Inside Library only at this time)

American Song is a history database thatallows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.

eBooks

eBooks from home or office

Access library's ebook collection of over 10,000 eBooks. If you do not have a free account, create one either at the Main or Downtown libraries. You can create an account remotely by logging in from home or office.

EBSCO

Full text access to over 4,000 periodical titles. Easy to search, great for homework, serious research, or just for fun. Want to use the full potential of EBSCO? Click here.

EBSCO Business Resources

Business Articles

EBSCO Health Reference

Full text access to medical journals for the professional as well as ths 'consumer'. Sponsored by: Samaritan Health Services and the Albany General Hospital Social Accountability and Community Benefit Foundation. read more...

EBSCO Student Resource Center

Makes homework a cinch! Want to see how it can help? Click here.

EBSCO Host Youth 

Supporting Schoolwork!

EBSCO Host Español 

All Magazines (in Spanish)

EBSCO Searchasaurus 

All Magazines (for kids)

FirstSearch Databases

This family of databases includes Worldcat (just about every book in the world) and the Government Printing Office (just about all their documents in full text)

World Book Encyclopedia

Inside the Library | From home

Includes the content of the classic World Book along with a Kid's edition.

... and La Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos en Línea está basada en la Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos producida y desarrollada por World Book, Inc.

Switch to another World Book Site
Switch to another World Book Site

Heritage Quest

A gold mine for genealogists. HeritageQuest is co-sponsored by:

NOTE: If your library card # ends in a non-numeric or non-alphabetical character, substitute a number or letter for the last character on your library card to log in.

NoveList

Reader Advisor's database helpful in deciding what to read next or more about what you just read.

NoveList K-8 Novelist K-8 graphic

Reader Advisor's database helpful in deciding what youth books to read next or more about what you just read.

Auto Repair Reference Center

Everything except the socket set! It's easy. Click here for a test drive.

Oregonian

Inside the Library | From home

Index and full-text from 1988 of the Portland Oregonian

Reference USA

Business and residential phonebook for the country. Searchable by first name, street address, telephone number, Standard Industrial Classification Code, and customizable to your search needs..

These databases are accessible from the computers at both Main and Downtown libraries:
ancestry - library editionSearch through centuries of immigration, death/birth, and marriage records.
Not for the average grease monkey, but full of fuses and camshafts for the automotive repair expert.
Mitchell 1 is the first choice of automotive professionalsMitchell's Vintage Auto Service Information for older models (1960-1982).
At the Main Library only:
Albany Democrat-Herald on microfilm from 1859

 

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