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Funds to purchase these resources came to libraries through Columbia County , New York State Government & the New York State Library's NOVELny program. Feedback encouraged!

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Antiques & Collectibles Auto Repair Manuals Biographies Business Career Tools Chilton's College Prep Tools Downloadable Audiobooks Education	Encyclopedias GALE databases Genealogy Health & Wellness HeritageQuest Homework Support Help Language Learning Literature Magazines	Mango Languages NetLibrary Newspapers New York Times Practice Tests (GED, SAT, ACT, Civil Service, vocational & military tests) Price It! PROQUEST Databases Science TumbleBooks animated picture books
Find magazines: by TITLE \| by SUBJECT Here is a selection from the thousands of magazines and journals available to you:
Consumer Reports Cosmopolitan The Economist Good Housekeeping	National Geographic Newsweek People Prevention	Psychology Today Sports Illustrated Time Magazine U.S. News & World Report

Newspaper Articles (Full-text & searchable)

Gale Custom Newspapers: over 120 titles
Gale New York State Newspapers: 15 titles
New York Times

Twayne's Authors Series: Biography and literary criticism on more than 600 world authors.
Encyclopedia of World Biography: Vol. 24 (2005) | Vol. 25 (2005) | Vol. 26 (2006) | Vol. 27 (2007)

Homework Support

EBSCO Kids Search or Searchasaurus (features an animated dinosaur theme) for elementary school students. Includes 70 popular magazines, Encyclopedia of Animals & American Heritage Children's Dictionary
Grolier includes:
- Encyclopedia Americana: In depth information for older students & adults
- Multimedia Encyclopedia: Quick reference with rich media for middle school & higher
- New Book of Knowledge: Reference & current events for elementary school & higher. Includes projects & experiments
- Online Atlas
- Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
- American Heritage Children's Thesaurus
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- American Heritage Student Dictionary
- American Heritage Children's Dictionary
- American Heritage English to Spanish Dictionary
- American Heritage Spanish to English Dictionary
Additional Encyclopedias

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* What does "free" mean? Free to patrons of Columbia County Libraries. These resources have information you cannot acccess through a normal Internet search, in fact, they are part of the "invisible web," available only to patrons of libraries where access has been purchased for them. Funds to purchase these resources came to libraries through Columbia County , New York State Government & the New York State Library's NOVELny program. Feedback encouraged!