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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.
The library also had Ancestry Library Edition available at the
library only.
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CultureGrams
Search U.S. and World information for population and information on
world cultures.
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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.
You will be signing into the adult site, just click on the "Jump to Britannica
Kids" in the upper right hand corner, for the kids version. |
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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 Kids
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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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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Kids Search
Search for Magazine articles with this kid friendly
database.
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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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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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Searchasaurus
Search for magazine articles using this database designed
for elementary students.
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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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Homework Help
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