Maury Loontjens Memorial Library

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 Book Info

  Novelist K-8 Plus

   Designed especially for elementary and middle school students, NoveList K-8 Plus is an online database with fiction and nonfiction titles chosen specifically to support the school curriculum as well as the pleasure reading needs of students.

  Novelist Plus

Using NoveList Plus, you can search among hundreds of thousands of popular fiction and readable nonfiction titles, and also retrieve author read-alikes, book lists, book discussion guides, and more. All of this rich editorial content is crafted by librarians and reading authorities who are experts in the field -- making NoveList Plus the premier readers advisory resource.

The library has a number of resources you can access from home (including a car repair database, health information, and academic articles) to use them you need to have your library card number available and click on this Link and choose the appropriate database

 

Online Newspapers

Access full-text newspapers from all across the country from your computer using America's Newspapers. If you'd like to access this database from home, all you need is your library barcode!

America's Newspapers:

Search current and archived coverage of issues, events, people, government, sports and more with the largest collection of full-text U.S. newspapers. Includes staff-written articles, obituaries, editorials, announcements, real estate and other sections.

 

Narragansett Times 1/21/2009-current (direct link to Narragansett Times)

Find full-text articles on local news, issues, events, people and much more from current and archived issues of Narragansett Times. Updated daily, it includes obituaries, editorials, announcements, sports, real estate and other sections.

 

Online Learning Resources

Learning Express

Learning resources for everyone from elementary school students to adult job seekers. Practice your math or grammar skills, prepare for the SAT, study for exams such as CDL or cosmetology. Brush up on your interview skills or business writing. Prepare for your U.S. Citizenship exam. There is something for everyone in this database! Accessible from the library or from a home computer with your library card.

 

Mango Languages

Mango languages is an online learning tool with basic and complete languages courses for over 20 different languages. Mango also offers English as a Second Language course for speakers of other languages. Learning is fun with these interactive, online courses. Create an account to keep track of your progress and to pick up where you left off. 

Health Info

Medlineplus: a free consumer health database from the National Library of Medicine.

Pubmed:is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.It is geared for health service professionals and acadamics

Job Info

ProJo Jobs

Boston.com.Monster

CT Job Central

Job Hunt :
Free Online Job Search Guide - Help and Links to 11,048 Employers & Resources
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09 Edition  career information from the U.S. government
RED:  Rhode Island Research & Economic Database
RI Dept. of Labor and Training
USAJobs is the offical job site of the United States Federal Government. Its your one stop source for Federal jobs and employment information

Research Info

New features with
EBSCOhost Database

Are you researching a paper for school or college? Looking up a medical condition? Helping your child find information for a science report? We can’t say enough about the benefits of using the EBSCOhost databases. EBSCOhost is an online information resource available to use in the library or from a remote site using your library card (just click on Find an Article under the the basic search screen). The new version, EBSCOhost 2.0, has a new clean look with a Basic Search screen and a Result List loaded with features.

 Tumble Books--ebooks for kids!

 TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they'll love