Overdrive (audiobooks & ebooks) : Choose from our ever-growing collection of downloadable audiobooks and ebooks!
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Freading is a collection of thousands of ebooks from every genre. You can explore them all without ever waiting on a hold or worrying about late fees. Read on your computer or take the book with you on a compatible eReader, smartphone, or tablet! Start here with the Freading FAQ, then access the collection here.

BookFlix is a new online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction ebooks from Scholastic to build a love of reading and learning for children, pre k – grade 3. The engaging way to link fact and fiction, BookFlix reinforces early reading skills and introduces children to a world of knowledge and exploration. Features 80 fiction-nonfiction pairs and 20 Spanish pairs. Click here to access from home.

TrueFlix is an online resource that brings books to life. It features electronic versions of Scholastic’s award-winning True Books series paired with topical videos, project ideas, age-appropriate web links, and interactive educational games. Click here to access from home.

iCONN’s OneClickdigital audiobooks: Provided statewide, this downloadable audiobook collection features nearly 1,400 titles. These titles can be checked out after creating a new OneClickdigital account. Click here to learn more or here to access the collection.

Note: You may also want to check out iCONN’s Free ebooks & audiobooks page!

Master File.  Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE Premier provides full text for magazines, reference books, and primary source documents. This database also provides an Image Collection containing photos, maps and flags.

Gale Online Resources: Includes literary criticism, directories, and other reference books on many topics.

Gale Directory Library.  Gale has long been known for publishing authoritative directories on companies, publishers, associations and more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library (iCONN): Search the contents of science, health and history reference books.

Academic Search Premier encompasses the expansive academic disciplines now being offered in colleges and universities.  This resource provides comprehensive content, including PDF backfiles to 1975 for over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references for more than 1,050 titles.

Legal Information Reference Center.   Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, with more content being added on a regular basis.

Science Reference Center provides easy access to a multitude of full-text, science-oriented content. , Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other sources.

GreenFile: Scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.

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NewsBank: This newspaper archive includes New Haven Register going back to 1988. In addition, October 23, 1878-December 31, 1900 is available in America’s Historical Newspapers (searchable early American newspapers from various periods between 1690-1922.) Finally, America’s News Magazines covers the last one to two decades of news magazine articles.

Looking to browse the latest issues of your favorite magazine? iCONN’s Popular Magazine page can connect you to such popular titles as Consumer Reports, Consumer Reports Buying Guide, Consumer Reports on Health, Atlantic, Backpacker, Bonjour, Ebony, Field & Stream, Inc., Jet, Outdoor Life, Saturday Evening Post, and Ski. Check it out here!

(Please note, articles from these titles are also searchable in research databases such as MasterFILE).

Referencia Latina, a comprehensive Spanish-language database, offers content from a variety of sources. Its intuitive, theme-based Spanish-language interface is designed for non-English users with limited online research experience.

ReferenceUSA: Information on over 14 million U.S. businesses, including company executives, contact information, lines of business, credit rating, & sales volume.

Legal Information Reference Center.   Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, with more content being added on a regular basis.
Wall Street Journal: 1984 to present.

JobNow: Live job assistance. Available Monday through Sunday, 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. EST. Other job resources available 24/7 online include: personality & career assessments, aptitude tests, resume writing, interview coaching, and skill builders.

LearningExpress: Provides interactive online practice tests and tutorial courses for academic and licensing tests. Tests include Advanced Placement, Basic Skills Success(grammar, math, comprehension), Business Writing, Civil Service (including Postal Workers), College Preparation (including SAT), Cosmetology, EMS, ESL(Spanish), Firefighter, GED, Job & Career, Military, Nurse Aide, Skills Improvement, Technical and Career College, and US Citizenship. Also includes Computer Skills Tutorials (Adobe, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word) and Writing Improvement Programs (with instant essay scoring and analysis for SAT Writing, GED Writing, Writing for Adults and High School, Middle School, Elementary School).

Foundation Directory Online: Professional version of the web-based portal to the Foundation Center ‘s database of private philanthropies and corporate giving programs. Available only at Ives Main Library.

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online: An online database of more than 6,500 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. Available only at Ives Main Library.

GuideStar: Use this premium edition of GuideStar to identify and sort nonprofit organizations by category and geographic location. Available only at Ives Main Library. Ask a librarian to log you on.

Philanthropy In/Sight: This resource provides interactive mapping tools designed for grantmakers, policymakers, researchers, and academics. Choosing from a wide range of customizations options, users can quickly create maps that reveal patterns of giivng and funding relationships. Additionally, users can overlay grant data with their choice of over 150 demographic, socio-economic, and other data sets to create compelling visual portraits showing where philanthropy has made an impact and where opportunities exist to fill critical needs. Available only at Ives Main Library.

Wealth Engine: Wealth Engine web service is a comprehensive and efficient tool for determining a general profile of wealth, philanthropic intent and connections. It offers a convenient way to search 26 sources concurrently. The Premium Web Service is an online research and data mining service that provides a variety of financial, business, asset, personal, and stock information in order to help rate a prospect’s giving capacity. Available only at Ives Main Library. Ask a librarian to log you on.

MedlinePlus: Developed by National Library of Medicine and National Institute of Health for consumers needing health information.

HealthNet: CT Consumer Health Info. Network: Research service for Connecticut residents with medical questions. Provided by the University of Connecticut Health Center’s Lyman Maynard Stowe Library.

Ancestry® Library Edition, distributed exclusively by ProQuest and powered by Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more. Now available at Ives Main Library and our library branches.

History Reference Center is a comprehensive full text history reference database with more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers,
Daily Life Through History: Spotlights the day-to-day lives of average people and places, past and present. Covers food and cooking, holidays and festivals, clothing and fashion, housing and furnishings, religion and spirituality, music and dance, family life, women’s history. Also includes information on the 50 states (capitals, population, state motto, state bird, etc). Browse by time period, region or subject.

Hartford Courant (1764 – 1922)This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts.

America’s Historical Newspapers: Searchable early American newspapers from various periods between 1690-1922. Includes the New Haven Register from October 23, 1878-December 31, 1900.

Connecticut Digital Collections: Connecticut Digital Collections presents historical photographs, maps, manuscripts, oral histories and more from Connecticut libraries, museums, and historical societies.

Connecticut History.org: Stories about the people, traditions, innovations, and events that make up the rich history of the Nutmeg State, with weekly updates.

Biography Reference Center is a comprehensive collection of full text biographies on notable personalities, as well as thousands of unique narrative biographies.  Resources offered include Biography Today and Biography.

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Biography Reference Bank is a biographical resource for all disciplines.   This database contains biographical full-text articles, page images and abstracts from today’s leading magazines and journals—providing the most current coverage of an individual’s life and work

HeritageQuest: Research family history and American culture using U.S. federal census records and the UMI Genealogy and Local History.

African American Experience: With WPA slave narratives, music clips, texts, articles, photographs, maps and other documents, the black experience from African origins to the present is brought to life!

Latino American Experience: This is a full-text, multimedia database with both English and Spanish content focusing on individuals of Hispanic origins living in the Americas.

American Indian Experience: Offers hundreds of primary documents and thousands of images, including treaties, speeches, traditional tales, and photographs.

Daily Life Through History: Spotlights the day-to-day lives of average people and places, past and present.

Popular Culture Universe: Provides information on American and world popular culture through the decades.

World Folklore and Folklife: Covers myths, proverbs, music, comparative religion, fairytales, and literature.

CultureGrams: Allows you to learn about the history, customs, and everyday life of countries around the world.

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Mango Languages:Designed to help you become conversationally proficient in a wide variety of the world’s most popular languages. Includes an audio feature so you can hear proper pronunciation of words. ESL courses in 12 languages are also available. Download free apps for iPhone, iPod touch and Android and learn languages on the go!

Literature Criticism OnlineThe largest curated online collection of literary criticism in the world, this resource brings together 10 acclaimed multidisciplinary series representing a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.

* Includes the New Haven Register from October 23, 1878-December 31, 1900.
** Only available at Ives Main. You may need a librarian to log you in.
*** Only available at Ives Main and branches.