Online Research
ABC-CLIO American History
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From the first explorers in the New World to the developments in today’s headlines, ABC-CLIO Schools’ authoritative American History database investigates the people, events, and themes of our nation’s evolution.
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ABC-CLIO Issues
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Go behind the headlines and beyond the opinions to gain real understanding of today’s most pressing social issues.
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ABC-CLIO World History the Modern Era
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Everything your students need for an in-depth understanding of the world, its landforms, weather systems, and resources as well as its colorful and often conflicting human cultures.
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Academic OneFile
Use this comprehensive periodical resource of full-text peer-reviewed content for over 10,000 manually indexed journals and reference works covering all subjects, including the full-text of The New York Times back to 1995 and NPR, CNN & CBC transcripts and podcasts.
AcademicOne
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Try out this comprehensive self-paced program proven to raise test scores! Use your MFL library card to sign up.
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Agriculture Collection
A comprehensive periodical collection supporting research in agriculture and related fields.
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Ancestry.com
Research your family history with this rich collection of records! Must be used in the library, but accessible on your own device as long as you are connected to our WiFi!
Ancestry
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Biography in Context
Use this database for over 400,000 biographies covering literary figures, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events and the arts. Indexes all print volumes of the series.
Biography
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The Boston Globe
Read and search The Boston Globe on-line. Each issue is indexed thoroughly, so there is access to not only top news stories but also the information contained on the various sections of the paper.
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Britannica Learning Zone
The Britannica Learning Zone offers an engaging online tool for early-childhood learning, covering letters, words, numbers, time, sound, geography, and more. This activity-centered learning environment- created for Pre-Kindergarten through 2nd grade- supports classroom curriculum and helps students build technology skills.
Britannica
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Britannica Library
The award-winning resource for children and adults. Easy to use, and easy to find trusted information. Choose a level (Children, Young Adult, or Reference Center) and search for what you want to know!
Britannica
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NEW! Britannica Moderna
The Britannica Enciclopedia Moderna covers all fields of knowledge, including arts, geography, philosophy, science, sports, and much more. This dynamic new platform makes Moderna’s age-appropriate, Spanish-language resources easier than ever to use.
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Britannica – School Edition
Choose either the Elementary, Middle or High School Edition to explore, search, and learn.
Britannica
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Britannica – Spanish Edition
Encyclopedia Britannica resources for primary and secondary education in Spanish.
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Business Economics and Theory
A comprehensive periodical collection supporting economics and related fields.
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Career Prep
Choosing a career path doesn’t come easy. Whether you’re heading straight into the workforce or you’re entering college first, our career tools help you get a handle on what you’re interested in, the skills and training you’ll need, and what you can expect from your career path. Discover which careers suit you best, research potential career options, and explore the requirements and outlooks for the occupations you’re interested in.
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Communications and Mass Media Collection
A comprehensive periodical collection supporting the communications field.
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Criminal Justice Collection
Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to hundreds of full-text journals.
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Creativebug
Learn by doing, creating and making with award-winning DIY videos.
Creativebug offers unlimited access to thousands of online art and craft classes for all ages and skill levels. This is screen time that you can feel good about for family. Learn how to paint, knit, crochet, sew, bake and more!
CreativeBug
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Culinary Arts Collection
The Culinary Arts collection includes major cooking and nutrition magazines, culinary journals and several Delmar Reference titles. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
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Diversity Studies Collection
A must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework, the Diversity Studies Collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community. This collection includes more than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily.
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NEW! Environmental Studies
Learn about the issues involving environmental studies.
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Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
Providing robust coverage of the field of environmental issues and policy, this collection, which includes magazines and academic journals, provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
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Expanded Academic ASAP
Use this database to find full-text scholarly journals, new magazines and newspapers for all academic disciplines.
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Fine Arts and Music Collection
From research prelude to ending, Fine Arts & Music Collection moves fast, providing information on hundreds of arts-related topics.
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Gale Databases
Search our collection of Gale databases all at once!
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Gardening, Landscaping and Horticulture Collection
Farmers, landscape architects, and biotechnologists alike will have their information appetites sated with this collection of journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. A fertile and growing collection, this collection includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.
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Gender Studies Collection
Gender Studies Collection provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
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General OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Comprehensive periodical resource for any subject. Coverage goes back to 1980- with over 9,200 titles (5,156 full-text).
GeneralOneFile
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General Science Collection
Learn about what’s new in the world of Science!
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Global Issues in Context
Global Issues in Context offers global perspectives on issues of international importance and current world events and topics in the news related to these issues. Not a pro and con database, Global Issues in Context is a truly non-U.S. centric resource that ties together a variety of sources to present a rich analysis of issues — providing information seekers with a framework to better understand 21st-century issues and events while highlighting global connections and the interdependence of all nations.
GlobalIssues
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The Great Courses
Learn from award-winning professors teaching on history, language arts, religion, health, astronomy, and SO MUCH MORE! These professors make the subjects interesting and accessible. All you need is your MFL library card and you can dive right in!
GreaterCourses
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Grey House: Databases
Whether searching for business information, consumer health information or education information, this is the tool you need to find data quickly and easily. Filled with helpful resources, contact information and hotlinks, benefit from the easy access to the thousands of organizations in each database, with just a few mouse clicks to get there.
Once on the Salem Press landing page just click on which subject you would like to research!
Health and Wellness Resource Center
The Health & Wellness Resource Center delivers magazines, journals, newsletters (1980–present), newspapers (1999–present), pamphlets.
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Health Reference Center Academic
Full-text database that provides full-text nursing & allied health journals, plus current and reliable personal health information.
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Health Reference Series Online
A collection of consumer health sourcebooks available for you to access any time at home! Login with “27371” when it asks for your Library Card Prefix to browse, read, and print. From there you can create a personal account that allows you to save articles and make your own notes!
Currently we have Allergies, Alzheimer, Arthritis, Asthma, Eating Disorders, Gastrointestinal Diseases and Disorders, Learning Disabilities, and Medical Tests!
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HeritageQuest
Powered by Ancestry® provides access to more than 4.4 billion records. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.
HeritageQuest
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Home Improvement Collection
Home improvement resources for hobbyists and professionals!
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Hoopla
Instantly borrow movies, TV shows, ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and music with your library card! Download the Hoopla Digital app to any of your devices and start borrowing!
For Monson residents only
Hoopla
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Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure
With current and relevant content from industry journals, travel guides and magazines this collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, while also allowing for focused study of specialized aspects of the industry – including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more.
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IndieFlix
IndieFlix is a streaming movie service that offers access to pop culture favorites, box office hits, award-winning feature films, documentaries, and shorts. You just need to set up an account using your MFL library card!
IndieFlix
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Information Science and Library Issues Collection
Great for information science and technology professionals.
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Insurance & Liability Collection
Protection of assets–physical or intellectual–is a concern for those ranging from the individual property owner to multinational corporations. The Insurance & Liability Collection connects researchers to hundreds of thousands of updated articles from leading journals, including: Business Insurance, Claims, Employee Benefit News, National Underwriter Life & Health, Pensions & Investments, Risk Management, and more.
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InfoTrac K-12 Student Edition
Designed for secondary school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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InfoTrac Newsstand
Full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section or other fields, eliminating random searching through newspaper archives. InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
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Kids InfoBits
Targeting the research needs of grades K-5 students. this resources incudes Blackbirch Press curriculum support references, 100 full-text age appropriate magazines and 2 newswires. Graphs, charts, maps and over 2,500 searchable images.
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NEW! Leadership and Management
Provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more. Updated daily, this library resource is useful for researchers or any professional interested in career development.
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NEW! LegalForms – Mass
The most extensive free forms site available to library patrons. Thousands of legal forms available with more forms being added daily. Official, State Specific, Federal, Business, Personal, Real Estate and General forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues.
Warning: Public users should consult an attorney in their state for serious legal matters.
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Mango Languages
A great way to learn a new language, or brush up on one you’ve already learned.
Monson library card required.
Mango
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Military & Intelligence Database Collection
Military and Intelligence Database Collection provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. The database offers content in key subject areas including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
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Murder Mystery
It looks like you have solved the final puzzle. To reveal the final clue click on the link!
Newsbank: Western Massachusetts Local Newspapers
With your Monson library card, you can now access current and past issues of these local papers: The Advocate (North Adams), the Amherst Bulletin, the Berkshire Eagle, Daily Hampshire Gazette, North Adams Transcript, The Recorder (Greenfield), the Republican, Springfield Advocate (Sep 1996-Apr 1998), and the Springfield Examiner, and the Valley Advocate (Easthampton).
Use your Monson library barcode to log in to the site.
NewsBank
Provided to all libraries in the four Western counties through the generosity of several W. Mass libraries and organizations
NoveList
An electronic readers’ advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. Use the name of a favorite author or title to find similar books, or browse lists of award winning titles.
Novelist
Provided to member libraries through the C/W MARS library network
The New York Times (daily) Read from wherever you are, courtesy of the Monson Free Library. You must create an account at NYTimes.com then you can access from the library network or, after creating your account, you can follow this link to access remotely. It will take you to a page with a populated user code. Click redeem to get your 24 hour access to the NYT. Use this link and code to access whenever, wherever!
The New York Times (1985-)
Full-text of The New York Times from 1985- as a standalone file (also included in Academic OneFile).
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Nursing and Allied Health Collection
All aspects of the Nursing profession — from direct patient care to health care administration — are covered. This collection’s current and authoritative content will be of use to both professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
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Nursing Resource Center with Allied Health
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Nursing Resource Center provides the wide array of content needed for research papers and basic nursing theory overviews, including access to sample care plans, multimedia content, full text reference books, citations to journals in the field and more. Nursing students can search through millions of pages of content from the top reference and textbook publications in the field, as well as animated depictions of human anatomy.
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Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Opposing Viewpoints In Context is the premier online resource covering today’s hottest social issues, from capital punishment to immigration, to marijuana. This cross-curricular research tool supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Its informed, differing views present each side of an issue and help students develop information literacy, critical thinking skills, and the confidence to draw their own valid conclusions.
OpposingView
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NEW! Petersons’s Test Prep
Find all the tools you need to discover your passion, ace your exams, and excel in your career.
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NEW! PebbleGo
A curricular content hub specifically designed for K-2 students. Packed with informational articles, ready-made activities, and literacy supports for students of all abilities, it boosts engagement and fosters independent learning in core subject areas.
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Pop Culture Collection
Pop culture is all around us and influences our lives every day. For any social sciences, history, art, or liberal arts researcher, the Popular Culture Collection
provides useful information from over two million articles found in over 100 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily.
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Popular Magazines
Search and find articles from popular magazines including Cosmopolitan, Newsweek, New Yorker, USA Today, Vegetarian Journal, and more.
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Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection
Both researcher and practitioner alike will find relevant, authoritative content in this collection, which includes over 100 titles covering the fields of physical therapy and sports medicine. Covering a wide spectrum of information, researchers will have access to a diverse, but focused set of topics in the field, including proven treatment techniques, experimental research theses, and many more.
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Psychology Collection
Minds will meet when researchers in the field of psychology connect with the vast database of information found in Psychology Collection. Students, psychologists, counselors, counselees, behavioral scientists, and other researchers will glean relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in over 3.1 million articles.
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Qello
Stingray Qello is the world’s largest collection of full-length concerts and music documentaries streamed on-demand to just about any digital device. All you need is your MFL library card to sign in!
Qello
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Religion & Philosophy Collection
Religion & Philosophy Collection features a selection of more than 200 magazines and academic journals–everything from Anglican Journal to Zygon–covering religion and the related areas of philosophy and anthropology. Researchers can use this database not only to study theological approaches to social issues, but also to learn about the impact that religion has had on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language.
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Research in Context
Gale’s Research In Context is designed to bridge the gap between the Kids InfoBits resource for elementary school students and the subject-specific Gale In Context family, developed primarily for high school and undergraduate students.
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NEW! Science Interactive
Science comes to life as you zoom, rotate, and explore interactive 3D models. View related reference articles and search Gale content to find more information.
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Science in Context
Supporting high school curricula and university coursework, Science in Context features authoritative information for assignments and projects, and provides detailed coverage of popular subjects. From earth science and life science, to space, technology, mathematics and science history and biography, this revolutionary, this curriculum-oriented online experience is designed to boost achievement for students and researchers.
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Science Database
ProQuest Science Database is a growing resource of 7.3 million full text articles from over 1,600 sources. In full-text format, researchers have access to all the charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements so vital to scientific and engineering literature. It supports the needs of students studying applied and general sciences.
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Small Business Collection
Ideal for business schools and entrepreneurs, Small Business Collection is updated daily and provides insights, tips, strategies, and success stories. Users find more than 500 subject-appropriate, active, full-text periodicals, including: Beverage Industry, Black Enterprise, Economist, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, HR Magazine, Real Estate Weekly, Restaurant Business, Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, And more.
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Small Business Resource Center
When starting a new business, entrepreneurs need all the help they can get. Small Business Resource Center covers all major areas of starting and operating a business: financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, taxes and more. Startups, established businesses, and business students alike can find answers from its mobile responsive experience.
SmallBusiness
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Test Prep
Find all the tools you need to discover your passion, ace your exams, and excel in your career.
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NEW! Transparent Languages for Libraries
Empowers anyone to learn 110+ languages anytime, anywhere, on any device.
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Universal Class
Lifelong learning! What do you want to know more about? History, Science, Real Estate, Law, Art, or something else altogether? Check out Universal Class and get started today!
UniversalClass
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U.S. History Collection
U.S. History Collection is useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher. This collection of journals provides balanced coverage of both current thought on events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work established in the field.
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U.S. History in Context
U.S. History in Context delivers comprehensive, contextual, media-rich search results from the most extensive online collection of historical information available today. Providing a complete overview of U.S. history that covers the most-studied events, issues and current information, it combines documents from Primary Source Microfilm’s™ digital archives; articles from classic Macmillan Reference USA™ and Charles Scribner’s Sons® references; as well as other Gale proprietary content such as country and era overview information, and full-text periodicals and journals.
USHistory
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Value Line
Whether you’re a beginning investor or a veteran looking for high-impact ideas, Value Line can position you for financial success quickly and easily. The uncontested authority in reliable, unbiased information, Value Line puts you in the driver’s seat with accurate and insightful investment research on companies, industries, markets and economies. From the latest data, sophisticated tools and proven ranks to expert analysis and guidance, Value Line gives you the power to evaluate investments with confidence. Make smarter, more profitable decisions with Value Line.
War & Terrorism Collection
Researchers accessing the more than 1.7 million articles in the War and Terrorism Collection will gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact and perception on a global scale.
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World History Collection
Both the novice historian and the advanced academic researcher will find useful information in this collection of leading journals in the field of world history.
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World History in Context
World History in Context is a comprehensive online collection that uses an intuitive, Web-like interface to provide multicultural, global and research-based dynamic content that supports today’s history research requirements. World History in Context moves chronologically over 5,000 years from antiquity to the present and geographically around the globe, to ensure that the events, movements and individuals that defined, informed and shaped world history are covered with a sense of balance.
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Vocations and Careers Collection
Finding the right career can be a daunting and high stakes task: finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career are all topics covered by this collection, providing current and applicable content for all vocational milestones. Offering content from nearly 400 journals, this collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
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Databases available for use in the Monson Free Library only:
Ancestry.com Genealogy and Family History Records is a subscription based resource of worldwide census, marriage, newspaper and various other records. To use the library’s membership ask at the main desk and one of the staff will log you in.
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