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Card Catalog
The Swan Catalog allows users
to view the holdings of members of the Suburban Library System.
Periodicals
Search the SLS Union List of
Serials. The SLS Union List of Serials
is produced by the SLS ILL Service and lists
by journal title the periodical holdings of
174 SLS libraries.
· Search for journal by title or ISSN
· See which SLS library owns a particular
issue of a journal
· Link to the SLS Membership Directory for
holding library location, phone number, and
hours
· Search by journal title or ISSN for
full-text journals available on FirstSearch
World Book Online
World Book Online
Reference Center is an online
encyclopedia and dictionary.
Password is your Library
Card Barcode.
Click here to learn
more about The World Book Online Reference
Center
EBSCOhost with Graphics
Text Only
EBSCOhost
is a research database which includes a magazine
and newspaper index. Many articles are full
text.
***Please pick
up the Login & Password at the Worth
Public Library***
Choose from three databases available:
MasterFILE
Elite
Designed
specifically for public libraries, this
multidisciplinary database provides full
text for more than 1,100 general reference
publications with coverage dating as far
back as 1984. Covering virtually every
subject area of general interest, MasterFILE
Elite also includes 56 full text
reference books and an Image Collection of
192,999 photos, maps and flags. This
database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Computer Source
Computer
Source provides researchers with the
latest information and current trends in
high technology. This database offers full
text for nearly 300 publications and
indexing and abstracts for nearly 450
publications.
Newspaper
Source
Newspaper
Source provides selected full text for
nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international
newspapers. The database also contains full
text television & radio news
transcripts, and selected full text for more
than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This
database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Click here for more information about
EBSCOhost.
EBSCOhost Español
EBSCOhost
es
un índice del compartimiento. Muchos artículos
son texto completo.
*** el toma por favor la conexión y la
contrasea en el Worth Public Library***
Consumer Health
Complete
Consumer Health
Complete (CHC)
is EBSCO's interface designed for the
everyday consumer of health care
information. CHC provides
convenient access to easily understandable
health and medical information. Consumers
can search and browse within medical
encyclopedias, popular reference books, and
magazine articles.
NoveList
NoveList is an online reader's advisory
service that helps readers find new books
based on books they've read or topics in
which they are interested.
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pick up the Login & Password at the
Worth Public Library***
Click here to
learn more about NoveList.
 NoveList
Plus
NoveList is an online reader's advisory
service that helps readers find new books
based on books they've read or topics in
which they are interested.
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pick up the Login & Password at the
Worth Public Library***
NoveList K-8
NoveList K-8 is an online reader's advisory
service that helps young readers find new books
based
on books they've read or topics in
which they are interested.
This site includes features designed
specifically for children and their
teachers.
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pick up the Login & Password at the
Worth Public Library***
Click here to
learn more about NoveList K-8.
Biography
Reference Center
Biography
Reference Center™ offers a comprehensive
collection of more than 450,000 full text
biographies, including the complete full text
run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine,
as well as thousands of narrative biographies
that are not available in other databases.
***Please
pick up the Login & Password at the
Worth Public Library***
Business
Searching Interface
The Business Searching Interface (BSI)
provides business researchers with the highly
refined tools they need, in order to conduct
sophisticated searches for the business
content that they require. Through the use of
the BSI, the full text business content of Business
Source® Premier and Business Source®
Complete can be located and retrieved more
quickly and with greater precision than ever
before.
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pick up the Login & Password at the
Worth Public Library***
Literary
Reference Center
Literary Reference Center is a full text
database that combines information from major
respected reference works, books, literary
journals as well as original content from
EBSCO Publishing.
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pick up the Login & Password at the
Worth Public Library***
Points
of View
Points of View Reference Center™ is a
full-text database designed to provide
students with a series of essays that present
multiple sides of a current issue. The
database provides 250 topics, each with an
overview (objective background/description),
point (argument),counterpoint (opposing
argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.
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pick up the Login & Password at the
Worth Public Library***
Auto
Repair Reference Center
Auto Repair Reference Center contains
information on most major manufacturers of
domestic and imported vehicles, with repair
information for most vintage makes starting as
far back as 1945.
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pick up the Login & Password at the
Worth Public Library***
Hobbies
and Crafts Reference Center
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
provides comprehensive full text content for
many of the most popular hobbies, crafts and
recreation activities today. Including full
text for more than 740 magazines and books, as
well as access to more than 720 videos and 140
hobby reports.
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pick up the Login & Password at the
Worth Public Library***
Home
Improvement Reference Center
Home Improvement Reference Center™ is a
comprehensive resource that contains 27 major
reference works in full text with more than
10,000 images (none found available online
anywhere else). Additionally, the database
contains nearly 100 videos of popular home
repair projects, a convenient A-Z browsing
tool, and full-text magazines.
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pick up the Login & Password at the
Worth Public Library***
Small
Engine Repair Reference Center
Small Engine Repair Reference Center™ is
the definitive online tool for small engine
repair assistance, including: ATVs, commercial
mowers, farm tractors, generators,
motorcycles, marine (boats), outdoor power
equipment, PWC (personal watercraft/jet ski),
snowblowers, snowmobiles, tillers and other
small engines.
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pick up the Login & Password at the
Worth Public Library***
Statewide
Illinois Library Catalog
The
Statewide Illinois Library
Catalog, known as SILC, is Illinois'
first all inclusive statewide union catalog
that integrates WorldCat and the Illinois
Library Systems' local consortial OPACs, to
provide both shelf status and interlibrary
loan capabilities in a single searchable
interface. SILC resides on the familiar
FirstSearch platform as an additional
WorldCat database that allows users to scope
to regional groups within Illinois, as well
as by type of library. From a single
WorldCat record, users will be able to link
to a local shared catalog record to see if
and where an item is available for loan.
OCLC FirstSearch
FirstSearch is a
collection of 13
different databases.
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up the Login & Password at the Worth
Public Library***
The
databases available are:
ArticleFirst (incl.
ContentFirst)-
OCLC index of articles from nearly 16,000
journals. 1990 to date.
Clase and
Periodica -
Index of Latin American journals in the
sciences and humanities. 1975 to date.
Ebooks
- OCLC catalog of online electronic books
available through libraries worldwide.
ECO - Electronic Collections Online.
Full Text of scholarly journals. 1995 to
date.
ERIC - Journal articles and reports
in education. 1966 to date.
GPO - U.S. government publications.
1976 to date.
Illinois Catalog - Statewide
union catalog that integrates WorldCat and
the Illinois Library Systems' local
consortial OPACs
MEDLINE
- All areas of medicine,
including dentistry and nursing. 1965 to
date.
PapersFirst - Index of papers
presented at conferences worldwide. 1993 to
date.
Proceedings - Index of worldwide
conference proceedings. 1993 to date.
WorldAlmanac - The World Almanacs.
Current.
WorldCat
(incl.
NetFirst) - Books,
web resources & other materials in
libraries worldwide. 1000 AD to date.
WorldCatDissertations
- Catalog of dissertations and theses
available in OCLC member libraries.
Click here to
learn more about OCLC FirstSearch.
NetLibrary
Electronic Books
NetLibrary
Electronic Books Password is your Library
Card Barcode.
Also available through the SWAN Online
Catalog.
eBook
of the Month:
eBooks
are full-text electronic versions of
published books that library patrons can
search, borrow, read, and return over the
Internet.
Library
patrons can search across the entire eBook
collection for authors, titles, or keywords,
and they can search within books for keywords
and phrases.
Worth
Public Library's eBook collection includes 621
copyrighted ebooks.. In addition, patrons have
access to more than 3,400 public domain eBooks,
featuring political texts and classics in
literature and history. In addition, all
netLibrary eBooks are embedded with the
Houghton Mifflin 4th Edition of The
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English
Language enabling patrons to access a
definition, visual or verbal pronunciation
simply by highlighting a word.
World
and I Online
**Please
pick up login and password at the Library**
The same login and password work for all six
sites.
Choose between six different products
World
and I -- for the general public
World
and I Journal -- for the general
public
World
and I Library -- for public
libraries
World
and I School -- for K-12 schools
World
and I Homeschool -- for
homeschoolers
World
and I College -- for 2- and 4-
year colleges
World and I Online is a multifaceted monthly
publication that presents a broad range of
thought-provoking reading in the areas of
politics and current affairs, the arts,
cutting-edge science, international
cultures, the latest in literature, the most
talked-about issues in the academe, and
popular culture.
Since its inception in 1986, The World &
I has been accumulating a wealth of timeless
articles written by scholars and experts –
all of which are available in the online
edition. Special features of the site
include a Book Review Archive with a search
capability of its own and a growing number
of Special Collections such as Worldwide
Folktales, Peoples of the World, Profiles in
Character, Millennial Moments, and more, all
complemented by full-color photos and
illustrations.
Consumer Health
Complete
Consumer Health
Complete (CHC)
is EBSCO's interface designed for the
everyday consumer of health care
information. CHC provides
convenient access to easily understandable
health and medical information. Consumers
can search and browse within medical
encyclopedias, popular reference books, and
magazine articles.
Magills Medical Guide
Magill's
medical Guide is an online medical
database.
Includes 1,017 articles, 644
sidebars, hundreds of photographs,
illustrations, indexes, appendixes,
and directories.
Password is your Library
Card Barcode.
Milestone Documents in
American History
Milestone
Documents in American History is an online
database.
Password is your Library
Card Barcode.
Great Lives in History
Great
Lives In History
is an online
database.
Password is your Library
Card Barcode.
Great Events in History
Great Events
In History
is an online
database.
Password is your Library
Card Barcode.
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