Reading Guides

Novelist Plus 
Your Guide to Reading
The most comprehensive reader's advisory solution   
     Novelist Plus from home

Novelist K-8 
Your Guide to Reading
A fiction and nonfiction answer for empowering young readers
       Novelist K-8 from home

Auto Repair

Auto Repair Reference Center
from home

Biography
See Magazines (MasterFile Premier)

Business

Detailed information on over 14 million U.S, businesses and health professionals. Search by geographic area, company or health professional name, SIC number, or yellow page directories. Also includes a reverse telephone directory.

Careers

Careers Internet Database
Take a test to determine the best career for you, check out the job opportunities, and find out the education you need on the Careers Database! Click on the "Members" button, then type in user name "9401", and password "future". 

Countries
Countries of the World and Their Leaders E-Book

Culture Grams          from home
Use keyword searches in "Countries of the World" to find maps and facts, or experience the cultures of 190 countries and territories in "Culturegrams"

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias*NEW*
American Heritage Children's Dictionary
See Search Engines   
  
Encyclopedia of Animals / Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia
See Search Engines

World Book Online Reference Center
Every article from the 22-volume set (and more) including multimedia
  

E-Books
E Books are here
for Inside the Library Use Only
(Remote access not available at this time)

Forms
Personal and Business Forms
Forms for college applications, student aid, finance, personal property, health and social services benefits, immigration and naturalization, legal, military and veterans affairs, real property and rental, taxes and much more.

Genealogy
Ancestry
library edition
Search for your Ancestors
Library Use Only


From the library or from home

Heritage Quest: Family records
and local history
Having problems accessing HQ from home?

Grants
Foundation Directory Online
Fundraising Research
Foundation Grants to Individuals *NEW*

(Kennewick Branch Only)

History

from home
Washington Historical Maps  
American Decades E-Book
Covers 20th-century events and social history from  1900 to 1999.

Magazine Articles

EBSCO MasterFile Premier         from home
Access to periodicals, reference books, biographies and images

General interest and academic magazines & newspapers.

from home
For ages 8 and up

ERIC & the Professional Development Collection
Educational journals and reports
See Search Engines

Music
The Mid-Columbia Library System now offers three on-line Music Databases for your listening pleasure.  
Smithsonian Global Sound American Folk Music, World Music, Poetry, Speeches.
Classical Music Library Choose music from the largest multi-label database of classical music recordings.
African American Song  12,000 tracks from historical recordings. Includes Blues, Jazz and Gospel.  

Reading Guides

Novelist Plus 
Your Guide to Reading
The most comprehensive reader's advisory solution  
     Novelist Plus from home

Novelist K-8 
Your Guide to Reading
A fiction and nonfiction answer for empowering young readers
       Novelist K-8 from home

Good Reads in your InBox
Subscribe to as many e-newsletters as you'd like and you'll receive e-mail newsletters with brief descriptions of each title as well as links to the library's catalog so you can easily reserve titles of interests
Subscribe Here

Search Engines *NEW*
Searchasaurus         Searchasaurus from home

Elementary school students can access popular elementary school magazines, American Heritage Children's Dictionary, Encyclopedia of Animals
and Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia

Social Issues
Points of View Reference Center *NEW*        from home
A resource for developing persuasive arguments and essays. Includes critical thinking guides to help you separate fact and opinion as you explore controversial issues. Find overviews, points and counterpoints on 200 topics. Includes 800 main essays.

Tests
Learning Express
Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams for GED, SAT, AP, civil service, military and professional licensing and certification exams and much more. When logging on from home, please use your library card number as your user name.

Union Catalog

First Search/Wayfinder