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Small Business Resource Center Small Business Resource Center offers users complete small business management resources via a combination of unparalleled periodicals and reference content. From conducting industry research to financial planning, to marketing a product and franchising a business, the Small Business Resource Center provides users with all the information they need to succeed. |
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Ancestry Library Edition makes family research easy for beginners while still providing in-depth tools for even the most advanced genealogists. Recent search enhancements offer intuitive content organization, image enhancing and simplified on-screen navigation. Plus, a new Enhanced Viewer allows nearly all content to be viewed through this one interface. |
Sanborn® fire insurance maps are detailed property and land-use records covering more than 300 Michigan cities and towns. Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire maps for over 100 years, repeatedly mapping towns and cities as they changed. The maps provide a wealth of information, such as building outline, size and shape, construction materials, height, building use, windows and doors, street and sidewalk widths, boundaries, house numbers, and more. The plans often include information and shading for steel beams or reinforced walls, plus symbols for stables, garages, warehouses, etc. |
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NEW - MeL Gateway - Search library catalogs, newspaper databases, magazine indexes and more simultaneously. MELCAT - Search Michigan's new state-wide catalog. Requires Michigan driver's license or state ID number. |
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This Ebooks collection includes over 12,000 full-text books from netLibrary.
The selection of materials includes books on a wide range of topics of interest
to a broad audience. You can search within the whole collection of Ebooks or
within a particular book to find and read the information you want. At the library
you can browse these books or you can create an account. Once you have created
your account at either the Ludington or Scottville libraries you will be able
to access this collection from any computer that can connect to the Internet.
If you want to read a book for an extended period of time you can 'check it
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The Gale Group / Thompson-Gale provides three InfoTrac databases: General Reference
Center Gold, Health Reference Center Academic, and InfoTrac Kids Edition (PrimaryTOM).
The Kids Edition is a full text database for elementary school students (K-6). General Reference Center Gold indexes
over 2,000 journal titles from 1980 to the present, 1200 of which are full
text. General Reference Center Gold integrates a vast array of general interest
and business titles to answer a wide range of questions. This database combines
full text and images, general interest magazines, reference books, maps and
historical images, business and industry journals, children's magazines, and
newspaper articles. Health Reference Center-Academic indexes
nearly 400 journal titles from the last four years, many of which are full text.
Other full-text items include reference books, pamphlets, full-text topical
overviews, and selected articles from an additional general interest titles. If you are accessing this database from home click on the link below and enter your Michigan driver's license or State ID number.
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Electric Library Elementary is a full-text
database designed for elementary school students. Contents include the full-text
of hundreds of popular magazines and scholarly journals, current newspapers
and news wires, television and radio transcripts, photographs and maps, children's
publications, reference and historical sources, and articles from ethnic publications. If you are accessing it from home click on the link below and enter your Michigan driver's license or State ID number.
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SIRS Discover Deluxe, a full text database for grades K-9 has been added to AccessMichigan. This database covers full text articles selected from 1000 magazines along with the full text version of Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia. If you are accessing it from home click on the MEL.ORG link and enter your Michigan driver's license or State ID number.
Learn-a-test provides a completely interactive online learning experience on practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help students, teachers and adult learners. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations and indivdualized analysis of your results. Tests include; Civil Service, Firefighter, EMS, GED, Graduate School Admission, Nursing, Military, Real Estate, and many more. If you are accessing it from home click on the link below and enter your Michigan driver's license or State ID number. LearningExpress - Learn-a-Test
Help in finding a book to read. Enter a favorite author and find similar authors. Search by series name, character, setting or time period. Lists of award-winning fiction and highly recommended books. Indulge your love of mysteries, romances, science fiction, fantasy, westerns and other genre novels. If you are accessing this service from the library click on the link below. If you are accessing it from home click on the link below and enter your Michigan driver's license or State ID number.
Michigan Edition - Detroit News, Grand Rapids Press & the Lansing State Journal indexed from 1999 to yesterday's edition. If you are accessing it from home click on the link below and enter your Michigan driver's license or State ID number. |
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