City of Colleyville

Databases

The Colleyville Public Library offers a number of databases for use by registered borrowers via the library’s catalog website.Borrowers will need to enter their library card number and personal identification number (PIN) to gain access to these databases through this site.

Texshare Databases

Available to Texas library patrons with a valid library card and password. Contact your home library for more information. Contains full-text information frombooks, journals, magazines, and newspapers.

Literature Resource Center: A all-inclusive database containing full-text literature criticism, biographies, bibliographies, and work overviews. Connecting to Literature Resource Center
NetLibrary: TexShare's NetLibrary eBook collection includes titles from the world's leading business, technology, trade, reference, and scholarly publishers. Connecting to netLibrary
Consumer Reports via EbscoHost

Auto Repair Reference Center

Provides repair instructions and schematics for most automobiles from 1970 to present. Certain models andmakes are also available back to 1954.

Novelist

Provides information on books, authors, and book reviews. Contains material for all ages, from toddlers to adults.

Grolier Online

An educational portal providing access to information from many reliable sources. Targeted at Middle and High School students.

America the Beautiful

Provides history about states, as well as current event topics for elementary and middle school aged children.

Lands & Peoples

This educational encyclopedia providesinformation about countries, cultures, and current events. Each articledescribes a country's people, land, economy, history, and government.

Opposing Viewpoints

Enables users to find information on social issues. Contains viewpoints, articles, topic overviews, statistics,links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

Learning Express Library

Provides online practice tests and tutorials designed to help students and adult learners succeed on academic or licensing tests.

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TAKS Preparation Program

Offers study aids and practice examsfor the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) exams taken bystudents’ grades 3-11.

Writing Skills Improvement

Practice tests or courses for improvement of writing skills. Go to website now!

Reference USA

Contains information about public and private American companies. Data can be sorted by geography, business size, andtype of business. Go to website now!

Value Line Research Center

In library use only.The Value Line Research Center includes access to Value Line's leadingpublications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertiblesecurities, exchange traded funds (ETFs), and special situation stocks.The Research Center also has buildable HTML reports, Stock and MutualFund screening tools, daily Supplement updates, weekly rank changes,and the ability to export data. Go to website now!

Thursday, March 11, 2010