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 Automotive: |
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 | Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles |
The site for Florida driver's license renewal and vehicle registration information. |
| Biography: |
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 | Biography in Context |
Profiles of famous people throughout history with links to images, articles, videos, audios, and Internet sites |
 | Biography (A&E) |
Biographies and images of contemporary and historical individuals |
 | Who's Who |
Features comprehensive profiles on over 1.4 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment, and sports. |
| Books and Literature: |
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 | Literature Resource Center - LRC |
Search for literary works and authors in this database of full-text journals and articles. Searchable by the title of the work and the century in which it was published. |
 | LitFinder |
Find poems, short stories, essays, plays and speeches. Searchable by title, author, subject, nationality , genre and more. Many available in full text. |
 | Novelist |
An informative database with access to over 100,000 fiction titles. You can find books based on author, title, or description; browse genre and/or award lists; search for reviews; read book discussion guides. |
 | Roget's Thesaurus |
Search for words and their synonyms. |
 | Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet |
The life, times, and works of William Shakespeare, includes literary criticism. |
 | Dramatic Learning |
This database is filled with original scripts, skits and monologues, and adaptation of classics. Users will find background information for each play and a step-by-step guide to make putting on a play easy and accessible. There are printable programs and posters. This is a great resource for teachers, charter schools, those involved in home school, and for all those interested in dramatic arts. |
| Career Planning: |
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 | Ferguson's Career Guidance Center |
Provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, more than 48,000 resource entries, and much more! When accessing from outside the library, click the "Facts on File link to get to this resource.
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 | Vocation, Careers & Technical Education Collection |
Find journals on a career or vocation of interest by entering search terms. |
 | Download Depot Career Resources |
Downloadable e-books and audiobooks on résumé and cover letter building, interview skills, job skills building, leadership and management, and more. |
| Community and Human Services: |
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 | Boys and Girls Club of Lee County |
Get information about the local chapter, make an online donation or find out how to become a volunteer, a member or a corporate sponsor. |
 | Safe Place (Youth Shelter) |
Specializes in counseling families and providing a safe haven for runaway and troubled adolescents. |
 | YMCA of Lee County |
Lists summer and after school activities, events and services available to youths of all ages at the 30 YMCA locations in Lee County. |
| Current Events and Social Issues: |
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 | Communication & Mass Media Collection |
A broad collection of online journals dating back to the 1980s and covering unlimited news topics. |
 | Military and Intelligence Database |
Search full-text journals, magazine and news articles on military topics and related matters of intelligence. |
 | War and Terrorism Collection |
Find journals on war and terrorism topics of interest by entering search terms. |
 | Opposing Viewpoints in Context |
Whether you're writing a critical essay, researching a report or term paper, or preparing for a debate, or you just want to be better informed, you'll find a variety of reference materials, commentaries and viewpoints, periodical and news articles, primary sources, statistics and multimedia in Opposing Viewpoints in Context. |
 | American Mosaic: The Latino American Experience |
History and culture of Latinos and Hispanics in the Americas (from ABC-CLIO) |
| Demographics: |
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 | U.S. Census Quick Facts |
Search demographics by state, city and county. |
| Digital Audio, Video, and E-Books: |
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| Download Depot | Large online library of downloadable audiobooks, ebooks, music and videos available anytime, anywhere. Transferrable to home or office computers, portable devices such as MP3 players, iPods, e-readers and smartphones. |
| Diversity Issues: |
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 | Diversity Studies Collection |
Provided by Gale, this database offers more than 2 million custom journals on diverse subjects. |
| Gender Studies Collection |
A Gale database of e-journals focusing on gender issues. |
| Encyclopedias: |
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 | Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos (WorldBook) |
This Spanish language encyclopedia is organized so that students can find information quickly and easily. Click on the first letter of the title of the article to see the article in Spanish. |
 | World Book |
Search primary source documents, e-books, encyclopedia articles, images, and more in a single, integrated interface. |
| Discover by World Book | This database offers engaging reference resources for students reading below grade level because of language or learning difficulties, including reluctant readers, ELL, ESL and adult literacy students. The collection includes reference articles, text-to-speech capabilities, learning and life skills activities, research and translation tools, multimedia, and interactive video. |
| Environment: |
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 | Living Green by World Book |
- Pollution's causes and consequences
- Overviews of major ecosystems
- Green building and transportation
- Green issues in food production
- Green practices at home
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| FCAT: |
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 | FCAT Explorer |
FCAT Explorer helps student prepare for FCAT exams. There is an online document to help teachers get the most out of FCAT Explorer for their students here. |
| Florida: |
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 | Florida Memory Project |
Features collections of film, photographs and videos of Florida's past and present for educational research. |
 | Southwest Florida Museum of History |
Site includes an online calendar of museum events and information about business hours and permanent exhibits. |
| General Reference: |
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 | Gale - All LCLS Gale Databases |
This includes a broad and comprehensive collection of reseach databases.
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 | Gale Virtual Reference Library |
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. |
 | 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 sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily.
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 | General Reference Center Gold |
Search for full-text articles from a variety of sources. |
 | Junior Edition |
An ideal research tool (featuring journal, magazine and newspaper articles) for middle and high school students. |
| Student Edition | This database for high school students provides a quick and easy way to research, complete assignments, and find answers to general reference questions. It contains more than 1000 full-text sources, including the leading magazines, newspapers and ready reference sources that students, teachers, and librarians value. |
| Student Edition - K12 |
Allows subject search and access to a number of homework helpers for high school students. |
 | Research and Documentation Online | Detailed advice on citing online sources as well as links to all the URLs in the text. It includes MLA, Chicago, APA, CBE and other styles. |
 | New York Times - Historical (1851 - 2006) |
Full text of the New York Times from 1851 - 2006. Indexed from 1851 - 1993. |
 | Gale eBooks |
Reference eBooks by subject |
| General Reference - Children: |
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 | Infotrac Junior Edition | A database for junior high and middle school students and contains more than 130 magazines and journals most critical to their curriculum. With diverse perspectives and full-text coverage, students will find authoritative sources for research and answers to all their general reference questions. |
 | Junior Reference Collection | A curriculum-based database for students in middle grades. Provides accurate information on school's most-studied subjects: science, literature, arts, biographies and general reference among others. |
| Infotrac Kid's Edition | Created specifically for K-12 students. With diverse perspectives and full-text coverage, students will find answers to all their general reference questions. |
| Geography and Culture: |
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 | ABC-CLIO Social Studies |
Collection of 10 databases covering history, geography, government and pop culture |
 | CultureGrams |
World edition, Kids' Edition, and States Edition and contains cultural and geographical information supplemented with maps, images and recipes. |
 | State Geography | |
 | World Geography | |
 | World Digital Library |
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
The principal objectives of the WDL are to:
- Promote international and intercultural understanding;
- Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;
- Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;
- Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.
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 | World Folklore and Folklife |
Folklore is part of the everyday lives of people around the world. This database covers a variety of subjects: food and drink, music and dance, celebrations and rituals, and, religion and beliefs. It also includes thousands of classic folk tales, the complete Hans Christian Andersen stories, Grimm’s fairy tales and folktales from around the world. |
| Government: |
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 | American Government |
Multifaceted examination of the foundations of our government and political system (fr om ABC-CLIO) |
| Health and Fitness: |
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 | Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module |
Access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Thompson Gale reference titles. |
| History: |
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 | African-American History Online |
Biographies, events, topics, primary documents, media, maps and chronologies relating to the African-American experience (from Facts on File) |
 | American History |
People, events, primary documents, and historic trends in America from before European exploration to the 21st Century (from ABC-CLIO) |
 | Sources in U.S. History Online: The Civil War |
Full-text e-journals, from various sources, about the Civil War |
 | United States at War |
from ABC-CLIO. Focuses on the conflict periods that have defined our nation from its earliest beginnings to today. Fourteen major conflicts are explored in depth covering the causes, courses and consequences of wars fought by the United States. This database contains over 10,000 primary and secondary sources with weekly news on current conflicts. |
| US History Collection |
A database of electronic journals for research of U.S. history. |
| World History Collection |
A database of electronic journals for research of world history. |
 | World History - Ancient and Medieval Eras | |
 | World History - The Modern Era |
from ABC-CLIO. Encompasses the evolution of modern Europe since the Renaissance; concurrent developments in Asia, Africa and the Islamic world, the global impact of the Industrial Revolution; and the last hundred years of conflicts and international cooperation. |
 | ArchiveGrid |
Online access to nearly a million descriptions of archival collections owned by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching for historical documents, personal papers an family histories held in archives. |
| Daily Life America |
This resource spotlights the day to day lives of average Americans from the past and present. Covers holidays and festivals, housing and furnishings, games and amusements, family life, women’s history and more. It offers thousands of primary documents (including recipes and newspaper articles). There are weblinks covering related subjects as well as photos, drawings, and maps |
| Daily Life Online |
Explore how people lived throughout the world in the past and compare to the present. Examine the structure and symbolism of architecture from ancient Greek temples to glass and steel malls. There’s more to history than just the names of rulers and the rise of economic systems! |
 | Pop Culture Universe |
A historical view of Popular culture through the decades, including Arts and Visual Culture, Business and Advertising, Ethnic and Group Culture, Fashion and Appearance, Film, Food and Drink, Literature, Music, Politics, Recreation and Leisure, Religion and Spirituality, Sports, TV and Radio, and Technology and Media. |
| Job Listings - Local: |
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 | Job Spot |
An online job announcement board provided by the local NBC-2 television station. The list shows job vacancies at employers throughout Lee County. |
 | Lee County’s Job Vacancy Listing |
Want to work in county government? Find out what's available on Lee County's job vacancy list. |
 | Southwest Florida Help Wanted |
Search for available jobs, in Southwest Florida, by category, city, company or keyword. |
 | Work Southwest Florida |
Search for jobs and read blogs from Southwest Florida employers. |
| Language Learning: |
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 | Discover Spanish |
Discover Spanish is the award-winning interactive language learning system that will teach you to speak and understand Spanish quickly and easily. Start learning Spanish today |
 | Powerspeak |
An easy-to-use online language learning program for learning Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese and English (for Spanish Speakers). Includes interactive lessons/courses, learning games, and illustrates customs and social trends in each language’s culture. The program is available 24/7 from any computer, with your library card. |
 | Livemocha | Learn languages online for free at Livemocha. Choose from many foreign languages and learn at your own pace. Livemocha lessons are fun and simple, and you can connect with native speakers to help build your languages skills. |
| Media, Magazines, and Newspapers: |
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 | eLibrary |
An index of many full-text magazine and newspaper articles, as well as television and radio transcripts, pictures, maps and more.
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 | Informe (in English) |
A collection of Spanish magazines with full-text. Business, Health, Technology, Culture, and others,
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| Informe (en Español) |
Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otros. En Español. |
 | Pop Culture Collection |
A database of electronic journals, news and magazine articles on Pop culture. |
 | Popular Magazines |
Look for articles on current events and other topics found in some of the most searched magazines in the Gale database. |
| Science and Technology: |
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 | General Science Collection |
Search for full-text articles, from a variety of sources, on topics related to science. |
 | Science in Context |
Science in Context is an in-depth, curriculum-oriented science database. It reflects curriculum trends and focuses on key concepts taught in school classrooms including biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, math, environmental science, life science, medicine, space science, computer science, technology, history of science, science and society, science as inquiry, science-related biographies and more. |
 | Inventions and Discoveries |
From World Book, Inventions and Discoveries covers Agriculture, Architecture and Engineering, The Arts, Astronomy, Communication, Economics, Industry and Manufacturing, Mathematics, Medicine, Personal and Household Items, Transportation, Warfare. |
| Study Guides: |
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 | A+ Research and Writing |
A step-by-step guide to writing research papers |
 | Citation Machine |
Bibliographic citation generator for books, periodicals, and online sources using MLA, APA, Chicago or Turabian style |
 | SparkNotes |
Online study guides on literature and other subjects, written by Harvard subject specialists. |
 | Khan Academy |
Offers more than 2,100 free educational videos covering math, science and other topics. |
| Test Preparation: |
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 | High School Ace |
High School Ace is a free resource center for teens. It features academic subject guides, reference tools, news, puzzles, quizzes, and college information.
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 | Test Prep Question of the Day |
This site allows you to examine your ability to answer various types of test questions as you prepare for college entrance exams. |
 | TERC (Testing and Education Reference Center) |
Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet their financial needs. Take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals. |