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Pat Riegler - won $100 Visa gift card courtesy of the Friends for playing The Express Yourself game. Her entry was drawn from all those having eight correct answers.
Monica Albright - won $100 Visa gift card courtesy of the Friends. Her entry was drawn from all slips submitted this summer for weekly prizes.
Megan Hapanowicz - won $50 Borders gift card as the winner of the teen Express Yourself game.
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This page contains research databases purchased by the library and links to useful internet resources.
The Daytime Book Discussion Groups
Led by Chris Caccamo
Meets the second Friday of the month from October through May.
There are two groups: one meets at 10 a.m. and the other at 2 p.m.
The summer session of this group meets in June, July and August.
Summer reading list will be available in May.
What is Playaway?
Playaway is the newest format of audio, combining a wide variety of content with an easy-to-use player all in one small unit. When you receive your Playaway, all you have to do is press play to start listening immediately – there is no need for a separate player, and it comes with earbuds and a battery to make it play.
Playaway is the most simple and immediate way to enjoy music and audiobooks. Its portability allows users to enjoy their favorite authors and titles on-the-go, whenever and wherever.
The following databases can be accessed from within the library or from a remote location (unless indicated). For Remote Access: If you are a registered patron of the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library, you may use the following databases from home or office. To be authenticated as a library patron, you may be asked to enter the 14-digit number (no spaces) printed on the back of your library card. Go to list without description
Top of pageThe ART Collection provides high-quality, digital images of works of art from museums around the world. Cultures and time periods represented range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works.
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated contains more than 95,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 26,000 photographs of the subjects.
This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
Literature Resource Center(LRC) provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.
Full-text, searchable works available online to supplement your library's print collections. Poetry, drama and fiction are included.
Literature Resource Center(LRC) provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
With more than 7 billion names and 26,000 searchable databases, Ancestry.com is the #1 online source for family history information, including the web's largest collection of historical records. Available only in the library, not accessible from home.
Geneology and ancestor database.
MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine,nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, and HealthSTAR.
NetWellness is a non-profit consumer health website that includes health news, extensive health reference works, health topics, and Ask an Expert.
Explore the rich and varied history of the United States through speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images, and multimedia. Provided by Encyclopaedia Britannica
Learn about the states, Canadian provinces, and the world. Even has recipes!
The Ohio Historical Society offers full text historical documents online, as well as a searchable newspaper index and death certificate index.
Oxford Reference Online brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.
The Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps provide a searchable interface for locating historical maps of Ohio towns and cities in the years 1867-1970.
A program designed to help users identify flint artifacts.
Up to date info and history on Iraq, Afganistan, Palestine, and other places in conflict.
Need a resume? Want a cover letter? Feel like you should brush up on those interview skills? We are excited to provide you with the OptimalResume online career services suite. OptimalResume can help you take care of all of these things and more.
This booklet contains: Megasites, US & Ohio sites, Federal jobs, Sites for new grads, Career & job guides, Resume help, Apprentice information, Headhunters, Library/University career help...
LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. You must create your own account to use this system.
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook is revised every two years.
Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use General Reference Center to find articles from magazines, reference books, and newspapers, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
A full-text news resource containing comprehensive coverage of current issues and events from 17 Ohio newspapers and 13 national newspapers.
Excellent On-Line story books.
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).
Oxford Reference Online brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single cross-searchable resource.
World Book presents a universe of information. From A to Z, the world of knowledge unfolds. World Book articles are written clearly. They're concise and interesting...packed with facts instead of adjectives. And because each article is tightly written, there are more of them in each volume.
La Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos está organizada de modo que los estudiantes puedan encontrar información rápida y fácilmente.
This web site will lead you through qualities of leaves and fruits from the common trees of Ohio. You will work your way through these choices by selecting images that more closely resemble your sample. To be certain of your identification of an unknown tree, however, you must use as much of the tree as possible.
This program includes 30 species and subspecies of snakes that are found in Ohio. Of these 30 kinds of snakes only three are poisonous and dangerous to people and domestic animals.
Learn about the states, Canadian provinces, and the world. Even has recipes!
Articles and photos on all sorts of homework topics!
Excellent On-Line story books.
This web site will lead you through qualities of leaves and fruits from the common trees of Ohio. You will work your way through these choices by selecting images that more closely resemble your sample. To be certain of your identification of an unknown tree, however, you must use as much of the tree as possible.
This program includes 30 species and subspecies of snakes that are found in Ohio. Of these 30 kinds of snakes only three are poisonous and dangerous to people and domestic animals.
A program designed to help users identify flint artifacts.
With content from the award winning World Book Student Discovery Encyclopedia, the site offers simpler navigation, thousands of colorful illustrations, diagrams, and maps, and dozens of activities tied to national curriculum standards.
Up to date info and history on Iraq, Afganistan, Palestine, and other places in conflict.
The following databases can be accessed from within the library or from a remote location (unless indicated). For Remote Access: If you are a registered patron of the Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library, you may use the following databases from home or office. To be authenticated as a library patron, you may be asked to enter the 14-digit number (no spaces) printed on the back of your library card. Go to list with description
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ATTENTION PATRONS: Due to staffing and budgetary constraints, interlibrary loan requests are limited to FIVE active requests per patron. Thank you for your cooperation.
If it is not possible to borrow the item that you requested, the Interlibrary loan staff will let you know. If you have any questions, please call us at 330-688-3295 and ask for the Adult Information Desk.
Please, note new fee beginning April 26th for Interlibrary Loans that must be acquired by mail.
Got questions? Have an idea for a teen library activity, or a cool website you think we should add to the Teen Page? How about submitting a Teen Book Review? Would you like to volunteer to help at a teen or children's program?
This is your chance to speak up! Use this form to email Christina, the Teen Services Librarian, with your feedback. You can also reach her via the library's teen Myspace page or Facebook page
If the item is not currently owned by the library, you can use this form to request that we add the item to our collection. However, the library can only obtain items which are less than 6 months old. Items older than six months will be requested through our Interlibrary Loan system. There is a fee for certain types of Interlibrary Loans: choose an option below.