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Websites of the Month
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Turkeys: The website of the United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service offers instructions for safe and easy turkey roasting. The site includes a 1-888 turkey hotline in English and Spanish.
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AgriHappenings - Calendar of Events: Vist this Illinois Department of Agriculture website for a complete list of farmers markets, festivals, county fairs, and other summer events
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Reference Databases
| America's Obituaries & Death Notices The largest and most comprehensive newspaper collection of obituaties and death noticies with an easy-to-use interface. Use your library card number to log in from home.
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| Chicago Sun-Times 1986-Current Full-text articles from the Chicago Sun-Times. Use your library card number to log in from home.
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| Chicago Tribune You can now access the Chicago Tribune online. Use your library card barcode number as a password. Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Staff written obituaries are included. Paid advertisements are excluded, as well as graphics (photos and illustrations). 1985 - Current. RedEye included. Contact us if you need help. |
| Chilton Library Use this database to find repair information for automobiles. Use your Eisenhower library card to login from home. |
| Daily Herald (Arlington Heights Edition) 1995-Current Full-text articles from the Arlinton Heights edition of the Daily Herald, which covers news in the Harwood Heights and Norridge area. Use your library card number to log in from home.
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| EBSCO Publishing provides abstracts and indexing for more than 2,700 periodicals, more than 240 newspapers, plus full text reference books, biographies, and an image collection of 116,000 photos, maps and flags. Your patron ID is your library card barcode number. Also available for In-Library Use. Contact us if you need help. |
| Find It Illinois! includes Illinois government information, as well as First Search and VIC. |
| First Search consists of various databases grouped by subjects. A password is needed to search. Contact us if you need help. |
| Heritage Quest allows you to search through census records, genealogy books, over 1 million genealogy articles and more. Also available for In-Library Use. Contact us if you need help. |
| Norridge News 2002-Current Full-text articles from the Norridge News. Use your library card number to log in from home.
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| Public Records Online Use this database to locate information on recent home sales, foreclosures and bankruptcies in the Greater Metropolitan Chicago area. For In-Library use only. |
| ReferenceUSA ReferenceUSA provides contact information for thousands of companies within the United States. Develop your own search form and find companies using criteria such as geographic location, size, SIC code, and yellow page listing. Use your Eisenhower library card to login from home. |
Search Tools
| Alltheweb
Uses keyword and boolean searches. |
Altavista
This search engine is good for keyword searching. Use quotes with phrases, +to require, -to exclude |
Ask.com Search engine with natural language capabilities. |
| C411 16 search engines, one query. |
Dogpile This metasearch engine searches 22 search engines |
Excite Use quotes with phrases, + to require, - to exclude. Also Boolean AND, AND NOT, OR |
| Go Can refine results of search. Natural language search possible. Use quotes with phrases, + to require, - ranks term lower |
Google Use keywords. No Boolean operators needed. Google only returns pages that contain all the words in your query. |
Google Groups
This search engine searches usenet groups. |
| HotBot
This is also good for keyword searching. Use quotes with phrases, + to require, - to exclude |
Librarians' Index to the Internet A metasite created by librarians to which new subjects are added every week |
Metacrawler
This meta search engine searches multiple search engines at once |
| Northern Light
Use quotes with phrases, + to require, - to exclude |
WhoWhere? People Finder The way to find people on the web--email, phone, address, web presence. |
Yahoo! This is a subject directory |
Sites of Local Interest
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