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NEW: Library Power Search
Try our new power search! Search our databases , magazine articles, library catalog all in one. Please have your library card number to use this service. Click here to enter!
Ancestry Library...Search your family tree.
This database is now only available inside the library.
The Ancestry Library Edition collection has approximately 4,000 databases including key
collections such as U.S. Federal Census images and indexes from 1790 to 1930.
Ask Away Illinois
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Librarians available whenever you need information
24 hours a day
7 days a week
365 days a year!
Biography Reference Bank
This Wilson biography database Biography Reference Bank Select Edition is an in-depth 100% full-text biographical resource, providing comprehensive coverage of people in the news and a full range of history-makers. It covers over 236,000 individuals, plus more than 36,000 images.
Chilton Automotive Repair
Get Crankin" --- put your computer in your toolbox! Fix your car any time of the day or night. Visit our website for complet automotive reapir information from the most trusted name in auto repair.
Culturegrams
Concise, reliable, and up-to-date
reports on more than 200 countries,
each U.S. state, and all 13 Canadian
provinces and territories
Consumers Reports
ConsumerReports.org is one of the most trusted sources for information and advice on consumer products and services. ConsumerReports.org accepts no outside advertising, no free test samples, and has no agenda other than the interests of consumers.
You will need to enter your Cary Library card number.
Ebsco Magazine
Search a master database for articles and news.
You will need to enter your Cary Library card number.
Grolier On-Line
The library has purchased remote and in library access for Cary patrons only. You must enter you library card number.
HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more
than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories.
Issues & Controversies / Issues & Controversies American History
Explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture. / Builds a deeper understanding of how historical events have shaped our nation by exploring the key players and the battles they fought.
Learning Express Library
Become computer savvy @ home or in the library. The computer skills tutorials on LearningExpress Library provide more than 50 easy to use courses to help you improve your computer skills.
Learn a Test
Database available in the library and remotely from home. Click on the link and when screen loads, click on new user and enter your own username and password. Take a practice test on-line for no cost. ACT, SAT, EMS, Firefighter, Civil Service, Law Enforcement, Real Estate, Military and many more. Check out this new service and practice to ace the test.
Novelist
NoveList, a readers' advisory service
You will need to enter your Cary Library card number.
OCLC Worldcat Catalog
The Library of Congress catalog is available for patrons to search, however only Librarians are allowed to place holds so you must call or come in to place a hold for Firstsearch.
Reference U.S.A.
Searchable database of businesses.
SILC
The Statewide Illinois Library Catalog, known as SILC, is Illinois' first all inclusive statewide union catalog that integrates WorldCat and the Illinois Library Systems' local consortial OPACs, to provide both shelf status and interlibrary loan capabilities in a single searchable interface. SILC resides on the familiar FirstSearch platform as an additional WorldCat database that allows users to scope to regional groups within Illinois, as well as by type of library. From a single WorldCat record, users will be able to link to a local shared catalog record to see if and where an item is available for loan