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African-American Studies
African-American History & Culture

Auto Repair
Auto Repair Reference Center
Biographical Information
Biography Resource Center 
In The First Person

Business Information
Business & Company Resource Center  
Business Decisions
Foundation Directory - Available only at the Main Street Library, 2nd floor Business Center
Legal Forms
LegalTrac

Careers
Career Library

College & Scholarship Information
Testing & Education Reference Center

Computers
Computer Database

E-Books
Gale Virtual Reference Library        

Net Library - NetLibrary Help
Gale Directory of Publications & Broadcast Media

Education
Teacher Reference Center

Encyclopedias
World Book Online

En Espanol
World Book Encyclopedia - Spanish Edition
Genealogy
Ancestry.com - available only at the Main Street Library, Virginiana Room
Heritage Quest - in library access
Heritage Quest - remote access from home
Geography & Culture  
CultureGrams
Health
Health & Wellness and Alternative Health Module
Kids
Bookflix - in library access
Bookflix - remote access from home
Languages
Mango Languages

Law
Legal Forms
LegalTrac

Literature & Books
Contemporary Literary Criticism 
Literature Criticism Online
     Children's Literature Review
     Contemporary Literary Criticism
     19th Century Literature Criticism
     20th Century Literature Criticism
Literature Resource Center
     Contemporary Authors
     Dictionary of Literary Biography
     600+ more books and journals
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Local History
Daily Press Obituary Index
Newport News Digital Library
Old Dominion Land Company Online Exhibit

Magazine Articles, Full-Text
E-Library 
Expanded Academic Index
General OneFile
General Reference Center Gold
Professional Collection
Military
Military & Intelligence Database
News & Newspapers
Daily Press - Search the Daily Press back to 1989
America's Newspapers
Religion
Religion & Philosophy Database
Science
GreenFile (all about the environment)
Student Resources
InfoTrac Kids Edition (grade school age)
Kids Info Bits (K-5)
Info Junior Edition (for middle school students)
Student Edition (for high school students)
World Book Encyclopedia - Kids Edition
Testing Guides    

Testing & Education Reference Center

 

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