Research Center

The Library’s Research Center contains a world of exciting information from online databases and useful websites all located right at your fingertips! You can find information on subjects including automotive repair, investing and business resources, travel and country information, find past magazine or newspaper articles, read and cite peer reviewed scholarly articles for homework assignments, find relatives with genealogy research and even learn a foreign language! Browse through the numerous databases, useful websites and genealogy sources from the library or home 24/7!

Research Center

Databases are like an electronic filing system packed full with exclusive and accurate information that is easily searchable on a topic of your choice – all at your fingertips from anywhere around the world.

E-Journal Portal is a gateway to find full text articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers.

The Useful Websites section is a collection of websites gathered together by librarians to aid a person in finding information on dozens of topics including technology news, travel briefs, investing research and much more!

The Genealogy Center contains a plethora of sources to aid a researcher find and located late relatives and build family trees. The Library's genealogy collection includes primary sources and reference works. Please note our collection's call number for genealogy: 929.1

Search the Statewide Illinois Library Catalog (SILC) (WorldCat) to determine which library in Illinois has a particular item.

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