Free, non-emergency health and human services information.
2-1-1 Long Island
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Making Connections
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Ancestry Library Edition, distributed exclusively by ProQuest and powered by Ancestry.com, delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more. Ancestry Library Edition brings the world’s most popular consumer online genealogy resource to your library. It’s an unprecedented online collection of individuals from North America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and more.
Click here for Video Instructions on how to use Ancestry.com
Click here to learn about Searching Ancestry.com
Subject(s) Covered: Genealogy
Includes Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools.
Subject(s) Covered: Adult Learners, Britannica, College Students, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, High School Students, History, Reference, Science
Discover the leading knowledge-building resource that is universally trusted for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish. New features make it more valuable than ever for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish.
Subject(s) Covered: Britannica, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, Foreign Language
A source for all grades (Pre-K-12) and all reading abilities. Available at three levels–elementary, middle, and high.
Subject(s) Covered: Britannica, Elementary School Students, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, High School Students, History, Middle School Students, Science
Business Insights: Essentials is a user-friendly business tool that delivers authoritative company and industry information, articles, and statistical data. Business owners, entrepreneurs, marketing professionals, investors, students, and general researchers can explore real-world applications and develop analytical skills. Gale Business Insights: Essentials features easy-to-search rich content, a user-friendly interface, and robust analytical tools.
Click here for video instructions on how to use Business Insights: Essentials.
Subject(s) Covered: Business & Finance
CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.
CDC increases the health security of our nation. As the nation’s health protection agency, CDC saves lives and protects people from health threats. To accomplish our mission, CDC conducts critical science and provides health information that protects our nation against expensive and dangerous health threats, and responds when these arise.
Subject(s) Covered: Health & Medicine
Check to see if your doctor is certified. Unlimited access (no registration/barcode needed) when used within the library. There is a limit of 25 searches a day when used outside of the library.
Subject(s) Covered: Health & Medicine
Thousands of digital comics and graphic novels available with unlimited simultaneous access
(no holds, no waiting, no limits on checkouts).
Subject(s) Covered: eBooks & Audiobooks, Middle School Students, Teen Databases
Creativebug is the number one inspirational resource for DIY, crafters, and makers and has more than 1,000 award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists.
Creativebug offers online video arts and crafts workshops and techniques. Learn how to paint, knit, crochet, sew, screen print, and more.
Click here for video instructions on how to use Creativebug.
Subject(s) Covered: Adult Learners, Crafts
Credo Reference is a completely customizable general reference solution for learners and librarians. Offering more than 490 highly-regarded titles from over 70 publishers, Credo covers every major subject from the world’s best publishers of reference. Our content, technology and customer service earn us rave reviews.
Subject(s) Covered: Adult Learners, College Students, Elementary School Students, Encyclopedias & Dictionaries, High School Students, Middle School Students, Reference, Teen Databases
Cultural reports for more than 200 countries each include 25 categories such as land and climate, history, personal appearance, greetings, gestures, family, diet, holidays, economy, education, health, and events and trends. Also includes a look at the diversity and history of each U.S. State and the District of Columbia, reports on all 13 Canadian provinces and territories, a Recipe collection and a Famous People Index.
Subject(s) Covered: College Students, Elementary School Students, High School Students, History, Middle School Students, Travel
Subject(s) Covered: Teen Databases, Test Prep
Driving-Tests.org contains free permit practice tests written by experts available to anyone who wants to study, along with online copies of official New York State DMV tests and handbooks.
Subject(s) Covered: High School Students, Teen Databases, Test Prep
Search for a book using the library catalog.
Here are videos that can help you:
An Intro to the Library’s Online Catalog
Subject(s) Covered: Adult Learners, College Students, Education
Ensure student and educator success with EBSCO’s new interface for schools and public libraries. Designed to meet the unique needs of its users, Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.
Subject(s) Covered: Adult Learners, Education
Ensure student and educator success with EBSCO’s new interface for schools and public libraries. Designed to meet the unique needs of its users, Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.
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Full Text Finder® is the most complete Web-based tool for organizing and providing links to all of our library’s electronic resources, including e-journals, titles in full-text databases and e-journal packages, and e-books. Full Text Finder offers users a “one-stop” search of our library’s e-collection, with easy navigation to full-text content.
Subject(s) Covered: Adult Learners, College Students, Literature
A current and easy-to-use resource for extensive research. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full text, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly.
Click here for video instructions
Subject(s) Covered: Adult Learners, College Students
Gale Academic OneFile Select covers everything from art and literature to economics and the sciences. This resource for academic research integrates the full text of publications from across the disciplines and now includes vocational/technical titles used by community college students, filling a specific need for curriculum-oriented collections.
Subject(s) Covered: Adult Learners, College Students
Gale eBooks is a database of eBook reference titles. With its continuously growing list of content and publishers, Gale Virtual Reference Library offers hundreds of titles to the library collection. . In addition to titles available from Gale, you can also access content from other publishers, including Wiley, Sage, Cambridge and the xreferplus collection. This database was formerly known as the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Subject(s) Covered: Adult Learners, College Students, High School Students, Literature, Middle School Students, Primary Sources
Gale General OneFile is a one-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, Gale General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.
Subject(s) Covered: Business & Finance, College Students, High School Students, Magazines, Newspapers, Teen Databases
Gale in Context: Biography is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world’s most influential people. It merges Gale’s authoritative reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
Subject(s) Covered: Biographies, Elementary School Students, High School Students, History, Middle School Students, Teen Databases
Gale in Context: Elementary is the perfect educational product for today’s young learners. It’s a content-rich, authoritative, easy-to-use resource featuring age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content covering a broad range of educational topics. It features a new, modern, graphical interface and improved navigation based on feedback from both our existing customers and student users. The design helps kids explore the product and gain comfort with database searching.
Subject(s) Covered: Elementary School Students