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Subject
Audio Books Encyclopedias Literature Phonebooks
Business Genealogy Magazines Readers' Advisement
Car Repair Grants Medical Reference
Children Health Newspapers Tax Forms

Title
    Ancestry - Library Edition
Animals, EBSCO
Auto Repair Reference Center
The Buffalo News

Business & Company ASAP
Business & Company Resource Center
CREDO Reference - Fulltext online reference books
Custom Newspapers
Foundation Directory Online Professional - FDO [No Remote]
Foundation Grants to Individuals Online [No Remote]
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia 
Grolier - Encyclopedias and Book of Knowledge

Health & Wellness/Alternative Health Center
HeritageQuest [Library Use | Remote Use
Q]
Hoovers Online

Kids Search
Literary Reference Center, EBSCO
    National Newspaper Index
New York State Papers
NewsBank
NextReads
NoveList
Nursing and Allied Health Collection
OverDrive (Audio Books)
Primary Search
ProQuest:
(Select from the ProQuest links below)
      Click here if inside the Library.
     Remote login with Prendergast Library card.
     Remote login with User Id and Password.
ReferenceUSA
Salem Health
     Click here if inside the Library.
     Remote login with Prendergast Library card.
Searchasaurus
Standard & Poor's
Tax Forms [FEDERAL | NY | PA]
Twayne's Authors Series
 
2||Full Text
Q|Remote Access
NOVEL  Databases provided by NOVEL: New York Online Virtual Electronic Library
CCLS    Paid for by the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System
   
 
AUdio Books
OverDrive |Q Remote Access
Download titles to computer & transfer to portable device

Business
Business & Company ASAP 2|QNOVEL
1980-current; research companies & industries via periodicals

Business & Company Resource Center 2|Q NOVEL
Company histories, products & financials

Hoovers Online  2
Background & financials on companies & industries

Standard & Poor's 2|Q
Stock reports, corporation records, company profiles, The Outlook, mutual fund reports, industry surveys & more



         
Car Repair
Auto Repair Reference Center 2|Q
1945-current; repair info, drawings, wiring diagrams, service bulletins & recalls


                    
Children
Animals, EBSCO 2|Q|NOVEL
In-depth info on a variety of topics relating to animals; some photos

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
2|Q|NOVEL
25,000+ encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas

Kids Search 2|Q|NOVEL
Grades K-8; combines Primary Search, Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia & EBSCO Animals into one search

Primary Search
2|Q|NOVEL
Grades K-8; includes: Funk & Wagnalls, Animals, lexile levels, magazines, photos, maps, flags & more

Searchasaurus
2|Q|NOVEL
Grades K-8; access Primary Search via this dinosaur animated search interface





 
Encyclopedias
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia 2|Q|NOVEL
25,000+ encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas

Grolier 2|Q|NOVEL
Encyclopedia Americana Encyclopedia - articles include links to further readings, a bibliography,
selected full text articles, web page links, and links to related Encyclopedia Americana articles.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - includes encyclopedia articles, news, timelines, quizzes and
games, and research starters. It also includes an atlas and dictionary. Articles can be grouped by lexile level
and are aligned to standards.
The New Book of Knowledge - for middle grade students and includes literary selections, a timeline,
projects and experiments, news, homework help and more.

 

Genealogy
Ancestry - Library Edition 2
Censuses, vital, church, court, immigration records & more

HeritageQuest [Library Use | Remote Use Q] |2|Q
1790-1930 U.S. Federal Censuses; book titles, family histories, local histories & more

 

 

Grants
Foundation Directory Online Professional - FDO 2
97,000+ foundations, corporate giving programs & grantmaking public charities in the U.S.

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online 2
Includes almost 8,000 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers

The James Prendergast Library is a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center. As a member of this nationwide network of libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit agencies, the James Prendergast Library provides visitors with free public access to grantmaker directories, books on fundraising and nonprofit management, and the Foundation Center’s online databases, Foundation Directory Online and Foundation Grants to Individuals. The fully searchable databases include detailed profiles of all active U.S. foundations, as well as an extensive file of recent grants awarded by the nation’s top funders.

 

 

Health / medical
Health & Wellness/Alternative Health Center 2|Q|NOVEL
Easy to use interface; journals, encyclopedias, newsletters, pamphlets & more

Nursing and Allied Health Collection 2|Q|NOVEL
All aspects of the Nursing profession - from direct patient care to health care administration

Salem Health 2|Q|(Select from the Salem Health links below)
Click here if inside the Library.
Remote login with Prendergast Library card.

Includes virtually all of the content in Magill’s Medical Guide and Salem Health: Cancer is available online

Literature
Literary Reference Center, EBSCO 2|Q
Antiquity-present day; 2,050+ titles; detailed info on the most studied authors

NoveList  Q
Read-alikes, booktalks, genre lists, describe a plot…

Twayne's Authors Series
2|Q|NOVEL
Literary criticisms, readers’ advisement, in-depth intro to the works & lives of writers

Magazines
ProQuest 2|Q|CCLS   (Select from the ProQuest links below)
     Click here if inside the Library.
     Remote login with Prendergast Library card.
     Remote login with User Id and Password.

1971-current; general interest; 8,973+ titles; includes the New York Times; fulltext included;

recent upgrade includes 3 new collections: ProQuest Education, ProQuest Psychology & ProQuest Social Science


Newspapers
The Buffalo News 2|Q
1989-current; fulltext

Custom Newspapers
2|Q|NOVEL
1996-current; 1,252+titles; national & international; includes Buffalo News, 1996-current; fulltext

National Newspaper Index 2|Q|NOVEL
1977-current; 9 titles including top 5 U.S. Newspapers; includes NY Times & Wall Street Journal; no fulltext

New York State Papers 2|Q|NOVEL
1985-current; 28 major NYS newspapers; includes Buffalo News, 1996-current; fulltext

NewsBank
2|Q
1977-current; 758+ titles; user friendly; national & international; fulltext  

Phonebooks
ReferenceUSA |Q|  System wide access. Paid for by Prendergast, Olean Public Library & Salamanca Public Library
U.S. & Canada yellow & white pages; includes phone # search field 

Problems with Remote Access to ReferenceUSA:

If you type in your library barcode and are forwarded to the ReferenceUSA Web site but are presented with  ReferenceUSA's username/password challenge page.

This is usually a problem with the settings in your computer or Web browser.  Here are some possibilities:
Make sure your Web browser is set up to accept "cookies."  Cookies are small text files saved on your machine and ReferenceUSA uses them for authentication.  

In Internet Explorer, the cookie settings are usually found under Tools-->Internet Options. 
If you are using Microsoft XP with Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 6.0 you may need to modify your default browser cookie handling configuration settings to resolve this issue. The steps to accomplish this are outlined below.

Open a new Microsoft Internet Explorer browser session.
Click on the Tools drop-down menu and select Internet Options…
When the Internet Options window appears click on the Privacy tab, then the Advanced… button.
When the Advanced Privacy Settings window appears, place a check in the checkbox next to 'Override automatic cookie handling'. Click OK on the Advanced Privacy Settings window and Internet Options window to close.

With the rise in popularity of cable modems, DSL and other high-speed Internet connections, more and more people are deploying a variety of personal firewalls and/or Internet security software packages (i.e. Norton Internet Security, LynkSys Firewall, etc.)  Try temporally disabling your firewall software and connecting again*.

If you are using Windows XP, it has a built in firewall which you may need to disable.  On you computer go to your Start button an then to Help and Support.  Search for "Firewall" to see detailed instructions on how to disable and enable the Windows XP firewall.

For more help, please read the HELP instructions on the ReferenceUSA login webpage.

Readers' Advisement  see also Literature
NextReads 2|Q
Book suggestions delivered via an email newsletter

NoveList  2|Q
Read-alikes, booktalks, genre lists, describe a plot…

Reference
CREDO Reference 2|Q System wide access. Paid for by CCLS, Prendergast & Olean Public Library
Authoritative answers from the content of 399+ reference books in a broad range of subjects

 

 
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last updated: 5.20.09