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Auto Repair Reference Center
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Part of the new, expanded version of EBSCOhost, the Auto Repair Reference Center has information on over 33,000 vehicles from 1945-present.
Consumer Reports Online
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Immediate online access to print issues of Consumer Reports Magazine as well as special online-only content. Important information about choosing the best products and services available.
EBSCOhost
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EBSCOhost includes thousands of indexed magazines, many full-text, for over fifteen years. Magazine coverage ranges from the popular to the academic.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Over twenty titles of popular multi-volume reference sets including Business Plans Handbook.
Literary Reference Center
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A full-text database combining information from many sources in one unique location. Plot summaries, articles, author biographies, book reviews, novels, literary journals, short stories, poems, and much more.
Literature Resource Center
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Search the Literature Resource Center to find information about authors and their works. The Literature Resource Center covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers.
Mango Languages
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An online language-learning system for help learning languages such as Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian and Russian and more.
Novelist
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Looking for something to read? NoveList has recommendations, reviews, plot summaries, and other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists.
NoveList K-8
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NoveList K-8 meets all the fictional reading needs of kids (0-18) and includes picture books, chapter books, and young adult titles.
Wisconsin's Digital Library, Powered by Overdrive
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Download audiobooks, eBooks, music and videos directly to your computer or for use with a variety of devices. Fiction and nonfiction are included, and many popular titles are available.
Features
Madison Public Library Insider
Madison Public Library's newsletters were recently remade as Madison Public Library: Insider.
We like to read...we read reviews...we're book insiders! And we've organized the best
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Posted by Jon - Central Library on February 24, 2012
LINKcat Includes Newspaper Index
Attention local researchers - the public Newspaper Index has returned to LINKcat. The Newspaper Index is a separate database from LINKcat and provides access to indexes of local
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Posted by Tana on September 26, 2011
Start & Grow Your Small Business!
Interested in starting or growing your small business? Join Madison Public Library and Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC) for two upcoming classes at
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Posted by Tana on July 15, 2011
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