Geneva Public Library Databases

 Ancestry: Search Census Records, Passenger Lists, and more

Heritage Quest: Search Census, Freedman's Bank, Revolutionary War documents, PERSI, and more

 RefUSA: Remote Access now available with your library card. ReferenceUSA is a comprehensive listing of essential information for consumers. Search within the following three topics:

 

Pioneer Library System Databases

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry: For over a century, Granger's® has been the definitive source in English for locating a poem in anthologies on library shelves.

Learn-A-Test: by LearningExpressLibrary: an innovative instructional and test preparation website that offers comprehensive courses in math, reading, and writing; essay writing practice with instant scoring; resume writing and workplace skills enrichment; and more than 300 online practice tests for students and adults of all ages. All practice tests include instant score reports that help you target those skill areas that need the most attention. Complete answer explanations accompany each test question so that you understand why a particular answer is right or wrong. The database provides unlimited access to interactive skill-building courses and a broad range of practice tests based on such official exams as the ACT, SAT, GED, ASVAB, Firefighter, Police Officer, Paramedic, EMT Basic, U.S. Citizenship, Postal Worker, Real Estate Agent and Broker Exams. LearnATest is funded with Central Book Aid, administered through the Geneva Free Library, and PLS Outreach funds designated for job information resources.

Novelist: a reader's advisory, fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We’re Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For children's services specialists, there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.

 OCLC WorldCat: contains the bibliographic records cataloged by OCLC members. There are currently over 41,000,000 records in the database, in over 400 languages and multiple formats,  including books, audio-visual materials, software, and Web resources. Access to WorldCat is made possible through the shared database program of the Rochester Regional Library Council.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: includes backfile from 1999- date. It is complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. Access to the D&C is made possible through the shared database program of the Rochester Regional Library Council and PLS participation is funded by Geneva Free Library Central Book Aid.

For additional information or alternative access to these databases, visit the Pioneer Library System database website

 

Novel Databases

Ebsco and Gale Databases provided by the New York State Library include:

  Author Series from Twayne: Each contains the full-text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books, for a total of 600 individual full-text titles. In addition to high quality information about authors and their works, the Twayne databases are invaluable for research (high school and college) because of their focus on literary criticism and historical context.

Business and Company Resource: A fully integrated resource bringing together company information and histories, brand information, rankings, investment reports, chronologies, and relevant periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information.

EBSCOhost (available in Espanol)

 Gale Newspaper Indexes

  Gale Virtual Library: a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources in Business, History, and Medicine. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.

Health and Wellness Resource Center & Alternative Health Module: Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases.

  Health Reference Center - Academic: This full-text, multi-source database provides single-search access to the wide variety of health information sources in Health Reference Center plus 40 full-text nursing and allied health journals. All in a single, easy-to-use database, Health Reference Center--Academic integrates the full-text of respected nursing, allied health, and medical journals; consumer health magazines; reference books; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; referral information; and topical overviews.

Informe: (Espanol): designed to meet the research needs of Spanish-speaking users, offering full-text articles from Spanish and bi-lingual periodicals.

Infotrac Junior Edition: designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers, and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.

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