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ACCESSING THE ON-LINE DATABASES: If you are connecting from a location outside of the Library, you will need your J.V. Fletcher Library Card Number to log onto the databases. When connecting, type in your Library barcode number without any spaces between the digits.






GENERAL RESEARCH                                                

Biography Resource Center Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
Search biographical information for literary figures, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sports, government, history, current events, and the arts.

Access a wide selection of full text sources from popular magazines, newspapers, magazines, books (limited selection), a photo archive, transcripts (including government and television) and maps.

Expanded Academic Index ASAP Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. This database meets research needs across all academic disciplines.  Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers, many with full text images. This database also includes the full text of Consumer Reports from 1999-June 1, 2009 and indexes articles from 1984 to the present.  To limit your search to Consumer Reports, connect to this database and click on the "Advanced Search" tab at the top of the screen.  You will see a number of search boxes and drop down selections.  Enter your subject/keyword in the first box (example digital cameras) and in the next search box type in Consumer Reports and select in "publication title" from the drop down menu.  For example, digital cameras in keyword and consumer reports in publication title.  Then click on the search button.

Gale Virtual Reference Library  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
Over 20 full text reference books covering the arts, biography, business, environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography, and science.

General Reference Center Gold  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
Search full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books containing information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.

Grolier On-line includes the Multimedia Encyclopedia which is intended for students in middle school and up.  It also contains The New Book of Knowledge which has reference information and current events and is intended for elementary school and up.




ANIMALS

International Wildlife  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
This reference source focuses on the physical features and lifestyles of species from every branch of the animal family, with special attention given throughout to taxonomic relations.






ANTIQUES
                                                                                                                
P4A Antiques Reference Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Use this database to estimate the value of similar items for sale, for purchase, or for insurance purposes.




AUTO REPAIR  
                                                
Auto Repair Reference Center  Connect from the Library|  Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945.





BOOKS AND LITERARY CRITICISM                    

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select-Infotrac Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
An extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors.  Contains biographical information, list of written works, criticism, and sources for further study.

Great American Authors  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home   (Enter your Westford Library card number) A user-friendly resource that introduces rea ders to the lives and works of nearly one hundred of the most talented North American writers of the present and the past.

Great World Writers Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
The lives and works of nearly one hundred of the most influential international writers of the modern era, whose origins range from Britain to South Africa, from Japan to Poland, and dozens of nations in between.

Literary Resource Center   Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

A reader's advisory database which helps readers find lists of works by a particular author, helps identify similar authors and titles, series lists, and selected book discussion guides.

Popular Contemporary Writers  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
The lives and works of nearly one hundred of the world's most read contemporary authors.





BUSINESS                                                                                

Business Directory- United States/Reference USA Connect from the Library |Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Searchable directory containing over 14 million U.S. businesses.

Canadian Business Directory/ Reference USA Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Searchable directory containing over 1.5 million Canadian businesses.

CorpTech Directory/Reference USA  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Access detailed information on executives at 95,000 high tech companies.

Gale Virtual Reference Library  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
Over 20 full text reference books covering the arts, biography, business, environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography, and science.

General Business File-Infotrac Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
Research the latest trends in management, economics, and company performance.  Access the full-text of trade publications, journals,
newspapers and more.






CAREERS                                                 

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center Connect from the Library |Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Profiles over 2,000 jobs in 90+ industries. Find in-depth job descriptions, job specific resource listings, industry descriptions, career preparation information, and web resources.




COUNTRY STUDIES

Global Road Warrior Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
The Global Road Warrior is a comprehensive travel and business culture reference covering 175 countries. Business travelers, students, travel planners, international communicators and businesspeople who need extensive coverage of these topics will find the most up-to-date information available in a highly organized and consistent format.






DICTIONARIES AND GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS                  

Encyclopedia Britannica  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
Explore the updated online encylopedia with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites.

Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
A comprehensive encyclopedia intended for students in middle school and up.

Grolier's New Book of Knowledge  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
Reference and current events for elementary school and up.






DIRECTORIES

Business Directory- United States/Reference USA Connect from the Library |Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Searchable directory containing over 14 million U.S. businesses.

Canadian Business Directory/ Reference USA Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Searchable directory containing over 1.5 million Canadian businesses.

Canadian Residential Directory  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Searchable directory of over 12 million Canadian residents.

CorpTech Directory/Reference USA Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Access detailed information on executives at 95,000 high tech companies.

Healthcare Directory/Reference USA   Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Large directory of doctors and dentists throughout the U.S.

U.S. Residential Directory  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number) Search this database of 135 million U.S. residents to conduct market research or locate family and friends.





GENEALOGY                                               

America's Obituaries and Death Notices Connect from the Library |Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Search a large collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices.  Includes obituaries from the Boston Globe (1980-present) as well as many other newspapers from around the country.

Ancestry.com Library Edition Connect from the Library | This database is only available from computer terminals within the Library.
This extensive genealogy database includes over 1.5 billion names.  Search records from the U.S. census, military records, court, land, and probate records, vital and church records, passenger lists, and more!

HeritageQuest Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
This genealogy database includes the U.S. federal census, family genealogies, local histories, tax lists, vital records, city directories, land and probate records, genealogical and local history serials and more!

New England Historical Genealogical Society  Connect from the Library | This database is only available from computer terminals within the Library.
Search a variety of genealogical resources specific to New England including: Massachusetts Vital Records through 1910, New York Probate Records (1787-1835), Social Security Death Index, church records, census, tax, and voter lists, diaries and journals, land records, military records, and published genealogies and biographies.





HEALTH                                          

Food and Nutrition  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
A comprehensive resource designed to help people make healthful and safe personal choices about all aspects of food and nutrition.

Healthcare Directory/Reference USA   Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Large directory of doctors and dentists throughout the U.S.

Health Reference Center Academic Connect from the Library| Connect from Home
Search the full text of nursing and allied health journals, newspapers, medical reference books, and health pamphlets.

Magill's Medical Guide Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Magill's "Medical Guide" is designed to "bridge the gap between medical encyclopedias for professionals and popular self-help guides." Covering diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology and issues; recent developments are discussed. More than 1,000 essays ranging in length from 500 to 3,500 words are illustrated with more than 400 photographs and illustrations such as "The Major Bones of the Human Skeleton."

Salem Health Cancer  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
An A to Z encyclopedia for patients, with information about 835 topics in cancer. Coverage includes diseases, conditions, medications, procedures, specialists, social issues, personal coping tips, print and online academic resources, and support resources.





HISTORY
                                                
Ancient and Medieval World   Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
An absorbing resource that examines world history from the emergence of the earliest humans about two million years ago through the end of the middle ages.

Biography Resource Center Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
Search biographical information for literary figures, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sport, government, history, current events, and the arts.

Boston Globe Historical Archives (1872-1925) Connect from the Library | This database is only available from computer terminals within the Library.
Includes full-text and article images from 1872-1925.

Gale Virtual Reference Library  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
Over 20 full text reference books covering the arts, biography, business, environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography, and science.

General Reference Center Gold  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
Search full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books containing information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.

History Resource Center-U.S.  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
Contents include U.S. historical topics from pre-colonial times to the present. Search a broad collection of U.S. facts, primary documents, full text journals, and articles from a variety of reference works.

Massachusetts History Online  Connect from the Library |Connect from Home
Contains full text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to Massachusetts.

New England Historical Genealogical Society  Connect from the Library | This database is only available from computer terminals within the Library.
Search a variety of genealogical resources specific to New England including: Massachusetts Vital Records through 1910, New York Probate Records (1787-1835), Social Security Death Index, church records, census, tax, and voter lists, diaries and journals, land records, military records, and published genealogies and biographies.

Salem Press History   Connect from the Library |  Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Search the full text of the Salem Reference sets: The Fifities, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties in America, Historical Encyclopedia of American Business, Milestone Documents in American History (inlcudes primary documents), Milestone Documents of American Leaders (includes primary documents), and Musicians and Composers of the Twentieth Century. Once you are in the database, click on BOOKS to see the full listing of resources included in the database.

Sharpe U.S. History and Culture Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Search the full text of the Sharpe Reference sets Colonial Amercia, Encyclopedia of American Folklife, Encyclopedia of American Social Movements,  Encyclopedia of the Gilded and Age and Progressive Era, Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age, Postwar America, and Social Issues in America.




LANGUAGE LEARNING

Mango Languages Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
Mango Languages is an online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages.
Mango uses real-life situations and actual conversations to more effectively teach a new language. By listening to and repeating after material designed from native conversations, you'll not only learn the individual words and phrases, you'll know how they're used in practical situations and conversations. Language lessons are available in Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, ESL Brazilian Portuguese (English for Brazilian Portuguese speakers), ESL Polish (English for Polish speakers), and ESL Spanish (English for Spanish speakers).




MUSICIANS AND COMPOSERS

Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
Biographical and critical essays on the men and women who made an impact on music from 1901 to 2000. Once you are in the database, click on BOOKS to see the full listing of resources included in the database.





NEWS AND NEWSPAPERS                             

America's Obituaries and Death Notices Connect from the Library |Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Search a large collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices.  Includes obituaries from the Boston Globe (1980-present) as well as many other newspapers from around the country.

Boston Globe Historical Archives (1872-1925) Connect from the Library | This database is only available from computer terminals within the Library.
Includes full-text and article images from 1872-1925. To search the full text of the Boston Globe from 1980 to the present, please scroll down and log onto "Massachusetts Newspapers- Proquest".

Massachusetts Newspapers-ProQuest Connect from the Library| Connect from Home
Access the full text of the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Berkshire Eagle, BusinessWest (Chicopee), Gazette (Haverhill), Lowell Sun, North Adams Transcript, Patriot Ledger (Quincy), Plymouth County Business Review, Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg), Telegram and Gazette (Worcester),and Standard Times (New Bedford).

New York Times  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Search the full text of the New York Times from 2000 to the present.

Westford Eagle  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Search the full text of the Westford Eagle from 9/15/2005 to the present.





NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Chinese Language Magazines  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
This database can be accessed with your Massachusetts library barcode number. Follow the link, type in your barcode #, scroll down to "non-english language" and select Qikan Library.
This database provides access to magazines published in China, you can read articles in either traditional or simplified characters.  Here you'll find magazines for all different age groups on topics from fashion to current affairs.

Informe! (Revistas in Espanol)   Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
The first Reference database to provide indexing, full-text, and images of the most popular Hispanic magazines.




OBITUARIES

America's Obituaries and Death Notices Connect from the Library |Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Search a large collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices.  Includes obituaries from the Boston Globe (1980-present) as well as many other newspapers from around the country.




TEST TAKING

Learn-a- Test  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number.)
Practice taking the SAT, AP exams, civil service exams, real estate, middle school skills improvement, resume and interviewing success skills, and much more.  You will be prompted to set up a username and password to save your tests from session to session.





YOUTH ORIENTED

Access a wide selection of full text sources from popular magazines, newspapers, magazines, books (limited selection), a photo archive,transcripts (including government and television) and maps.

Global Road Warrior Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
The Global Road Warrior is a comprehensive travel and business culture reference covering 175 countries. Business travelers, students, and travel planners, who need extensive coverage of these topics will find the most up-to-date information available in a highly organized and consistent format.

Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
A comprehensive encyclopedia intended for students in middle school and up.

Grolier's New Book of Knowledge  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
Reference and current events for elementary school and up.

This periodical database is geared towards students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.

Infotrac Student Edition  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
This database is geared towards high school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.

International Wildlife  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
This reference source focuses on the physical features and lifestyles of species from every branch of the animal family, with special attention given throughout to taxonomic relations.

This database is geared toward students in kindergarten through grade 5.  It features a visually graphic interface, a subject based topic tree, and age appropriate journal and newspaper articles.





MISCELLANEOUS

Massachusetts Special Collections Directory Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
The "Manuscropts, Archives, and Special Collections Directory" profiles collections in more than 650 Massachusetts libraries, archives, historical societies and town clerk's offices.  The directory provides information about the institution, contacts, services available and volume of material, as well as directions to the repository.

Search the catalogs of libraries worldwide!






ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF DATABASES

America's Obituaries and Death Notices Connect from the Library |Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Search a large collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices.  Includes obituaries from the Boston Globe (1980-present) as well as many other newspapers from around the country.

Ancestry.com Library Edition Connect from the Library | This database is only available from computer terminals within the Library.
This extensive genealogy database includes over 1.5 billion names.  Search records from the U.S. census, military records, court, land, and probate records, vital and church records, passenger lists, and more!

Ancient and Medieval World   Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
An absorbing resource that examines world history from the emergence of the earliest humans about two million years ago through the end of the middle ages.

P4A Antiques Reference Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Use this database to estimate the value of similar items for sale, for purchase, or for insurance purposes.

Auto Repair Reference Center  Connect from the Library|  Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945.

Biography Resource Center Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
Search biographical information for literary figures, science, multicultural studies, business, entertainment, politics, sport, government, history, current events, and the arts.

Boston Globe Historical Archives (1872-1925) Connect from the Library | This database is only available from computer terminals within the Library.
Includes full-text and article images from 1872-1925.

Business Directory- United States/Reference USA Connect from the Library |Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
Searchable directory containing over 14 million U.S. businesses.

Canadian Business Directory/ Reference USA Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
Searchable directory containing over 1.5 million Canadian businesses.

Canadian Residential Directory  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
Searchable directory of over 12 million Canadian residents.

Chinese Language Magazines  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
This database can be accessed with your Massachusetts library barcode number. Follow the link, type in your barcode #, scroll down to "non-english language" and select Qikan Library.
This database provides access to magazines published in China, you can read articles in either traditional or simplified characters.  Here you'll find magazines for all different age groups on topics from fashion to current affairs.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select-Infotrac Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
An extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors.  Contains biographical information, list of written works, criticism, and sources for further study.

CorpTech Directory/Reference USA  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Access detailed information on executives at 95,000 high tech companies.

Access a wide selection of full text sources from popular magazines, newspapers, magazines, books (limited selection), a photo archive,transcripts (including government and television) and maps.

Encyclopedia Britannica  Connect from the Library |Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
Explore the updated online encylopedia with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites.

Expanded Academic Index ASAP Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology. This database meets research needs across all academic disciplines.  Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers, many with full text images. This database also includes the full text of Consumer Reports.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center Connect from the Library |Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Profiles over 2,000 jobs in 90+ industries. Find in-depth job descriptions, job specific resource listings, industry descriptions, career preparation information, and web resources.

Food and Nutrition  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
A comprehensive resource designed to help people make healthful and safe personal choices about all aspects of food and nutrition.

Gale Virtual Reference Library  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
Over 20 full text reference books covering the arts, biography, business, environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography, and science.

General Business File-Infotrac Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
Research the latest trends in management, economics, and company performance.  Access the full-text of trade publications, journals, newspapers and more.

General Reference Center Gold  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
Search full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books containing information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.

Global Road Warrior Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
The Global Road Warrior is a comprehensive business travel, telecommunications and business culture reference covering 175 countries. Business travelers, travel planners, international communicators and businesspeople who need extensive coverage of these topics will find the most up-to-date information available in a highly organized and consistent format.

Great American Authors  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)

A user-friendly resource that introduces readers to the lives and works of nearly one hundred of the most talented North American writers of the present and the past.

Great World Writers Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
The lives and works of nearly one hundred of the most influential international writers of the modern era, whose origins range from Britain to South Africa, from Japan to Poland, and dozens of nations in between.

Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
A comprehensive encyclopedia intended for students in middle school and up.

Grolier's New Book of Knowledge  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
Reference and current events for elementary school and up.

Healthcare Directory/Reference USA   Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Large directory of doctors and dentists throughout the U.S.

Health Reference Center Academic Connect from the Library| Connect from Home
Search the full text of nursing and allied health journals, newspapers, medical reference books, and health pamphlets.

HeritageQuest Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
This genealogy database includes the U.S. federal census, family genealogies, local histories, tax lists, vital records, city directories, land and probate records, genealogical and local history serials and more!

History Resource Center-U.S.  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
Contents include U.S. historical topics from pre-colonial times to the present. Search a broad collection of U.S. facts, primary documents, full text journals, and articles from a variety of reference works.

Informe! (Revistas in Espanol)   Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
The first Reference database to provide indexing, full-text, and images of the most popular Hispanic magazines.

This periodical database is geared towards students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.

Infotrac Student Edition  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
This database is geared towards high school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.

International Wildlife  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
This reference source focuses on the physical features and lifestyles of species from every branch of the animal family, with special attention given throughout to taxonomic relations.

This database is geared toward students in kindergarten through grade 5.  It features a visually graphic interface, a subject based topic tree, and age appropriate journal and newspaper articles.

Learn-a- Test  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number.)
Practice taking the SAT, AP exams, civil service exams, real estate, middle school skills improvement, resume and interviewing success skills, and much more.  You will be prompted to set up a username and password to save your tests from session to session.

Literary Resource Center   Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Magill's Medical Guide Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
Magill's "Medical Guide" is designed to "bridge the gap between medical encyclopedias for professionals and popular self-help guides." Covering diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology and issues; recent developments are discussed. More than 1,000 essays ranging in length from 500 to 3,500 words are illustrated with more than 400 photographs and illustrations such as "The Major Bones of the Human Skeleton."

Mango Languages Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
Mango Languages is an online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages.
Mango uses real-life situations and actual conversations to more effectively teach a new language. By listening to and repeating after material designed from native conversations, you'll not only learn the individual words and phrases, you'll know how they're used in practical situations and conversations. Language lessons are available in Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, ESL Brazilian Portuguese (English for Brazilian Portuguese speakers), ESL Polish (English for Polish speakers), and ESL Spanish (English for Spanish speakers).

Massachusetts History Online  Connect from the Library |Connect from Home
Contains full text articles gathered from almost 50 sources that directly relate to Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Newspapers-ProQuest Connect from the Library| Connect from Home
Access the full text of the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Berkshire Eagle, BusinessWest (Chicopee), Gazette (Haverhill), Lowell Sun, North Adams Transcript, Patriot Ledger (Quincy), Plymouth County Business Review, Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg), Telegram and Gazette (Worcester),and Standard Times (New Bedford).

Massachusetts Special Collections Directory Connect from the Library | Connect from Home
The "Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections Directory" profiles collections in more than 650 Massachusetts libraries, archives, historical societies and town clerk's offices.  The directory provides information about the institution, contacts, services available and volume of material, as well as directions to the repository.

Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
Biographical and critical essays on the men and women who made an impact on music from 1901 to 2000. Once you are in the database, click on BOOKS to see the full listing of resources included in the database.

New England Historical Genealogical Society  Connect from the Library | This database is only available from computer terminals within the Library.
Search a variety of genealogical resources specific to New England including: Massachusetts Vital Records through 1910, New York Probate Records (1787-1835), Social Security Death Index, church records, census, tax, and voter lists, diaries and journals, land records, military records, and published genealogies and biographies.

Access the full text of selected books on a variety of topics.  Set up a free account from home and you can read them on your computer.

New York Times  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Search the full text of the New York Times from 2000 to the present.

Popular Contemporary Writers  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)

The lives and works of nearly one hundred of the world's most-read popular writers of the present and recent past.

Salem Health Cancer  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
An A to Z encyclopedia for patients, with information about 835 topics in cancer. Coverage includes diseases, conditions, medications, procedures, specialists, social issues, personal coping tips, print and online academic resources, and support resources.

Salem Press History   Connect from the Library |  Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Search the full text of the Reference sets The Fifities, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties in America, Historical Encyclopedia of American Business, Milestone Documents in American History (inlcudes primary documents),Milestone Documents of American Leaders (includes primary documents), and Musicians and Composers of the Twentieth Century. Once you are in the database, click on BOOKS to see the full listing of resources included in the database.

Sharpe U.S. History and Culture Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Search the full text of the Sharpe Reference sets Colonial Amercia, Encyclopedia of American Folklife, Encyclopedia of American Social Movements,  Encyclopedia of the Gilded and Age and Progressive Era, Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age, Postwar America, and Social Issues in America.

U.S. Residential Directory Connect from the Library | Connect from Home(Enter your Westford Library card number)
Search this database of 135 million U.S. residents to conduct market research or locate family and friends.

Westford Eagle  Connect from the Library | Connect from Home (Enter your Westford Library card number)
Search the full text of the Westford Eagle from 9/15/2005 to the present.

Search the catalogs of libraries worldwide!




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