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FamilySearch
Tyngsborough Public Library is a FamilySearch Affiliate Library. FamilySearch provides genealogy resources from over 100 countries and includes over a billion names and images. You can set up a free account, which allows you to save your genealogical research. Many restricted items are available on-site using our public computers or Wi-Fi connection.
PebbleGo
PebbleGo is a curricular content hub for K-2 students. Featuring resources on people (biographies) and animals.
HeritageQuest
Get access to more than 4.4 billion historical and genealogical records.
Global Issues in Context
Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
Global Road Warrior
Contains 175 country guides with 126 content modules each. Topics include culture & society, travel, education, history, holidays and festivals, language, media outlets, music, maps, money, national symbols, and religion. Illustrated with more than 30,000 photos, maps, and flag images.
Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection
Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Collection provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover topics including the cultural and economic aspects of travel and tourism. The database offers current and relevant content that provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries.
Literature Resource Center – LRC
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. The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.
AtoZ the USA
A large-scale encyclopedia of US state and country information. State information is arranged into 103 editorial and image datasets for each state. Topics include history, geography, demographics, education, food and recipes, government, crime, maps, media outlets, symbols, sports, and more.
Diversity Studies Collection
Diversity Studies Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. The database is a must-have for social science, history and liberal arts coursework.
Encyclopaedia Britannica – Spanish Reference Center
Encyclopedia for native Spanish speakers and students learning Spanish.
Novelist
Allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles.
OverDrive
Audiobooks, radio shows, music, and e-books you can download.