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download books to listen to on your home computer, CD, or MP3 player
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Contains information on every major manufacturer of domestic and imported vehicles with repair manuals for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1954.
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Full-text biographical articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
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Search over 5 million book, audio book, and video titles that are currently in print. Rochester Public Library card started with 11018 is required to use this resource.
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Includes company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, industry news, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
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Sign up to receive a daily e-mail containing part of a chapter from a book. The e-mails take about 5 minutes to read. After you've been sent two or three chapters, a new book is started.
Search and read newspapers from 1900 - 1910 and find information about newspapers published from 1690 to present
Seach library holdings at MN private college libraries
Comprehensive bio-bibliographical and critical information on 380 of the most-studied authors in North American curricula.
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Search ELM for magazine, newspaper, and journal articles, eBooks, and information from reference sourcesýavailable to all Minnesota residents at no charge!
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Access Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Knowledge, Lands and Peoples and America the Beautiful publications. Especially useful for K-12 students. Rochester Public Library card started with 11018 is required to use this resource.
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Search through more than 1.1 million educational documents and journal articles.
In-depth data on U.S. funders. Extensive program details for 1,500+ leading foundations; detailed application guidelines for 7,200+ foundations; and sponsoring company information for corporate givers. Includes a searchable file of more than half a million grants. The Trustees, Officers, and Donors search field and its corresponding index allow users to search among over 350,000 trustee, officer and donor names.
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A free web-based word processing and spreadsheet program. Create a user account with Google to create/save and retrieve online documents.
An integrated collection of general interest and fitness magazines,medical and professional periodicals, reference books and pamphlets. Records areavailable in a combination of indexing, abstracts or full text formats. Designedfor nursing and allied health students, as well as consumer health researchers
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Over 25,000 family and local history books can be viewed online, and are searchable by every word in the text. Persi, the periodical source index, gives a subject index to over 6,500 genealogy & local history periodicals. Complete US census images from 1790-1930 can be browsed, or searched by name for selected years. Revolutionary War pension file documents can also be viewed.
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Search indexes for obituaries, weddings, probate records, census information, military history of persons in Olmsted County
Search magazines from 1963-1999 for how to do it project information
created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, providing indexing, images, and full text of popular Hispanic magazines—not just translations. Also included is a thesaurus and interface that are uniquely designed for Spanish-speaking users.
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Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias.
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Search magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health people, government, history, sports and more. Designed for students in Jr High & Middle School.
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Search magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health people, government, history, sports and more. Designed for students in Jr High & Middle School.
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Interactive online practice tests. Includes ACT, ASVAB, GED, GMAT, GRE, SAT, Citizenship and many more.
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Interactive lessons and exercises in learning the Spanish language.
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Search holdings at the Library of Congress.
Index to more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports and proceedings covering the field of information science. Coverage extends back to the mid-1960's.
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Full-text coverage for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 36,000 peer-reviewed journals. Spans every area of academic study and offers information dating back to 1975.
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Full-text coverage for nearly 7,600 scholarly business journals and other sources. Provides pdfs for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating back as far as 1992.
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Full-text coverage for nearly 2,050 general reference publications with information dating back to 1975. Also includes reference books, biographies, primary source documents and image collection.
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Search general, academic and business magazines and journals at one time.
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Full-text journal articles for educators. Coverage includes arts and humanities, child and adolescent psychology and development, drug and alcohol abuse, health, nutrition, fitness, learning disabiltiies, literature, school law, science and technology, social sciences, sports and athletic training.
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Full-text coverage for over 75 regional business publication around the US.
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health articles for consumers created by the National Library of Medicine and the NIH
Information on the community services individuals and communities need to sustain and improve their daily lives--healthcare and childcare, job training, education and recreation, retirement, disability and social service information.
- index to MN births from 1900-1929
Funded by the State of Minnesota.
MN Historical Society's index to Minnesota death records.Currently, this database indexes the death cards from 1904 to 1907 and the death certificates from 1908 to 2001
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Search other library holdings in Minnesota and place interlibrary loan requests
Over 15,000 books are available to view electronically.
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Searchable pdf articles of entire newspaper from 1851-2003
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Full-text articles of over 150 US newspapers
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Guide to materials about fiction works, such as reviews, annotations, author read-alikes, book discussion guides, book talks and feature articles.
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Seach the Olmsted County records for property owners, taxes paid.
Search the library catalogs of the State University schools.
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Search the library catalog at the Rochester Community & Technical College.
Detailed information on more than 12 million US businesses; 102 million US residents. Can be searched by various criteria such as address, phone number, volume of sales, number of employees, city, state, and zip code.
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Official website of the City of Rochester.
School board minutes, policies and procedures for District 535 (Rochester)
Search library catalogs in SE MN
Search holdings at the St. Paul Public Library.
Search older issues of the Minneapolis/St Paul Local newspaper
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View current issues of the Minneapolis/St Paul Local newspaper
Bibliographic database provides coverage on topics such as Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education.
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Search the holdings of the TDS, (south central MN) library system
Local and state community and social services information for Rochester, Olmsted County at United Way's 211 information database.
Seach library holdings at the University of Minnesota.
- search for volunteer opportunities in Olmsted County
Search library holdings worldwide.
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