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Overdrive/Libby/eMediaLibrary
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: Audiobooks, eBooks, Magazines
Description: Check out up to 10 eBooks or Audiobooks for up to 3 weeks. Check out an unlimited number of magazines for 3 weeks. Only Kindle-friendly Library eBook vendor. Compatible Devices.
Make sure you’ve switched from the Overdrive app to Libby!

Creativebug
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Unlimited access to more than 1,000 award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists.
Keep your kids busy over summer vacation with craft & STEAM projects from Creativebug!
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ABI/INFORM Global
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Business magazines and journals covering a variety of subject areas including financial, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and more.

Academic Search Premier
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Multidisciplinary research database, providing acclaimed full-text journals, magazines and other valuable resources.


Access Science
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Full access McGraw Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science, plus Schaum’s Outlines and research updates in all areas of science and technology.

America’s News Magazines
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Full-text articles from 47 U.S. news magazines.

American History from ABC-CLIO
Use at Home? Yes
Description: From the explorers of the Americas to today’s headlines, investigate the people, events, and themes of our nation’s evolution.
The library’s subscription to this resources ends July 1, 2023

American National Biography Online
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Info on over 18,700 American men and women–from all eras and walks of life–whose lives have shaped the nation. Only deceased persons are profiled.

American Physical Society
Use at Home? Yes
Description: The American Physical Society (APS) is the world’s second largest organization of physicists and publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the prestigious Physical Review and Physical Review.

Ancestry Library Edition
Use at Home? No
Description: With over 1.2 billion records, AncestryPlus is one of the most comprehensive online databases of genealogical and local history research available. (Blank charts & forms)

Article First
Use at Home? Yes
Description: OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals.

AtoZ Food America
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Covers food culture for six US regions, all 50 states, and 33 ethnic cuisines. Contains recipes in all course categories (appetizers, soups, salads, breads, main courses, side dishes, desserts, snacks, and beverages), and articles such as Classic Dishes, State Foods, Top Agricultural Products, Special Occasion Foods, Ethnic and Geographic Influences, Special Ingredients, and Food Trivia.

AtoZ World Food
Use at Home? Yes
Description: AtoZ World Food is the only food database that contains traditional recipes for 174 countries of the world in all course categories: appetizers, soups, salads, breads, main courses, side dishes, desserts, and beverages.

AtoZdatabases
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Premier Reference and Marketing Database including 30 million business profiles & 220 million residents. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, or finding friends and relatives.

Aurora Beacon-News
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Full text of the paper from 1997, plus online article text and full color images of the paper from 2018.

Auto Repair Source
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Provides accurate, authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and includes step-by-step repair information, diagrams, maintenance schedules, parts and labor estimates, service bulletins and recalls.

Axis360
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: Audiobooks, eBooks
Description: Check out audiobooks or eBooks for 14 days to use on your smartphone, tablet, or computer (not compatible with Kindles). Check out our new collection of popular audiobooks in foreign languages that are always available!

Biblioteca TumbleBook
¿Usar en casa? Sí
Descripción: Ciber-libros para ciber-niños.

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Open Access collection of primary documents from 1790 to the modern day detailing the black struggle for freedom in the United States.

Booklist
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Book review journal of the American Library Association, connecting library and education workers to the books and resources needed to support and enrich their communities.

BookPage
Use at Home? Yes
Description: A discovery tool for readers, highlighting the best new books across all genres, BookPage is editorially independent; only books we highly recommend are featured. Any publisher-sponsored content is clearly labeled as such.

Books in Print
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Search the availability of current books, audio and video in a database of millions of titles. Also contains full text reviews from standard magazines.

Britannica Library
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Complete encyclopedia with related Internet links, best websites rated by EB editors, Britannica’s Lives and the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary.

Britannica Library for Children
Use at Home? Yes
Description: All the resources found in Encyclopedia Britannica, plus special online learning materials for students, in grades K-8.

Business Source Premier
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Features full text and searchable cited references for top journals covering a variety of business disciplines. Includes Marketline SWOT Company Profiles and The Harvard Business Review.

CFRA
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Independent research firm offering high-quality research solutions including industry surveys, stock reports, fund reports, S&P research and The Outlook Newsletter.

Chelsea House Biographies
Use at Home? Yes
Description: In-depth looks at people who have shaped our world. World leaders, sports stars, popular icons, writers, legends of the old west, and many more.

Chicago Area News
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Find information on topics related to business, education, government, health, politics and more from a variety of news media including newspapers, blogs, videos and web-only content including: the Beacon News (1997-current, full color 2018-current), Chicago Sun-Times (1986-current, full color 2018-current), Courier-News (1997-current), Daily Herald (1995-current, full color 2021-Current), the Kane County Chronicle (2004-current, full color July 2022-current), and the St. Charles Republican (2009-2014).

Chicago Consumers’ Checkbook
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Find ratings on Chicagoland services and retailers, including dentists, car repair, personal services, banks, and more.

Chicago Sun-Times Collection
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Coverage of the full-text paper from 1986 to current, and full-color images from 2018 to current.

Chicago Tribune
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Coverage of the full-text paper from 1985 to Current.

Chicago Tribune Digital Microfilm
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Microfilm reproduction of the Chicago Tribune, all editions from 2008 to 3 months ago. Digital microfilm includes every page of every edition of the newspaper, including display ads, legal notices and classifieds.

Chicago Tribune Historical Edition
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue in 1849 to 1994. This collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Chilton Library
Use at Home? Yes
Description: This automotive repair database includes vacuum and wiring diagrams, service instructions, troubleshooting and diagnostics, and more.

Christian Science Monitor Historical Edition
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Coverage from 1908 to 2004.

Clase Periodica
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Indexes documents published in Latin American journals covering social sciences and humanities as well as science and technology.

Compare Countries
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Detailed side-by-side statistical comparisons of countries across the world.

Consumer Health Complete
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary and holistic medicine.

Consumer Reports
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Online subscription to the popular consumer magazine, plus exclusive online content, including Best Car Deals.

Core Collections
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains six key H. W. Wilson collection development titles – Children’s Core Collection, Fiction Core Collection, Graphic Novels Core Collection, Middle and Junior High Core Collection, Public Library Core Collection Non-fiction, and Senior High Core Collection in an easily searchable interface.

Creativebug
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Unlimited access to more than 1,000 award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists.

Credo
Use at Home? Yes
Description: An online platform that combines reliable, citable reference content with your library’s resources and helps you to do faster, more effective research.

CultureGrams
Use at Home? Yes
Description: More than 200 country-specific reports of every sovereign country recognized by the United Nations, plus several foreign dependencies and U.S. territories like the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Also includes information about each U.S. state and Canadian province as well.

Daily Herald Collection
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Full-text coverage from 1995 to Current. Full-color images from 2021 to Current.

Daily Life Through History
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Discover details about past eras that make historical accounts relevant and meaningful from their modern-day perspectives.
The library’s subscription to this resources ends July 1, 2023

Driving-Tests.org
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Free driver education program containing 11 car practice tests, 9 motorcycle practice tests, 10 CDL (Commercial Driver’s License) practice tests, 3 online driver’s manuals (car, motorcycle, CDL), and an FAQ section with detailed answers to 100+ DMV-related questions.

EBSCO Essentials
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Open Access journals available through EBSCO’s free search engine.

Electronic Books
Use at Home? Yes
Description: OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide.

Electronic Collections Online
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Abstracts and selected full text of scholarly journals from 1995 to present, covering subjects such as business, education, geography and law.

ERIC
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains annotated references to education related articles from 1966 to the present.

Escolar
¿Usar en casa? Sí
Descripción: Enciclopedia de Britannica para estudiantes de 6 a 12 años de edad.

FactCite – American and World Biography
Use at Home? Yes
Description: 10,000 biographies of famous people from around the world. More than 2,000 illustrations.

FactCite – American History
Use at Home? Yes
Description: More than 6,000 illustrated articles of people, places, and events in American history.

FactCite – Biography for Beginners
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Illustrated biographies written especially for beginning and striving readers.

FactCite – Defining Moments in U.S. History
Use at Home? Yes
Description: This resource for middle school students and above explores the historical context and consequences of 30 defining moments in United States history, such as the Battle of Gettysburg, the Great War and the Jazz Age and the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Each event is treated in detail and supplemented with primary source documents, timelines, biographies, reading lists, glossaries, and photographs.

FactCite – Greek and Roman Mythology
Use at Home? Yes
Description: 500 articles on Greek and Roman mythological figures with more than 300 illustrations.

Fact Cite – The Lincoln Library
Use at Home? Yes
Description: American History – More than 6,000 illustrated articles of people, places, and events in American history.
Biography for Beginners – Illustrated biographies written especially for beginning and striving readers.
Greek & Roman Mythology – 500 articles on Greek and Roman mythological figures with more than 300 illustrations.
U.S. & World Biography – 10,000 biographies of famous people from around the world. More than 2,000 illustrations.

Family Search Affiliate Library
Use at Home? No
Description: Gain access to over 350 million restricted images when you log into your free FamilySearch account inside the library.
From home you can still log in to access FamilySearch’s free resources.

Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Information on more than 3,400 jobs in 94 industries. Includes sample resumes and cover letters, and tips on interviewing. Also includes 48,000 scholarships and internships for college students.

Financial Literacy Basics
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Easy-to-understand guides on how to manage your finances, including budgeting, student loans, how to start a checking account, and how to start a 401(k)

First Search (OCLC)
Use at Home? No
Description: Scholarly and general content covering a wide variety of topics including health, education, technology, business, and the social sciences.

Flipster
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: Magazines
Description: Check out magazines to read on your computer or mobile device. Includes popular titles such as Time, Consumer Reports and People.
Several popular magazine titles previously available in Flipster are now available through Overdrive.

Fold3
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. On Fold3, you can combine records found on the site with what you have in your own albums and shoeboxes to create an online memorial for someone who served.

Foundation Directory Online Professional
Use at Home? No
Description: Unprecedented wealth of timely, comprehensive information on grant makers and their grants: over 140,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S.; over 4,000 sponsoring companies; over 3.8 million recently awarded grants; over 1 million recently filed IRS Forms 990 and 990-PF.

FreedomFlix
Use at Home? Yes
Description: This American History resource includes e-books from Scholastic’s Cornerstones of Freedom series. Each is paired with nonfiction videos and links to related websites. Topics include: Revolutionary Era, Our Democracy, Westward Expansion, Immigration, Slavery and the Civil War, Economy, the 20th Century, Today’s World and War.

Freegal
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: Music
Description: Free unlimited streaming of music from the entire Sony Music catalog plus thousands of independent artists; also download up to 5 DRM-free tracks per week

Gale Business: DemographicsNow
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Geographic-based demographic information perfect for business and marketing plans, including Consumer Expenditure, Simmons and Mosaic reports.

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Industry research, business plans, financial planning, marketing and franchising information for business owners. Great source for business planning.

Gale Business: Insights
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Research and analyze companies, industries, and economies around the world. Featuring robust data sets, industry essays, Plunkett reports, company histories, case studies, market share reports, and SWOT reports.

Gale Courses
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Offers a wide range of highly interactive, instructor led courses that you can take entirely online. Learn a new hobby, improve your job skills, or your life skills. As a library card holder in good standing, you are entitled to these courses at no cost. Courses run for six weeks, and new sessions begin every month.

Gale Directory Library
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Directories include: Ward’s Business Directory, the Encyclopedia of Associations, the Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory, the Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, and the Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media.

Gale eBooks
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains the full text of hundreds of reference books on a wide variety of subjects, including history, business, medicine, science and humanities. Includes tables of content, indexes and illustrations.

Gale General OneFile
Use at Home? Yes
Description: General interest articles on current events, science, entertainment, the arts, etc.

Gale Health and Wellness
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Articles on medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, alcohol and drug abuse and fitness.

Gale In Context: Biography
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Authoritative reference content, magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images. Covering a vast array of people from historically significant figures to present-day newsmakers, it’s continuously updated to ensure researchers have access to the very latest information.

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
Use at Home? Yes
Description: More than 19,600 pro/con viewpoints, plus 300+ profiles of federal agencies and special-interest groups and special coverage of the annual debate topic determined by the National Speech and Debate Association; content includes full-text newspapers and periodicals from multiple perspectives, including National Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Commentary, and CNN Wire

Gale In Context: Science
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Supporting high school curricula and university coursework, Science in Context features authoritative information for assignments and projects, and provides detailed coverage of popular subjects.

Gale LegalForms
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Illinois Legal Forms includes thousands of business, personal, litigation and federal forms.

Gale Literature
Use at Home? Yes
Description: One-stop shopping for literary assignments and information. Contains criticism, primary sources, literary and cultural analysis, and biographies.

HelpNow from Brainfuse
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Get live, one-to-one, Illinois-aligned, skill-building, homework and test preparation help for everyone, from kindergarteners to adults. English as a second language and Spanish foreign language assistance are included, as well as Microsoft Office help and Career Resources. Available seven days a week, from 2PM-11PM with 24-hour access to Writing Lab, SkillSurfer and more.

HeritageQuest
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Includes genealogies, local histories, primary source materials and genealogical and local history serials, including PERSI. An ongoing project, this database continues to grow and includes materials from all over the world.

Historic Map Works
Use at Home? Yes
Description: This high quality, full color digital collection of historic maps is one of the most extensive available. The core of the collection consists of over 1.5 million maps of the United States and the world.

Historical Statistics of the United States
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Online edition of five-volume print compendium of historical statistics. Contains over 37,000 data series, on wide-ranging topics. Users may create customized tables and spreadsheets.

History Reference Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents.

History Study Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: This targeted collection of full-text journals and popular magazines provides expansive coverage of a wide range of global historical topics and themes.

Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Has patterns, articles, and information on everything from amateur radio to knitting to woodworking.

Home Improvement Reference Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Provides users with detailed, user-friendly “how-to” information covering a variety of home improvement and repair projects.

Hoopla Digital
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: Audiobooks, eBooks, Magazines, Music, Video
Description: Stream or download up to 5 titles per month in a variety of forms. Videos check out for 3 days, Binge Passes and Music for 7 days, eBooks and Audiobooks for 21 days.
The library has a daily allotment of checkouts from Hoopla. If you receive a message that the daily limit has been reached, all available checkouts have been used for the day. The next day’s allotment resets at midnight.
If you receive an error message from Hoopla about your account settings, please visit the Hoopla settings menu and re-enter your library card number and PIN. If you do not know your PIN, please contact the reference department at 630-584-0076 x1.

Illinois Digital Archives
Use at Home? Yes
Description: St. Charles, Kane County and Illinois local history documents, maps and photos.

Illinois Libraries Group Catalog
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Use WorldCat Discovery to search the holdings of libraries across the state of Illinois.

Illinois Public Records
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Source for public records in the Chicago suburbs, including real estate transfers, foreclosures, business licenses and incorporations. Check Illinois is their free background check service or choose more specific records databases if you know exactly what you’re looking for.
For best results, click the “Log In” button in the upper right-hand corner and then select “Library Patron”.

Infobase Learning Cloud (formerly Hoonuit)
Use at Home? Yes
Description: On-demand video trainings for over 500 software applications, including Microsoft Excel, Adobe Photoshop, social media, and more!
Passcode is “learn”.

Inkie.org through Biblioboard
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: eBooks (plus some Audiobooks, Music, and Video)
Description: Always available collection of primarily eBooks, provided for free to everyone in Illinois thanks to the generosity of the Reaching Across Illinois Libraries Systems (RAILS). Also includes local collections from other Illinois libraries and PressReader tool to convert your manuscript into eBook format.

Job & Career Accelerator
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Easy-to-use resource for job seekers, including a resume and cover letter builders, information about careers, and online job hunting.

Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy
Use at Home? Yes
Description: From the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom, keep up to date with news of book bannings and censorship, new policies and reports from the Intellectual Freedom Committee and the Freedom to Read Foundation, and read peer-reviewed articles on privacy and intellectual freedom.

Kane County Chronicle Collection
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Full-text coverage from July 2004 to current. Full-color images starting in February 2022 to current.

Kanopy
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: Video
Description: 10 play credits per month to view movies (checkout for 3 days) or series (checkout for 7 days); a mix of award-winning feature films, documentaries, and educational content, including Criterion Collection titles and The Great Courses.

Learning Express – Career Preparation
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Learn more about various career fields, improve your interview and job search skills, and prepare for many career certification tests such as NCLEX and Praxis.

Learning Express – Computer Skills Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Learn computer and internet basics as well as more about many popular software programs from Microsoft and Adobe.

Learning Express – Recursos Para Hispanohablantes
¿Usar en casa? Sí
Descripción: Mejore sus habilidades escritas, orales y gramaticales, sea mejor lector, desarrolle sus habilidades matemáticas, prepárese para el examen de GED®, sea ciudadano estadounidense.

Learning Express Library
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Provides interactive practice tests, including the SAT, ACT, GED, civil service, military, real estate, teacher certification, and more. Also includes computer skills training and United States citizenship.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Coverage back to the mid-1960s makes this the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.

LinkedIn Learning
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals.
Our library code is “scpld” (all lowercase).

Literary Reference Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Full-text literary database covering all genres and timeframes, including thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals and author biographies, plus full-text classic novels, short stories and poems.

Local Historical Newspapers
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Searchable database of local digital microfilm 1842-1998.

Los Angeles Times
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Indexes not only top news stories but also the information contained on the various sections of the paper, including complete bibliographic information, companies, people, products, etc. Coverage from 1985 – current.

Los Angeles Times Historical Edition
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage from 1881 to 1994.

Magazines & Newspapers Publication Finder
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Find out what magazines, journals, and newspapers the Library subscribes to online, and then link to the correct database to read articles or issues.

Mango Languages
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Mango offers access to over 70 foreign language courses and 20 ESL courses. Mango can be accessed at the library, remotely, or even on-the-go with apps for iPhone® and Android™.

MasterFILE Premier
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Provides full-text magazines, reference books and primary source documents. It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.

MEDLINE
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. Includes a mix of articles written for general interest and those in the medical profession.

MedlinePlus
Use at Home? Yes
Description: A comprehensive, free, and authoritative consumer health site sponsored by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

Mergent Archives
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Vast, indexed collection of back issues of corporate and industry related documents going back to the beginning of several key Mergent publications including the Million Dollar Directory, municipal manuals, and key business ratios.

Mergent Intellect
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Coupling Mergent’s expertise in developing products for the reference marketplace with D&B®’s Hoover’s™private company database, Mergent Intellect offers new and existing clients a unique opportunity to access private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more.

Merriam-Webster Unabridged
Use at Home? Yes
Description: The largest, most comprehensive American dictionary currently available in print or online, built on the solid foundation of Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged and containing new and revised entries while staff are actively engaged in creating an entirely new edition of the Unabridged.

Middle Search Plus
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Full-text database providing popular middle school magazines and reference books. Covering subjects such as history, current events, science and sports, it also includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents, plus over a million photos, maps and flags.

Mitchell1 ProDemand
Use at Home? No
Description: Includes repair instructions and diagrams, technical service bulletins, maintenance schedules and cost estimation for various cars and trucks from 1974 to present.

Moderna
¿Usar en casa? Sí
Descripción: La enciclopedia más comprensiva de la lengua española, con los artículos, fotos e imágenes, mapas y tablas.

Morningstar
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Find a stock or mutual fund, research current or prospective holdings, read analysts’ reports, and see ratings, financial reports, valuation ratios, and key ratios.

MyHeritage Library Edition
Use at Home? Yes
Description: One of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases of its kind, including:

National Geographic Kids
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains National Geographic Kids magazine 2009-present (3-month embargo), 200 National Geographic Kids books, and 500 kid-friendly and downloadable images.

National Geographic Virtual Library
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains National Geographic magazine 1888-Current, National Geographic Traveler magazine 2010-Current, as well as hundreds of videos, maps, atlases, and other downloadable images.

Naxos Music Library
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: Music
Description: Unlimited streaming of classical, jazz, world, and folk music.

Naxos Sheet Music Library
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Find 45,000 classical sheet music titles. Some titles may be transposed online.

The New York Times (in-library)
Use at Home? No
Formats Available: Newspaper
Description: Nearly unlimited access to the New York Times website including articles from 1851-present day, international editions. Does not include the full crossword puzzle or cooking. Simply sign up for a free NYTimes account (if you don’t already have one) to access whenever you’re in the library.

The New York Times (remote access)
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: Newspaper
Description: Follow the link to redeem a code for 72 hours of free access to the New York Times on any of your devices. You’ll then be guided to register for a free NY Times account (if you don’t already have one). When your code runs out, just return to this link to redeem another code. Includes access to articles from 1851-present day, international editions, and the ability to use the NYTimes mobile apps. Does not include the full crossword puzzle.

New York Times Historical Edition
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue in 1851. This collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Newsbank
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Explore and stay informed on local, national and international topics, people and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more. Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources from around the world to around the corner, including the Beacon News, Chicago Sun-Times, Kane County Chronicle and more. Available remotely 24/7 on any device.

NewspaperArchive
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Locate obituaries, and other news stories in full page views of historical newspapers from across the world dating from 1607.

Newspapers.com
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Locate obituaries, and other news stories in full page views of historical newspapers from across the world dating from 1690.

Newsstream
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Search the most recent national news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format.

NoveList K-8 Plus
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Search for picture books through chapter books by author, title, series name or subject. Includes helpful educator’s tools.

NoveList Plus
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Fiction and nonfiction guide for all ages. Find read-alike books and authors, book reviews, book group discussion questions and author websites.

O’Reilly for Public Libraries
Use at Home? Yes
Description: On-demand access to a vast collection of titles (including O’Reilly books in early release), videos, case studies, learning paths, expert playlists, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 other computer science and technology publishers.

OAIster
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Millions of digital resources including books, audio files, images, movies and datasets and texts.

Original Sources
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Thousands of primary source documents in history, literature, science, law, politics, religion, and more.

OverDrive/Libby/eMediaLibrary
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: Audiobooks, eBooks, Magazines
Description: Check out up to 10 eBooks or Audiobooks for up to 3 weeks. Check out an unlimited number of magazines for 3 weeks. Only Kindle-friendly library eBook vendor. Kindle Fire users can access Libby through its website.

Oxford Art Online
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Offers access to the most authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources available today including the Grove Dictionary of Art and Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
The library’s subscription to this resources ends July 1, 2023

Oxford Dictionaries Online
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Includes reference works on English grammar and usage as well as translation dictionaries for languages such as Italian, Chinese, and Russian.
The library’s subscription to this resources ends July 1, 2023

Oxford English Dictionary
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Search the authority on the English language. An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over 500,000 words, both present and past.

Oxford Reference
Use at Home? Yes
Description: In-depth, specialist content from Oxford’s award-winning Encyclopedias and Companions, as well as a critical selection of partner publishers’ scholarly works – over 300,000 free Overview pages, 275 free Timelines, and featured topical entries available on Oxford Reference providing you with a full research pathway.

Papers First
Use at Home? Yes
Description: OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.

Points of View Reference Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.

Pop Culture Universe
Use at Home? Yes
Description: An irresistible yet authoritative digital database on popular culture in America and the world, both past and present. Great for decades or history projects.
The library’s subscription to this resources ends July 1, 2023

PressBooks through Inkie
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Easy-to-use online tool that allows you to create professional quality versions of your book in ePUB, MOBI, PDF and more—all through your library.

PressReader
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: Magazines, Newspapers
Description: Free full text, full color online subscriptions to popular newspapers and magazines from around the world! Access by clicking on the Sign In button, then Libraries & Groups. Search for the St. Charles Public Library. Select OpenAthens and enter your library card number and PIN.

Primary Search
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Designed for elementary school libraries, Primary Search is a full-text database providing popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and a vast image collection. Students can learn about a variety of topics, including endangered species, famous musicians, fitness and space exploration.

Proceedings First
Use at Home? Yes
Description: An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings.

ProCitizen
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Comprehensive citizenship prep course that contains 100 videos, plus interactive drills and quizzes.

Pronunciator
Use at Home? Yes
Description: You can learn 163 languages, including the largest ESL curriculum on the planet. Simply use your library card number to create an account and start learning through a variety of vocabulary exercises, quizzes, culture and business notes, and grammar review. Also includes lessons for 3 to 6 and 7 to 12 year-olds.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Includes Christian Science Monitor (1908-2009), Los Angeles Times (1881-1997), New York Times (1851-2018), Wall Street Journal (1889-2010), Washington Post (1877-2006)

Salem History
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains great historical reference books including: Great Lives From History, The Decades In America, and Milestone Documents. A great place to start your research.

Salem Literature
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains the series Critical Survey and Masterplots, great resources for plot summaries, author biographies, and outlines of the major themes discussed in literary works.

Sanborn Maps – Illinois Collection
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Founded in 1867 by D. A. Sanborn, the Sanborn Map Company was the primary American publisher of fire insurance maps for nearly 100 years. The maps provide a wealth of information, such as building outline, size and shape. Come explore Illinois’s rich and diverse building history.

Scholastic BookFlix
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Online literacy resource that pairs classic fictional video storybooks with related nonfiction eBooks. Reinforces core reading skills and introduces students to a world of knowledge and exploration. Includes helpful educator’s tools.

Scholastic Go!
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Incorporates Grolier Online databases, including Amazing Animals, America the Beautiful, American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, American Heritage Children’s Thesaurus, Lands and People, New Book of Knowledge and New Book of Popular Science.

Science Online
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive essays, videos, diagrams, definitions, biographies, and experiments.

Science Reference Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images.

ScienceFlix
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Highly engaging, interactive, curriculum-driven digital resource with reading levels for students in grades 4 through 9. Includes videos, experiments and information on careers in science.

Shakespeare Survey
Use at Home? Yes
Description: A great resource from Cambridge University Press for students and Shakespeare lovers. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English, and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.

Skills First (formerly Optimal Resume)
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Create resumes, cover letters, online portfolios and career documents. Practice interviewing skills and even create a video resume. Log in with your Optimal Resume credentials to transfer your documents over to the updated Skills First platform. Association code is “20053”.

Small Engine Repair Reference Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Provides detailed yet user-friendly repair guides for all manner of small engines.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
Use at Home? Yes
Description: The ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. User Guide

Teacher Reference Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Indexes over 260 titles from the most popular K-12 teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books.

Thomas Register of Manufacturers
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Lists hundreds of thousands of businesses in North America.

Today’s Science
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Updated weekly and containing thousands of links to a 15-year back-file, Today’s Science bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.
The Conversations With Scientists feature also includes great information on what working as a scientific researcher looks like, and what inspired them to enter their field, making it great inspiration for those considering working in a STEM field.

TrueFlix
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Includes digital Scholastic True Books, links to further information in Grolier Online and websites about each topic. Non-fiction topics include: continents, ancient civilizations, U.S. government westward expansion, natural disasters, space, human body and ecosystems.

TumbleBook Library
Use at Home? Yes
Description: A collection of animated, talking picture books and puzzles created from existing picture books, Large Print chapter books and classic children’s books. There are also books in Spanish and French.

Tutor.com
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Free online help from tutors for students, as well as resume, ACT/SAT test prep, GED, and citizenship assistance for adults. Hours: Every day from 10:00 a.m. to midnight.
Ayuda gratis, en línea, de tutores para estudiantes, y también para resumen, preparación para la prueba ACT/SAT, GED, y asistencia de ciudadanía para adultos. Diariamente de 10:00 a.m. hasta la medianoche.

UlrichsWeb
Use at Home? Yes
Description: The authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types from around the world.

Value Line
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Information and advice on over 6,000 stocks, 18,000 mutual funds, 200,000 options and other securities.

Wall Street Journal
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Access The Wall Street Journal (both print and online editions), as well as WSJ: The Magazine from the Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal Historical Edition
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time from 1889-2000.

Washington Post
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Indexes not only top news stories but also the information contained on the various sections of the paper, including complete bibliographic information, companies, people, products, etc. Coverage from 1987 – current.

Washington Post Historical Edition
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage from 1877 to 2001.

Weiss Ratings
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Online listing of the trusted Weiss guides to stocks, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), banks, credit unions and insurance companies. Also contains the valuable Medigap tool detailing Medicare supplemental insurance options and Financial Literacy Basics guides about budgeting, paying off student loans, opening bank and investement accounts, and other key finanical skills.

Winmo
Use at Home? Yes
Description: All the great advertising resources you loved from Redbooks, with the added strength of Winmo, bringing you even more advertising industry information to improve decision making. Includes email addresses for individuals at companies with national advertising or advertising agencies.

World Atlas (from Britannica)
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Click on a country or state to bring up basic facts and links to Britannica articles about that country or state.

World Book Online
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Start here for background research on any topic. Articles are updated with current events information, useful links on the Internet, a monthly calendar of important dates and a Today in History feature.

World Book: La Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
¿Usar en casa? Sí
Descripción: Características incluyen artículos, secuencia (fechas) de eventos, mapas y bases de datos interactivas (recursos electrónicos).

World History: The Modern Era
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Latest update of electronic history reference materials for high school and high-level middle school coursework covering history from the Renaissance to day.
The library’s subscription to this resources ends July 1, 2023

WorldCat Discovery
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Locate books, periodicals, computer programs, films, maps, sound recordings, videotapes, dissertations and other formats in thousands of libraries worldwide.

Worldcat Dissertations and Theses
Use at Home? Yes
Description: A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat