LIBRARY DATABASES Check out the Library's large selection of databases! Search for information in an encyclopedia, investigate your family history, or find some exciting new reading!
LibraryToGoEBooks and audio books for download are some of the new, exciting formats now available- at not cost to you with a Nevada County Library card. You can read or listen to selected titles from your home PC or Macintosh or from a number of portable devices
Power Speak Whether you want to learn a language for personal enrichment, for business or to get ready to travel abroad, Powerspeak Languages, Gale's online interactive language resource is a breakthrough in learning Spanish, French, German, Mandarin, Italian and ESL Spanish.
Heritage Quest Online Search Census records, family and local histories, the PERSI genealogy index, Freedmans Bank records, and Revolutionary War records. You need your Nevada County Library Card number to log in. Ancestry.com is available at the Doris Foley Library and other branches upon request.
Gale Virtual Reference Library Homework Help! Search e-reference sources including
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia,
American Decades,
Countries and Their Cultures,
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations and
the States.
ChiltonLibrary.comChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.
Easy to print wiring diagrams!
Learning Express Library
LearningExpress Library's resources will help you succeed. Practice tests- for the
GED,
SAT,
GMAT, and more- exercises, skill-building courses, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You'll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that's right for you.
Job & Career Accelerator is the most comprehensive and easy-to-use job search application on the market, integraing everything a patron needs to conduct a successful job search. Interactive wizards guide patrons by recommending occupations and fetching up-to-the-minute job postings based on each user's career preferences. Users have access to effective tools to getting hired such as resume and cover letter builders, an interview course, and other expert tips.
Tumblebooks e-books for e-kids. Listen to talking books online!
BookFLIX
(Grades PreK-3) Scholastic pairs classic video storybooks with nonfiction eBooks to build a love of reading and learning.A “read-along” option provides word-by-word highlighting so children can follow along as the fiction video is narrated and the nonfiction ebook is read aloud. Narrated text and definitions of key vocabulary words to support beginning and reluctant readers, as well as English Language Learners,
The Grass Valley Daily Union, 1865-1885 Click here to view list of online holdings The Grass Valley Daily Union (which eventually became
The Union) for the years 1865-1885 is available online to anyone with Internet access. Now getting a sense of life in Nevada County in the mid to late 1800s is only a few clicks away! You can search across all years of the collection by news headline (e.g., "empire mine," "chinese") or category (e.g., "announcements," "legal notices," "local intelligence") that have been extracted from the daily publications or you can browse through the newspaper by year, month, and/or day. As the newspaper is stored as image files converted to PDF, the actual text is not searchable.
Ancestry.comSearch the world's largest online resource for family history documents and family trees.
Periodicals List A list of the newspapers and magazines carried in each of the Nevada County libraries is right here on our site.
Ask a Librarian! Go ahead, ask us anything! We'll research it and get back to you.
Library Online Catalog. Look for a new book, check your account and renew items.
REGIONAL LIBRARIES online MELVYL Search - The union catalog for the University of California system.Mountain Valley Library System - You can extend your search to dozens of nothern California libraries using the Mountain Valley Library System. Bear River High School Library - A powerful search engine for the BRHS library collection.
