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The Plainfield Public Library subscribes to several online databases that are available to the public.
If you have any questions regarding the databases or access, please contact the Reference Desk.
"In Library Use" databases are accessible for the public on the library’s own computers.
"Remote Access" databases can be accessed from home using a Plainfield Public Library card.
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Ancestry.com is the #1 online source for family history information, including the web's largest collection of historical records. This resource has approximately 4,000 databases including key collections such as U.S. Federal Census images and indexes from 1790 to 1930, and the Map Center containing more than 1,000 historical maps. |
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The Auto Repair Reference Center provides information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1954. Content includes:
• Approximately 25,000 vehicles covered from 1954 to present
• More than 65,000 technical service bulletins & recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer
• Wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing
• Labor Time Guide & Estimator
• Specifications & maintenance schedules
• Quick Tips, a complete guide to vehicle ownership & maintenance
• Over 100,000 factory drawings and step-by-step photographs |
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Career Library™ offers a comprehensive information resource for career and college research. Five user-friendly components, including a Tech Support Center, help users match their interests to occupations, education prospects, and more. The Exploration Center offers an Occupation and College Searches, and Financial Aid Information (English and Spanish). The Planning Center includes a resume builder. The Resource Center provides job profiles, Web Resources, and Full Text Articles (English and Spanish). The Activity Center includes items such as Interactive quizzes, proficiency & standardized test questions, and GED sample tests. |
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EBSCOhost provides access to a variety of news services including: numerous newspaper and business sources, ERIC - the Education Resource Information Center, Searchasaurus, Student Research Center, Kids Search, Points of View Reference Center, Health Source - Consumer Edition and its Spanish counterpart - Salud en Espanol, literary and science reference centers, Novelist K-8 and Plus, and more. |
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Footnote offers an online repository for the world's original source documents. It's a great resource for genealogists, family and military historians, researchers, and history buffs. Footnote History and Genealogy Archives PLUS includes access to: Footnote™ History and Genealogy Archives, African American Archives, American Revolution Archives, Native American Archives, U.S. Bureau of Investigation Case File Archives, and
World War II Archives. |
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JerseyClicks is New Jersey's statewide portal that features federated searching of the statewide full-text databases offered by the New Jersey State Library. This resource offers keyword and custom searching of databases through a federated search. These high quality databases cover subjects such as health, history, business, education, science, current events, literature, and popular fiction. The suite also includes Informe, a Spanish language full-text database. |
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LearningExpress Library
LearningExpress Library is an interactive online learning platform featuring over 770 practice tests, tutorials, and eBooks related to job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification and licensing exam preparation, college entrance and graduate school admissions exam preparation, GED exam preparation, and basic skills improvement in reading, writing, and math, for all ages. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
User registration required for on-site or remote access.
HERE for instructions. Adobe Reader is required to view instructions.
Download the Adobe Reader here. |
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New England Historic Genealogical Society offers access to more than 110 million names in a variety of databases, making family research easy and efficient. Some databases included are Abstracts of NY Wills, New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Massachusetts Vital Record, 1841-1915. Online genealogical periodicals included in the subscription are The American Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, New England Ancestors Magazine, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, The New Netherland Connections and The Virginia Genealogist. Databases and resources are updated and expanded weekly. |
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NewsBank provides access to full-text articles from more than 700 U.S. newspapers in one easy-to-search database. America's Obituaries & Death Notices offes the largest and most comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices. Access World News offers electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources -- all in one easy-to-search database with a world map. America's Newspapers offers electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. |
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ProQuest Newspapers provides access to full-text articles from the Bridgewater Courier News from 1999 to date. |
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Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated contains more than 111,000 biographies and obituaries and more than 32,000 photographs of the subjects. This resource encompasses trusted Wilson resources including the Wilson biographical series on world artists, authors, composers, songwriters, musicians, film directors, plus more than 80,000 profiles licensed from high-quality publishers including Greenwood, Houghton Mifflin, and Oxford University Press. |
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Local History Online Databases
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Photograph Collections
Complete Information on Photograph Collections
The Plainfield Public Library's historic photograph collections include over 20,000 individual photographic prints, negatives, slides and glass plates by over a dozen local photographers from the 1870's to thepresent. |
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Plainfield Postcard Collection
The Plainfield Postcard Collection contains 2,000 postcards with 1,000 unique images. The Chase collection and the Ricketts collection make up the core of the library's holdings, depicting Plainfield in the early 1900s. |
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Detwiller Blueprint Collection
This unique collection of 15,000 architectural drawings and blueprints documents the rich history of Plainfield's architectural development. It includes residences, houses of worship, businesses, and multifamily dwellings from 1887 to the present. The drawings have been microfilmed and digitized for preservation and Internet access.
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Plainfield City Directories
The Local History department holds city directories from the 1870s through 1982, when current phone books came into existance. The city directories are available in print, on microfilm and in an online searchable PDF format.
Because of copyright issues, city directories are only available online in the library; please contact the Reference Desk or Local History department to make an appointment for assistance using the online city directories. |
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