Automotive & Home Repair
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Auto tear-downs provided in step-by-step procedures, engine, chassis, electrical, drive train, routine maintenance, suspension work and much more. Includes photos, illustrations and repair procedures. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
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This reference database provides detailed yet user-friendly repair guides for all manner of small engines. All of the content is organized in a powerful, easy-to-use manner so that users can quickly find the information they need. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
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Through a collection of comprehensive full-text content, this database provides users with detailed, user-friendly “how-to” information covering a variety of home improvement and repair projects. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
Biographies
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Biography In Context is a comprehensive database of biographical information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
Books & Reading
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Browse Overdrive for eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines. Check out items with your Friendswood Public Library barcode number. For access from a mobile device other than Kindle, please install the free app Libby by OverDrive. |
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RomanceBookCloud offers an unlimited and unrestricted access to a huge selection of romance ebooks. Instant access, no check-outs, no wait times, no downloads, read within a browser. |
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An online collection of animated, talking picture books. Includes story books, chapter books, nonfiction, videos, and more! |
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NoveList Plus is the database of reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world. It is a comprehensive source of information about books that includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
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Receive reading suggestions via email. Subscribe to any of these genre newsletters to discover new books, read-alikes, and buried treasures. Links to our catalog are included so you can easily request the books online. |
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BookPage is a monthly book review publication. BookPage covers all types of books – from literary fiction, history and biography to popular genres like romance and mystery – and book reviews, author interviews and special features are informative and accessible. |
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Sign up to receive reading recommendations in your favorite genres! |
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Business
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Small Business Reference Center is a resource for small business owners and those interested in starting a business, offering full-text periodicals and reports, sample business plans, U.S. tax forms, videos and reference books. It supports small business owners in all relevant areas from planning, financing and managing a business to exit strategies. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
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Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
Careers
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Learning Express Library includes nearly 1,000 online tutorials, practice tests, and e-books. Covers job search and workplace skills improvement, skill building in reading, writing, math, and basic science, career certification and licensure exam prep, college and grad school entrance test prep, GED test prep, and more. Contact Reference Desk for login information. |
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This platform has everything job seekers need to create professional and competitive resumes and cover letters, search for jobs that fit their needs, give professional interviews and more. Contact Reference Desk for login information. |
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Udemy is a leading online learning platform with a vast library of courses covering a wide range of topics, from technology and programming to business, arts, and personal development. |
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Encyclopedias & Reference
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Let Friendswood Library be your Word source. Whether you’re looking for a definition, a complete word history, cross-reference, or usage quotation, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) online is the authoritative resource for all of your word usage needs. The complete 20 volume OED set can now be accessed online from Friendswood Library’s website in an easy to search database for your word mastery. Not only will you receive the current definition but also learn word origin and its evolution throughout time and geographical usage. Widely acclaimed as the most authoritative and comprehensive record of the English language in the world, the OED traces the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years.
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Biography In Context is a comprehensive database of biographical information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
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Comprehensive database on authors and their works, provides full-text literature criticism, biographies, bibliographies, and work overviews covering authors from every genre, time period and discipline. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
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Database includes articles, journals, and books about Texas and Texans. Topics include history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business, home, garden, sports and leisure. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
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Genealogy & Local History
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Friendswood Digital Archive created and maintained by the Friendswood Public Library located at 416 S. Friendswood Drive, Friendswood, TX 77546. The content was provided by the Friendswood Historical Society and local historian Joycina Day Baker. |
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Features primary historical records from the United States, Europe and other regions, with coverage spanning the past five centuries. Often accompanied by true document images, these records illuminate historical realities across a wide variety of regions. |
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Heritage Quest is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources – rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, convenient research guides, interactive census maps, and more. Contact Reference Desk for login information.
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Collections include the 1919 Texas Rangers Investigation, free access to Ancestry.com Texas, Andrew Jackson Houston Collection database, Civilian Conservation Corps drawings, fire insurance maps, Republic of Texas claims, Republic of Texas passports, Texas Adjutant General Service records from 1836-1935, and Texas Senate recordings from 1972-2006. |
Health & Medicine
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Created specifically for students, knowledgeable consumer health researchers, and health care professionals, Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine is the perfect resource for up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
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Homework & Education
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Excel Adult High School is an accredited high school that offers a fully online high school diploma program, available through your public local library. This program offers free enrollment to a limited number of qualified adult students.
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Provides easy-to-use features and reliable content from the world’s leading magazines and reference books. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
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Simple search that quickly delivers relevant results, including articles, essays and primary source documents to help students feel successful in their research. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
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Simple search that quickly delivers relevant results, including articles, essays and primary source documents to help students feel successful in their research. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
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Explore both sides of an issue! This cross-curricular research database supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
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Offers online how-to training on hundreds of common software applications and devices, including Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Google Docs, and iPad. Each online training course is made up of videos, so you can learn at your own pace. Create an account using your e-mail address. Enter the passcode learn to access. |
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Learn Coding from home! Through self-guided projects, you will write the code to create slideshows, memes, filters and more using Javascript programming language that can be shared. To get access to the lessons, click on this link, on the next page click on Student, and then click on “Sign up with an email”. |
Languages
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Mango is an online language learning system teaching practical conversation skills for a variety of popular languages. Our engaging interactive lessons are not only fun, they are designed to increase your ability to use the language skills you develop. Registration requires your 14-digit library card number and e-mail address. |
Law & Government
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Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
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Literature
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Resources about children’s and young adult books from TeachingBooks, including exclusive Meet-the-Author movies and recordings, book trailers, and Reader’s Advisory to help you choose the right book. Contact Reference Desk for login information. |
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Bring to life childrens and YA books with video trailers, author interviews, discussion questions, and much more. Great for book clubs, choosing books, and homework help! Contact Reference Desk for login information. |
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This unparalleled collection includes some 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song. Contact Reference Desk for login information. |
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A collection of more than 600 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to the present day, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating the poets in The Faber Poetry Library. Contact Reference Desk for login information. |
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Gale’s Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references over 165,000 author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over 215,000 titles into one source. |
Magazines
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Browse Overdrive for eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines. Check out items with your Friendswood Public Library barcode number. For access from a mobile device other than Kindle, please install the free app Libby by OverDrive. |
Newspapers
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A resource offering cover-to-cover full text for U.S., international and regional newspapers as well as television and radio news transcripts from major networks. Contact Reference Desk for login information. |
Science & Technology
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Gale In Context: Science is an engaging resource that provides contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. Drawing students in with captivating subject matter, Science showcases how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues ranging from bacteria to obesity and weather. Login using your 14-digit library card number. |
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The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and the Technology Collection and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. Contact Reference Desk for login information. |
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Offers online how-to training on hundreds of common software applications and devices, including Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Google Docs, and iPad. Each online training course is made up of videos, so you can learn at your own pace. Create an account using your e-mail address. Enter the passcode learn to access. |
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Learn Coding from home! Through self-guided projects, you will write the code to create slideshows, memes, filters and more using Javascript programming language that can be shared. To get access to the lessons, click on this link, on the next page click on Student, and then click on “Sign up with an email”. |
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Texas
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A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture with articles on people, places, events, historical themes, institutions, and a host of other topics. |
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TexShare
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Friendswood Library is pleased to provide TexShare Databases. TexShare is a statewide resource sharing program that offers over 70 authoritative online resources for business, career and job skills, Do-It-Yourself, Education Resources, Genealogy and History, General Reference, Health and Medicine, K – 12 Resources, Legal Resources, Literature Resources, and Science and Technology resources. Contact Reference Desk for login information. |
Video Streaming
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The popular on-demand film streaming service Kanopy is now available for free at Friendswood Library. Kanopy showcases more than 30,000 of the world’s best films, including award-winning documentaries, rare and hard-to-find titles, film festival favorites, indie and classic films, Great Courses, and world cinema. And now Kanopy Kids offers the programming kids love and parents trust to inspire young minds and spark creativity. |
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The popular on-demand video streaming service, Kanopy, now includes Kanopy Kids: thoughtful entertainment for children aged preschool and up. Parents and caregivers can stream videos from a curated selection of educational and enriching videos on Kanopy Kids with developmentally appropriate, age-based ratings from Common Sense Media, as well as additional parental controls to help keep kids safe. |
