Automotive & Home Repair
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Gale Chilton Library provides Auto tear-downs provided in step-by-step procedures, engine, chassis, electrical, drive train, routine maintenance, suspension work and more.
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Gale Home Improvement includes home improvement topics such as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and more.
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EBSCO Home Improvement Source offers full-text content with detailed, user-friendly “how-to” information for a variety of home improvement and repair projects.
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Small Engine Repair Source offers assistance in providing routine maintenance (tune-ups, brake service) as well as extensive repairs (engine and transmission disassembly).
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Biographies
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Biography In Context is a comprehensive database of biographical information on historical figures worldwide across various disciplines.
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Books & Reading
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Browse Overdrive for eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines. Check out items with your Friendswood Library barcode number.
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Romance Book Cloud offers unlimited access to a wide selection of romance ebooks. No check-outs, wait times, or downloads—just read in your browser.
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Tumble Book Library is an online collection of animated, talking picture books. Includes story books, chapter books, nonfiction, videos, and more!
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eBooks at EBSCOhost is a database full text of recently published fiction and nonfiction books on a variety of topics, such as business, economics, history, law, literature, psychology, and the STEM subjects.
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Gale eBooks is a database full of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.
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NoveList Plus is a comprehensive source of information about books that includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.
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Receive reading suggestions via email with NextReads. Subscribe to genre newsletters to discover new books, read-alikes, and hidden gems, with links to our catalog for easy online requests.
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BookPage is a monthly publication featuring reviews, author interviews, and special features on all kinds of books—from literary fiction and history to popular genres like romance and mystery
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TeachingBooks.net — 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!
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Book Connections has resources for 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.
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Business
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EBSCO Small Business Source supports small business owners and entrepreneurs with full-text periodicals, reports, sample business plans, U.S. tax forms, videos, and reference books, covering planning, financing, management, and exit strategies
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Gale OneFile Business helps you understand the activities of companies and industries worldwide through leading business and trade publications. Updated daily.
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Gale Legal Forms offers a variety of state-specific and multi-state legal forms in areas like real estate, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, and landlord-tenant issues.
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Gale Business: Entrepreneurship provides resources on starting, financing, and managing a small business, including sample business plans, guides, articles, and more.
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Gale Business: Insights includes research from global companies and industries with in-depth analysis through current news, statistical data, and comprehensive reports.
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Gale OneFile: Economics and Theory lets you discover content useful for starting a business, marketing a product, developing policy, analyzing trends, and more.
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Careers
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Learning Express Library offers nearly 1,000 online tutorials, practice tests, and e-books on job search skills, workplace improvement, reading, writing, math, science, exam prep, and more.
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Job & Career Accelerator 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.
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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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Gale Vocations and Careers helps you research vocations, find suitable institutions, and get support for job searches and career development.
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Encyclopedias & Reference
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Let Friendswood Library be your go-to for word expertise. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) online provides authoritative definitions, word histories, and usage quotations. Access the full 20-volume OED set through the library’s website to explore the evolution of over 600,000 words across 1,500 years.
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National Geographic Virtual Library allows you to browse a cross-searchable platform for research insights from one of journalism’s most trusted names in exploration and discovery.
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A to Z World Food is a database of recipes and food culture articles from 174 countries, serving as a global cookbook and more.
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Español
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Gale OneFile: Informe Académico lets you search full-text Spanish and Portuguese scholarly journals and magazines from and about Latin America.
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A center for native Spanish speakers to learn basic academic skills including how to prepare for the GED en Espanol, Herramientas de aprendizaje, carrera y ciudadan en espanol.
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Genealogy & Local History
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Friendswood Digital Archive is created and maintained by the Friendswood Library. The content was provided by the Friendswood Historical Society and local historian Joycina Day Baker.
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My Heritage features 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.
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Convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served. This continually-growing collection contains millions of records from world-class archives, many of which are exclusively available on Fold3.
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Digital Sanborn Maps provides digital access to 2118 large-scale maps of 436 Texas towns and cities, including Dallas, Houston, Austin, El Paso, Fort Worth, and San Antonio.
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ProQuest African American Heritage is a groundbreaking digital resource exclusively devoted to African American family history research. This collection was created in partnership with leading African American genealogists and recognized leaders in genealogical information to develop a comprehensive mix of resources, records, and tools specifically pertaining to African Americans.
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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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Gale Health and Wellness lets you search a wide range of health topics, from current diseases and disorders to alternative medical practices.
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Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine provides up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals.
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Gale OneFile: Nursing and Allied Health provides full-text titles cited in CINAHL and other resources to support specialized care, treatment, and patient management.
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Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine gives you access to academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine.
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ProQuest Consumer Health covers an enormous range of subjects of value in the public library context – from sports injuries to women’s health, from food and nutrition to midwifery, from eye care to dentistry. It includes important general medical journals such as The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine as well as a strong selection of consumer and news magazines.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Gale Academic Onefile allows you to quickly access articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals. Best for academic research.
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Gale In Context: Elementary introduces elementary students to database searching with resources featuring age-appropriate, curriculum-related content.
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Gale In Context: Middle School explores the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, history, literature, and more.
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Gale In Context: High School lets you search magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference on a range of topics. Best for middle- and high-school students.
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Gale In Context: College allows access to a wide array of multidisciplinary content by searching scholarly journals, newspapers, periodicals, images, and videos.
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Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints lets you explore both sides of an issue, supporting research in science, social studies, current events, and language arts. Differing views help develop critical-thinking skills and independent conclusions.
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Biography In Context is a comprehensive database of biographical information on historical figures worldwide across various disciplines.
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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.
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Law & Government
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Gale Legal Forms 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.
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Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice offers periodical content for researchers in law, law enforcement, forensic science, and terrorism. It also provides a variety of state-specific and multi-state legal forms, including real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, and landlord-tenant issues.
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Literature
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Gale Literature Resource Center finds up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.
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Gale Literature: LitFinder allows you access to literary works and authors throughout history, including full-text poems, plays, short stories, speeches, and more.
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Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series lets you browse original scholarly essays on authors from around the world. Places authors and their works in personal and historical context.
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Gale Literature: Twayne’s Author Series lets you find in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers. Includes influences of literary movements.
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This 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.
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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.
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Magazines
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Browse Overdrive for eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines. Check out items with your Friendswood Public Library barcode number.
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Gale OneFile: Popular Magazines has access to the most searched magazines focusing on current events, sports, science, and health issues.
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An extensive collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.
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Newspapers
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Gale OneFile: News has access to major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields.
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Science & Technology
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Gale In Context: Science has resources for hundreds of science topics through overviews, journals, news, interactive experiments, and more.
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Gale Interactive: Science lets you manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science.
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Gale OneFile: Science has information on the latest developments across a range of scientific disciplines. Updated daily.
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SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science and Technology Collections, offering full-text titles from scholarly journals, trade publications, technical reports, conference proceedings, and more.
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Gale In Context: Environmental Studies helps you understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
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Gale OneFile: Psychology has authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.
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Gale OneFile: Computer Science has access to leading business and technical publications in the computer, telecommunications, and electronics industries.
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Gale OneFile: Information Science has access to articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology. Updated daily.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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