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Online Resources

  • Book News - newsletter about the latest in fiction and non-fiction books, plus an online book club.
  • Contemporary Authors / Gale Virtual Reference Library - Contemporary Authors contains biographical and bibliographical information about 120,000+ American and international authors. The Virtual Reference Library contains multivolume literary reference sets, including Drama for Students, Literary Themes for Students, Novels for Students, Poetry for Students, Shakespeare for Students and Short Stories for Students.
  • CountryWatch - A comprehensive source for socio-demographic, cultural, historical, economic, political, environmental and corporate information on 192 countries in the world (your password is your library card number).
  • EBSCOhost / NoveList - a suite of full text databases / Your guide to fiction.
  • Facts On File - Includes extensive history databases, as well as Science Online, Health Reference Center, and Bloom's LIterary Reference Online.
  • Get a Library Card Online - apply for a library card online.
  • Interlibrary Loan Service  - If you can't find what you're looking for in the library catalog, you can email the library with an interlibrary loan request.  Please give your name and phone number and tell us as much as you know about the item you are seeking, especially title and author.  This service is available only to Cranford Public Library card holders.  Click here to see the library's Interlibrary Loan Policy in full.
  • JerseyCat - Search hundreds of New Jersey library catalogs simultaneously and make interlibrary loan requests.
  • JerseyClicks - Includes Contemporary Authors, Biography Collection Complete, Business Source Elite, eric, Greenfile, Health Source: Consumer Edition, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, History Reference Center, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, Literary Reference Center, Magazine Article Summaries: Online, Masterfile Premier (1,750+ general reference publications), Middle Search Plus (magazine database for middle school students), Newspaper Source, Novelist, NoveList K-8, Points of View Reference Center, Primary Search (magazine database for elementary school students), Professional Development Collection, Regional Business News, Salud en Espanol, Science Reference Center, topicsearch, InfoTrac Informé, InfoTrac Custom Newspapers (including the New York Times and the Star-Ledger) and ProQuest HeritageQuest.
  • LearningExpress Library - provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.  Also includes computer skills tutorials.
  • New Jersey Union List of Serials - a statewide database that shows the journal and magazine holdings of hundreds of New Jersey libraries.
  • NextReads - An email book newsletter service that allows you to subscribe to more than 22 different subject and genre newsletters.  List topics range from Biography to Fantasy, are sent on a monthly or every other month basis.  Link directly to the library catalog from books of interest on the lists.
    Price It! Antiques & Collectibles - Use Price It to identify, research and price art, antiques and collectibles.  Price It contains more than 23 million records, more than 10 million images, and is continuously updated.
  • Q and A  NJ - Connect online with a real librarian, one-to-one in real-time, for help with any topic or information need.
  • Visual Thesaurus - The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus that creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.  Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning.
    World Book Online
     
     - Contains every article from the 22-volume print version of the World Book Encyclopedia, plus state-of-the art multimedia and editor-reviewed Web sites.
Online Resources Available Only at the Library
  • Books in Print - Provides bibliographic information on in print, out-of-print and forthcoming books and audio-books.  Books In Print also provides book synopses and reviews, a Fiction Connection reader’s advisory, the Fiction Room, which includes information on fiction series, recurring characters and award winning books, a Browse by Subject feature, and a Children’s Room reader’s advisory section.  
  • Corfacts - New Jersey's premier business-to-business directory.
  • Cranford Newspaper Archive 1894-2005 - Search 111 years of the Cranford newspapers for full-text articles in PDF format. 
  • Hoover's - an extensive business reference database that includes information about companies, people and industries, as well as business productivity tools.  Companies can be searched alphabetically, by business classification, geographically and by industry.
  • New Jersey Newspaper Archives - full-text articles from the Star-Ledger as far back as May 1989.  Also included are the Jersey Journal, the Times of Trenton, the Express-Times, the Hunterdon County Democrat and NJN Publishing.

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