Online Resources
Book News - subscribe to an email newsletter about the latest in fiction and non-fiction books. Choose from among more than 20 different categories by genre and area of interest.
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).
Cranford Archive - Full-text, keyword searchable files in PDF format, including Cranford newspapers (1894-2005), Cranford High School yearbooks (1922-2008) and Cranford city directories (1901-1982).
Cranford Public Library Online Catalog - Search the catalog for thousands of books, recorded books, and audio-visual items. Set up your own account and see what items you have out and when they are due. With a personal account, you can also renew and reserve items online. To access your account, you will need your library card number, plus a password. If you need a password, please ask at the library's main desk. Also, for the younger set, check out the library's children's online catalog.
EBSCOhost - A suite of online reference resources, including Novelist, Novelist Plus, Business Searching Interface, Business Source Corporate, Coin Career Library, EBSCO Animals, EBSCOhost Deutsch, Espanol and Francais, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Kids Search, MAS Ultra - School Edition, McClatchy-Tribune Collection, Searchasaurus, and Student Research Center.
Elements - A detailed resource from Marshall Cavendish that discusses the origin, discovery, special characteristics, and importance of the 117 known elements, from aluminum to zirconium.
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.
Historical New York Times with Index. Full text articles in PDF format from the New York Times from 1851 to 2006.
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.
International Wildlife - This reference source from Marshal Cavendish focuses on the physical features and lifestyles of species from every branch of the animal family, with special attention given throughout to taxonomic relations.
JerseyCat - Search hundreds of New Jersey library catalogs simultaneously and make interlibrary loan requests.
JerseyClicks - Includes Academic Search Premier, Contemporary Authors, Biography Collection Complete, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premiere, 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, ReferenceUSA, 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.
ListenNJ - free downloadable audio books in MP3 format. Many titles are compatible with the iPod®, iPhone®, and iPod® Touch.
New Jersey Union List of Serials - a statewide database that shows the journal and magazine holdings of hundreds of New Jersey libraries.
NewsBank - Full text coverage of the Star-Ledger from 1996 to date, plus full text coverage of 28 popular magazines.
Online Book Clubs - Every day, Monday through Friday, you will receive in your email a five-minute selection from a chapter of a book. By the end of the week, you’ll have read 2-3 chapters. Every Monday a new book is started. Sign up and start reading. Join one or more of 12 different clubs.
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.
Salem Health - Magill's Medical Guide, 4th edition, and Salem Health Cancer, 4 volumes, 2008.
Salem History - The Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties in America, Milestone Documents in American History, Great Lives from History and Great Events from History.
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.
Wowbrary - Free weekly alerts about the library's newest books, movies, music and audio books.
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.
- 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.
Useful Sites and Search Engines
- We're starting to call these "Ask-A" services. Combine a search engine with a searcher and you get something like Yahoo! Answers, Cha Cha and Askville.
- Ben's Guide to the United States Government for Kids
- Bestseller Lists from Publishers Weekly
- Consumer Library Information Presciprtion - a free medical information service provided by the Atlantic Health Libraries to all patients, their families or caregivers, and the public.
- Cranford.com - official Website of Cranford, New Jersey. Free Classified Section; find old friends in the People Section, add your events to the Events Calendar; hundreds of links to Township Departments and local businesses.
- Cranford Community Organizations - volunteer organizations and houses of worship.
- Cranford Downtown Management Corporation - a township entity charged with economic revitilization and marketing for the Special Improvement District (SID), an area comprised of almost 200 properties in 83 acres.
- Cranford History - maintained by the Cranford Historical Society.
- Cranford Public Schools
- CranfordTroops.com - Donate supplies to Cranford residents serving overseas.
- Digital TV Transition - Learn about the upcoming DTV transition and find out what you can do to get prepared before your TV changes in February 2009.
- Ellis Island Records
- Friends of the Cranford Public Library - join the Friends and support the Cranford Public Library!
- Garden State Legacy - online magazine dedicated to New Jersey History.
- Get Help is a website of social service weblinks and tools created by the New Jersey State Library.
- HealthyNJ - information for healthy living from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
- INFOLINK - INFOLINK is the Eastern New Jersey Library Cooperative. A member of the New Jersey Library Network, it supports hundreds of libraries in Union, Middlesex, Hudson and Essex counties.
- Jersey Central Art Studios - a group of artists and citizens dedicated to raising awareness of the arts and the artistic process, as well as integrating the arts into the community through education, events and economic development.
- League of Women Voters of New Jersey - a good source of information on upcoming elections and voter registration.
- Liberty Science Center
- Library of Congress - Search the Library of Congress catalog, get information on copyrights, and find legislative information.
- Literacy Volunteers of Union County - Find an English language or adult literacy tutor, or volunteer to become a tutor.
- Mapquest - Generate a map and printed driving directions.
- Mortgage & Financial Calculators - more than 100 personal finance calculators.
- My Green Cranford - designed to help residents of Cranford take a more active role in solving the environmental challenges facing the community, New Jersey, and the planet that sustains us.
- NationMaster - statistical information on all the countries of the world.
- New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - a source of practical information on a great variety of environmental topics.
- New Jersey Libraries - an alphabetical list of New Jersey's college, university, municipal and county libraries.
- New Jersey School Report Card - The annual New Jersey School Report Card is required under a 1995 state law. It presents numerous fields of information for each school in the following categories: school environment, students, student performance indicators, staff, and district finances.
- New Jersey State Home Page - The official home page of the State of New Jersey, this site provides links to state departments, event calendars, winning lottery numbers, etc.
- New Jersey State Legislature - Includes full text versions of bills, biographical information on legislators, full text versions of the state constitution and statutes, a tour of the statehouse and an introduction to government for children.
- New Jersey Tax Forms
- New Jersey Virtual University - Find out about distance learning opportunities in New Jersey.
- Personal Finance Glossary - Definitions of more than 800 terms related to personal finance.
- SCORE - A national network of more than 10,500 voluteer business executives and professionals that provides small business with technical and managerial counseling and training. SCORE is a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
- Search engines, metasearch engines and semantic search engines include Ask.com, ixquick, Clusty and Hakia.
- Switchboard - telephone directory.
- TV 35 - Cranford's local cable access channel.
TV 35 Weekly Broadcast Schedule
TV 35 Online Meetings - videos of Township Committee, Zoning Board, Planning Board and Board of Education meetings.
TV 35 Online Meetings & More - videos of various community meetings and special events.
- United States Census Bureau - a wealth of census information, including population, demographic and economic data, plus job listings for those interested in working on the 2010 Census.
- Volunteer New Jersey - an online clearinghose for non-profit organizations to list their volunteer needs and for potential volunteers to search the possibilities.
- Vote Smart - a good source of nonpartisan information about presidential, state and federal candidates.
- Workforce New Jersey Public Information Network - a source of government and private sector job listings within New Jersey.
- Yahooligans - a search engine geared toward the interests of younger users.
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