Online Resources
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Book News - newsletter about the latest in fiction and non-fiction books, plus an online book club.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Q and A NJ - Connect online with a real librarian, one-to-one in real-time, for help with any topic or information need.
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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.
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
- 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 History - maintained by the Cranford Historical Society.
- Cranford Public Schools
- CranfordTroops.com - Donate supplies to Cranford residents serving overseas.
- Ellis Island Records
- Friends of the Cranford Public Library - join the Friends and support the Cranford Public Library!
- 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.
- 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.
- NationMaster - statistical information on all the countries of the world.
- 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.
- Switchboard - telephone directory.
- 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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