• America's News - Full text coverage of the Cranford Chronicle (6/2005- current) and the Star-Ledger (5/1989- current), two of 101 N.J. newspapers out of 1470 U.S. newspapers. Also includes Newsweek (1991- current) and U.S. News & World Report (1993- Current).
• 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.
• Corfacts Online - New Jersey's premiere business-to-business database.
• 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). For full-text coverage of the Cranford Chronicle from June 2005 to the present, see America's News above.
• Cranford History - a wonderful source of historical documents related to the history of Cranford, including the Burditt Index, a key to Cranford's newspapers spanning the years 1893 to 1949. 
• 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. The catalog is also available to smart devices via Mobile PAC.
• Dinosaurs - Plenty of maps, drawings, and diagrams. Articles include 41 general topics and a breakout by Saurischian versus Ornithischian. Special mention to the Research Tools section and its Tree of Life, timeline, Dinosaur Hunters, Where the Fossils Are, and more.
• eLibraryNJ - free downloadable ebooks and audiobooks.
• 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.
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online Reference Center - An online version of the classic encyclopedia.  Includes a world atlas, time-lines, the Year in Review and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus.
• Explorers and Exploration - Profiles many explorers who have broken new paths and offers historical, geographical and motivational perspectives on their accomplishments.
• Facts On File - Includes extensive history databases, as well as Science Online, Health Reference Center, and Bloom's LIterary Reference Online.
  HeritageQuest - a collection of material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s.  Researchers can use this resource to find their ancestors and trace their paths across America.  Includes all of the images--and extensive indexing--from the 1790 to 1930 U.S. federal censuses.  Offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and more than 12,000 local histories.  Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents, such as tax lists, city directories, and probate records. 
• 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 - Focuses on the physical features and lifestyles of species in the animal kingdom. 
• Inventors and Inventions - Marshall Cavendish makes this very easy to search by name and category of device. Searchable images include drawings, diagrams, maps, timelines, and photos.
• 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.

  LearningExpress Job & Career Accelerator - provides personalized, step-by-step assistance for job seekers at all experience and education levels--from exploring and matching suitable occupations from over 1,000 detailed occupation profiles to finding available jobs in their area from a database of over 5 million up-to-date job postings. With Job & Career Accelerator, users can easily create professional resumes and cover letters, master interviewing and networking techniques, improve work related skills, and prepare for occupation related exams.
• Mobile PAC - use this service to access the library's online catalog from smart devices.  
• MURAL - Cranford Library card holders have borrowing privileges at more than 40 area libraries through the MURAL reciprocal borrowing system.  Materials may be borrowed and returned at any participating library.  Each library has its own lending policies, so please call ahead to see what is available for borrowing.  Click here for a list of MURAL libraries.
• New Jersey Union List of Serials - a statewide database that shows the journal and magazine holdings of hundreds of New Jersey libraries.
• Newsbank - See America's News above. 
• 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.
• Pebble Go is a children's discovery database. Suited for preK through 3rd or 4th grades. Choices are Animals, Earth and Space, Biographies, and Social Sciences. Please use username=cranford and password=learn.
• 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.
• Pronunciator is online language instruction in sixty languages. An ideal fit for tourists and business travelers, it's even better for students of languages. Three million lessons in over three thousand courses.
• Salem Health - Magill's Medical Guide (4th ed., 2007), Cancer (4 vols., 2008), Genetics and Inherited Conditions (3 vols., 2010), and Psychology and Mental Health (4 vols., 2010) Encyclopedias.
• Salem History - The Thirties, Forties, Fifties, Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties in America, Milestone Documents in American History, Great Lives from History, Great Events from History and the Historical Encyclopedia of American Business..
• Salem Science - The Solar System (3 volumes, 2010)
• Sex and Society - Marshall Cavendish assembled this collection of over 250 articles on relationships, parenting, health and cultural issues.
• Star-Ledger - part of the America's News database - full-text coverage from May 1989 to the present. 
• 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 From Within the Cranford Public Library

• Ancestry Library Edition - Ancestry Library Edition provides genealogical information.  It contains more than 5 billion names in 4,000+ collections.  It offers a wide variety of unique content to help users trace their family lineage, or to help historians access historical records previously not available online.  It is continuously expanding, with new content added every business day.
  
                                                Useful Sites and Search Engines
• Arts Guild New Jersey - Arts Guild New Jersey is a non-profit center for the arts located at 1670 Irving St. at Seminary Avenue in the Downtown Arts District of the City of Rahway. Arts Guild New Jersey presents a yearly program of fine art exhibitions as well as three semesters of multi-week art classes for adults, teens and children, one-day workshops for adults, summer art workshops for kids, and a variety of secondary art and cultural events, such as lectures and seminars.
• We're starting to call these "Ask-A" services. Combine a search engine with a searcher and you get something like Cha Cha and Askville.
• Ben's Guide to the United States Government for Kids
• Bestseller Lists from Publishers Weekly
• Burditt Index - an index to Cranford newspapers spanning the years 1893 to 1949. 
• Career Gateway - The Career Gateway is a way to access online tools, resources, and leads that will help you be more successful in finding and securing employment. You’ll learn about career opportunities, find training programs, link to placement services, and much, much more.
• Cranford History - a wonderful source of documents related to Cranford's history, including the Burditt Index to Cranford newspapers spanning the years 1893 to 1949. 
• Cranford Patch - features Cranford news, events, announcements, photos and other information of interest to the communty.
• 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 Historical Society - Founded in 1927, the Society's collection includes photographs, scrapbooks, glass negatives, furniture, tools, kitchen and farm implements, Indian artifacts, books, letters and numerous other artifacts related to Cranford and its citizens. It's costume collection continues to grow and flourish and is considered by many experts to be one of the finest collections in New Jersey.
• Cranford Public Schools
• CranfordTroops.com - Donate supplies to Cranford residents serving overseas.
• Ellis Island Records
• EnviroFlash - EnviroFlash comes to you through a partnership between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.  Subscribe and receive frequent updates on local air quality.
• 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 Web site of social service Web links and tools created by the New Jersey State Library.
• History of Cranford - maintained by Cranford.com, the site includes a narrated history, history highlights, information about the Cranford Historical Society's Crane-Phillips House, and information about the Cranford Historical Society itself.
• 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.
• 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.  
• 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.
• NJHelps - NJHelps is a free and easy guide to programs and assistance for families and individuals. NJHelps will tell you where to go for help and what to bring with you, after you have answered a few basic questions. NJHelps also provides contact information and links to valuable resources available throughout the State.  Available in English and Spanish.
• NJ Parent Link - NJ Parent Link is a statewide website created by the New Jersey Early Childhood Comprehensive System Team.  NJ Parent Link highlights New Jersey state services and resources.  Federal, nationally-respected, and community partner resources are also included.  NJ Parent Link seeks to improve the accessibility, coordination and delivery of information and services to parents of young children, and to improve communication with respect to ongoing service collaborations and policy development. Links throughout the website are quite comprehensive, and are designed to help parents and professionals take full advantage of government services and community resources.
• New Jersey Career Assistance Navigator - This website offers extensive New Jersey information on over 550 occupations and 194 occupational licenses, registrations and certifications. Try the career assessment inventories to identify an occupational path determined by your likes, dislikes and preferences. Also includes sections on volunteering and apprenticeships. 
• New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - a source of practical information on a great variety of environmental topics.
• New Jersey East Coast Greenway Multi-use Guide - The East Coast Greenway runs from Florida to Maine.  In New Jersey, the Greenway runs 78 miles between Pennsylvania and New York.
• New Jersey HomeKeeper Program - This program offers up to $48,000 in forgivable mortgage assistance loans to New Jersey home owners who are in danger of losing their homes as a result of unemployment or underemploy-ment.  The program is funded through a federal grant from the United States Treasury’s Hardest Hit Fund.
• New Jersey Libraries - an alphabetical list of New Jersey's college, university, municipal and county libraries.
• New Jersey Next Stop - Designed for teens, parents and counselors this website encourages use of a career assessment tool to help expand a teen's career interests and options.  Includes career advice, real people scenarios, career videos and a monthly newsletter, Career Fuel. 
• 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 Small Business Develoment Centers -  The New Jersey Small Business Development Centers (NJSBDC) network helps small businesses expand operations, manage growth or launch new ventures.  With offices in every county of the state, NJSBDC consultants help small business owners finance, market and manage their ventures.
• 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.
• New Jersey Works - a one-stop sight for created by the New Jersey State Library that provides valuable job search resources for the unemployed and underemployed. 
• 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.
• Search engines, metasearch engines and semantic search engines  include Ask.com, ixquick, Clusty and Hakia.
• St. Michael School - a Catholic K-8 school located in Cranford.
• 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.
• Union County -  the official government site of the County of Union, New Jersey.
• 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.