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Digital Sanborn Maps
Click Here to Enter Digital Sanborn Maps (Library Bar Code Required)
| Originally created for
assessing fire insurance liability in urbanized areas in the United
States, the Sanborn maps include detailed information regarding town and
building information in approxi-mately 12,000 U.S. towns and
cities from 1867 to 1970.
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Heritage Quest
| HeritageQuest provides complete US
Federal Census information from 1790-1930, as well as a genealogy and
local history collection of 25,000+ family and local history books.
You will be prompted to enter your barcode or ID. Enter the barcode on
the back of your library card (14 digits). |
InfoTrac
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InfoTrac contains more than 24
million articles from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources,
like the New York Times, or Ladies' Home Journal, and
refereed academic and scholarly journals such as the Journal of the
American Medical Association.. You will then be directed to
enter your library password or barcode. Enter your barcode. This is the
barcode number (14 digits) on the back of your library card. |
KYVL (Kentucky Virtual
Library)
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KYVL
allows students from K-12 to graduate level access to a wide variety of
newspaper, encyclopedia, magazine, and scholarly /academic journal
articles. KYVL includes other tools such as Novelist, a database
designed to help library users better choose recreational reading for
themselves.
To
access this website you will need to first ask a staff member for the
User ID and Password or call the library (at 744-5661) to receive them.
Once you have these, you can click on the button
above. |
Learning Express
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The
LearnATest site offers a wide array of practice tests. The way it works
is that when you log on, you create an account, with a User ID and a
Password. Next you select a practice test to take from the menu. You
start the test, following the instructions. These tests are designed to
look and feel just like the real thing. When you finish, the site will
offer feedback after scoring the test. If you cannot complete the test
in one sitting, a “Finish Later” button is offered. When you return, and
enter your User ID and Password, you can return to the test.
Tests available on LearnATest:
Select "New User" and...
1. Register by entering
your library card barcode number (14 digits) as your Username. Your
Username will always be your barcode number.
2. Enter a password of your choice, and then repeat it to verify.
3. Click on “Continue.”
4. Please be sure to record the Password that you created. Your
password, and remember that your Username will always be your library
barcode.
You can now choose a test, and start practicing. To finish a test
later, sign in as "Returning User", using your User ID you created and
the password and then proceed with your test. |
NewsBank
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This
database will allow you to access the Lexington Herald and the
Louisville Courier-Journal and provide full access to their archive
collections, thereby enabling you to download and print articles from
past issues of these newspapers. Click on the link above and go to "America's Newspapers."
Please note that if you access this site from outside the library,
you will only have access to the Courier-Journal.
Ancestry Library (Library Access Only) 
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The Ancestry
Library Edition collection has approximately 4,000 databases,
including key collections such as U.S. federal census images and
indexes from 1790 to 1930; the Map Center containing more than 1,000
historical maps; American Genealogical Biographical Index (over 200
volumes), Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage (over 150
volumes), The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England,
1620-1630, Social Security Death Index, WWI Draft Registration
Cards, Federal Slave Narratives, and a strong Civil War collection.
Reference USA
Reference USA contains
detailed information on more than 12 million businesses and 102
million U.S. residents. Information is compiled from more than
5,600 Yellow Page telephone directories and more than 3,900
White Page telephone directories. Unlisted numbers are not
included. This database is searchable by name, geographic area
or zip code. Users can find company size, top personnel, credit
rating, yearly sales ranges, and more.
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