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Encyclopedias, Directories, & Almanacs
Most of these databases can be accessed from home using your Glenview Public Library card number as prompted.
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Ancestry Library Edition

Genealogy and local history research: digitized images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 forward, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index

Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes biographical dictionaries and who's whos, subject encyclopedias, and literary criticism. It also acts More

as an index to other indexes. BGMI indexes only reference works containing multiple biographies; it does not index periodical articles or books of biography about a single individual.Hide

Biography Resource Center

The Biography Resource Center combines biographies from over 130 sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, More

Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text biographical articles from more than 265 magazines.Hide

Chicago Tribune Archive

Useful for finding obituaries and news stories from 1849-1984.

E-Journal Portal Publications

Find specific online publications by title or by subject.

Facts.com - World Almanac Encyclopedia

Facts On File Biographies of important personages both past and present.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

A cross searching platform of e-reference books on multiple topics.

Heritage Quest

Research materials for tracing family history and American culture for beginning or professional genealogists.

History Study Center

History Study Center provides digitized primary and secondary sources with documents and articles organized under widely-studied topics, with reference works, images, video clips and links to 2,000 Web sites.

Newsbank: America's Newspapers

The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers including: the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, More

the Daily Herald, the Glenview Announcements, the New York Times, major metro Newspapers, and local newspapers throughout Illinois.Hide

Proquest

Search The Wall Street Journal, and several other nationally known magazines and journals.

SIRS Knowledge Source

An excellent database for student assignments on social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political, and global issues. Full text More

articles archived from 1989 to present many with graphics, charts, maps, and diagrams.Hide

Student Edition

Formerly SuperTOM, this database is designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers More

and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.Hide

Student Resource Center

A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, More

critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 450 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.Hide

World Book Encyclopedia

Designed for school-aged students, this encyclopedia contains every article from the 22-volume print set plus state-of-the art multimedia and editor-reviewed Web sites.

World News Digest

Facts On File World News Digest since 1940 and a live newsfeed from Reuters® to answer questions about events, people, issues, facts, and figures of the last 60+ years.

Please ask a librarian for assistance or telephone the Reference Desk at
(847)729-7500 ext. 111 for further information about these databases.