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African-American History Online
African-American History Online provides expansive and in-depth information on the people, events and topics important to the study of the African-American experience. This database covers more than 500 years of history and includes biographies, primary source documents, timelines, an image gallery, and maps & charts.
American History Online
American History Online spans more than 500 years of political, military, social and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience. This database includes biographies, primary source documents, timelines, an image gallery, and maps & charts.
American Indian History Online
American Indian History Online offers thorough access to more than 15,000 years of Native American culture, history and heritage through event & topic entries, biographies, images, maps & charts, legends, primary sources and timeline entries. Information about more than 500 Native American groups can be found in this resource using the "Tribe Index".
American Women's History Online
American Women's History Online covers the important people, events, legislation and issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States. This database covers more than 500 years of history and includes biographies, primary source documents, timelines, an image gallery, and maps & charts.
Ancient and Medieval History Online
Ancient and Medieval History Online explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia. There are 18,000 entries covering prehistory through the 1500s including biographies, primary source documents, timelines, an image gallery, and maps & charts.
Ask Colorado
Got questions? AskColorado's got answers. Connect live with a librarian and get homework research help. The librarians are happy to help you locate
resources, but cannot do your homework for you. You will be getting help from a real person, not a search engine - so please be polite.
Biography Resource Center
Biography Resource Center is your one-stop resource for more than 435,000 full-text biographies on notable figures in literature, science, history,
government, business, art, religion, entertainment, sports and much more.
Bloom's Literary Reference Online
Bloom's Literary Reference Online examines great writers, important works, memorable characters and influential movements and events in world literature. This resource features thousands of author biographies, a guide to more than 35,000 literary characters and information about literary works from poems to plays including criticism.
BookNews Newsletters
Looking for a new book or author? Want to know what's going on with teen programs at the library? Check out our current Teen Books newsletter or sign up to receive a copy each month in your email. Links within the newsletters will take you directly to our catalog to see if the titles are available throughout the Pueblo City-County Library District.
Chilton’s Auto Repair
Designed for do-it-yourself car buffs and mechanics of any experience, Chilton's Auto Repair offers quick online
access to repair, maintenance and service information on over 50 years of cars, trucks, vans and SUVs. Chilton’s Auto Repair is an
electronic version of the popular Chilton Total Car Care do-it-yourself print manuals and includes photos, illustrations and repair
procedures on a variety of topics.
Contemporary Authors/Contemporary Literary Criticism - PCCLD has a limited amount of user logins - if you can't get in,
try Litfinder or Bloom's Literary Reference Online.
Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
Culturegrams
Culturegrams provides concise information on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, recipes and lifestyles of the world's people for 187 countries and information on all 50 United States including geography, history, population, culture and symbols.
Curriculum Resource Center
Curriculum Resource Center offers fact sheets, charts, maps, timelines, experiments, diagrams and images in the areas of History,
Government, Religion, Geography, Science, Math and Health & Fitness for middle and high school students.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive career research database providing detailed and up-to-date profiles of more than 2900 of today's most popular jobs in 93 industries. This resource covers careers and career resources, as well as career preparation information, including scholarships, academic programs, non-academic programs, web resources and an employability skills checklist arranged by industry.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia provides over 25,000 easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Search specialized reference books online individually or as a group. Titles are available in the areas of history, culture,
religion and the environment. These titles include information about biomes, endangered species, holidays around the world, costumes & clothing,
terrorism, decades in American life and more.
Health Reference Center
Health Reference Center is a comprehensive encyclopedic database containing thousands of entries on conditions & diseases, health & wellness, mental health and the human body. It provides clear information on the causes, cures, key research, medical terms, symptoms, treatments & trends, and organizations in each field of study.
Issues and Controversies
Issues and Controversies explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture giving the Pro and Con statement
for each issue. This database is great for research papers & debate prep and includes: timely, in-depth, and objective articles that explore today’s
controversial issues, as well as thousands of timelines, primary source documents, statistical tables, editorial cartoons and newspaper editorials. The National
High School Debate topics since 1997 are also included.
Kidsearch
Kidsearch is an easy way for students in grades K-8 to search online resources either by topic by clicking on the picture based icons or by typing a search in the "find" box. Results may include: magazines, newspapers, books & encyclopedias, biographies, photos and more.
Learning Express Library
Learning Express Library provides practice tests and tutorial courses designed to help people succeed on academic or licensing
tests and on skills mastering. You'll get immediate scoring with links to areas that need improvement, complete answer explanations, and an individualized
analysis of your results.
Learning Express includes:
LitFinder
Litfinder is an online literary database that includes more than 126,500 full-text poems, 850,000 poem citations and excerpts and thousands of full-text stories, essays, speeches and plays. International in scope, the database covers all time periods and includes biographies, photographs and a glossary.
MAS Ultra
MAS Ultra, designed specifically for high school students, contains full text for more than 700 popular high school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level. Full text is also available for 84,774 biographies and 100,554 primary source documents. Additionally, MAS Ultra contains 518 pamphlets, more than 350 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts), an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps & flags.
Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research as well as 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level.
Modern World History Online
Modern World History Online covers the people, places and events in the broad expanse of world history - from mid 15th century to the present. This database can be browsed by both global regions and time periods and includes biographies, primary source documents, timelines, and maps & charts.
NetLibrary
Netlibrary is an internet-based electronic library that offers an easy-to-use system for accessing the full text of online books that are called eBooks. You may view these items for 15 minutes or check items out for 3 weeks by creating a Netlibrary account. These items are also listed in our online catalog and include Cliff's Notes and classic titles.
NoveList Plus
NoveList Plus includes information on over 200,000 fiction and nonfiction titles and allows for searching
by author, title, series, theme or topic. It also offers read-alikes for popular authors, book reviews, book discussion guides,
book award lists, series information and more. All titles link to the library catalog and if PCCLD owns it, you can quickly place
a hold on the title to be picked up at the branch nearest you.
Online Book Clubs
Join our Online Teen Book Club. Each day we'll email you a 5-minute portion of a book. During the week you can read 2-3 chapters and decide if you want to check the book out of the library. Every Monday we start new books. Sign up and start reading.
Opposing ViewPoints
Opposing Viewpoints is an online library of current event topics providing a comprehensive review of both sides of controversial issues such as:
Science Online
Science Online is a curriculum-oriented database that offers extensive definitions, essays, timelines, diagrams, biographies and experiments. The over 600 experiments are indexed by grade range and subject category.
Student Research Center
Student Research Center is designed specifically for secondary school students. Through the Student Research Center, users can easily choose which sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included in their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, and explore the top searches of the day.
Today's Science
Topic Search
Typing Lessons
World Atlas
Today's Science is an exciting database that bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the
boundaries of science today. Today’s Science explains important topics such as biology, chemistry, environment, space, physics and technology. It includes Science News written
for students, a pop-up glossary that provides instant definitions of scientific terms, a Science Fair Guide, a "Need a Research Topic?" section which helps students to get
started on their own scientific research, 2000 biographies of scientists from historic figures to modern-day innovators, and more.
Topic Search is a current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 102,800 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.
This online course includes typing lessons and exercises to help you increase your typing skills.
World Atlas combines detailed, printable, full-color maps of countries, provinces, and states with up-to-date statistical and local information. Also includes a gazetteer with entries on more than 7,000 geographical features.