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Great selection of audio books for you to download to your MP3 player or computer.

Just click on the icon above to access this wonderful database.

Universal Class Database
provides FREE to Burlington Library Card holders, online continuing education courses.

Check it out!

universal class



Looking for your next good book to read? Try NoveList Plus!

Articles - from magazines, journals, newswire services...
Newspapers - Hartford Courant, New York Times...
Health and Science - including consumer and alternative health...
Business - including company information, Wall Street Journal...
History and Genealogy - HeritageQuest, Hartford Courant-Historical...
Photographs - Associated Press Archive.
Informe! - articles in Spanish.
reQuest - the statewide library catalog.
...and much more, just click here to access.

JOBNOWLINK

To complement all that Connecticut's libraries are already doing to assist residents in their job searches, Connecticut Library Consortium has launched a new service, JobNow.

Powered by Brainfuse, JobNow is an online chat resource that will help you review your resumes and cover letters and practice interviewing online. In addition to live, interactive online help, a variety of online resources will guide you through the necessary tasks to get a job.

Also to help with your job searching the Connecticut State Library has put together a tookkit of online resources. The Connecticut Job Search Toolkit is an evolving document so check back as often as you need.

http://ctjobsearchtoolkit.wordpress.com/

Connecticut Job Central -
State Labor Exchange

http://www.jobcentral.org/ct/


 



The PrepMe SAT and ACT preparation course offers 40+ hours of instructional content, practice quizzes, and full length tests. PrepMe's online system will automatically identify your strengths and weaknesses and create a customized week-by-week schedule for you to help you raise your score. Just click on the icon above to begin practicing.


Online literacy resource to help build a love of reading and learning in all our children!

Consumers Reports is an expert, independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to work for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers and to empower consumers to protect themselves.

ConsumerReports.org is one of the most trusted sources for information and advice on consumer products and services. ConsumerReports.org accepts no outside advertising, no free test samples, and has no agenda other than the interests of consumers.

Click here for access to this informative online database.

This is a great resource for anyone who is doing research on a country. This will provide historic, cultural, geographical, information and more.

Use this database in conjunction with the new A to Z World Travel database below to learn all about the country you want to travel to.

Click here for access to Global Road Warrior database.

A to Z World Travel is a comprehensive, informative, and fun travel database offering free and exclusive tourist and culture information on more than 160 of the top travel destinations in North America and around the globe.

Created by an international team of experienced and talented travel journalists and editors, AtoZ World Travel features more than two million words of city-specific content, as well as thousands of striking images. Whether traipsing around Panama City or Paris, Ankara or Antwerp, or anywhere in between,
AtoZ World Travel
’s intrepid writer-adventurers bring their unique points of view and expertise to candid glimpses of the globe and its people through extensive, colorful reporting.

From the business traveler to the armchair tourist, the budget traveler to the high roller, AtoZ World Travel is the perfect tool for anyone looking for concise, engaging, and informative copy on the world’s great destinations.

A to Z World Travel database was made possible by the Bill Donovan Memorial Fund.

AtoZ World Travel may be accessed from within the library, or from home by logging in with your library card number. Click the logo above to get started!

Check out our great online databases and resources that are available to Burlington Library Patrons with your library card.
Don't have a card - come into the library and get one today!

Page updated December 20, 2011 DMR