America's News
One of America’s largest newspaper databases. Search a single newspaper including the Pantagraph, Illinois newspapers or the entire collection of over 2,700 full-text news sources nationwide.
Bloom's Literary Reference Online
This resource contains more than 20,000 critical essays from over 500 literary journals and 2,300 scholarly and critical books, including 700 titles published by Bloom’s Literary Criticism and Facts On File. Also included in the database are more than 13,000 biographies, 45,000 character entries, 5,000 synopses of literary works and hundreds of images and videos.
Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports offers consumer news, reports on different products, recalls, safety information and much more.
EBSCO Databases
EBSCOhost databases are the most-used, premium online information resources for tens of thousands of institutions worldwide, representing millions of end users.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
McLean County Museum of History
The Stevenson-Ives Library is one of the finest local history and genealogy research libraries in downstate Illinois. The Library contains more than 15,000 books and periodicals with a focus on McLean County and Central Illinois history and genealogy. The Library contains the collections of the McLean County Museum of History, the McLean County Genealogical Society and the Letitia Green Stevenson Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution.
Niche Academy
Niche Academy provides ready-to-use tutorials for the most commonly used library electronic resources. As these resources evolve over time, Niche Academy updates the tutorials.
Pantagraph
Read today’s news or search the Pantagraph’s archives from 1990 to today. Includes news, obituaries, sports, headlines and more.
rb digital
RBdigital offers a wide array of audiobooks for the savvy reader and listener. RBdigital also offers resources including digital magazines, continuing education courses, test preparation, health and wellness, streaming movies and television. RBdigital is available 24 hours a day.
Scholastic ScienceFlix
Scholastic ScienceFlix is an online resource that focuses on engaging subject-area science content for students spanning grades 4–9. Extensive science-related assets help to build hands-on STEM content knowledge.