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Ancestry Library Category: In-Library Access Only	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 (updated monthly); WWI Draft Registration Cards; Federal Slave Narratives; and a strong Civil War collection. In the coming year, still more indexes and original images will be added to the new Immigration collection. Take a guided tour and learn how to use this database.
A-to-Z In-Library Access Only	A-to-Z lists all magazine and journal titles that are contained in our various databases. With A-to-Z you can quickly locate and link to magazines or journals of interest. Inside A-to-Z, you can search for a specific magazine or journal title, then link the the database that contains the title. A-to-Z is only available inside the library.
AtoZ Maps Online	A- to-Z Maps Online is the world’s largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.
Arizona Republic Category: Newspapers	Includes selected articles in full-text from the Arizona Republic. Coverage from 1989-present.
Biography & Genealogy Master Index Category: Biography	Gives book and magazine listing of where you can find biographical information about over 13.3 million individuals.
Biography Reference Center - Ebsco	Biography Reference Center offers a comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.
Biography Resource Center Category: Biography	Full text biographical entries from 80 biographical reference books on noted U.S. and international individuals. Entries presented in narrative, thumbnail and magazine article formats. Take a Guided Tour and learn how to use this database.
Books & Authors	Wondering what to read next? Books and Authors can help you find titles matching your interests, from read-alikes to new authors and genres. You can sign up for 'My Reading Room' to save books, authors, lists, and past searches; rate and review books and see what others have rated and reviewed; and save and share titles easily via services like del.icio.us and Digg.
Business & Company Resource Center Category: Business & Finance	Contains articles on investment, business, industry, management and economics. Also has a business address directory and Investext brokerage house reports. Includes add-on databases of Prompt and Newsletters ASAP. Take a Guided Tour and learn how to use this database.
ChiltonLibrary.com Category: Do-It-Yourself	When it comes to auto repair, do-it-yourselfers and automotive students have trusted Chilton references for years. Now these helpful resources are available in a simple-to-use database available to them 24 hours a day from anywhere with an Internet connection. Take a Guided Tour and learn how to use this database.
Coin Career Library	COIN Career Library offers a comprehensive information resource for career and college research. Five user-friendly components help users match their interests to occupations, education prospects, and more. Created for individual researchers and career/education technology professionals, Career Library is a valuable addition to libraries and career centers.
ERIC Category: Education	Guide to published and unpublished sources in the field of education. Part of the FirstSearch collection of databases.
FirstSearch Category: All-in-One	Collection of 12 different databases: Article First : Contains citations for articles from journals covering science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities and popular culture. Does not have full-text articles. Clase and Periodica : CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Contains information from articles, essays, book reviews, books, conference proceedings, technical reports, interviews and brief notes published in journals edited in 24 different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as from publications that focus on Pan-American issues. Includes information in English, Spanish, Portugese and French. Ebooks : OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide. ECO : Contains electronic journals in a variety of subject areas. Full-text articles available for the journals to which our library subscribes. The rest are citations only. ERIC : Guide to published and unpublished sources in the field of education. Part of the FirstSearch collection of databases. GPO : GPO : Records published by the Government Printing Office since July 1976. Includes congressional committee reports, debates, and documents from the executive branch. MEDLINE : Covers all areas of medicine. More technical than the Health & Wellness Resource Center. PapersFirst : Access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide. Proceedings : Provides tables of contents for papers presented at conferences worldwide. Does not contain full-text of the papers. WilsonSelectPlus : Complete indexing and abstracting (brief descriptions of articles) for high-quality periodicals. Includes Readers' Guide Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. WorldAlmanac : Full-text of Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, World Almanac, World Almanac of the U.S.A., World Almanac of U.S. Politics, World Almanac for Kids, and World Almanac Knowledge Source. WorldCat : The world's most comprehensive library catalog. Tells you which library in the country or the world owns an item. Includes books, audio-visual materials, serials, periodicals and high-quality websites. Does not contain full-text. Only gives you the citation. WorldCatDissertations : A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat. Tip Sheet for using FirstSearch
Gale Virtual Reference Library Category: Encyclopedia	Arts Television in American Society Reference Library 4v, 2007 Biography UXL Encyclopedia of World Biography 10v, 2003 UXL Newsmakers 2v, 2006 UXL Newsmakers 4v, 2005 Business Encyclopedia of Business and Finance 2v, 2001 Encyclopedia of Small Business 2nd ed., 2v, 2002 Education Encyclopedia of Education 2nd ed., 8v, 2003 Environment Endangered Species 2nd ed., 3v, 2004 Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia 2nd ed., 17v, 2004 UXL Encyclopedia of Biomes 3v, 2000 UXL Encyclopedia of Landforms and Other Geologic Features 3v, 2004 UXL Encyclopedia of Water Science 3v, 2005 History American Civil War Reference Library 5v, 2000 American Home Front in World War II 4v, 2005 American Revolution Reference Library 5v, 2000 Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America 5v, 2002 Cold War Reference Library 6v, 2004 Colonial America Reference Library 6v, 2000 Development of the Industrial U.S. Reference Library 4v, 2006 Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library 4v, 2005 Elizabethan World Reference Library 4v, 2007 Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy 2nd ed., 3v, 2002 Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa 2nd ed., 4v, 2004 Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages 5v, 2004 French and Indian War 2003 Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History 2v, 1999 Gilded Age and Progressive Era Reference Library 4v, 2007 Great Depression and the New Deal Reference Library 4v, 2003 Harlem Renaissance 2001 Industrial Revolution Reference Library 4v, 2003 Korean War Reference Library 2v, 2002 Mexican-American War 2003 Middle Ages Reference Library 5v, 2001 Middle East Conflict Reference Library 4v, 2006 New Dictionary of the History of Ideas 6v, 2005 Reconstruction Era Reference Library 4v, 2005 Renaissance and Reformation Reference Library 6v, 2002 Roaring Twenties Reference Library 2v, 2006 Shaping of America, 1783-1815 Reference Library 5v, 2006 Spanish-American War 2003 Terrorism Reference Library 4v, 2003 The Crusades Reference Library 4v, 2005 The Sixties in America Reference Library 4v, 2005 UXL American Decades 11v, 2003 U.S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library 6v, 2004 Vietnam War Reference Library 5v, 2001 War in the Persian Gulf Reference Library 4v, 2004 War of 1812 2002 Westward Expansion Reference Library 4v, 2000 Witchcraft in America 2001 World War I Reference Library 4v, 2002 World War II Reference Library 5v, 2000 Law Checks and Balances: The Three Branches of the American Government 3v, 2005 Crime and Punishment in America Reference Library 5v, 2005 Encyclopedia of the American Constitution 2nd ed., 6v, 2000 Major Acts of Congress 3v, 2004 Supreme Court Drama: Cases That Changed America 4v, 2001 West's Encyclopedia of American Law 2nd ed., 13v, 2005 Literature UXL Graphic Novelists 3v, 2007 Medicine Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior 2nd ed., 4v, 2001 UXL Complete Health Resource 10v, 2000 UXL Encyclopedia of Drugs and Addictive Substances 5v, 2006 Multicultural Studies Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures 9v, 1999 Nation and World Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes of the World 4v, 2002 Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography 5v, 2003 Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cities 4v, 2000 Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Holidays 4v, 2000 Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Canadian Provinces 4th ed., 2004 Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Mexican States 2004 Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations 4th ed., 10v, 2004 Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States 4th ed., 4v, 2004 Religion Encyclopedia of Religion 2nd ed., 15v, 2005 Encyclopedia of Science and Religion 2v, 2003 World Religions Reference Library 6v, 2007 Science Alternative Energy 3v, 2006 CDs, Super Glue, and Salsa: How Everyday Products Are Made: Series 3 2v, 2003 Chemical Compounds 3v, 2006 Chemical Elements: From Carbon to Krypton 3v, 2006 Plant Sciences 4v, 2001 Space Exploration Reference Library 5v, 2005 UXL Complete Life Science Resource 3v, 2001 UXL Encyclopedia of Science 2nd ed., 10v, 2002 Social Science American Social Reform Movements Reference Library 5v, 2007 Encyclopedia of Bioethics 3rd ed., 5v, 2004 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 2nd ed., 4v, 2002 Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology 2nd ed., 2001
Global Road Warrior Category: Homework	Traveling abroad this summer? Interested in other cultures? Or writing a paper for an international business class? Regardless of whether you have business or pleasure in mind, if you need to research other countries, this new resource may be for you.
GPO Access Category: Government	GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. Users can search the Congressional Record, US Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, as well as the Catalog of US Government Publications, featuring many documents from government agencies searchable by keyword, author, title, or subject, and many available in full-text.
Health & Wellness Resource Center Category: Health	Health, medical and nutrition information. Draws from reference books, government health pamphlets, and magazines and journals. Includes alternative health information. Take a Guided Tour and learn how to use this database.
HeritageQuest Online Category: Genealogy	HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more. Take a guided tour and learn how to use this database.
History Resource Center: U.S. Category: History	Full text encyclopedia articles, biographies, primary resource documents and periodical articles on the most studied topics in American history. Take a Guided Tour and learn how to use this database.
History Resource Center: World	History Resource Center-Modern World features extensive coverage of the 20th century, including the Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Near East and Asia as well as the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the modern Middle East and Latin America. The database consists of full-text periodicals, reference works, primary documents and scholarly analysis.
Home Improvement Reference Center Category: Do-It-Yourself	Home Improvement Reference Center is the definitive online tool for home improvement assistance, including: maintenance, remodeling, electrical work, plumbing, wood projects, outdoor improvements, decorating home & garden, etc. This comprehensive resource contains 26 major reference works in full text with more than 10,000 images (none found available online anywhere else). Additionally, the database contains full-text magazines (e.g. This Old House).
InfoTrac OneFile Category: All-in-One	Index to 6,000 magazines, journals, newspapers and newswires on business, law, current-popular interests, technology and health. Half of coverage is full text. Take a Guided Tour and learn how to use this database.
InfoTrac Junior Edition Category: Homework	Designed for middle and junior high students, grades 5-8. Includes magazines, newspapers and reference books. About half of the content is full-text. Take a Guided Tour and learn how to use this database.
InfoTrac Student Edition Category: Homework	Designed for high school students, grades 9-12. Includes magazines, newspapers and reference books. About half of the content is full-text.
Kids InfoBits Category: Homework	Designed for elementary school students. Includes reference books, magazines, and newspaper articles. Covers all homework subjects and many topics of interest to children.
LearningExpress Category: Education	LearningExpress will help you prepare for the ACT, SAT, GED, immigration exam, civil service exams, law enforcement exam, military exams and more! Take practice tests online. Get instant scores and explanations of right and wrong answers. Find out more about using LearningExpress You must have a Mesa Library card and PIN to use LearningExpress from home or school. Create an account to have your practice tests scored. With your account, you can stop a test mid-way through, then pick up where you left off next time you log in.
Literature Criticism Online Category: Literature	Centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It's all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today's researchers demand.
Literary Reference Center - Ebsco	Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines. The full text database contains plot summaries, synopses and work overviews, articles/essays of literary criticism, author biographies (including more than 22,000 in-depth bios), literary journals, book reviews, classic and contemporary poems, classic and contemporary short stories, interviews and classic texts.
Literature Resource Center Category: Literature	Find biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of more than 120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. Includes full-text essays about authors and literary genres. Contains Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Literary Criticism. Take a Guided Tour and learn how to use this database.
Marcive WebDoc Category: Government	Catalog of books, reports, magazines, maps and hearings from the U.S. government. Tells you if the Mesa Library owns a particular item in the catalog.
MAS Ultra - Student Research Center (High School Research) - Ebsco	MAS Ultra Student Research Center (High School Research) contains full text for more than 500 popular, high school magazines including America's Civil War, American Heritage, American History, Archaeology, Astronomy, Bioscience, Careers & Colleges, Civil War Times, Congressional Digest, Discover, Economist, History Today, Nation, National Review, New Republic, New Scientist, Popular Science, Science News, Scientific American and Smithsonian. Full text is also available for 85,670 biographies and 105,786 primary source documents. MAS Ultra also contains more than 360 reference books (including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the CIA World Fact Book and World Almanac & Book of Facts), an Image Collection of over 440,000 photos and maps & flags.
MasterFile Premier - Ebsco Category: All-in-One	Covers current events, general interest, social science, business, biographies and education. Best place to start when you need general magazine or newspaper articles. Most are full-text. Discover how to find Consumer Reports information
Medline - FirstSearch (FirstSearch) Category: Health	Covers all areas of medicine. More technical than the Health & Wellness Resource Center. Part of the FirstSearch collection of databases.
Middle Search Plus - Student Research Center (Middle School Research) - Ebsco	Middle Search Plus Student Research Center (Middle School Research) contains full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Additionally, Middle Search Plus contains primary source documents including Essential Documents in American History, reference books including the Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia and American Heritage® Dictionary, 4th Edition from Houghton Mifflin, the Encyclopedia of Animals™, and an Image Collection of over 440,000 photos, maps and flags.
Mitchell-on-Demand Category: In-Library Access	Only available inside the library. Ask a librarian which computer has this database. Car and light truck maintenance and repair for model years 1983 to present.
Morningstar Investment Research Center	Morningstar Investment Research Center is an all-inclusive investment research database designed specifically for libraries. It features data and analysis on over 10,500 international and domestic stocks, 24,000 mutual funds, and more than 800 exchange traded funds.
Points of View Reference Center - Ebsco	Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 250 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.
Primary Search - Kid Search (Elementary School Research) - Ebsco	Primary Search-Kid Search (Elementary School Research) contains full text for more than 70 popular, elementary school magazines. Additionally, Primary Search includes the Encyclopedia of Animals™, and features Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia, providing students with easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids. The database also provides the American Heritage® Children's Dictionary, 3rd Edition from Houghton Mifflin, and an Image Collection.
Primary Search - Searchasaurus (Elementary School Research) - Ebsco	Primary Search-Searchasaurus (Elementary School Research) is an exciting and easy way for young researchers to experience online searching. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages students to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. Searchasaurus offers Lexile limiters (reading level), making it easy for students to read and research only appropriately challenging materials.
ProQuest Obituaries	ProQuest Obituaries offers more than 10.5 million obituaries and death notices in full-image format from uninterrupted historical archives of top newspapers. With content dating as far back as 1851, this wholly unique database provides both novice and expert researchers from all regions of the U.S. valuable clues about their ancestors, including proper full name, maiden name, spousal information, relatives’ names, occupation, religion, cause of death, and more.
ReferenceUSA Category: Business, Finance	The ReferenceUSA database contains detailed information on more than 12 million U.S. businesses and 102 million U.S. residents.
Science Reference Center - Ebsco	Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student's science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.
SIRS Government Reporter Category: Homework	Includes SIRS Researcher and SIRS Government Reporter: Researcher: Pro and con articles on a variety of issues from magazines, journals and government publications. 1989 to present. Also contains the World Almanac and Maps of the World. Great for school papers and assignments! Government Reporter: Full-text of U.S. government publications useful for elementary through junior college students. Contains Supreme Court cases and U.S. historical documents.
Small Engine Repair Reference Center Category: Do-It-Yourself	Small Engine Repair Reference Center™ is the definitive online tool for small engine repair assistance, including: ATVs, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, marine (boats), outdoor power equipment, PWC (personal watercraft/jet ski), snowblowers, snowmobiles, tillers and other small engines. This comprehensive resource contains 407 reference books in full text with original photos and illustrations that guide the user through every job. The database often contains more than 25 years of an engine model, and offers assistance in providing routine maintenance, such as tune-ups and brake service, as well as extensive repairs involving engine and transmission disassembly. Also, the database allows users to select a type of product, specific brand, specific model/engine type, and specific area of that model/engine type. Additionally, model numbers will also be searchable.
Testing and Education Resource Center	Testing and Education Resource Center contains information on colleges, technical schools and executive programs, practice entrance, certification and professional license exams. It identifies financial aid and other monetary sources available to students and offers tips on how to secure these available funds. Also contains a career with a career assessment tests and key information on more than 1,100 occupations and a resume builder.
Tumble Books Library	Tumble Books Library is an online collection of animated, talking picture books, games and puzzles which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they’ll love.
TumbleReadables	Tumble Readables is an online collection of read-along titles for elementary, middle school and high school students which feature adjustable online text and complete narration. The collection includes chapter books, early readers, teen/young adult novels and classics.
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World Almanac - FirstSearch (FirstSearch) Category: Reference	Full-text of the World Almanac, World Almanac of the U.S.A., World Almanac of U.S. Politics, World Almanac for Kids, and World Almanac Knowledge Source. Part of the FirstSearch collection of databases.
World Book Category: Encyclopedia	World Book Encyclopedia Online is a general encyclopedia designed for students in elementary through high school and beyond. It offers simple navigation, colorful illustrations, diagrams, and maps, timelines, and related articles from magazines and newspapers on thousands of subjects.
WorldCat - FirstSearch (FirstSearch) Category: Reference	The world's most comprehensive library catalog. Tells you which library in the country or the world owns an item. Includes books, audio-visual materials, serials, periodicals and high-quality websites. Does not contain full-text. Only gives you the citation. Part of the FirstSearch collection of databases.