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is limited to Larchmont Public Library card holders. Most of the resources provided by NYS (through the NOVELny program) and those purchased by the Larchmont Public Library are from one vendor. That means LPL patrons can sign into one database and switch among its other resources without having to sign in again. You can even search them all at once. For non-Larchmont card holders, please use the non-Larchmont links.
or in General OneFile. ). Your friendly reference librarian can obtain copies of otherwise unavailable articles for you. – Provides access to thousands of resources in various formats including audios and videos. Titles include: newspapers like the New York Times and Yomiuri Shimbun; magazines, such as Atlantic, Kiteboarding and The Weekly Standard; and transcripts, audios and/or videos of television and radio shows such as The Today Show, All Things Considered, Fresh Air and Meet the Press.
– Similar to General OneFile, but without the multimedia content and instead of Air Cargo World, you get such thrilling titles as Algorithms for Molecular Biology or Yeats Eliot Review.
gives access to hundreds of medical publications, both popular and scholarly. – Use this database to search the 2010 editions of: Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media; Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the U.S.; Encyclopedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local Organizations; and National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations. Reference Books – These are actual books made available through the Internet (which is a series of tubes). As they are reference books, they are not meant to be read or listened to from cover to cover like our downloadable audiobooks. Instead they are designed to be easily searched for particular bits of information.
However, the ebooks are distributed by different companies so there are different ways of signing in, searching, organizing and reading the materials depending upon the vendor. Right now, the library has access to electronic reference books through three vendors: Gale (the GVRL); Grolier; and Salem Press.
GVRL (Gale Virtual Reference Library) – This vendor has our broadest selection. Titles range from the 23 volume Encyclopedia of World Biography, to VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever to the Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History, and to various Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides. Use the GVRL link to search all 79 titles, comprising 157 individual volumes, at once. You can also search the GVRL History, Literature and Travel titles individually. Must have a Larchmont card for at–home access. Use the "widget" below to search the entire GVRL directly from this page.
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– Use this if you are looking for primary sources or for criminals. There are three titles: Milestone Documents in American History; Milestone Documents of American Leaders; and Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives. – A subcollection of the GVRL Titles included are Novels for Students (34 vol.), Drama for Students (27 vol.), Short Stories for Students (25 vol.), Literary Themes for Students (6 vol.) and Shakespeare for Students (3 vol.). You can use the "widget" below to search the Literature subcollection directly from this page.
GVRL (Literature)
You might also try looking in the Historical New York Times for reviews etc. going back to 1851. Don't forget General OneFile and Academic OneFile are a good place to look for articles.
– Available through the GVRL, this is a multicultural biographical source that covers notable individuals from every part of the world and from all time periods who have made significant contributions to human culture.
Also try looking at the Historical New York Times for the obituaries of obscure figures who died after 1851.
and Academic OneFile have hundreds of different business publications. gives access to hundreds of medical publications, both popular and scholarly. and Academic OneFile are great places to look for health information. . Titles include: Ancient Egypt; Renaissance: an Encyclopedia for Students (4 vol.); Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (6 vol.); UXL American Decades (11 vol.) and more. You can use the "widget" below to search the History subcollection of the GVRL directly from this page.
GVRL (History)
– Use this if you are looking for primary sources or for criminals. There are three titles: Milestone Documents in American History; Milestone Documents of American Leaders; and Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives.General OneFile and Academic OneFile are good sources of scholarly and popular historical writing. Try the Historical New York Times for primary sources going back to 1851.
There are many different useful Social Science books in the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Titles include:
General OneFile and Academic OneFile are good sources of scholarly writing on the Social Sciences.
There are 26 different Eyewitness or Top 10 travel guides available through the GVRL. Locations covered range from Boston to Beijing, from Argentina to Angkor Wat. You can use the "widget" below to search the Travel subcollection directly from this page.
GVRL (Travel)
has many articles on travel as well 500 current Fodor's guides. Be aware, the Fodor's guides are extremely difficult to locate and to use, but they are there.