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Conduct Research from Your Home or Office

  • Choose the type of resource that you wish to use: periodicals; magazines; newspapers; business databases; literary criticism; academic resources; or health information.

  • To access these powerful reference and research, full-text databases, Simsbury residents will need their library card with its 15-digit barcode on the back.

   
         

Gale Group electronic databases available from your school, home, office, campus or library.

  Online database that will allow searches for over 12 million people or businesses. Simsbury residents can access this database from home by entering their valid library card number at the password prompt.
   
 

Use PrepMe to prepare for the SAT & ACT exams. Their course will identify your strengths and weaknesses and create a custom week-by-week schedule for you to help you raise your score. PrepMe is the test preparation of choice for many schools and districts around the country including the entire state of Maine.  

This database course is free to everyone who has a valid Simsbury Library Card. Your Simsbury Public Library barcode number is required to access this database. In order for your individualized analysis and custom study plan to be created, you’ll be required to sign up for the program and to create a user name and password.

   
 

Meet your ancestors. Learn their stories. Start your family tree. We'll start searching. It's FREE. Enter a few simple facts about recent generations of your family. We'll use what you enter to try and find more about your family in the world's largest online genealogy collection of historical records and family trees.

Note: Ancestry only allows searches of the database from within the library only. It cannot be accessed from home.

 

 
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