Online Resources
Online Resources:
The Insurance Information Source
Redecorating or remodeling your home is a lot of work. It helps if you start with a good plan, but it can be hard to visualize everything in different places. This tool lets you build a 3-D model of your home. You can then fill it with furniture and decorations. You can move walls around. When you’re done, fly through the model to see how you like.
The web has revolutionized the way we make and consume video. More video is stored on YouTube than ever existed before the site and you can watch it all online, but maybe you would like to download your favorites. You could watch them online or carry them on an iPod. This site will convert YouTube videos to the proper format. You can download them to your computer.
We often think of English as the common language online. Most of the sites you visit seem to confirm this, but the web is a global destination. You’ll find content in every language imaginable. If you run into a foreign-language site, grab the URL and head here. Bing can translate between dozens of languages.
Your pathway to career success. Tools to help job seekers, students, businesses, and career professionals. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
At every stage of the financial aid process, ISAC is there, acting as a centralized source of information and guidance and offering a comprehensive array of programs and services.
These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. The Background Notes are updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from the State Department’s regional bureaus.
East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging
“We are dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for Older Americans and their families by providing information about and access to a variety of services in their community in the 16 counties of East Central Illinois”
Check new and used car values, read car reviews, get tips, and more.
Health Information for the whole family
For most of us, records of our ancestors provide a link to our past. An army of volunteers from around the world is now working to make these records available to everyone. Using FamilySearch.org, anyone who wants to help preserve this valuable family information can easily extract it from historical records and provide free searchable indexes. All of this can be done from the convenience of our own homes.
Established in 1956, and today supported by more than 600 foundations, the Foundation Center is the nation’s leading authority on philanthropy, connecting nonprofits and the grant makers supporting them to tools they can use and information they can trust.
This is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. We live in a digital world, but we still have to deal with paper documents occasionally. You can use a scanner to get them onto your computer, but you don’t always have one nearby. This site is a nice workaround if you’re in a jam. Take a photo of the document and upload it to the site. It will extract the text. You can paste it into a new file for editing.
Online access to US Federal Government publications. Includes Ben’s Guide to US Government for students K-12.
Experience nineteenth century Illinois history! Explore some of its people, places, and a rich tapestry of events and characters through our Web site.
Illinois CLICKS! offers the residents of Illinois vital, high-quality information efficiently, via the Internet, and vetted by more than 100 librarians and other subject experts statewide.
Illinois Harvest is a unique service that provides access to publicly available online materials about or related to Illinois.
Welcome to the State of Illinois Health and Wellness one-stop source for your healthcare needs. Here, parents can sign up their children for the state’s affordable health insurance programs, seniors can sign up for one of our affordable prescription drug programs, women can find information on free breast and cervical cancer screenings, and much more.
Illinois Labor Market Information
Your source for Illinois labor market information
McLean County Legal Information
Illinois State Archives Online Databases
Check car values and more.
Extensive information on over 650 diseases and conditions from the National Institutes for Health and other trusted sources. Also available: lists of hospitals and physicians; a medical encyclopedia and dictionary; health information; in Spanish; information on prescription and nonprescription drugs;and links to thousands of clinical trials.
You want your writing to look its best. It could be a college research paper or a business report. It always helps to have someone else look it over, but you don’t always have someone to be your proofer. That’s where Paper Rater comes in. It will check your grammer and style. It also tests for signs of plagiarism.
The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is an independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture. It exists to discover and celebrate the best poetry and to place it before the largest possible audience.
The Argus @ Illinois Wesleyan University
This collection consists of The Argus and ten earlier titles published by students and alumni of Illinois Wesleyan University. These records hold the opinions and artistry of students, alumni, faculty and administrators in the form of news about campus events, orations and essays spanning nearly every year from 1870 to the present.
(This database is paid for by the library for our patrons and requires a password. Call or come by the library for the password.)
The H.W. Wilson Information Retrieval System for the World Wide Web provides several search tools for accessing information stored in databases. You can search for records pertaining to a topic of interest, then print, email, save, export, and cite those records.
Worldwide library catalog that includes books, manuscripts, maps, computer programs, musical scores, film, newspapers, journals and magazines, and everything else found in a library.
