Use our databases to search for magazine & newspaper articles, encyclopedia entries or business information; find a recommendation for a good novel; and much more. Your Napa-City County library card or e-card is required to search most of the databases. If you have trouble accessing any of the databases and you have a personal firewall, set your personal firewall to allow referring urls.
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Information on approximately 460,000 international, national, regional state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields. |
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A database for automotive repair and maintenance. Repair topics include repair procedures, service bulletins and recalls, wiring diagrams, labor, specifications, and maintenance intervals. |
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A comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world. |
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Biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. |
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Contains full text content in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. |
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This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. |
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An online reference database of general interest, business & health magazines and newspapers. |
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
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The complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Britannica's Book of the Year. |
General Business File ASAP
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Information on all business and management topics from 1980 through the present, as well as investment analysts' reports on major companies and industries and directory listings for over 150,000 companies. |
Heritage Quest Online (Outside Library)
Heritage Quest Online (Inside Library)
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A genealogical database with access to census data, family records and local histories. |
Home Improvement Reference Center
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A full text database focusing on home improvement and home repair, including outdoor projects, electrical projects, remodeling projects, plumbing projects, wood projects, decorating projects and maintenance. |
Kids Search
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Designed especially for youth in grades K-8 |
Learning Express
(inside library)
Learning Express
(outside library)
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LearningExpress Library provides a completely interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons, students, and adult learners succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass.
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Literary Reference Center
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Access biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses from every age and literary discipline. |
Napa Community Links
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Select for an indexed list of various Napa County organizations |
NoveList
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An electronic readers’ advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. |
Points of View Reference Center
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A full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. |
ProQuest (Outside library)
ProQuest
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A collection of electronic resources containing articles originally published in newspapers. |
Small Engine Repair Reference Center
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A full text database derived from the full set of small engine repair manuals from Clymer. Clymer repair manuals provide step-by-step procedures based upon the complete disassembly of the machine. |
Student Research Center
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Middle & High School Resources. Includes articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues. |