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Learning Express Job & Career Accelerator

Job & Career Accelerator™ combines everything you need for a successful job search into one easy-to-use online application. With this innovative job-hunting system, you can:

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  • Library & Remote Access
    Salem Health: Cancer

    This database covers more than 800 topics of crucial interest to students, patients, caregivers, and others who have received a diagnosis or are associated with those who have cancer.  Remote Access: Input entire library card number.


    Library | Remote
    EBSCO GreenFILE

    Research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Comprised of more than 600 scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles. Also included in GreenFILE is a 6,800-term Thesaurus. Remote access: Input entire library card barcode number.

    GALE Testing and Education Reference Center
    Access Higher Education information as well as Test Preparation for ACT, SAT, GRE, PRAXIS, AP, TOEFL, as well as the civil service and military exams. Remote access: Input entire library card barcode number.
    EBSCO Testing & Education
    GALE Legal Forms
    Online access to Kentucky Legal Forms, including divorce, bankruptcy, and wills. Remote access: Input entire library card barcode number.
    GALE Legal Forms
    CHILTONLIBRARY.COM
    Online access to the entire Chilton Automotive Repair Library. Remote access: Input entire library card barcode number.
    Chilton Library
    Search Ancestry|Library Edition in the library

    With over 1.5 billion records in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; church records; directories; passenger lists and more! these collections are continuously expanding, with new content added every business day. No Remote Access

    Library Access Only
    Search the EBSCO databases (part of KYVL)

    Use this link to find full-text magazine and scholarly journal articles in one or more databases available through EBSCO. Remote access: Input entire library card barcode number.

    Library | Remote
    Grolier/Americana

    Grolier Online is an "educational portal providing access to information from many electronic sources; including three encyclopedias, New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and Encyclopedia Americana. No Remote Access

    Library Access Only
    Search Heritage Quest Online

    Search full text books and periodicals, Revolutionary War records. Freedman's Bank, and census records from 1790-1930. Remote access: Input entire library card barcode number.

    Library | Remote
    Search all Kentucky Virtual Library Databases

    Click on the icon. Ask at the desk for the user name and password to access the databases from home. Remote access: Ask at the desk for the user name and password.
    Novelist

    Provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations for more than 120,000 fiction titles. Other features include Author Read-Alikes, and Book Discussion Guides. For teachers and librarians there are teaching guides and other helps. Remote access: Use the KYVL login.  Ask at the front desk for the username and password.

    Library | Remote


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    OUR LOCATION

    Nelson County Public Library
    201 Cathedral Manor
    Bardstown, KY 40004
    Telephone: 502-348-3714
    FAX: 502-348-5578
    nelsoncopublib@hotmail.com

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