Research From Home
Use your Bettendorf Library barcode number to do your research from home! Click on the links to gain access to information of all types, for all ages and needs.
In Alphabetical Order
Antiques Reference Database: prices and information for a wide variety of antiques from about fifty leading regional auction houses located throughout the United States, plus other selected specialist auctions.
Auto Repair Reference Center: contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945.
Biography Reference Bank: biographical full-text articles, page images, and abstracts that covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images
Bettendorf News: (2/5/04-Current) Search full-text newspaper articles covering economic, environment, government, people, science, sports, issues and events.
Business and Company Resource Center: up-to-date business, company and industry information for more than 300,000 companies.
Business Source Elite: full text for more than 1,120 business publications.
EBSCOhost: largely full text indexes of magazines and newspapers covering a broad range of topics.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
Health and Wellness Resource Center: access to authoritative health information, including full-text medical encyclopedias, several hundred medical and general interest periodicals, and more than 800 pamphlets.
Kids Search: an easily searchable collection of magazines, newspapers, images and more, designed for elementary and middle school students.
Literary Reference Center: contains biographical and critical information on literary figures from all time periods as well as plot summaries, full-text poems, book reviews, and author interviews.
Morningstar: stock and mutual fund quotes, research reports and tools for making better investing and 401k decisions.
Novelist Plus: book annotations, author suggestions, book reviews and more information designed to help you find books you want to read.
Opposing Viewpoints: viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites
Proquest: full text index of leading newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and The DesMoines Register.
Quad Cities Newspaper Index: a cooperative index of local newspapers, compiled by several public libraries in and near the Quad Cities area of western Illinois and Eastern Iowa. The index does not include the full text of articles, but photocopies of individual articles may be requested from the libraries.
Regional Business News: comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications.
Tutor.com: online tutoring service with resume writing help, as well as numerous links to information on writing resumes, interviewing and finding a job.
ValueLine: full-page, individual stock reports encapsulating the company's past performance, current status, and outlook and industry reviews, along with Value Line's views on the economy and the stock market and on stocks of special interest.
World Book Encyclopedia: tens of thousands of authoritative articles with photographs, illustrations, and maps. World Book Online is funded by The Friends of the Bettendorf Public Library.
By Subject
- Address and Phone Directories
- Antiques
- Auto Repair
- Biography
- Business and Finance
- Current Events
- Encyclopedias
- Examinations
- Genealogy
- Health
- Job Search Information
- Literature
- Magazines and Newspapers
- Youth
Address and Phone Directories
Business and Company Resource Center: up-to-date business, company and industry information for more than 300,000 companies.
Reference USA: telephone and address listings for 14 million U.S. Businesses and 100 Million U.S. Residents.
Antiques Reference Database: prices and information for a wide variety of antiques from about fifty leading regional auction houses located throughout the United States, plus other selected specialist auctions.
Auto Repair Reference Center: contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945.
Biography Reference Bank: biographical full-text articles, page images, and abstracts that covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images
Business and Company Resource Center: up-to-date business, company and industry information for more than 300,000 companies.
Business Source Elite: full text for more than 1,120 business publications.
Job and Career Accelerator: a comprehensive job search tools, including an Occupation Matcher, wizards to create resumes and cover letters, occupation descriptions and job listings.
Learning Express Library: online resume and interviewing classes, as well as practice employment exams, such as the ASVAB, Civil Service Exams, the CDL and more.
Morningstar: stock and mutual fund quotes, research reports and tools for making better investing and 401k decisions.
Reference USA: listings for 14 million U.S. Businesses with verified, accurate data updated monthly, including business name, executive title, business type, sales volume, employee size, year established and more.
Regional Business News: comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications.
ValueLine: full-page, individual stock reports encapsulating the company's past performance, current status, and outlook and industry reviews, along with Value Line's views on the economy and the stock market and on stocks of special interest.
EBSCOhost: largely full text indexes of magazines and newspapers covering a broad range of topics.
Opposing Viewpoints: viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.
Proquest: full text index of leading newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and The DesMoines Register.
Quad Cities Newspaper Index: a cooperative index of local newspapers, compiled by several public libraries in and near the Quad Cities area of western Illinois and Eastern Iowa. The index does not include the full text of articles, but photocopies of individual articles may be requested from the libraries.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
World Book Encyclopedia: tens of thousands of authoritative articles with photographs, illustrations, and maps. World Book Online is funded by The Friends of the Bettendorf Public Library.
Learning Express Library: online practice exams for elementary students and up, including 4th grade assessment, ACT, SAT, PSAT, GED, Citizenship, Civil Service and many more.
HeritageQuest Online: a collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture with over 25,000 family and local histories, the entire U.S. Federal Census, and other expanding collections.
Health and Wellness Resource Center: access to authoritative health information, including full-text medical encyclopedias, several hundred medical and general interest periodicals, and more than 800 pamphlets.
Business and Company Resource Center: up-to-date business, company and industry information for more than 300,000 companies.
Learning Express Library: online resume and interviewing classes, as well as practice employment exams, such as the ASVAB, Civil Service Exams, the CDL and more.
Reference USA: listings for 14 million U.S. Businesses with verified, accurate data updated monthly, including business name, executive title, business type, sales volume, employee size, year established and more.
Tutor.com: online tutoring service with resume writing help, as well as numerous links to information on writing resumes, interviewing and finding a job.
Literary Reference Center: contains biographical and critical information on literary figures from all time periods as well as plot summaries, full-text poems, book reviews, and author interviews.
Novelist Plus: book annotations, author suggestions, book reviews and more information designed to help you find books you want to read.
Bettendorf News: (2/5/04-Current) Search full-text newspaper articles covering economic, environment, government, people, science, sports, issues and events.
EBSCOhost: largely full text indexes of magazines and newspapers covering a broad range of topics.
Proquest: full text index of leading newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and The DesMoines Register.
Quad Cities Newspaper Index: a cooperative index of local newspapers, compiled by several public libraries in and near the Quad Cities area of western Illinois and Eastern Iowa. The index does not include the full text of articles, but photocopies of individual articles may be requested from the libraries.
Kids Search: an easily searchable collection of magazines, newspapers, images and more, designed for elementary and middle school students.