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The Internet is a wonderful tool. With it, you can find information quickly on a wide variety of subjects, but the challenge is to find accurate infomation. The following are sites the library has found to be both accurate and helpful.
AVAILABLE NOW: ReferenceUSA Business Databases, Mango Language Courses, Proquest Obituaries & the Learning ExpressLibrary Test Preparation Courses
These remote services are available to Smyrna library cardholders. These can be accessed at home or work with passwords and pins from the library.
ReferenceUSA is a business database that provides critical information on 15,000,000 businesses and 210,000,000 individuals. ReferenceUSA is great business and marketing tool that can be strategically searched to provide you with the information you need to make your business more successful..
Need to learn a language? Mango Languages has online courses in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Russian.
Studying for exams? LearningExpressLibrary has online test preparation courses for everything from elementary school skills improvement to the GRE. The courses aren't just limited to academic tests. There are preparation guides for several careers including civil service, real estate and the armed forces.
Doing your family history and looking for that elusive link? Proquest Obituaries has over 10,500,000 obituaries and death notices in full image format from seven major newspapers (including the Atlanta Journal Constituion). An obituary is often the only biographical sketch that was ever devoted to an individual and can provide valuable clues to genealogical research.
There is another online subscription services available for your use in the library. Ancestry.com is your guide to genealogy research.
Stop by the library and check us out. There are great resources available at the Smyrna Public Library.
The following are free sites that you might find helpful too. There's a world of information available on the web and you can use it 24 hours a day.
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