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Hamden residents can request a library card number online to access all of our digital resources.
For business and company research. National and international business and management information. Features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, exclusive access to key business and economics periodicals, country- and industry-focused reports, and major news sources.
Access Mental Health for Youth – Families
Videos and hand-outs offering easy-to-understand background information about a mental health condition or general wellness, and guidance to help families better manage their child’s unique situation.
Information on people and places described in over 25,000 family and local histories. Includes US Federal Census Records from 1790-1930.
Unfortunately, at-home access to Ancestry in not available.
You are entitled to a free credit report once every 12 months. Get your report to be sure that your credit rating is based on accurate information. Don’t be fooled by look-alikes. Lots of sites promise credit reports for free. AnnualCreditReport.com is the only official site explicitly directed by Federal law to provide them.
Premier Reference and Marketing Database including 30 million business profiles & 220 million residents. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more!
A free web-based service of the National Council on Aging.
BenefitsCheckUp® connects millions of older adults and people with disabilities with benefits programs that can help pay for health care, medicine, food, utilities, and more. See what’s available in your area by entering your ZIP code.
Contains biographical full-text articles, page images and abstracts from today’s leading magazines and journals—providing the most current coverage of an individual’s life and work.
Containing many of the top-ranked biographical reference collections and magazines, this database offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies, as well as thousands of unique narrative biographies.
Contains book reviews, author interviews and other information about books. You can find free print copies of the monthly magazine at the Miller Library Borrower Services Desk.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Need to know what countries to stay away from because of the latest Ebola, cholera, or SARS outbreak? Would you like to avoid the latest gastrointestinal virus found on your favorite cruise ship? Check out the Travelers’ Health report. You can read the latest disease news in the weekly Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, or relax with the monthly Emerging Infectious Diseases journal.
A great place to learn the fundamental of programming language and syntax. Includes self-paced tutorials for popular coding languages such as Java, Ruby, Python, and more!
Provides guidance in every step of the college admissions process, including test prep, application help admissions interview resources, a writing lab, and much more!
This site provides a wealth of information. Look up pending or active court cases, find out what jury duty entails, or find answer to frequently asked legal questions.
Learn about Judicial Branch E-services
Provides ratings and reviews, recommendations and buying advice for cars, electronics, appliances, and more. The database also provides a health section and money guide.
Connecticut’s Legal Aid programs created this for people with very low income to find help for their legal problems.
Complete set of employment tools for job seekers in Connecticut. Search jobs, create résumés, find education and training. Employers can find candidates, post jobs, search labor market information.
Dedicated to providing educators with easy access to high-quality professional development resources aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). You can also find information on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Find education literature and information about practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making and research in this online digital library.
Collection provides focus on education by providing full text for over 500 high-quality education journals. Offers access to lesson plans, students tools, curriculum standards and links to sites valuable for teachers.
Offers a wealth of information on topics such as credit and other consumer issues, as well as advice on avoiding scams and rip-offs. You may also file a consumer complaint about a particular business or organization from the web site
Locate a lawyer by area of specialization, location, language, etc. (compiled by the CT Bar Association).
GCF Learn Free is a program funded by the Goodwill Community Foundation and Goodwill Industries. It is a website of primarily self-paced and guided tutorials focused on the subjects of Technology, Job Training, Reading and Math. Particularly useful for beginners to Microsoft Office, the internet and technology in general.
This comprehensive resource draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling and more.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Covers a wide variety of subjects, including information on specific diseases as well as overall health topics. Subjects include fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, women’s health, children’s health and more.
This award-winning site, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has been recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet.
Features full text for more than 1,990 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books.
A job search engine with powerful search tools to help jobseekers find exactly the kinds of jobs they are looking for.
Intelligent.com is an online magazine centered around a lifelong commitment to education, continuous improvement, enabling smarter choices to produce the greatest advantage, utility, and satisfaction.
Provides live, interactive help combined with online resources to help you get a job. Features online job coaches and a resume lab, as well as help with career-enhancing skills for through test preparation, computer literacy help, and basic software assistance.
Offers practice exercises and instructional videos for personalized learning. Includes test prep, academic subject help, computer programming, college and career help, and more.
Learning Express Workforce Solutions
Provides the most comprehensive collection of job search and career exploration tools anywhere — all in one place and always available online. It includes resume and letter builders with targeted samples and tips, millions of job and internship postings, interviewing advice and a personal dashboard to track users’ work.
Legal Information Reference Center
Providing exclusive online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center contains hundreds of full-text publications and thousands of legal forms, with more content being added on a regular basis.
Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities
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Contains biographical essays of the 2,500 most studied authors. More than 8,500 writers of fiction, poetry, drama, and essays are featured. More than 400 comprehensive essays on specific literary genres, themes and settings round out the collection.
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975. Also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
Produced by the National Library of Medicine, MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand.
The National Archives contains a wealth of information about individuals whose names appear in census records, military service and pension files, ship passenger arrival lists, land records, and many other types of documents of interest to both beginning and experienced genealogists.
National Institutes for Health: Health Information
Topic database providing information on many diseases, conditions, symptoms, and procedures.
The original, quality journalism of The New York Times helps you make sense of this moment — and make everyday life better.
Access The New York Times From The Library
You will need to register to NYT by submitting your email and creating a password
Full-Text for hundreds of U.S. and International Newspapers including: The New Haven Register, The Waterbury Republican-American, The New London Day, USA Today, and The Times (UK)
Provides tutorials on using the library’s digital collection and research databases as well as computer skill tutorials. Check out the tutorials available through Niche Academy below and linked throughout our website!
Offers fresh classroom resources — from lesson plans and writing prompts to news quizzes, student contests and more — all based on the articles, essays, images, videos and graphics published on NYTimes.com.
Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) – Bureau of Labor Statistics
The OOH can help you find career information on duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations.
Brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community.
Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.
This comprehensive Spanish-language database offers content from a variety of sources in a broad array of subject areas.
Newspapers available include The Hartford Courant (and the Historical Hartford Courant), The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
A comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text, science-oriented content. Contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other sources.
Small Business Reference Center
Offers readers a collection of state-specific resources supported with demographic data and other local information. Business videos include interviews, “lessons learned” features, lectures and how-to videos to help foster success in all aspects of managing a business.
Southern Connecticut Ancestry Network
SCAN is a genealogical society that is based in Hamden, CT. The group’s members generally either live in, or have family roots in, New Haven County and/or the surrounding towns in south central Connecticut.
SUPE stands for Substance Use Prevention Education, whose goal is to educate people through online technology about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.
The Small Business Administration
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns. The SBA helps Americans start, build and grow businesses.
Combining robust courses, supplemental vocabulary, extensive grammar resources, and mobile apps, Transparent Language Online is the most complete language-learning system. With over 100 languages to choose from, including English for speakers of over 26 languages, there is something for every learner.
The official web portal of the United States federal government, s designed to improve the public’s interaction with the U.S. government by quickly directing website visitors to the services or information they are seeking. Popular topic include Jobs & Unemploment, Laws and Legal Issues , Small Business, Money and Consumer Issues, and Education.
An online employment marketplace, connecting millions of employers and job seekers through mobile and email services.