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Arts & Literature

Author Check

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Track your favorite author, explore new authors in your favorite category, track books in series and receive email notification when a new book by your favorite author arrives at a branch of the Rutherford County Library System.

BookFlix

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An interactive literary resource that builds a love of reading and learning in a fun. BookFlix pairs classic video storybooks with nonfiction eBooks to reinforce reading skills and develop knowledge. Also includes educational games, author profiles, vocabulary, and more.

Books and Authors

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Combines more than 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award-winner, and librarian-favorites lists to help bring readers and literature together.

Digital Public Library of America

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The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is an all-digital library that aggregates metadata — or information describing an item — and thumbnails for millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. DPLA brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. 

Kanopy

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Using your Rutherford County Library System card, you can access Kanopy. With an expertly curated collection of narrative and documentary films we think you’ll enjoy, we’re pleased to bring this streaming service to our community.
 

New Book Alerts

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Free online service that showcases the newest titles purchased by the Linebaugh Public Library System. You can sign up to receive alerts via email and/or RSS feeds. If you see a new title that you are interested in, just click “check catalog” to place a hold on the item right away.

Selectreads

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Selectreads allows you to sign up for a wide variety of book lists and newsletters from RCLS.

ePermitTest

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Want an easy pass on your permit test? Get it with our 2020 practice permit tests! FREE, STATE-SPECIFIC QUESTIONS, IMAGES! Nail your DMV test now!

Permit Test Practice

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The #1 permit test preparation website. Have all your resources in one place and focus on passing the test the first time around! We believe in making permit test prep accessible. So we’re the only site to offer comprehensive permit test preparation – for free.

VIN Decoder

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A Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) is a unique 17-digit alphanumeric code that is assigned to every motor vehicle at the time of manufacture. It ensures that the vehicle is accurately identified and facilitates easy access to vital information about the vehicle's past.

Business Collection

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Provides coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.

Economics and Theory

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This collection provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics. Perfect for business classes, users will find more than 150 full-text journals to support their research.

Entrepreneurship

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Learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

Foundation Directory Online

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FDO is a valuable resource for non-profits, containing a comprehensive codified database of 140,000+ grantmakers, 700, 000+ recipient profiles and 14 million+ grants, combined with powerful search filters allow you to find and narrow down top prospects. 

Available only on location at the Technology Engagement Center.

Home Improvement

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This collection of home improvement focused titles covers topics such as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and more.

hoopla

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Instanly borrow eBooks, audiobooks, comics, movies, music, and more, 24/7 with your library card.

Ancestry Library Edition

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A comprehensive online source of information for conducting genealogical research. It includes searchable images of U.S. federal census records, the Social Security Death Index, and a variety of vital, church, court, and immigration records. This database is for in-library use only.

HeritageQuest Online

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One of America's favorite tools for researching genealogy. It combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI Genealogy & Local History collection, and other valuable records.

Tennessee Death Records (1908-1959)

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Provided through the Tennessee State Library and Archives, these digitized records are now available on Ancestry.com through an agreement with TEL. You will need to create a free account with Ancestry.com to view images. Only these records can be viewed outside the library on Ancestry.com.

TNGenWeb

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Volunteer project to create a source location for online genealogical research for every county in Tennessee.

Culinary Arts Collection

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Includes major cooking and nutrition magazines, culinary journals and several Delmar Reference titles. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

Medline Plus

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Provides information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues. Learn about the latest treatments, look up information on a drug or supplement, or view medical videos in this free site produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library.

Career Prep

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Choosing a career path doesn't come easy. Whether you're heading straight into the workforce or you're entering college first, our career tools help you get a handle on what you're interested in, the skills and training you'll need, and what you can expect from your career path. Discover which careers suit you best, research potential career options, and explore the requirements and outlooks for the occupations you're interested in.

TechGuide

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TechGuide provides actionable information to help readers make data-driven decisions on the best tech-related educational and career opportunities. 

Transparent Language

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Combining extensive courses and supplemental resources for over 100 languages, including English, Transparent Language Online is the most complete language-learning system.

Daily News Journal

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Click HERE to access the digital archives of the Daily News Journal, the Carrier's Courier (Sewart Air Force Base newspaper 1949-1968), the Rutherford Courier newspaper (1931-2005), the Morning Press (also called Murfreesboro Press) (1978-1983), and the Murfreesboro Post (2006-2018). This resource is for in-library use only.

Memphis Commercial Appeal

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This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1847 - current

News

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This full-text newspaper database of more than 1,000 newspapers allows you to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields.

Popular Magazines

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Includes more than 1,000 of the most searched magazines across our InfoTrac products.This database is 100% full text and includes over 600 titles.

Tennessee AG Insider Magazine

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A guide to Tennessee’s farms, food and forestry, Tennessee Ag Insider is sponsored by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture and features stories about the state’s livestock, crops, agribusiness, agriscience, food safety and local products.

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Academic OneFile

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The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from world-leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Digital Library of Tennessee

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Digital Library of Tennessee (DLTN) brings together more than 80,000 unique cultural heritage resources from libraries, archives, and museums in the state of Tennessee. DLTN highlights historical narratives, such as the state’s pivotal role in the ratification of the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution which gave women the right to vote; and primary source formats, including maps, musical performances, photographs, newspapers, postcards, and oral histories.

The website centralizes access to rich, hard-to-find resources in Tennessee and is intended for everyone: K-12 educators, scholarly researchers, local historians, and the general public.

General One File

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A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

Information Science

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This collection provides current and accurate information for the information professional. Coverage includes such topics as data processing techniques, metadata architectures, publishing and more.

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Agriculture

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With broad coverage of agriculture and its related fields. Content spans the industry — from practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.

Gardening & Horticulture

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Research this collection of journals focused specifically on gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture. Includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.

PebbleGo

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Use PebbleGo Science, Social Studies, Ciencia, and Estudio Sociales to help children build confidence in their technology, language, research, and reading skills. 

Hospitality and Tourism

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This collection provides well-rounded coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism fields, while also allowing for focused study of specialized aspects of the industry - including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, economic aspects of tourism, and more.