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Local History and Genealogy Resources
 Ancestry Library: Search census, vital, military and immigration records, family trees and more!
Available at the Central Library only.
 Heritage Quest Online: America's largest genealogical information provider. This database combines searcable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy and Local History collection.
Access is with your library card.
 Brown, Door, Kewaunee & Shawano Counties: Historical Atlases, Directories & Plat Maps: Use this resource to view plat books and atlases from early in Northeast Wisconsin's history. They are useful to people seeking the origin of street names and to trace neighborhoods that were once farmland or heavily forested lands.
Online Reference Resources
Use these databases from home or work - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
 ProQuest: Offers complete full-text content of the Green Bay Press Gazette from 2002 to current .
Access is with your library card.
 ReferenceUSA: Contains, in module format, detailed information on more than 13 million U.S. businesses and 120 million U.S. households.
Access is with your library card.
 Netlibrary: Access nearly 6000 e-book titles! Business, health, travel, fiction, and reference at your fingertips! Set up an account at any Brown County Library location today More information ...
 OverDrive: OverDrive Audiobooks and Videos allows you to browse and search hundreds of great titles and download them to your computer or transfer them to a portable device. Some audiobooks can even be burned onto a CD. More information ...
Requirements: library card and free software available via OverDrive website.
Please note: This service does not work on the library's computers.
 Mango Languages: Use this program to learn the following languages -- Brazilian Portuguese, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, French, Greek, Japanese, and Russian. There are also three ESL programs -- Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, and Spanish. Access is with your library card.
Learn A Test: An online collection of most academic and career practice tests, including GED, SAT, ACT, Firefighter, Law Enforcement, Nursing, Military and many more. School age and adult Skills Improvement sections are also available for reading, writing, and math. Access is with your library card.
 State of Wisconsin Blue Books: Search the complete text of every Wisconsin Blue Book-the primary reference source about the state, documenting the organization of the state's three branches of government (legislative, executive, and judicial).
 Biography Resource Center: Combines award-winning biographies with full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation, or gender.
 Literature Resource Center: Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors from every age and literary discipline.
 Virtual Reference Library: A general interest database. Find articles from magazines, reference books, and newspapers, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
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Courtesy of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction -- Division for Libraries, Technology and Community Learning
 EBSCOhost: Access to 22 databases of magazines, journals, newspapers, images and reference resources covering education, health, business, and general areas of interest. Databases include Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Auto Repair Reference Center and NoveList.
Online tutorial
 Searchasaurus: Full text database for elementary school reading and research.
Online tutorial
 Kids Search: Search engine for kindergarten-grade school reading and research.
Online tutorial
 Student Research Center: Search engine for middle school and high school students.
Online tutorial
Having problems connecting to the databases above? Try using this alternative link! (Access is with your library card number.)
 Newspaper Archive: Millions of searchable newspaper pages, some dating as far back as the 1700s, presented in PDF format that preserves the original format and context of content.
 LitFinder: A wealth of primary literature content, including citations and full text of hundreds of thousands of poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays. (If you have problems connecting to the database, try using this alternative link! [Access is with your library card number.])
 TeachingBooks: Original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of book readings, guides to thousands of titles and multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature.
Other Resources
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