The following electronic resources were purchased for you by the Traverse Area District Library and or by the TADL Friends of the Library.

Ancestry Library Edition

This subscription service of the Ancestry.com website provides complete access to hundreds of online genealogical databases which include census and military records, birth and marriage records, immigration information, and much more.

~Subscription donated by TADL Friends of the Library.

OCLC FirstSearch

OCLC FirstSearch provides a collection of sixteen databases indexing books, Internet sites, reference book entries, computer software, films, and other materials.  Database topics cover business, education, medicine, academic topics, government publications, popular periodicals, and more.

OCLC Current System Alerts

The OCLC System Alerts tab displays any active System Alerts that OCLC may have posted. This lets you know of any current problems with OCLC’s systems that may affect your research activities.

InfoTrac Web

InfoTrac Web provides access to thousands of citations and many full-text articles in scholary journals, busiiness and trade journals, and other news sources.

NetLibrary

With eAudiobooks from NetLibrary, you have 24/7 access to a comprehensive and growing collection of best-selling, classic and award-winning audio titles.

You can search for, preview, download and listen to eAudiobooks through the NetLibrary platform via the Internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week. eAudiobooks will download or play on any desktop PC or laptop running supported operating systems. Users can also transfer favorite titles to a wide range of supported portable devices, including portable music players and portable media centers.

Foundation Directory Online Professional

Updated continually, Foundation Directory Online provides the most accurate details available on U.S. funders and their grants.

Over 98,000 U.S. foundations and corporate donors, 1.6 million recent grants, and more than 400,000 key decision makers.

~The Traverse Area District Library is a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center.

Foundation Grants to Individuals Online

Now you can quickly search through detailed descriptions of more than 8,300 foundation programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. This unique online database —the only one devoted exclusively to the needs of individuals— is convenient and easy to use! Within seconds you can generate your own list of prospective funders.

~The Traverse Area District Library is a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center.

Mitchell 1 OnDemand5.com

Mitchell 1 OnDemand5.com is the end product of repair information that has been collected across the past eight decades and presented to our customers in a consistent, easy-to-use format.OnDemand5.com includes Diagnostics, Repair Information,TSBs, Recalls, Maintenance Requirements, Parts Prices, Labor Times, Vintage Information, and Fluid Types and Volumes that have been reproduced directly from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) published works. All this information is then combined to create the aftermarket industry’s best Wiring Diagrams, Users Tips, and Shortcuts that make up Mitchell 1’s OnDemand5.com.

Gale Biography Resource Center

Biography Resource Center is your one-stop, authoritative resource for biographies on notable figures in literature, science, history, government, business, art, gender and multicultural studies, religion, entertainment, sports and much more.