Databases
Encyclopedias & Reference Resources

Click here to access these resources from outside the Library (at home links)

You will be prompted for your 14-digit Library card number and your PIN. (If you need to establish a PIN, please call the Circulation Desk, 630-529-1641, Press 2)

Databases by title:

AtoZdatabases: Search Jobs, Businesses or Mailing Lists

(In-Library link) (at home link)
The Premier Job Search, Reference, and Mailing List Database. The database includes 2.3 million job listings, 30 million business profiles, 1.1 million healthcare professionals, and much more. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more!

Current Biography Illustrated

 (In-Library link) (at home link)
Current Biography Illustrated is provided by WilsonWeb and reflects the entire contents of the printed monthly Current Biography. Find reliable information about the people making tomorrow’s headlines plus historical figures back to World War II. Current Biography Illustrated includes more than 15,000 full text biographies, more than 9,400 obituaries and more than 19,500 images.

FirstSearch/SILC

 (In-Library link) (at home link)
FirstSearch/SILC (Statewide Illinois Library Catalog) provides access to the combined holdings of OCLC member-libraries in Illinois, as well as a rich collection of reference databases including periodical indexes, MEDLINE, World Almanac, and WorldCat (the combined holdings of OCLC member-libraries worldwide).
Access to FirstSearch/SILC is provided by the Illinois State Library.

Scholastic Go! (formerly Grolier Online)

 (In-Library link) (at home link)
Scholastic GO! contains more than 115,000 articles covering every core-curriculum subject. The articles and their illustrations are derived from the content of seven Scholastic encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, Amazing Animals of the World, and The New Book of Popular Science. Use the Search box for quick and easy access to a robust list of articles, images, Web Sites, and other content. On the search results page access dictionaries, world newspapers, maps and GoTube videos.

World Book Web

 (In-Library link) (at home link)
An encyclopedic database of more than 25,400 articles from the World Book Encyclopedia; 248,000 definitions of words from the World Book Dictionary; and a media database of audio, maps, panoramic photographs, videos and animations.