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Antiques Reference Prices4Antiques helps you determine the value of antiques, collectibles, and fine art with the images and pricing information provided from leading auction houses

Step-by-step repair procedures, maintenance schedules, photographs, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for cars and trucks.

Search across ​all databases which Wright Library and the Ohio Web Library purchase from EBSCOhost.

GRADES K-5
Topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research, designed specifically for Primary School (K-5) students and teachers.

GRADES 6-12
Topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research, designed specifically for Secondary School (6-12) students and teachers.

Find "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast.

Content from leading home improvement magazines, images not found anywhere else online and videos of popular home, DIY repair projects.

Choose from thousands of online courses to learn in-demand skills from real-world industry experts. Professional development, web design, marketing, coding and software skills, audio recording and editing, photography, and more.

Formerly Lynda.com

Lynda.com has changed to LinkedIn Learning. 

 

Multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975.

This website, a service the National Library of Medicine, provides plain-language information to answer health related questions. 

The official State of Ohio government site is full of resources for citizens and businesses.

This website provides access to numerous Ohio history resources.

Authoritative reference content exploring topics in humanities, social sciences, and science. 

Track down older magazine articles with this database, which indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890 through 1982.
^{Article citations can be used to obtain a copy of the article. Request through Interlibrary Loan or Contact Us and a Librarian can help track it down.}

Find addresses, phone numbers, toll free numbers, Web site URLs, financial information, median household income, median home value, and more.

The Sanborn Maps are large scale street plans produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance company from 1867 to 1970.  Use these maps to locate and identify buildings and neighborhoods, to study the growth of towns and cities, and to study the impact of new developments.

Learn to speak a new language. More than 100 foreign language courses are available that can help you learn languages including French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. There's also an ESL component that provides English language learning to speakers of over 25 different languages.

An excellent way to get an authoritative and accessible overview of a subject.

Identify and learn about common Ohio trees. By only knowing one part of a tree (leaf, fruit, etc.), you can follow the samples given until you can identify your tree.

Includes 30 species and subspecies of snakes that are found in Ohio. Learn about Ohio snakes or use the program to identify one you have seen.

This resource is designed to help users identify flint artifacts, which are some of the most enduring legacies of prehistoric peoples.