The Licia & Mason Beekley Community Library offers links to many online databases in an effort to provide quality reference material to its patrons.
Follow the links below, making sure to note any required user name and password information. Clicking on a link will open a new window.
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The Licia & Mason Beekley Community Library Catalogue
Search the our catalogue for books, movies, and magazines.
 
To check your account, click on the Catalogue tab at the top of our web page. At the first window, go to "Search the Catalogue."  When the search window is up, click on the User Status Button at the bottom of the page.
New Hartford residents: enter your last name and the seven digits on your library card after 22544 0 and also leave off the last digit of your barcode.  For example: your library card number is "22544 01234 567 8"-- you would enter 1234567.
Out-of-town residents: leave off the first six digits and the last digit of your barcode. If any of the numbers after the first six digits are 0, leave them off until you get to a 1-9 number.  After that, zeroes are  fine.  For example: your library card number is 23567 00006 780 9 -- you would enter 6780.
Once you have accessed your account, you will be able to see what you have checked out, when the items are due, what you have reserved, and the amount, if any, of your fines.
Call 860-379-7235 if you need assistance.

AtoZ World Travel

First-Class Ticket to Tour the World

AtoZ World Travel is a comprehensive, informative, and fun e-content travel database offering free and exclusive tourist and culture information on more than 160 of the top travel destinations in North America and around the globe. 
    Created by an international team of experienced and talented travel journalists and editors, AtoZ World Travel features more than two million words of city-specific content, as well as thousands of striking images.  Whether traipsing around Panama City or Paris, Ankara or Antwerp, or anywhere in between, AtoZ World Travel’s intrepid writer-adventurers bring their unique points of view and expertise to candid glimpses of the globe and its people through extensive, colorful reporting.
    Continually updated, AtoZ World Travel provides the low-down on essentials like city neighborhoods and districts, in-town excursions and day trips, major attractions, restaurants, nightlife, shopping, and insiders’ tips on navigating the city and culture – all in a style that’s both fresh and informative.
    The site also arms travelers with all the information necessary to make travel as safe and stress-free as possible.  Each city guide features detailed accounts of any health advisories, travel essentials like passport and visa information, and even lists of local embassies and consulates.  Add extensive city maps, currency information, real-time weather reports, and communications information, and you have the makings for travel that’s both inspired and well prepared.    From the business traveler to the armchair tourist, the budget traveler to the high roller, AtoZ World Travel is the perfect tool for anyone looking for concise, engaging, and informative copy on the world’s great destinations. 

AtoZ World Travel can be accessed in the Library or from home using your Beekley Library Card.


CONNECT - Hartford Area Libraries
Search the catalogs of Hartford area libraries by title, author or subject.

iconn.org
The Connecticut Digital Library – iCONN – is now available to all Connecticut library cardholders. A part of the Connecticut Education Network, it provides access to essential library and information resources.  It accesses the catalogues of libraries throughout the state, including university libraries.

To access databases from your home or office in Connecticut, or anywhere in the world, click on the "Access from Home" icon. Enter your entire 14-digit library barcode number from a valid card for any library in the State of Connecticut. Then choose from a wealth of databases, including the following:

FOR GENERAL INFORMATION

Kids InfoBits 
Articles and curriculum-related materials especially for young researchers in grades K–5.

InfoTrac Junior Edition
Articles and curriculum-related materials selected especially for grades 6–8.

InfoTrac Student Edition
Articles, historical images, maps and more selected for grades 9–12.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Articles for all academic areas including the social sciences, humanities, science, technology and current events.

Academic OneFile
Covers the arts and sciences, theology, literature, and other academic subjects

General OneFile
iCONN’s largest collection of articles from magazines, newspapers, academic journals and trade publications.

General Reference Center Gold
Articles from magazines, journals and reference books.

iCONN Newsstand
Search for articles in:

Boston Globe (1980 - ) Christian Science Monitor (1988 - ) Hartford Courant (1992 - ) Los Angeles Times (1985 - )

New York Times (1995 - ) Wall Street Journal (1984 –) Washington Post (1987 - )

¡Informe! (Revistas en Español)
Articles from Spanish/bilingual magazines and newspapers.

E-BOOKS, CATALOGS and READING

E-Reference Books
Search the contents of science, health and history reference books including:

reQuest Statewide Library Catalog
    Main Catalog: Search 400+ Connecticut library catalogs; place interlibrary loan requests for

    materials owned by other libraries and track their status.
    Magazine Catalog: Search for publications and find libraries that subscribe to them.

HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY

AP Images
Biography & Genealogy Master Index
Biography Resource Center
Biographies and images of newsmakers and figures of prominence.

Discovering Collection
Information about People, Places and Events for middle school and up

Hartford Courant – Historical (1764-1922)
Search the earliest years of the Courant.

HeritageQuest
Search U.S. federal censuses, family and local histories, and primary-source documents.

History Reference Center
For history buffs and class

EDUCATION

Educator’s Reference Complete
Focuses on the field of education – articles about school law, child and adolescent psychology, human development, learning disabilities, etc.
BUSINESS and LAW Business & Company Resource Center
Find company and industry information and analysis. LegalTrac
Law and law-related articles from legal journals, business and general-interest publications.
HEALTH and SCIENCE Health & Wellness Resource Center
Consumer and alternative health information Science Reference Center
For science research and projects – articles, biographies and images.
MedlinePlus
Developed by the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health.

Bibliomation
A catalogue of over 40 public, school, and academic libraries in Connecticut.

LION Libraries
A catalogue of  21 libraries who share an Integrated Library System  in Connecticut/

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