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ABC-CLIO
This digital collection of full text books includes materials from all time periods in the United States and Europe.

African American Heritage
Search essential historical records for African Americans, including Federal Census, Marriage and Cohabitation Records, Military Draft and Service Records, Registers of Slaves and Free(d) Persons of Color, Freedman's Bank, and more. (Access to African American Heritage is not available outside of the library.)

America’s Career Infonet
Infonet lists career information including market trends, wage & salary statistics and entrance requirements for a variety of occupations.

Annals of American History
This is a large collection of primary source materials from American history including sound & video from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Ancestry Library Online
This genealogical database includes federal and state census, church, military, court, land, probate, immigration and vital records. (Access to Ancestry.com is not available outside of the library.)

Auto Repair Reference Center
Auto Repair Reference Center contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles with repair information for most vintage models dating back to 1954. New repair procedures and updates are added continuously. Site content includes: more than 65,000 technical service bulletins & recalls issued by the original equipment vehicle manufacturer; wiring diagrams for easy viewing and printing; Labor Time Guide & Estimator; specifications & maintenance schedules; complete guide to vehicle ownership & maintenance; and more than 100,000 factory drawings and step-by-step photographs.

BBC Languages
Offers free online language-learning courses with emphasis on major European languages. Also offers links in 33 languages to the BBC news.

Biography Resource Center
More than 450,000 biographies, including actors, authors, explorers, historical figures, inventors, musicians, Presidents of the United States, scientists and many others.

Breast Cancer Resource Directory of North Carolina
Free comprehensive information, support and resources for North Carolina breast cancer patients and survivors and their families and friends.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Statistics include unemployment rates, average earnings and consumer price index.

Business.gov
This web site gathers information from many federal and state agencies in one location, including information about business licenses, business permits and starting small businesses.

Business Licenses in North Carolina
The North Carolina Commerce web site contains information regarding business licenses required by state agencies and occupational licensing boards.

Consumer Health Complete
Information on aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, and more.

Digital Mooresville
This site has a web-based collection of photographs, documents, maps and images that depict the history of Mooresville from the earliest images to the present. Digital Mooresville preserves and promotes the history and heritage of Mooresville and the surrounding area by making that history available to researchers, teachers, students and others in an online environment.

Digital North Carolina
A digital collection of primary sources from cultural heritage institutions around North Carolina including photographs, yearbooks and government records.

Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South includes books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews and songs related to southern history, literature and culture.

Entrepreneurial Studies Source
Covers topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small business, including key periodicals, reference books, case studies, company profiles and 600+ videos with transcripts from the Harvard Faculty Series and Vator.TV.p>

Environment Complete
Journals on topics including agriculture, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, urban planning, and more.

Faber Poetry Library
This poetry collection includes some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.

FAFSA Free Application for Federal Student Aid
Apply for federal student financial aid online.

Funk & Wagnalls
This encyclopedic database includes over 25,000 full text records covering an array of subject areas.

Gale Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library provides respected essays on varied topics, including the arts, education, environment, medicine, religion, science, social sciences and more, all in E-Book reference title format. All of the articles can be translated from English into Spanish, French, Japanese, simplified Chinese, Italian, Portuguese or Korean.

Health Source: Consumer Edition
Provides access to nearly 80 full-text consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times and many others.

Heritage Quest
Genealogy buffs or historians may search federal census records, family histories, local histories, the Periodical Source Index and more with records from 1700 to the present.

Hoovers
Business research platform allows you to search U.S. and international company listings by industry, size, & geography to create marketing plans, conduct competitive analysis, and raise funds.

Indeed
Indeed searches job sites, newspapers, associations and company career pages.

Internal Revenue Service
Download federal tax forms and instructions from 1980 to the present.

Internal Revenue Service Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA)
The VITA Program offers free tax help to low- to moderate-income (generally $49,000 & below) people who cannot prepare their own tax returns. Certified volunteers receive training to help prepare basic tax returns in communities across the country.

Jobs.com
Search by state, region, or category for jobs.

Lab Tests Online
Get reliable, unbiased help understanding your lab results from this peer-reviewed website provided by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.

Learning Express Library
The Learning Express Library provides online classes and resources for the SAT, ACT and GED. Practice tests are available for the SAT, ACT, GED, ASVAB, high school AP exams, graduate school entrance exams, as well as nursing, real estate, firefighter, cosmetology and police officer exams.

Legal Information Reference Center
Contains hundreds of full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. The full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation's oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.

Live Mocha
Free registration and instruction offered in online language-learning community environment featuring interactive lessons.

Mango Languages
An easy conversation-based system to help you learn 23 languages.

MedlinePlus
Get quick, reliable information about many medical conditions from the National Library of Medicine. This site contains a medical encyclopedia, dictionary, current news, videos and a pharmaceutical drug encyclopedia.

Mooresville Tribune Archives
Access Mooresville Tribune newspapers from 1904-2010.

Morningstar Investment Research Center
The Morningstar Investment Research Center covers mutual funds, stocks and exchange-traded funds for the individual investor. Read in-depth, independent stock and fund reports written by experts with the proprietary Morningstar Rating and Style Box.

NC Health Info
Use this web site to find videos, local health care providers, and reliable health information. This site also includes extensive information about health care for veterans, those currently serving in the military, and their families.

NC Healthcare Help
This web site by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine connects North Carolinians with free and reduced cost healthcare services.

NC LIVE Business Portal
The Business Portal is designed for local entrepreneurs, investors, and small business owners who are looking to get their business started, or grow their customer base, and contains free access to full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal, expensive market research data, demographic mapping, company listings from ReferenceUSA, information on starting a small business, business planning, investment research, and more.

NC LIVE Jobs Portal
A user-friendly starting point for those who are job hunting or looking to jump start their careers, featuring resume and cover letter builders, career information, career-related eBooks, interviewing tips, interactive practice exams, and more.

NC LIVE Video Collection
This collection contains more than 250 high-quality documentary and educational video programs produced for PBS, covering the sciences, U.S. and world history, biographies, current events, the arts, and a variety of other subjects. Several educational series for children are included.

NCpedia
Free and reliable source of information for students and other researchers interested in topics related to North Carolina.

NetLibrary
NetLibrary offers the full text of more than 22,000 full-text books online, including over 600 titles that cover career exploration, resumes, cover letters and interviewing.

Newslink NC Newspapers
Search for jobs in this list of local online newspapers.

NoveList
The NoveList readers' advisory service provides author read-alikes, book discussion guides, reading lists and more for all genres of fiction.

North Carolina Career Resource Network
Career management resources are provided for job seekers, career explorers, educators and counseling professionals.

North Carolina Department of Revenue
Download North Carolina state tax forms and instructions from 1992 to the present.

North Carolina Joblink Career Centers
This web site contains employment and training services to help job seekers find a new or better job.

North Carolina Employment Security Commission
The North Carolina Employment Securities Commission provides employment services, unemployment insurance and labor market information to the State's workers, employers and general public.

North Carolina Office of State Personnel
This web site posts job openings with the state of North Carolina.

North Carolina State Library Jobs
This web site posts job openings available in North Carolina libraries.

North Carolina Taxpayer Service Centers
The North Carolina Department of Revenue lists their office locations throughout the state where staff offer a variety of services ranging from providing North Carolina tax forms to answering questions.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally-recognized source of career information designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives.

O*net Online
This site provides detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, workforce development & HR professionals, students, researchers and more.

Read Arabic!
Funded by the US Department of Education, the materials of Read Arabic! were developed to provide online e-learning reading lessons aimed at beginning and intermediate students of the language.

Read Chinese!
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, these Read Chinese! materials were developed to provide online e-learning reading lessons aimed at beginning and intermediate students of the language.

Sanborn Maps North Carolina
This site contains Sanborn fire insurance maps from 1867-1970 for all parts of North Carolina.

Science Reference Center
Science encyclopedias, reference books, and magazines covering biology, chemistry, earth & space science, life science, physics, and more.

Science Research Center
Magazines, newspapers, biographies, country reports, images, and encyclopedias on health, science, literature, current events, history, and more.

Simply Maps
Get business and marketing data for almost any location in the United States to help you write your business plan.

Simply Hired
Simply Hired allows users to search thousands of job boards, classifieds and company sites.

Small Business Administration
The Small Business Administration provides assistance on starting, expanding and financing a small business.

Small Business Reference Center
Offers a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding. Includes business lectures and ‘how to’ videos, as well as state-specific resources.

Small Engine Repair Reference Center
Detailed, user-friendly repair guides for all manner of small engines.

Snagajob
This web site is a source for hourly and part-time job openings.

Social Networking Tips
This site provides tips/advice on job searches through social networking sites.

ThomasNet
Industrial search engine for finding the exact product, service, or supplier and provides direct access to the detailed information including line-item product details, CAD drawings, and more.

Twentieth Century African-American Poetry
This resource features nearly 9,000 poems by some of the most important African-American poets of the last century.

Twentieth Century American Poetry
This resource includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by more than 300 poets from the last century.

Twentieth Century English Poetry
This resource collects more than 600 volumes of poetry by British poets since 1900.

USA Jobs
An official government web site for Federal job openings.

Wall Street Journal
The financial newspaper of record offers in-depth coverage of national and international finance, as well as coverage of hard news. This web site contains an index of articles from 1981 with many complete articles from1984 to the present.

WebMD
This web site provides timely information about diseases & conditions, health & wellness, and medications. There is a large collection of links to other health resources. WebMD does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

World Book
World Book Online contains every article from the 22-volume encyclopedia plus an atlas, dictionary, World Book Kids, a special North Carolina section, and a Spanish language encyclopedia. Contact the reference desk at 704-663-1062 for log-in information.