Most of these databases require that you enter your 14 digit Woodstock library card number (21567...) before accessing, if you have any problems please contact a reference librarian using the Contact Us form or call 815-338-0542. Reference librarians are specially trained to search for all kinds of information.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE CHANGE-- Access for the Chicago Tribune is now provided by ProQuest, allowing complete searching of the newspaper from 1844-2011 in one search.
- AncestryLibrary (Genealogy - available within the library only)
- Chicago Tribune (ProQuest - Chicago Tribune from 1849 to current day's paper)
- Ebsco Databases (Download Audio & eBooks, Consumer Health, Literary Resource Center, MasterFile Elite, Automobile Repair Center)
- FirstSearch (WorldCat and multiple reference databases)
- Flickr (Historical Woodstock, Library and Staff Photographs )
- Gale Student Resource Center (Reference books, magazine, journal and newspaper articles)
- HeritageQuest (Genealogy)
- LearningExpress (Practice tests and eBooks)
- MyMediaMall (streaming video, eBooks, audiobooks)
- NetLibrary (eBooks, Audiobooks). NetLibrary is now owned by EBSCO - login using your Woodstock library card number, and select the Ebsco database that lists "download eBooks & audiobooks". First-time (and former NetLibrary users) will need to create a new Ebsco sign in to download books.
- NewsBank (Chicago Sun Times (from 1986+), regional Illinois newspapers, New York Times (2000+), Northwest Herald 2005+) If you get the a User Name & Password prompt then please copy and paste this URL into your address bar and click enter http://infoweb.newsbank.com/signin/WoodstockPublic
- Novelist and NovelistK8 (Series information, Lexile Codes, book and author recommendations)
- ReferenceUSA (company research). This link currently does not work using Firefox, please access using Internet Explorer. We are working on the problem.
- TumbleBooks (animated online books for children, in English, Spanish and French)
- World Book Reference Center (World Book Encyclopedia and more)
