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ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
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This business database includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics for more than 1,250 publications, with over 1,125 in full-text regarding major trade and industry news. Users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others.
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Alt-PressWatch™
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Alt-PressWatch™ showcases unique, independent voices from some of our nation’s most respected and cited grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals. The database features over 500,000 articles from more than 190 publications, offering a wide range of unfettered, critical coverage of the news. All of these varied alternative and independent presses are presented in 100% full text, allowing researchers total access to both regional and metropolitan perspectives on local, national, and international issues.
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Ancestry Library
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ProQuest has partnered with Ancestry.com to provide one of the most important genealogical collections available today with unparalleled coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom. This collection of thousands of collections containing billions of names includes census records, passenger immigration lists, vital records (birth/marriage/death), war and muster lists, court/land records, images, indexes, narratives and much more.
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Auto Repair Reference Center
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Car repair, wiring diagrams, maintenance schedules and labor/time estimation for about 23,000 domestic and imported vehicles from 1954 to the present. Uses information from Chilton manuals and includes factory drawings and step-by-step photographs.
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index
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This database is a first stop index tool for learning where to look for biographical material on people from all time periods, geographical locations and fields of endeavor. Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes any print product that includes biographical information on multiple persons. It also acts as an index to other indexes. Covers more than 13 million citations.
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Biography Resource Center
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The Biography Resource Center is a comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. It contains approximately 250,000 biographies, and full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals.
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Bookflix
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BookFlix is a fun, interactive literacy resource that builds a love of reading and learning – online! Pairing classic fictional video storybooks and nonfiction eBooks, BookFlix reinforces reading skills and develops essential real-world knowledge and understanding. BookFlix is accessible to every child – early readers, reluctant readers, and English Language Learners.
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Brainfuse - Homework Help
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Free online homework help & skills-building tutoring.
Live Homework Help, Skills Building and Writing Workshop for grades 3-12. College students may also find the skills review and writing workshop helpful. One-to-one online tutors are available from 1-10 pm, seven days per week. Spanish-speaking tutors are also available.
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Brainfuse - JobNow
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JobNow offers personal job coaching and assistance for patrons at all phases of their job search as well as resume and cover letter review and live interview practice. JobNow also has an extensive collection of resources, including resume/cover letter templates, interview tips, general sample interview questions, industry-specific sample interview questions, and a vast array of online resources and links.
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Business & Company Resource Center
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Business & Company Resource Center (BCRC) brings together in a single database company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals. Search this database to find detailed company and industry news and information. A version-4 or better browser and Java is required for some features to work.
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Computer Database
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Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology. Coverage from 1980.
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Consumer Reports.org
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One of the most trusted resources for information and advice on consumer products, ConsumerReports.org contains information that enables consumers to make better purchasing decisions by providing ratings and reviews, recommendations and buying advice. In addition, users will find advice and tips on saving money on home improvement plans, how to shore up personal finances, ways to improve health and much more.
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CultureGrams Online
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CultureGrams Online provides country reports that deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of 200+ countries, all 50 United States, and the Canadian Provinces. Each report covers history, geography, economy, languages, traditions, customs, national anthems, life as a kid, biographies, recipes, photos, videos, slideshows, flags, greetings, gestures, dating/marriage, art, culture and much more.
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eLibrary®
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One of the largest general reference collections of periodical and digital media content designed to support every range of user, including elementary students, college-prep and college-level researchers, and professional educators. Includes more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts, plus thousands of maps (some are interactive!), pictures, weblinks, podcasts and audio/video files.
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eLibrary® Elementary
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eLibrary® Elementary tailors all the media types and search functionality of eLibrary for the young reader. Students can use the colorful, graphical search interface to find the answers they need from more than 130 magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps, images, weblinks, and audio/video titles, all selected as appropriate for elementary school studies.
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Ethnic Newswatch™
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This is a full-text database that features newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic and minority press. Of the more than 1,000,000 articles contained in the collection, nearly a quarter are presented in Spanish. Also includes Asian-American, Jewish, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European, and multi-ethnic content. Titles include New York Amsterdam News, Asian Week, Jewish Exponent, Seminole Tribune, and many more.
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Expanded Academic ASAP
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Expanded Academic ASAP offers balanced coverage on a wide-range of topics including social sciences, humanities, education, science and technology. Coverage from 1980.
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Gale Literary Databases
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Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
Contemporary Literary Criticism collects more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical, principal works, and further study information.
Dictionary of Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary figures from all eras and genres.
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General Business File ASAP
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General Businessfile ASAP Index brings together indexing to many business-related periodicals, including titles with full text of articles. It currently includes more than 5 million articles. Search this database to find general business, company and industry news and information. Broader periodicals coverage than in the companion Business and Company Resource Center database.
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General Reference Center
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A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources - newspapers, reference books, magazines, and trade publications. Find articles on current events, popular culture, business and industry trends, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more. Coverage from 1980.
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Health & Wellness Resource Center
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Provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc., and articles from 2,200 general interest publications in addition to a broad collection of Gale reference titles. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
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HeritageQuest
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An invaluable database that includes privately scanned images of the U.S. census records… Periodical Source Index (PERSI)…Freedman’s Bank Records… the U.S. Serial Set… Revolutionary War records… and over 27,000 digitized local and family history books from the popular UMI® Genealogy & Local History microfilm collection and the American Antiquarian Society book collection.
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History Resource Center
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The History Resource Center: U. S. provides integrated access to over 1,000 historical (primary) documents, more than 30,000 reference articles, and over 65 full-text journals covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The materials also includes access to the citations for over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
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Image Archives
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Over 40,000 photographs of Tacoma, Pierce County and the Pacific Northwest from as early as the late 1800’s are featured in this database. Searchable by keyword and subject, this is a wonderful resource for historians, researchers, students, genealogists and anyone curious about the region’s history. Additions are made often, and staff works hard to provide as much verifiable information as possible with each image to help with your research.
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InfoTrac General OneFile
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A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
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InfoTrac Kids Edition - K12
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A database designed for elementary students with easy access to full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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JuniorQuest Magazines
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A database of articles from key magazines selected for student researchers.
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Legal Trac
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Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in LegalTrac®. Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, LegalTrac® provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac® is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac® also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.
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Literature Resource Center
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Literature Resource Center is your most current, comprehensive, and reliable online resource for research on literary topics, authors, and their works. You'll find full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
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Military and Intelligence Database
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The Military and Intelligence Database periodical list has been hand-selected by Gale editors to meet the content needs of libraries serving military personnel. Additionally, the product includes some basic reference materials that are updated annually: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and The World Almanac and Book of Facts.
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Mountaineers Climbs 1912-1916
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Through the eyes of Mary Paschall, an avid Mountaineer, the group's 1912 summer challenge was to explore "the least known parks and glaciers" on the North side of Mount Rainier. This web site chronicles a series of adventures of the Mountaineers from 1912 to 1916 told in their own words and photographs.
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Murray's People
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A collection of essays about the facinating people who explored, settled and developed Tacoma and the Puget Sound region. The stories were selected by librarian Gary Fuller Reese from more than 30 years of newspaper & magazine articles, books, radio broadcasts and other writings by the distinguished historian, author and educator Murray Morgan.
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Northwest Facts
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Often people are curious about something in the area, or an event that has happened regionally—and would like to find out more. This database is a great place to start. Searchable by both keyword and topic, you can find citations about your subject and also many full text articles, accessible in the Northwest Room of the Tacoma Public Library.
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Northwest People
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Looking for information on people who are or were prominent locally and regionally? We have identified articles that feature people in business, politicians, community activists, pioneers, athletes, artists, etc. that may help you find the information you need. You can easily browse by last name, or search by name or keyword—and the citations to relevant articles will be listed. There are also links to many full text articles that can be viewed in their entirety in the Northwest Room of the Tacoma Public Library.
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Northwest Postcard Database
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The Tacoma Public Library has an extensive collection of postcards. Postcards have been a popular, inexpensive way to record visits, promote cities and attractions, and keep in touch since the Postal Service changed regulations to allow images on one side of what had been known as postal cards. Many postcards have survived to become a significant visual record. The library has maintained a collection of regional postcards as an important source of the history of this area. The postcards can be searched by keyword or category, and include the written messages where available. Well over 2,000 cards have been scanned into the database, with about 700 of these completely viewable currently—including cards from several local collectors.
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NoveList
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NoveList is great source for helping readers find new books to read. Search for a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles of interest. Or, enter words that describe the contents of a book they would like to read, and NoveList retrieves titles that contain these words in the book's subject headings field. Browse theme-oriented booklists, award lists, and fiction related websites. It's also good for finding the books in a particular series.
NoveList contains materials for all ages including picture books, children's "chapter" books, young adult titles and books for adult readers.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, it features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.
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PROMT
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PROMT -- Predicast Overview of Markets and Technology. Use this database to research companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete. Includes summaries and full text from nearly 1,000 business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, news releases, and investment and brokerage firm reports.
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ProQuest National Newspapers
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A collection of five of the top national newspapers in text format: New York Times (1980 -- current), Wall Street Journal (1984 -- current ), L.A. Times (1985 -- current ), Washington Post (1987 -- current ), Christian Science Monitor (1988 – current)
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ReferenceUSA Business Database
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Directory of 11 million American companies -- all searchable by location, SIC, activity, number of employees, telephone number and address.
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ReferenceUSA Canadian Business Database
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Directory of 1.3 million Canadian businesses.
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ReferenceUSA Residential Database
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Directory of 120 million U.S. households
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Religion and Philosophy
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Features a custom selection of more than 250 magazines and academic journals covering religion and the related areas of philosophy,
archaeology and anthropology.
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Science Resource Center
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Researching science topics has never been easier -- with Science Resource Center, thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations are just a few clicks away and the latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify content directly correlated to state and national standards.
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Ships & Shipping
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A guide to more than 13000 ships which passed through the Port of Tacoma, with details on the names (and former names) of vessels, their builders, careers, and history
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Song Index at the Tacoma Public Library
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Index to songs in books and sheet music on file at the Tacoma Public Library's Main Library
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South Sound Photo Album
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Selected photographs from the extensive Library photo archives appear daily in the South Sound Photo Album feature in the News Tribune. This database brings together all the images that have appeared since 2001.
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Tacoma/Pierce County Buildings Index
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This comprehensive source indexes home construction news in Tacoma newspapers from 1883 through 1950. Look under your address to see if your house received newspaper coverage during its construction. It will list the architect, contractor and building style for your address, if known. It will indicate if architectural plans for your house are known to exist. It indexes the Tacoma Public Library photograph collections for photographs of Tacoma homes. It may even reveal a murder, suicide, party, wedding or other "event" that took place in your house. The Pierce County Buildings Index also indexes over 200 books related to Tacoma architecture or history. Nearly 50,000 addresses are covered.
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Tacoma/Pierce County Obituary Index
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An index listing when the obituaries of some 370,000 individuals appeared in local newspapers (microfilm of the original obituaries can be accessed at the downtown Main Library). This file is complete from 1984 to the present day. An additional 110,000 names (from 1930 to 1983) are also included in this index, but those years are by no means complete.
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Teacher Journals
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Search selected professional educators' titles covering current issues in education
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Testing & Education Reference Center
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Powered by Peterson's, the Testing & Education Reference Center is a resource of unprecedented value for public, academic, and K-12 library users everywhere. Testing & Education Reference Center helps your patrons prepare for the future in ways never before possible.
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UMI Proquest Adult
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Articles from over 4,100 magazines, journals and newspapers.
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Unsettling Events
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True-life tales which chillingly capture the dark side of our State's history.
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Washington Place Names
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Ever wonder how Sequim got its name, who named Spirit Lake, or why there's a town called Yelm? This unique resource, created and edited by Garry Fuller Reese, provides the who, what, when and why about thousands of place names throughout the state.
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Washington State Legal Forms
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Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's language.
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Washington State Newsstand
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A comprehensive database that offers several Washington State newspapers and publications in one cross-searchable platform. The collection includes publications like: Columbian, The Everett Herald, Spokane Journal of Business, The News Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Times, Spokesman Review, Tri-City Herald, Yakima Herald Republic and much more!
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WOIS/The Career Information System
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WOIS (Washington Occupational Information System) provides a multitude of tools to help you decide what you might want to do with the rest of your life, including a self-assessment questionnaire that matches skills, abilities and preferences with occupations; and an information database which can help you sort through the postsecondary schools in Washington state to find those that meet your needs.To Access from Home call Quick Information at (253) 591-5666 for the current site key.
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