Library Notes

Edward Hirst

The New Year brings a wealth of new resources available online through NC Live. You can access these anytime from the comfort of your home or from within the library. You only need an RPL library card number and PIN for access from home.


Art & Architecture Complete: Magazines, journals, trade publications and books covering a variety of art and architecture subjects including antiques, art and art history, interior and landscape design, and more.

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

Entrepreneurial Studies Source: Covers topics relevant to entrepreneurship and small business, including key magazines, reference books, case studies, and company profiles.

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

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.

Points of View: Provides students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. This resource provides more than 280 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide.

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 information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding.

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

In addition NC LIVE has upgraded other resources, with additional content and new features:

Academic Search Complete: Magazines and journals on many subjects, includes peer-reviewed and scholarly works.

Business Source Complete: Journals, peer-reviewed publications, magazines on a wide range of topics including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.

Literary Reference Center Plus: Articles and criticisms, including peer-reviewed, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, poems, and literary magazines.

MAS Complete: For high school and junior college students. They include magazines, original historical documents, such as The Bill of Rights, The Constitution, The Federalist Papers and the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Novelist K-8 Plus: Reader's advisory service for fiction and nonfiction titles, designed to support the curriculum and kids’ pleasure reading. This is easily searchable by author, title, series name, plot, and lexile level with author read-alikes and lists of award-winners.