Celebrate National Library Week by exploring additional, FREE databases offered by vendors:

Gale, one of our major vendors, offers the widget below to gain free access (this week only) to:
  * Archives Unbound — cross-searchable digital collections of historical documents
  * Career Transitions — a new electronic resource offering a comprehensive guide to career change
  * Global Issues in Context — global news and perspectives on issues and events of international importance
  * GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) — authoritative reference content on the environment, energy, economic development and natural resources 
  * Grzimek's Animal Life — an interactive, media-rich online resource, with information on more than 4,000 species

Another major vendor is ProQuest - by visiting their Celebrate National Library Week link, you can explore free access to:
 * CultureGrams™ - explore the world's cultures with local experts
 * ProQuest eLibrary® - subjects from millions of multimedia-rich, global resources. [Try it out!]
 * ProQuest® African American Heritage - brings together records critical to African American family history research
 * ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ - Black Newspapers experience history firsthand via continuous runs of the following full-image titles: The Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, and New York Amsterdam News

Last but not least, H.W. Wilson offers Careers - from their Current Issues database series. Careers offers a wide array of information on diverse careers in a single vetted source.

We hope you enjoy the free information!

Don't forget to celebrate your Library this week!

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