Reference Services * Internet & Databases * Book Reviews

Reference Services

The Library offers in-person and telephone reference services, or you may e-mail your question. If the Library is closed, the New Jersey State Library offers Jersey Clicks, a one pass searching across multiple magazine databases and online chat reference and tutor.com, homework help during after school hours. You can also get immediate information through Q&A NJ.  Or try one of the following websites:

• Morris County Library Reference

• New Jersey Statewide Reference Center

• Internet Public Library

• Librarians' Index to the Internet

Internet & Databases

The Library has seven computers available for public use. Five have access to the Internet and the following databases. Items with a link provided are also available from your home computer -- library card number required. Items without a link provided can only be accessed in the library.

Wireless Internet Access
The library now offers wireless Internet access to anyone with a laptop and a wireless networking card.

• American National Biography

• Career Search - Encyclopedia of Careers & Vocational Guidance

• CountryWatch

• Country Reports

• Facts-on-File* Databases, including:

  History Database Center

  • American History (including Landmark Documents in American History)

  • World History

  • American Women’s History

  • African American History & Culture

  • American Indian History & Culture

  • Ancient History & Culture

  Curriculum Resource Center
  Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition
  Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
  Forms On File™
  Government On File
  Health Reference Center
  Science Online
  World Atlas

• In the First Person -- oral history database including letters, diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, and other personal narratives.

• Informe!* -- Revistas en Espanol

• Teen Ink -- a monthly print magazine, website, and a book series all written by teens for teens.

• Kids Connect -- Children’s Activities

• Literary Databases

  MagillOnLiterature
  Novelist*
  Contemporary Authors

• Magazine Databases

  EBSCOhost*
  ProQuest

• Custom Newspapers (New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Post & Bergen Record)

• Reference USA* – Businesses Profiled through Jersey Clicks. Once you have logged in with your barcode, the link to Reference USA will be on the right hand side of the page.

• Star-Ledger

*These databases funded by the NJ State Library.