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This site was developed by a local Manhasset teenager and offers information and advice on potential career paths for young women.

The Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) is the nation’s oldest program to help low-income, unemployed individuals aged 55+ find work.

AARP’s Small Business Resource Center for People 50+ site offers information, education, and resources for aspiring entrepreneurs and established business owners.

Sites are open annually from late January/early February to April 15. During that time, you can locate a site near you by returning to this page.

Directory of Board Certified Medical Specialists.

Academic OneFile provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.

Gale Academic OneFile Select covers everything from art and literature to economics and the sciences. This resource for academic research integrates the full text of publications from across the disciplines and now includes vocational/technical titles used by community college students, filling a specific need for curriculum-oriented collections.

With over 25 years’ experience, ALLDATA is the leading provider of original manufacturers’ repair information – complete, unchanged and unabridged.

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The ASBCC is a national advocacy group that supports the small business community. It offers a variety of programs and meetings on topics relevant to small businesses.

1790-1930 Census data, passenger lists, birth, death, & marriage records.

Thematically paired fiction and nonfiction titles are designed to bridge learning-to-read and reading-to-learn. Animated classic storybooks introduce early learners to the delights of reading while sparking curiosity, creating a natural springboard into the paired nonfiction text for deeper discovery.

This helpful site identifies county, state and federal economic recovery resources, including grant programs for small businesses.

Includes Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools.

Discover the leading knowledge-building resource that is universally trusted for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish. New features make it more valuable than ever for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish.

Discover the leading knowledge-building resource that is universally trusted for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish. New features make it more valuable than ever for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish.

A source for all grades (Pre-K-12) and all reading abilities. Available at three levels–elementary, middle, and high.

This site provides access to a broad range of Gale research products and includes key business resources on entrepreneurship, business planning and demographic data.

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship is a comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Experience an easy-to-browse interface mapped to four key stages—plan, fund, start, and manage—to fit your research needs at any point in your business’s development.

Gale Business Insights: Essentials delivers authoritative company and industry information, articles, and statistical data. Students, business owners, entrepreneurs, marketing professionals, investors, financial planners, and general researchers can explore real-world applications and develop analytical skills. Gale Business Insights: Essentials features easy-to-search rich content, a user-friendly interface, and robust analytical tools.

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Gale Business: Plan Builder is a step-by-step online planning tool for starting, managing and optimizing a business or nonprofit. The program’s intuitive dashboard walks users through five areas of exploration to develop a business plan focused on long-term success.

Career Cruising is a comprehensive career guidance resource that can help you learn more about your personal interests, find related careers and provide information about required training. It allows you to explore occupations that interest you, search for related jobs, identify educational programs and find financial aid opportunities.

This site serves as a comprehensive video-based career exploration and readiness tool for girls and includes a large collection of career guidance videos focusing exclusively on diverse and accomplished women.

CityTownInfo.com is focused on location-specific information and statistics for 20,000+ communities in the U.S. Whether you’re searching for state-specific career paths, colleges and universities, or a new place for raising a family, CityTownInfo.com provides detailed data points that can help you make a decision about your future.

Provides access to business and technical publications in the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau developed this site to provide information about lending programs for small businesses.

Providing unbiased product ratings and reviews.

Contemporary Authors offers students and patrons continuous access to deep and current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 145,000 of today’s most influential novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters.

Coursera is a free online learning platform that offers job seekers the opportunity to expand their skills and obtain professional certifications through self-paced guided projects, and on-demand courses on a variety of subjects.

Creativebug.com has thousands of award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists.

Provides full-text online access to hundreds of multidisciplinary reference book collections.

Discover a comprehensive periodical collection supporting cooking and nutrition.

Discover a collection of newspapers from across the United States and around the world.

Cypress Resume is an online resume development tool that lets you create professional-quality resumes and cover letters through a series of quick and easy steps.

By examining the details of daily life in past eras, what is often perceived as dry historical information is transformed into engaging material that reveals the true nature of what life was like before.

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Features information on literary figures from all time periods and all genres.

This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator–from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Educator’s Reference Complete seeks to provide full text for titles in the Eric database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty–such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.

A one-stop business incentive website created by New York State and administered by Empire State Development.

Three sites in one: Children, Young Adults, and the Reference Center for older students and adults. Choose the age-appropriate level that works best to conduct research, complete homework assignments, and work on special projects.

Entrepreneur Magazine offers a variety of helpful resources and perspectives on starting and growing a small business.

If you have ever considered exploring franchising opportunities this annual ranking by Entrepreneur Magazine lists the top franchising businesses based on franchise fees, investment requirements, size and growth, operational support and brand strength.

Explora supports both student research and classroom instruction with rich, reliable content and easy-to-use functionality.

Provides access to articles, essays, and videos pertaining to a wide range of topics including animals, art and music, biography, geography, language arts, health, math, science, and social studies.

Online almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia, and homework help site. Many interesting lists, and games too!

Discover a comprehensive periodical collection supporting research in fine arts and music.

K-5 students can search books, magazines & newspapers.

Discover a comprehensive periodical collection supporting research in horticultural studies.

A Comprehensive periodical collection supporting significant aspects of gender in culture and society.

General OneFile provides periodical and news information through an intuitive, user-friendly search interface for researchers at all levels. Content includes more than 12,000 titles in all with nearly 30 years of coverage. Based on the award-winning Gale PowerSearch platform, General OneFile puts approximately 80 million (updated daily) records at users’ fingertips with a single search query.

Stay current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology and hundreds of other areas. More than 200 journals are covered.

This site offers useful company reviews and information for job seekers based on anonymous input from current and former employees.

Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content – with archives that stretch back into the 1980s – from over 2,500 news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites in full-text format. Global Newsstream provides one of the largest collections of news from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Global Newsstream incorporates the U.S. Newsstream, Canadian Newsstream, and International Newsstream databases. All titles are cross searchable on the ProQuest platform.

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Grants Action News is a monthly newsletter with information on federal, state and private grants from the New York State Assembly.

This site provides information for grant seekers on funding opportunities from federal agencies.

Health and Medicine provides access to medical and professional periodicals, health and fitness magazines, and reference books and pamphlets. The database is designed for both nursing and allied health students as well as consumer health researchers. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

A comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Discover the amazing history of you with HeritageQuest Online. It delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past.

Finding aids for a wide variety of collections including yearbooks, periodicals, books and photographs.

Home improvement content that supports both hobbyists and professionals.

Your public library at your fingertips. Anytime, Anywhere.
hoopla is a groundbreaking digital media service offered by your local public library that allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics and TV shows to enjoy on your computer, tablet, or phone – and even your TV! With no waiting, titles can be streamed immediately, or downloaded to phones or tablets for offline enjoyment later. We have hundreds of thousands of titles to choose from, with more being added daily. hoopla is like having your public library at your fingertips. Anytime. Anywhere.

A comprehensive periodical collection supporting hospitality, tourism and leisure topics.

Provides helpful business resources for starting and expanding a business.

Indeed is one of the largest, and most widely used career sites in the world, and allows you to search for opportunities from online job listings, newspapers and job boards through one simple platform.

Detailed knowledge site with special sections just for kids.

A comprehensive periodical collection supporting information science and library issues.

A multidisciplinary collection of over 904 publications, Full Text = 889. . The majority of the publications are in Spanish.

This site from the Internal Revenue Service includes links to basic federal tax information for people who are starting a business, as well as information to assist in making basic business decisions.

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JobNow provides live, interactive online help combined with a variety of online resources to help guide you through the necessary tasks to find your next job. The built-in chat feature allows you to connect with staff members who can provide real-time input on resumes, job interviews and career development.

This site is dedicated to helping teens with little or no experience find jobs. It includes information on current job openings as well as tips on resume writing, interviewing, work permits and volunteering opportunities.

Gain instant access to over 30,000 classic feature films, documentaries, and educational programs free on your computer or mobile device. Kanopy has a strong collection of independent, international, documentary, and early films from providers like Criterion, PBS and Kino Lorber.

Your Manhasset Library card allows you to stream up to 10 titles a month.
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The League is dedicated to ensuring that all eligible voters – particularly those from traditionally underrepresented or underserved communities, including first-time voters, non-college youth, new citizens, minorities, the elderly and low-income Americans – have the opportunity and the information to exercise their right to vote.

The LearningExpress Library offers a variety of tools that can help with your search for a new career. It includes exam prep guidance for a broad range of careers, as well as college admissions exams (ACT, GRE, SAT). It also offers useful information on how to create resumes and cover letters, and provides tutorials for learning basic computer skills.

Overdrive/Nassau Digital Doorway offers over 13,000 eBooks and audiobooks anytime or anywhere!
Download titles on your computer, tablet, smartphone, MP3 player or eBook reader.

The premiere source for business news on Long Island via a weekly business journal and their daily e-newsletter.

Long Island Development Corporation is a regional economic development, not-for profit corporation that makes long term, affordable loans to small businesses.

The Long Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (LIHCC) is a not-for-profit organization that was established to serve the needs of the Long Island minority owned small business community.

LOTE4Kids is an online database of digital picture books in World Languages. The platform provides access to over 3000+ book titles in 65+ World Languages together with English translations.
Download the LOTE4Kids App today!

Photos from the History Center at Manhasset Library.

Covering over 20 million small and mid-size U.S. companies, many privately- owned, Manta provides information including location, estimated sales and number of employees.

Medical information & resources from the National Library of Medicine & National Institute of Health. 

Created specifically for middle school students, Research In Context combines the best of Gale’s reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Categories cover a range of the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, literature, and many more. Research In Context provides engaging reference, periodical, and multimedia content supporting national and state curriculum standards for grades 6 to 12 in language arts, social studies, and science. Middle school students will benefit from an interface that delivers a combination of the highly visual design and navigation preferred by younger users as well as the authoritative content and user-focused tool set needed to support middle school assignments and coursework.

The NYSBDC provides small business owners and entrepreneurs in New York with high-quality, confidential business counseling, training and business research at no cost.

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Manhasset Times- (1927-1986)

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New York Times- 1851-1986

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Full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section or other fields, eliminating random searching through newspaper archives. InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Financial Times (London), The New York Times, The Times (London), USA Today and many others.

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Newsday’s business section offers comprehensive coverage of business activity on Long Island.

Newsday Newspaper- 1940-1987
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NoveList K-8 contains information on fiction books for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children’s “chapter” books and young adult titles. Updated weekly, NoveList K-8 is your starting place for learning about the books that you and your students need and will want to read.

NoveList Plus is a Readers Advisory service with reading recommendations for fiction, nonfiction and audiobooks and includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.

NuWav Legal Documents is the online tool that lets you
create professional-quality legal documents.

O*NET was developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and serves as the nation’s primary source of occupational information. The database contains information on hundreds of occupations and includes valuable assessment tools for workers and students looking to find or change careers.

This career guidance resource offers information on hundreds of occupations. Each occupational profile provides a description of the key responsibilities, the work environment, education and training needs, pay and the job outlook for the occupation.

Current event overviews & opinions.

A comprehensive collection of periodicals supporting pop culture.

A comprehensive collection of popular magazine titles.

This database can help you prepare for the civics, reading and writing portions of the US Naturalization Test. Through a series of 100 informative videos, plus practice exercises and quizzes, you will learn everything you need to know to successfully pass the test. (In English)

Use esta base de datos para prepararse para las partes de educacion civica, lectura, y escritura del Examen de Naturalizacion de los Estados Unidos. En Espanol.

Use this database to prepare for the civics, reading, and writing portions of the US Naturalization Test. (In Spanish.)

Learn 80 foreign languages. Includes 50 ESOL courses & access to U.S. citizenship exam preparation lessons.

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Reference Solutions provides information on over 60 million businesses and 300 million consumers in the US. It is an excellent source for conducting company research, targeting potential customers and locating individuals.

Provides reliable content on almost every core-curricula subject through nonfiction texts, world newspapers, photographs, interactive maps (topographical, historical, and current), and videos. Also included are lesson plans and educator resources.

Search earth science, space, technology, life science, mathematics and biographical resources.

SCORE is a nonprofit association dedicated to helping small businesses get off the ground, grow and achieve their goals through education and mentorship. The organization offers one-on-one business advice, mentoring programs and workshops for entrepreneurs.

The Sid Jacobson JCC offers career coaching services and workshops covering a variety of topics to help job-seekers find their next career.

The SBA is a federal agency fully dedicated to small business and provides counseling, capital and contracting expertise as the nation’s only go-to resource and voice for small businesses.

The US Small Business Administration’s Office of Veterans Business Development lists programs and services including training, counseling, mentorship and oversight of federal procurement programs to support veteran entrepreneurs.

This US Small Business Administration site focuses on women-owned businesses and includes information on training and funding resources for women entrepreneurs.

Small Business Resource Center is a comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs as well as business students. Experience an easy-to-browse interface mapped to four key stages—plan, fund, start, and manage—to fit your research needs at any point in your business’s development.

The Small Business Development Center at Stony Brook University offers a calendar of upcoming workshops and events for small business owners. The site also allows you to access recordings of past events, and includes links to a variety of helpful resources.

This site outlines some of the key steps that are required for starting a business in New York State.

A publication of the United States Census Bureau, an agency of the United States Department of Commerce.

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This helpful site offers advice and resources for job seekers on a broad range of topics including resume writing, interviewing tips and information on how to succeed in your new career.

A curated collection of the best known and most highly regarded math picture books presented in the classic TumbleBook format (full animation and narration). Includes thousands of resources such as lesson plans and quizzes specifically written to address math standards.

Tutor.com is an online tutoring service that allows you to connect with a tutor 24/7 in more than 40 subjects. It also provides services to help you find a job, including career coaching, resume review, and links to other useful resources.

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Twayne’s is devoted to in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers of the world within the context of the time period in which they lived. It provides insightful and original commentary on the history and influence of literary

Search scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, books & videos for events and issues in American history.

Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content – with archives that stretch back into the 1980s – from over 2,500 news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites in full-text format. Global Newsstream provides one of the largest collections of news from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Global Newsstream incorporates the U.S. Newsstream, Canadian Newsstream, and International Newsstream databases. All titles are cross searchable on the ProQuest platform.

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The official United States Government site.

This federal agency site allows you to search patents and trademarks, and provides news and information on policies relating to copyright and intellectual property.

This site provides a list of key steps and resources that can help veterans develop, launch and maintain a small business.

Free online search tool helps consumers search for the best doctors online.

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Full Text Coverage: Dec. 4, 1996-present; Citation/Abstract coverage: Feb 1, 1988 (Vol. 111, no. 58)- present.

Learn about popular jobs, find out how to give a great interview, or read tips on how to reach your work, learning, and personal goals! You can look through all the resources or search by topic.

Online reference offers search engine, atlas, encyclopedia, and dictionary.

Search primary documents, articles, maps & books for historical events and topics.

World Politics Review is a unique database providing uncompromising analysis of critical global trends to give academics, policymakers and businesspeople the context they need to have the confidence they want.

Written by leading experts and on-the-ground influencers, World Politics Review’s substantive content offers comprehensive and detailed perspectives that are as valuable as they are rare. The content is much more current than that found in leading international affairs academic journals, without compromising quality.

World Politics Review includes multiple areas of study, with thousands of articles in its archives and more than 75,000 words of original content produced each month. This robust and authoritative database covers topics of key relevance to foreign policy, international politics and foreign affairs.