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The Tennessean (2002-Present)
Full-text articles from The Tennessean newspaper. Provides Nashville and Middle Tennessee regional coverage.
Academic OneFile
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers in all major disciplines. Coverage from 1980's to present.
Agriculture
Provides authoritative periodical content that spans the industry—from practical aspects of farming to cutting-edge scientific research in horticulture.
AudioBookCloud
All ages audiobook database including Spanish audiobooks. Made available by Tumblebooks.com until August 31, 2020.
Books & Authors
Looking for a good book, but not sure where to start? Books & Authors explores today’s popular fiction and non-fiction titles as well as the classics of yesterday. This is a great resource for readers' advisory.
Business
Coverage of all business disciplines, including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management and strategy, as well as business theory and practice.
Business Insights: Essentials
Provides in depth coverage of businesses, including company profiles, industry profiles, products and brands, financial reports, company rankings, histories, and full-text periodical articles.
Career Transitions
Career Transitions is an online career guidance center that walks users through the job-search process from beginning to end. It brings together all the tools needed to explore and take the leap to a new career. Includes a resume and cover letter builder.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present including 125 newspapers from Tennessee.
Communications And Mass Media
Provides access to academic journals and magazines focusing on all aspects of the communications field, including advertising, public relations, linguistics, and more. Formerly known as Communications and Mass Media Collection.
Criminal Justice
Provides access to academic journals and magazines on topics in criminal justice and related fields, including law, law enforcement, security, forensic science, and homeland security. Formerly known as Criminal Justice Collection.
Culinary Arts
Focuses on all aspects of cooking and nutrition with thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information. Formerly known as Culinary Arts Collection.
Digital Library of Tennessee
The Digital Library of Tennessee provides free access to unique materials from museums, libraries, and archives across the state.
Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
Diversity Studies
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community. Formerly known as Diversity Studies Collection.
eBooks & Audiobooks
It's easy to checkout eBooks, downloadable audiobooks, and other digital items from Tennessee libraries. All you need is your library card to get started.
Economics And Theory
Provides academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics and related fields with an emphasis on titles indexed in the American Economic Association's EconLit bibliography. Formerly known as Business, Economics, and Theory Collection.
Educator's Reference Complete
Covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college with topics such as administration, bilingual education, child development, education policy, and technology. Many of the full-text titles included are also found in the ERIC database.
Elementary: Gale In Context
Covers a broad range of elementary school topics in one accessible resource. It features a modern, graphical interface that improves navigation understanding to offer students an introduction to database searching. Formerly known as Kids InfoBits.Pages
Tennessee Secretary of State
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