Databases

Find up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals.

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Search a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative medical practices.

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Please note that access to Health Databases from EBSCO ended on August 31, 2023. Try some of FBCL’s other resources, including Health & Medicine: Gale OneFile.

Resource for genealogy and family-history research. Includes online and film products dating back to the late 1700s, including digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records, and the digitized version of the popular UMI Genealogy & Local History collection. 

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Search magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference on a range of topics. Best for middle- and high-school students.

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With LearningExpress Library's High School Equivalency Center., you'll find resources to help you build your reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and math skills as well as prepare for the GED^®, HiSET^® and TASC^® tests.

Explore thousands of topics across subjects including literature, science, history, and social issues using different sources.

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Provides access to full-text articles in more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, and more than 130 leading history periodicals. Also includes historical documents, biographies, photos and maps, plus historical videos.

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Please note that access to Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center (EBSCO) ended on August 31, 2023.

Please note that access to Home Improvement Reference Center (EBSCO) ended on August 31, 2023. Try some of FBCL’s other resources, including Home Improvement: Gale OneFile.

Search home improvement topics such as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and more.

Stream movies, music, and audiobooks or check out comics and eBooks from your computer or in an easy-to-use app on your mobile device. All selections are always available!

Plus, with just one borrow, you can get unlimited streaming access to one of multiple BingePass collections like hoopla Magazines, Curiosity Stream, Hellosaurus, The Great Courses, and more! https://www.hoopladigital.com/browse/binge

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Watch a short video tutorial on how to download eBooks/eAudiobooks on hoopla here and a short video tutorial on how to download and stream movies & TV shows on hoopla here. 

Search or browse text-only digital issues of the Houston Chronicle from 1985 to the present, or open the daily full-color image version of the Houston Chronicle from NewsBank.

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Select "View Resource" below and then click on today's date to see today's paper, available each morning. View the entire publication, including the Sunday "Career Search" page. Use the calendar to select from the archive of NewsBank's image version of Houston Chronicle issues dating back to October 24, 2017.

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