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Gale Legal Forms

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Provides a wide selection of legal forms (including those specific to Indiana) across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord tenant and many others.

Value Line

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Value Line is one of the most widely used independent investment information services in the world. Provides a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 98 industries, the stock market, and the economy.

Accelerated Reader (AR)

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Looking for Accelerated Reader (AR) books for school? Read the Books will help you find the right book to read. 

Read the Books gives links to local AR lists and also lists books by series, author, and topic to make it easy for kids to find accessible, interesting reading material. 

BiblioBoard

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Get instant and unlimited access to community-created content, local, self-published books, a wide range of public domain research content (including Literature, Philosophy, Geography History, and Science), and thousands of other always available titles!
Sign up for BiblioBoard at home with your library card or visit any of our branches to sign up! You can access BiblioBoard here or download the app for your Apple, Android, or Kindle device.

Hoopla

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hoopla is a service that brings you thousands of movies, television, music, and audiobook titles for free. All you need is a library card and a web browser, phone, or tablet. To see how to get started with hoopla, view our library tutorial here.

Libby

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Borrow ebooks, eaudiobooks, emagazines, and more from your local public library - anywhere, anytime. All you need is a library card. 

You can browse the same collection on the classic Overdrive website at idl.overdrive.com.

TeachingBooks

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An engaging collection of resources that brings books to life.If you're looking for a site with helpful K-12 resources and activities focused on books and authors, TeachingBooks.net will have something for you.

Consumer Health Complete

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A comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content, Consumer Health Complete is designed to support the information needs of patients and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This resource provides content covering all key areas of health and wellness, from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. 

This resource is available via INSPIRE. INSPIRE is Indiana's Virtual Online Library, a collection of academic databases and other information resources that can be accessed by Indiana residents using any computer equipped with Internet access in Indiana. INSPIRE is a service of the Indiana State Library, supported by the Indiana General Assembly through Build Indiana Funds, The Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act and in partnership with the Academic Libraries of Indiana.

Health Insurance Information

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This is Muncie Public Library's guide to Health Insurance Information, including Affordable Care Act (sometimes known as Obamacare), obtaining coverage through the state of Indiana or with the help of a Healthcare Navigator, and protecting yourself from fraud. 

Health Source: Consumer Edition

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A collection of consumer health information providing access to over 80 full-text consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Harvard Health Letter, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times and many others. Also included in this database is searchable full text for current health-related pamphlets and over 100 health reference books. Additionally, the database contains nearly 10,000 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish) and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. Topics covered include AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition and dietetics, children's health, women's health and more.

This resource is available via INSPIRE. INSPIRE is Indiana's Virtual Online Library, a collection of academic databases and other information resources that can be accessed by Indiana residents using any computer equipped with Internet access in Indiana. INSPIRE is a service of the Indiana State Library, supported by the Indiana General Assembly through Build Indiana Funds, The Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act and in partnership with the Academic Libraries of Indiana.

MedlinePlus

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MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's website for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions and wellness issues in language you can understand.

Ancestry Library

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A genealogy resource containing approximately 4000 databases of census, vital, church, court, emigration/immigration records; birth, marriage, & death records; military records; and voter records. Content ranges from the 13th to the 21st century and provides billions of indexed names. In addition to coverage for the United States and the United Kingdom, there are record collections for Canada, Europe and Australia. Available from Library only.

Fold3 Library Edition

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Fold3 Library Edition is the perfect resource for researching your ancestors' military past. This database provides quick and easy access to over 500 million indexed and digitized military records, including service records, documents, photos, draft cards, and more for those who served.

HeritageQuest Online

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HeritageQuest Online® offers a collection of more than 4.4 billion resources and records pertaining to local and family histories, research guides, census maps, primary sources, and more. 

Powered by Ancestry®, this amazing collection consists of the following core data sets:

  • Census collection contains over 700 million records from the U.S. Federal Census 1790-1940, and national censuses including Argentina, Netherlands, Czech Republic and several other countries.
  • Books collection contains over 22,000 family and local histories, compiled genealogies, documentary collections, church records, military records, vital records, city and county histories, and more.
  • City Directories with over 1.5 million records from various US city and county directories during 1821-1989.
  • Military Records containing over 2 million records from selected state and country military records including the US Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files 1800-1900, US Records of Confederate Prisoners of War 1861-1865, and US Remarried Widows Index to Pension Applications 1887-1942.
  • Wills and Probate Records has more than 170 million pages from the largest collection of wills and probate records in the United States, with searchable records included from all 50 states spread over 337 years (1668-2005).
  • Freedman’s Bank contains an index and original images of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company's registers of Signatures of Depositors 1865-1871.
  • US Serial Set (subset) contains more than 140,000 private relief actions, memorials, and petitions drawn from the records published "serial" fashion from the US Senate and House of Representatives 1769-1969.
  • Maps & Photos includes US Indexed County Land Ownership Maps 1860-1910, US Enumeration District Maps and Descriptions 1940, US Indexed Early Land Ownership and Township Plats 1785-1898, and Library of Congress Photo Collection 1840-2000.

Muncie/Delaware County Digital Resource Library

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Muncie Public Library has been digitizing Muncie and Delaware County records since the 1990s and provides the Muncie/Delaware County Digital Resource Library for free (no library card required!).  Collections include Delaware County Court Documents, Delaware County Wills, Delaware County Deeds, Obituary Index, Funeral Home Records, and Beech Grove Cemetery Records.

MyHeritage

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Millions of families around the world use MyHeritage to explore their history. Collaborate with members and join the thousands who reunite with long-lost relatives every single day through our network.

Newspapers.com Collections

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Newspapers.com provided us with a limited collection of Muncie newspapers from The Star/The Star Press and The Muncie Daily Herald for the following years:

The Star Press: 1970 

The Muncie Daily Herald: 1892 - 1906

Note: These two newspaper collections are all that Muncie Public Library can provide access to via Newspapers.com and only from within any Muncie Public Library branch. The full Newspapers.com subscription is not available at Muncie Public Library.

For access to all other Muncie newspapers on microfilm, please visit Carnegie Library.

Explora

Description

Explora is a research interface designed specifically for students and educators, with a focus on the arts, literature, biography, current events, geography and culture, health, history, math, science and more.

Explora for Elementary

Explora for Middle School

Explora for High School

Explora for Public Libraries

This resource is available via INSPIRE. INSPIRE is Indiana's Virtual Online Library, a collection of academic databases and other information resources that can be accessed by Indiana residents using any computer equipped with Internet access in Indiana. INSPIRE is a service of the Indiana State Library, supported by the Indiana General Assembly through Build Indiana Funds, The Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act and in partnership with the Academic Libraries of Indiana.

Foundation Directory

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Foundation Directory Professional allows non-profit organizations seeking grants to search thousands of funding organizations and grant recipients, read application guidelines and program summaries, view 990 tax returns, to analyze funding trends and research potential funders. Visit a Muncie Public Library location for access.

Muncie Public Library is a member of Candid’s Funding Information Network (FIN). With the grant databases and the library’s Fundraising Collection, you can find organizations whose areas of interest match yours, view foundations' IRS 990-PF tax documents, learn to write strong grant applications, improve non-profit management skills, learn new fundraising strategies, work with boards and volunteers, follow trends in philanthropy, and more. View the Grant Resource Guide for helpful links to more available books, articles, websites, and videos. You may also send us a search request, and a librarian will send you results from Foundation Directory Online (FDO) Professional within 1-2 business days. Fill out the Grant Research Request form to begin.

Foundation Grants to Individuals

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Foundation Grants to Individuals allows individual grant seekers such as students, artists, researchers to search thousands of funding organizations for scholarships, fellowships, loans, and internships, and search by school or corporation. Visit a Muncie Public Library location for access.

Muncie Public Library is a member of Candid’s Funding Information Network (FIN). With the grant databases and the library’s Fundraising Collection, you can find organizations whose areas of interest match yours, view foundations' IRS 990-PF tax documents, learn to write strong grant applications, improve non-profit management skills, learn new fundraising strategies, work with boards and volunteers, follow trends in philanthropy, and more. View the Grant Resource Guide for helpful links to more available books, articles, websites, and videos. You may also send us a funding search request, and a librarian will send you results from Foundation Directory Online (FDO) Professional within 1-2 business days. Fill out the Grant Research Request form to begin.

Grant Resource Guide

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This is Muncie Public Library's guide to resources for grant seekers. Use this guide to learn more about how to use the directories available, where to find statistics for your grant applications and reports, how to start a nonprofit organization, and more.

Guide to Civics

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This is Muncie Public Library's guide to resources for learning about Civics. Civics is about the rights and responsibilities of citizens at the local, state, national, and global levels as well as the history of our nation as a democracy.

INSPIRE

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INSPIRE is Indiana's Virtual Library. It offers access to more than 50 databases that include biographies, magazines and scholarly journal articles, newspaper articles (often most recent 30 days), reviews, ebooks, and images. LearningExpress Library offers practice tests for SAT, GED, AP, LSAT, GRE, GMAT and many other tests for high school, college, graduate school, and careers. The Biography Reference Center allows searching for short biographies. Other popular resources include Teachingbooks.net, Rosetta Stone (level 1), Legal Information Reference Center, and Indiana Memory.

INSPIRE is a service of the Indiana State Library, supported by the Indiana General Assembly through Build Indiana Funds, The Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act and in partnership with the Academic Libraries of Indiana.

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Local Resources & Assistance

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This is Muncie Public Library's guide to Local Resources & Assistance. Click the title to find information about Government Officials & Offices; Health, Human Services & Public Assistance; Local Special Needs Resources; Muncie Recreation Guide; Newspapers and Media Outlets; and Voting & Citizenship Information

NoveList (Plus)

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Novelist is designed to help readers connect with great books. Using Novelist, you can enter a favorite title, author, series, or plot element, and find an extensive listing of suggested titles that you might also enjoy. Or if you already have a favorite genre, use Novelist to browse lists of books in that category to find authors and titles you might have missed.

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