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Connecticut Digital Library

What is it?

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Connecticut Digital Library

It’s free

It’s on the Web

It’s available 24 x 7

It’s accessible from home

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Need News?

Access the full text of any article from: The Hartford Courant – 1992 to the present The New York Times – last 12 months The Times (London) – 1997 to the present Sunday Times (London) – 1997 to the present Washington Post – 1996 to the present Christian Science Monitor – 1996 to the present

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The Hartford Courant

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Need a Book?

Search over 300 library catalogs in CT simultaneously over the Web

Request the item you want Track the status of your request

Search any other library catalog In Connecticut In the world

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reQuest Statewide Library Catalog

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Need a Biography?

Choose from over 100,000 biographies Linked to full-text articles, book review

excerpts, images and much more From antiquity to the present

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Wilson Biographies Plus

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Need an article?

Search 3,100 magazine titles simultaneously 1980 to the present

Search hundreds of magazine titles appropriate for students at: Elementary schools Middle schools High schools Colleges

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Articles for Elementary Schools

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Articles for High Schools

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Articles for Adults

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Need Information in Spanish?

Choose articles from 50 popular Spanish-language and bilingual magazines

El Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL) Spanish-language newspaper

Search interface in English and Spanish

Presents titles in both Spanish and English

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Informe

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Need Business Information?

Accurate, current information on more than 300,000 companies

Company profiles, inc. parent/sibling relationships

Industry rankings

Products and brands

Company performance ratings

Industry statistics

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Need Business Information?

Investment reports

Current investment ratings

Pricing momentum and key ratio measures

Financial ratios

Coverage of major business events and trends from 1983 to present

And much more …

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Business and Company Resource Center

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Need Health Information?

Search nearly 400 health/medical journals 800 pamphlets 2,100 general interest publications Encyclopedias of medicine, childhood &

adolescence Alternative health module PDR Family Guide to Health and Nutrition And much more …

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Health and WellnessResource Center

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Try It!

www.iconn.org

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Why?

Provide equitable access to a substantial, core level of information resources for

every citizen - all ages every school - students and teachers; all grades every library – regardless of community size or

wealth

Provide access anytime and anywhere

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Dollars and Sense

It costs the state $2 million per year to provide these electronic information databases

It would cost libraries, schools and colleges a total of $22.8 million per year to purchase the same databases individually

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Demand is Spiraling

Users conducted a total of:

87,314 searches in July 99,178 searches in August (+ 13%) 310,635 searches in September (+ 213%) 573,548 searches in October (+ 85%)

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Brought to you by

Connecticut General Assembly

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At the recommendation of

Lieutenant Governor M. Jodi Rell

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Administered by

Connecticut State Library

in conjunction with

State Department of Higher Education

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For further information

Contact your local library Contact the Connecticut Digital Library

office at:

(888) 256-1222 (toll-free in CT)

[email protected] (Jane Emerson)

[email protected] (Bill Sullivan)

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Epilogue

Information is the currency of democracy.

-- Thomas Jefferson