Online Resources

African American Song chronicles African American history in music through the 1970s. This database’s 50,000 tracks include music from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Movement and also feature the works of popular jazz, blues, and soul musicians. Experience this cultural journey in sound.

American Song is a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more. This release includes 728 albums -- over 12103 tracks.

Coverage of U.S. and international news, business, lifestyle, entertainment, sports, and science and technology from familiar magazines.

Locate Obits and Death notices from over 650 newspapers from across the United States.

Provides access to a wide range of resources for genealogical and historical research. Full access available in the library.

BookLetters e-mails are an easy and fun way to find out about new books and material. By signing up, timely notices of selected material can conveniently be delivered right to your home or office inbox.

Provides complete repair information on thousands of makes and models of vehicles. Available in the library or from home with your library card.

Provides full text news articles dating from 1980, updates from Reuters wire service, maps, photos, historical documents and overviews of key issues. Available in the library or from home with your library card.

The Classical Music Library contains a searchable database with tens of thousands classical recordings. Also included are biographical details about many composers (linked to their recordings) and play lists designed to follow the curriculum of major music history and appreciation textbooks.

Daviess County Public Library E-books are a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources.

Provides access to one of the largest collections of genealogy material in the country.Available in the library or from home with your library card.

Download best selling titles in Audio Book, eBook, Music or Video format any time.

Enables you to find books, magazine articles, statistics and more. Easy and convenient access to over 30 databases and research tools. Obtain a User ID & password from the Reference staff.

Offers simple answers to everyday legal questions. Available in the library or from home with your library card.

Provides online test preparation including practice tests for civil service exams, college entrance exams and more. Track your progress online. Available in the library or from home with your library card.

Provides searchable access to over 40 test books. All you have to do to read one of the books is click on the title. The books are displayed in the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Allows you to search the Daviess County Public Library catalog, place holds and renew materials.

Provides critical analyses and brief plot summaries of classic literature. Available in the library or from home with your library card.

Provides full-text articles of over 1600 local, state, regional, national, and world newspapers. Available in the library or from home with your library card.

Downloadable audio book titles are now available from Recorded Books/NetLibrary and Daviess County Public Library! Access the collection of over 1400 titles along with the Pimsleur series of foreign language and ESL courses and the CEV Holy Bible. The Daviess County Public Library is only a click away.

North American Theatre Online is a comprehensive reference work covering all aspects of the Canadian and American Theatre. It includes some 40,000 pages of major reference materials, together with records to more than 30,000 plays, over 57,000 people, 5,400 theatres, nearly 22,000 productions and 2,500 production companies.  Each year we'll be adding more than 20,000 new records to these files.

Provides electronic access to dozens of databases and more than 10 million full-text magazine articles. For use in the Library.

Kentucky Room staff members have been abstracting obituary information from the Owensboro Messenger and the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer since 1977. This online index covers two time periods 1890-1919 and 1980 to the present. The years 1920-1979 are available in book form in the Kentucky Room of the Daviess County Public Library.

Contains contact information and more for U.S. businesses, and residents.

Smithsonian Global Sound offers a world-spanning selection of sound. American folk music, bluegrass, old-time country, and ethnic music from around the world are but a few of the categories of this database, which contains more than 35,000 tracks. Also includes poetry readings, dramatic performances, political speeches, and sound effects.

Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 279 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.

This edition of Twentieth Century North American Drama contains 1,386 plays by 209 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.

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