Online Resources

A toZ Food America is a database unlike any other on the market today. From regional cookbooks to an exploration of ethnic culinary influences, from fun collections of historic cookbooks and television commercials to “how-to” food preparation videos, AtoZ Food America has something sure to educate and entertain everyone.

Features Include:

• Cookbooks for each of 33 major US ethnic groups
• 700+ Ingredient Articles
• 100+ Historic cookbooks dating back to the late 1700s
• 3,200+ original TV food commercials dating back to the 1940s
• Food preparation Instruction Videos

Bartenders’ Guide to Traditional Cocktails

A to Z World Travel is a comprehensive travel database that offers free and exclusive tourist and culture information on top travel destinations around the globe.  It is continuously updated and features city-specific content and maps.

Mango is an adaptive language-learning experience that provides the tools and guidance you need to expand your language skills wherever and however you learn best. More than 70 languages to choose from.  Create an account and then use on your computer, tablet or phone.

• Real-world conversations
• Voice Comparison for matching your pronunciation with native-speaker audio
• Listening & Reading Activities
• Personalized Review System
• Culture Notes for unique insights into different cultures
• Mango Movies for learning through engaging, authentic content

Freading offers fiction and non-fiction e-books, including a large collection of children’s books and the newly added Lonely Planet Guides. Not compatible with Kindle e-readers (works with Kindle Fire).

Libby by Overdrive offers downloadable e-books, audiobooks,  and magazines via the Libby app. Patrons may check items out for 2 weeks. You can also access streaming content from Craftsy, The Great Courses, Indieflix, and Stingray Qello concerts with Libby. You will need your library card number and PIN to set up your account and check out items.

Enjoy animated/talking picture books, audiobooks, puzzles, and games.

A safe, trusted learning environment for students which includes research information, articles, current events, pictures and videos.  Also includes engaging early learning resources for preschool children.

BrainFuse JobNow™ provides live online assistance, powerful tools, and other resources for job-seekers.

Live Interview Coaching: Patrons can brush up on interview techniques or get live online interview practice from trained job coaches. Job coaches and patrons communicate via live chat in our online classroom. In addition to live interview coaching, patrons enjoy 24/7 access to interview tips and career resources.

Resume Lab: Patrons can submit their resumes any time through the JobNow Resume Lab and a job coach will send it back within 24 hours with detailed feedback and suggestions for improvement. Users are also able to download resume templates, or browse resources for producing better resumes.

Career Resources: Patrons enjoy 24/7 access to a carefully-selected library of job resources. In addition, Brainfuse job coaches help users strategically target jobs best suited to their interests and qualifications.

Adult Learning Center: The Adult Learning Center provides foundational, career-enhancing skills to job seekers. In addition, the Adult Learning Center offers test preparation (including the GED and the USCIS citizenship test) and a unique academic skills center featuring live, online tutors.

VetNow helps veterans transition to civilian life through live, interactive career assistance, academic tutoring, and much more.

VETERAN SUPPORT TOOLS                                                                 Live Navigator: Connect with an expert to learn more about eligible VA benefits and community resources veteran

Resources: Carefully selected resources to help you understand your benefits and community resources career

ASSISTANCE – Live Job Coaching: Get live help with job hunting, creating/editing your resume, and practicing interviews resume Lab: Transition your resume from military to civilian careers including translating military skills, keywords, and more, eParachute: Take a self-assessment to discover a career or academic path that best suits you interests, skills, and experiences

A New Standard for Online Homework Help.

BrainFuse HelpNow™ provides differentiated learning solutions for students of diverse needs and backgrounds.

Students communicate with live, online tutors using an interactive, virtual whiteboard to chat, write,  draw,  copy/paste text or images, and graph homework problems.

HelpNow also offers skills building and test preparation where after taking a quiz, the user can then connect directly to a live tutor to review the topics and questions covered in the quiz.

Both the student and the tutor can view the quiz questions and the corresponding student answers for an intensive test prep which may include loading lessons onto the whiteboard. All live tutoring sessions are saved and can be replayed as well as shared with friends and teachers.  Need further assistance or want to know where to start?

Your Youth Programs Librarian is always here to help! Contact: maryann.burden@chesterlib.org

Consumer Reports offers consumer protection and product reviews and includes articles on health, public safety, marketplace economics, and the judicial and regulatory actions that effect consumers. Available issues from 1985 to present.

Ancestry® Library Edition delivers billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos, and more. The world’s most popular consumer online genealogy resource is available for your use at the Chester Library. Unlock the story of you with sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more.

If you are inside the Chester Library, access Ancestry® Library Edition here. You may use your personal device or any of the computers in the Library. This service is not currently available for at-home use.

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GreenFILE – Well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Provided through JerseyClicks.

Literary Reference Center – Information on thousands of authors and their work from major respected reference works, books, literary journals and more.

Looking for something to read for an assignment or for fun? Novelist includes information on over 200,000 fiction and nonfiction titles. Also features lists of award-winning books, discussion guides, recommended reads, read-a-likes and more.

Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps, and flags.

HeritageQuest® Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Powered by Ancestry.com, it provides genealogical and historical sources for more than 60 countries, with coverage dating back as early as the 1700s.

Small Business Reference Center – Up-to-date information on relevant topics from starting a company, operations management and sales to growing or rescuing a business. The database contains nearly 400 full-text periodicals and over 450 full-text reference books. Provided by the NJ State Library through Jersey Clicks.

Reference Solutions – The premier source of information for reference and research. Offers accurate data on 52 million businesses and 290 million consumers. Search for jobs, research US businesses, create marketing and small business plans, locate specific people and more.  Provided by the NJ State Library through JerseyClicks.

Business Source Elite – Full text for over 1,000 business publications dating back to 1985. More than 10,100 substantial company profiles from Datamonitor are also included. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. Provided by the NJ State Library through JerseyClicks.

EBSCOhost – Includes Rosetta Stone language learning with 30 different languages and Explora for elementary and secondary school students. Explora provides reliable information on thousands of topics including geography, math, biographies, science, social studies and more.

Jersey Clicks – New Jersey’s one-stop gateway to quality information. This statewide portal offers all NJ library card holders access to over 20 full-text databases funded through the New Jersey State Library, the New Jersey Network and funds from the Library Services and Technology Act.

Points of View Reference Center contains 400 topics, each with an overview (objective background / description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). Each topic features a Guide to Critical Analysis which helps the reader evaluate the controversy and enhances students’ ability to read critically, develop their own perspective on the issues, and write or debate an effective argument on the topic.

Providing online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center contains more than 300 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. Many of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.

A to Z the USA – A comprehensive resource for researching all 50 states of the USA.

EBSCO’s MasterFILE Elite indexes over 2,000 magazines, of which 1,000 are full-text and includes access to Consumer Reports.

It also includes an extensive image collection containing photos, maps and flags.