Need someone to proctor your exam? We can help. Any of our reference staff can proctor your exam. If you have questions, just contact:

John Burns
Head of Reference, IT Manager, and Adult Services Librarian
jburns@mwfls.org
920-262-4090 ext.13

BadgerLink is a portal to an array great online resources and databases. It offers access to magazine and newspaper articles, the Auto Repair Reference Center, and NoveList, to name a few. To see more information about resources you have access to in BadgerLink, with your library card, see below.

The Access Newspaper Archive is: "the world's best resource for newspaper articles. With over one billion articles on topics both global and local, your history and the history of your loved ones is easy to find. Try a search today and discover your past."

- access.newspaperarchive.com

Ebsco is a database provider that allows users access to thousands of journals, newspapers, magazines, web resources, images, eBooks, and more. It is an ideal tool for research for school, work, or home. All of this is available to you free with your library card 24/7/365 anywhere you are in English and in Spanish. Just visit here and start researching today.

The Automotive Repair Reference Center is the resource for all your auto repair needs. Features include repair procedures, wiring diagrams, service bulletins, recalls, specifications, maintenance intervals, and more. This database include both foreign and domestic makes and models.

Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. This database provides full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998.

BSP utilizes the Business Searching Interface (BSI). This interface provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research, and then use the results as limiters in a keyword search.

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

History Reference Center is the world's most comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers.

The database also includes full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals.

Further, the database contains nearly 57,000 historical documents; more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 113,000 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Content includes:
• More than 35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews
• Nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism
• More than 253,000 author biographies
• More than 450 literary journals
• More than 693,000 book reviews
• Nearly 78,000 classic and contemporary poems
• More than 19,600 classic and contemporary short stories
• More than 6,500 author interviews

NoveList is a comprehensive readers' advisory solution for fiction lovers. With its intuitive interface and extensive proprietary content, NoveList will help you to answer the question of what to read next.

Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. Designed to meet every student's science research needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.

EBSCO's Student Research Center makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type—magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.

Ancestry.com provides access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research. With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry Library Edition includes records from the United States Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more.
**NOTE: This database can only be accessed at the library.**

Consumer Reports.org publishes reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory.

It provides updates on product availability, and adds new products to previously published test results. In addition, the online data often includes coverage that is not published in the magazine.

To access, click the link below and enter your 14-digit Watertown library card number where it asks for "Patron ID."

Heritage Quest offers census data, family records and local histories. This collection assembles every extant U.S. federal census, banking and military records, genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials.

Please enter your Watertown Library card number at the Heritage Quest web site.

Learning Express Library offers a wide array of practice tests including: ASVAB, GED, ACT, SAT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT, Civil Service, Law Enforcement, U.S. Citizenship, and reading, writing, and math tests.

To use on your own computer just type in your Watertown Library card number (without spaces between the numbers) and set up a password with Library Express.

OverDrive allows you to access/download digital audio books, videos, and music. To acquire digital items you need both your library card number and your pin. Also, remember to select "Mid-Wisconsin Library System" when you sign-in.

ReferenceUSA allows you to search over 14 million U.S. businesses and over 210 million U.S. residents plus a whole lot more. Use it to grow your business, search for employment, and more!

To use on your own computer, just type in your 14-digit Watertown library card number on the ReferenceUSA page.

Our Reference Department has re-created our 'Web Links' using Delicious, a social bookmarking web service used for sharing and discovering helpful websites. This will remain an ongoing process with websites being added as discovered.

The links below are to groups of links indexed at Delicious.

- Car and Driver: 2 years plus current year
- Consumer Reports: 2 years plus current year (archived in Ebsco back to 1984 and available on this web page under consumerreports.org)
- Entertainment Weekly: 2 year plus current year
- Fine Gardening: 2 years plus current year
- MacWorld Magazine: 2 years plus current year
- Newsweek: 2 years plus current year
- PC World: 2 year plus current year

Call the library to discover more titles.

- Isthmus: Current
- Milwaukee Business Journal: 6 months back issues
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: 6 months back issues
- New York Times, Sunday only: 3 months back issues
- USA Today: 6 months back issues
- Wall Street Journal: 6 months back issues
- The Washington Times: Current
- Watertown Daily Times: 6 months back issues, microfilm from 1895 - present