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Tutorials: Selecting a Vehicle, Navigating Repair Manuals, Accessing Bulletins, Recalls & Maintenance Schedules |
Before you buy, sell, or trade in your car, find out what it's worth using the Kelley Blue Book used-car price and value lookup tool. Information is also included for motorcycles, personal watercraft and snowmobiles. |
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Kelley Blue Book now offers a guide for shoppers who want the latest information on alternative fuel technologies. Everything you want to know about hydrogen, diesel, hybrid, natural gas, electric, flex fuel/ethanol and fuel-sipping gasoline cars is included. There's even a video section which gives you an in-depth look at the latest eco-friendly vehicles out there. |
Motorcycle & Small Engine Repair Reference Center offers quick online access to repair information for motorcycles, ATVs, snowmobiles, boats, personal watercraft/jet skis & more. The database offers assistance in providing routine maintenance, such as tune-ups and brake service, as well as extensive repairs involving engine and transmission disassembly. |
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NADA Guides include pricing information for new and used cars, trucks, vans and SUVs as well as classic, collectible, exotic and special interest vehicles, boats, motorcycles, RVs, personal watercraft, ATVs, and snowmobiles. |
Small Engine Repair Reference Center offers quick online access to repair information for motorcycles, ATVs, snowmobiles, boats, personal watercraft/jet skis & more. The database offers assistance in providing routine maintenance, such as tune-ups and brake service, as well as extensive repairs involving engine and transmission disassembly. |
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Read well, sell smart and market bigger! Glean fresh, new ideas you can put to work immediately through our weekly Email Business Book Club picks. Join the club and each week, Monday through Friday, the library will email you a portion of a business book that takes about five minutes to read. During the week you'll be able read the first 2-3 chapters in your email and then you can decide if you want to check the book out to learn even more. Each week a new business book will be featured. |
Tutorial - Business Source Premier is the industry's most-used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,150 journals, magazines & trade publications covering all business disciplines. It offers full text dating back to 1886. BSP's additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses. |
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Learn about beginning a business in Colorado, search for and register trademarks and trade names, file documents and more. |
Company Profiles offers detailed profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies. |
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EBSCOhost Mobile provides a convenient way for customers to use smartphones and other handheld devices to access our magazine and newspaper databases and is designed to work with most mobile devices that can access the internet such as: BlackBerry, Dell, Axiom, iPhone and Palm 750. |
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center includes in-depth information on nearly 3,400 jobs, as well as guidance on the essentials of getting a job & keeping it - including resume & cover letter writing, interviewing and more. There is a College Planning & Financial Aid section that includes information on choosing a college, applying for student loans, scholarship information and more. A Career Interest Assessment tool helps you explore occupations and industries that best match your personal interests. |
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Gale Legal Forms offers professionally drafted legal forms specific for Colorado businesses in the following legal subject areas: Contracts, Employment, LLC, Small Business, Taxes and many more. The forms can be downloaded, completed, saved and printed. |
Regional Business News provides full-text articles for more than 80 regional business publications, including business journals, newspapers and newswires from all over the United States & Canada - including Colorado Biz & the Colorado Springs Business Journal. |
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Tutorial - Reference USA is a great tool for conducting business research, analysis & marketing as well as for finding company information by name, geographic location & industry and residential listings by name, address, city, state, or zip code. |
Research Starters - Business offers a starting point for business research with summaries of discipline-specific topics - including the broad outlines of an area of Business, its real world applications, and sources for researching the subject in greater detail. |
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Small Business Resource Center offers content that covers all major areas of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax & more as well as tools for industry research and hundreds of sample business plans created by real-life entrepreneurs. |
Use your library card number (122220.......) as your username when you register on UniversalClass |
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The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks in 98 industries, the stock market, and the economy available in a concise, easy-to-use format. Also included is the Small & Mid-cap Survey which reports on approximately 1,800 small & mid-cap stocks not included in The Value Line Investment Survey. |
International Building Code 2009 offers up-to-date, comprehensive insight into the regulations surrounding the design and installation of building systems. It provides valuable structural, fire-, and life- safety provisions that cover means of egress, interior finish requirements, roofs, seismic engineering, innovative construction technology, and occupancy classifications. |
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International Mechanical Code 2009 offers the most current mechanical codes that address the design and installation of the most current mechanical systems. IRC 2009 is designed to provide comprehensive regulations for mechanical systems and equipment, including coverage of HVAC, exhaust systems, chimneys and vents, ducts, appliances, boilers, water heaters, refrigerators, hydronic piping, and solar systems. |
International Residential Code 2009 was created to serve as a complete, comprehensive code regulating the construction of single-family houses, two-family houses (duplexes) and buildings consisting of three or more townhouse units, that combines building, plumbing, mechanical, fuel gas, energy, and electrical provisions into a single resource. |
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National Electric Code 2008 provides regulations for electrical wiring and equipment in virtually all types of buildings in an effort to maximize public safety, emergency preparation, and electrical worker protection. This new edition responds to industry needs with expanded requirements based on research, new technologies, and recent events. |
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When you register on LearningExpress Library, you must use your library card number (122220.......) as your username. |
International Building Code 2009 offers up-to-date, comprehensive insight into the regulations surrounding the design and installation of building systems. It provides valuable structural, fire-, and life- safety provisions that cover means of egress, interior finish requirements, roofs, seismic engineering, innovative construction technology, and occupancy classifications. |
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International Mechanical Code 2009 offers the most current mechanical codes that address the design and installation of the most current mechanical systems. IRC 2009 is designed to provide comprehensive regulations for mechanical systems and equipment, including coverage of HVAC, exhaust systems, chimneys and vents, ducts, appliances, boilers, water heaters, refrigerators, hydronic piping, and solar systems. |
International Residential Code 2009 was created to serve as a complete, comprehensive code regulating the construction of single-family houses, two-family houses (duplexes) and buildings consisting of three or more townhouse units, that combines building, plumbing, mechanical, fuel gas, energy, and electrical provisions into a single resource. |
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National Electric Code 2008 provides regulations for electrical wiring and equipment in virtually all types of buildings in an effort to maximize public safety, emergency preparation, and electrical worker protection. This new edition responds to industry needs with expanded requirements based on research, new technologies, and recent events. |
This online course includes typing lessons and exercises to help you increase your typing skills. |
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Biography In Context includes more than 600,000 biographies on notable inventors, scientists, environmentalists, medical notables & more from around the world and throughout history. Biographical sources include: images, video & audio-clips along with reference, news, magazines, academic journals & website sources that you can easily bookmark, save, share or email. |
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, including content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records. |
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Want to know more about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects or even protozoa? Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia offers facts about more than 4,000 species, including evolution, habitat, behavior, ontology, conservation status and more. |
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Today's Science explains important topics such as biology, chemistry, environment, space, physics and technology. It includes a Science Fair Guide, a "Need a Research Topic?" section which helps students to get started on their own research, 2000 biographies of scientists and more. |
World Almanac for Kids Online includes articles and fast facts on science, animals, the environment, space & the solar system, famous people including scientists, inventors & astronauts and much more, with full-color images and dynamic daily features, providing fun material that is perfect for school assignments. |
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Search here to learn more about people, events, places & more that make up America's history. |
Search the Concise Dictionary of First Names to find out what your name really means or to choose the name for your new baby. |
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Looking for sources on today's hot research topics: immigration, school bullying, poverty, dress codes, drugs, social networking, animal welfare, stem cell research, students' rights, welfare, and more? Then this is the search for you! |
Famous Quotes & Authors is the most complete and useful Quotations web resource. There are over 25,000 quotes included from over 6,700 famous authors. You can browse popular quotes or you can search for quotes by topic, author or keyword. |
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The reference books in this online collection are available to be viewed 24x7 on any computer with an internet connection. Reference books are included in the following subject areas: History, Environment, Biographies, Cultures around the World, Religion, Law, Literature, Science and more. |
Search here to find information on holiday customs from around the world. |
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Want to know what life was like in America during the 1900's through the 1990's? Start here. |
Merriam Webster Online allows you to find dictionary definitions, use an online thesaurus and more. |
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The Oxford English Dictionary Online has a Learning Resources section that includes exercises & quizzes for grades 6-12 that introduce students to the OED. |
Research all of our online religion reference books with one search. |
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Want to go to college? START HERE! This site will take you through lessons on money management, spending and saving, credit, identity theft, taxes AND how to pay for college. You will get information on completing the FAFSA, tuition aid in Colorado, finding and applying for scholarships AND you could win a scholarship by participating in this site! |
in Library use only - Rawlings, Barkman, Lamb & Pueblo West Colorado Grants Guide is an annual directory of philanthropic and charitable-giving resources for Colorado grant seekers. It provides profiles of more than 500 foundations, corporations, governments, and religious organizations with a history of making grants in Colorado. Contact listings, program descriptions, grants priorities, and other details are included. |
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3rd floor Rawlings use only Foundation Center Directory Online profiles more than 96,000 U.S. foundations, corporate giving programs and grant making public charities. Combines directory-type information with more than 1.4 million past grants awarded. |
3rd floor Rawlings use only Foundation Grants to Individuals allows searching detailed descriptions of more than 7,700 foundation programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. |
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American Song includes music that relates to almost every walk of American life, every ethnic group, and every time period. Genres included are: country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, shape note singing, doo-wop, Motown, R&B, soul, funk, and others. |
Classical Music Library includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera. |
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Contemporary World Music takes listeners around the globe to experience reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, & more. |
Freegal allows you to download music from the Sony music collection |
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Jazz Music Library includes thousands of jazz artists and ensembles, ranging from past greats to musicians performing and recording today. Listen to Chicago jazz, New Orleans Jazz, 1920s jazz, big bands, acid jazz, Latin jazz, and more. |
Music Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform the entire suite of Alexander Street Press music products that our library subscribes to. The browse option includes lists of music by: historical events, cultural groups, time periods, instruments and much more. There are also over 853 playlists that can be used as a teaching resource for in-class use. |
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Smithsonian Global Sound is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions, including more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. |
Need to locate the text of an article in a magazine, journal or newspaper? A-to-Z Magazine List allows you to browse a list of journals, magazines & newspapers by title or subject or to search by publication title to see if the PCCLD library has online access to full-text articles in these sources and then to link to the article you are looking for if it is included in PCCLD's online collection. |
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Academic Search Premier contains full-text articles for nearly 4,500 journals including 3,600 scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals. |
Business Source Premier is the industry's most-used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,150 journals, magazines & trade publications covering all business disciplines. It offers full text dating back to 1886. BSP's additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses. |
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Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection (CHNC) currently includes 147 newspapers published in Colorado from 1859 to 1923. Newspapers come from 60 cities and 40 counties throughout the state, and contains papers published in English, German, Spanish, or Swedish. |
When you know more, you can shop smarter. Get product ratings on over 950 brand-name products, a listing of manufacturers, product repair histories and shopping strategies to help make the best buying decisions from Consumer Reports Buying Guide. |
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For over 70 years, Consumer Reports magazine has been the consumers' trusted source for expert, unbiased ratings and recommendations on how to save hundreds, even thousands on products ranging from major purchases such as automobiles & appliances to everyday items such as food & cleaning products. Review the individual issues or search by product type. |
EBSCOhost Mobile provides a convenient way for customers to use smartphones and other handheld devices to access our magazine and newspaper databases and is designed to work with most mobile devices that can access the internet such as: BlackBerry, Dell, Axiom, iPhone and Palm 750. |
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ERIC is the world's largest digital library of education resources, with more than 1.2 million records of journal articles, books, papers, reports, and other materials indexed from 1966 to the present. With ERIC you can search more than 600 journals with links more than 225,000 full-text documents. |
MAS Ultra contains full-text for more than 500 popular high school magazines, more than 360 full-text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an image collection of 293,480 photos, maps & flags. |
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Designed specifically for public libraries, MasterFILE Premier provides full text for more than 1,750 general periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. It also includes 86,019 biographies, 105,787 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 293,480 photos, maps and flags. |
Middle Search Plus provides full-text for 140 popular middle school magazines as well as 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents and an image collection of 293,480 photos, maps and flags. |
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Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for six national (U.S.) and 125 international newspapers. The database also contains full text for more than 335 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, National Public Radio (NPR), etc. |
Primary Search includes full-text articles for 70 popular elementary school magazines. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). It also includes an image collection of over 293,840 photos, maps and flags. |
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Regional Business News provides full-text articles for more than 80 regional business publications, including business journals, newspapers and newswires from all over the United States & Canada - including Colorado Biz & the Colorado Springs Business Journal. |
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MedlinePlus - Español es el sitio de Internet de la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina, la biblioteca médica más grande del mundo y una entidad de los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud. MedlinePlus ofrece información médica gratis, completa, confiable y actualizada. |
byki en línea ofrece ejercicios para escuchar, leer, escribir y reconocer el habla para ayudar a los hispanohablantes a aprender el inglés. |
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Available only on the internet computers at Rawlings, Barkman, Lamb & Pueblo West Discover your unique family history! Ancestry Library Edition provides easy access to billions of records from around the world, with new content being added each week. It has unparalleled coverage of the U.S. and the U.K. including census, vital, church, court and immigration & passport records as well as record collections from Canada, Ireland and other countries |
HeritageQuest Online includes U.S. federal Census records, family histories, published genealogies, historical books, Revolutionary War records, Freedman’s Bank records, and more to help you trace your American ancestors paths across history. |
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Focusing on the high school health curriculum, Health Reference Center includes more than 585 educational videos on a wide range of health topics and reliable information on today's most pressing health topics. |
MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Medline also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news. |
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Prevention Information Center (PIC) is a library and information center providing access to a broad spectrum of substance abuse prevention and health promotion materials. PIC shares resources you can use to enhance your services to individuals, organizations, and communities throughout Colorado. |
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center is a unique resource that includes topics such as: kayaking, chess, stamp collecting, wedding crafts, knitting, crocheting, scrap booking, antiques, puzzles, model trains, hunting, cycling, soap making, comic book collecting... and many, many more!!! It offers detailed "how-to" instructions, patterns for things to make, articles about hobbies, how-to videos and more to meet the interests of virtually every hobby-enthusiast. |
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VideoHound's MovieRetriever is your guide to everything about movies. You can look for movies using title, genre, and cast members, read over 28,000 movie reviews and view lists of award winning movies. |
Use your library card number (122220.......) as your User Name when you register on byki Online. byki Online offers exercises in listening, reading, writing and speech recognition to help English speakers learn over 70 languages including: Spanish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese & more and helps speakers of Spanish, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese & Japanese to learn English. |
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Colorado Legal Services website provides self-help legal information, information about the courts and the opportunity to prepare some civil court forms online. |
Search the U.S. Code by Title and Section, search the Code of Federal Regulations, or link to the Federal Register to find rules that have not yet been added to the CFR and/or finalized by federal agencies or executive departments. |
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Choose a state to locate the state's statutes. After you choose a state, you can search the statutes by entering keywords in a search query box or browse the statutes by selecting the most likely title or code from the Table of Contents. |
in Library use only - Rawlings, Barkman, Lamb & Pueblo West (PCCLD has a limited amount of user logins - if you reach the "all passwords in use" screen, please try back later.) Lois Law offers a powerful digital gateway to state and federal primary law. PCCLD's subscription includes the Primary Law sections. |
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Looking for a new book or author? View our current BookNews newsletters online or sign up to receive a copy each month in your email - try Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Bestsellers, "Books to Movies," "Teen Scene at the Library!" & more. |
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Join our Email Book Clubs and each week, Monday through Friday, you will receive in your email a five-minute selection of a book. By the end of the week, you'll have read 2-3 chapters. Also, learn more about authors through AuthorBuzz, where you can meet 3 to 6 authors a week who each have written notes so you can get to know them and their novels. |
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Novelist K-8 Plus includes curriculum driven material designed to help integrate reading across subject areas in the classroom - including 30,000 nonfiction titles specifically chosen to support what kids are studying in school. |
WorldCat is a database of materials held by libraries throughout the United States that you can search and you can also place interlibrary loan requests for materials not owned by the Pueblo City-County Library District. |
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American Decades: Primary Sources covers each decade from the 1900's through the 1990's in America with primary sources from the period detailing the arts, medicine & health, media, education, world events, religion, government and politics, lifestyles & social trends, law and justice, religion, business and the economy, and sports |
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American Eras offers a unique perspective on the ideas, individuals and events that made each period in American history unique, from early American civilizations to the Industrial United States in 1899. |
Tutorial American History in Video allows you to experience critical moments in American History through commercial and governmental newsreels, public affairs videos, short films as well as documentaries. Historical coverage ranges from the early history of Native Americans, to the lost colony of Roanoke, to the 1988 Vicennes Affair in the Persian Gulf |
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Search here to learn more about people, events, places & more that make up America's history. |
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American Women's History Online covers prehistory through the 1500s including biographies, primary source documents, timelines, an image & video gallery, maps & charts and special features that give a balanced, global view of the world in ancient and medieval times. |
Ancient and Medieval History Online explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia. There are 18,000 entries covering prehistory through the 1500s including biographies, primary source documents, timelines, an image gallery, and maps & charts. |
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Modern World History Online covers the full scope of world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of fully hyperlinked subject entries, biographies, videos, images, maps and charts, primary source documents, and timeline entries combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history. |
The Presidents section of the White House website offers information about the lives and presidencies each of the Presidents of the United States. |
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U.S. Government Online offers information on how the government works, who the key players are, and what its role is in the everyday lives of citizens through a wide range of essays, images, videos, primary source documents, tables, and news articles. |
World Geography & Culture Online offers up-to-date information on more than 200 countries, including geography, people & culture, weather & climate, history, government, and society. Through maps, flags, images, statistics, timelines and regularly updated news articles, this resource provides both facts at-a-glance and in-depth coverage. All 50 US states are profiled with biographies, images, timelines, maps, flags and more. A gazetteer, a geography glossary and a tool that compares and ranks countries or US states by a variety of criteria are also included in this easy-to-use database. |
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Searchasaurus is an exciting and easy way for young researchers to gather information on a wide range of topics complete with erupting volcanoes and a dinosaur guide. |
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Topic Search is a current events database that includes social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. It contains over 105,000 full-text articles from 1,622 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. |
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Pueblo City-County Library District
