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North Carolina Libraries for Virtual Education offers the citizens of North Carolina free online access to complete articles from over 5,500 newspapers, journals, magazines, and encyclopedias, indexing for over 15,000 periodical titles, and access to over 13,000 electronic books.

Novelist... A reader's advisory service. Helps readers find new books based on books they've read or topics in which they are interested.

What do I Read Next?... Another reader's advisory

Proquest Newspapers.. Includes Business North Carolina, Fayetteville Observer, Winston-Salem Journal, Greensboro News & Record, Raleigh News & Observer, Wilmi.ngton Morning Star, Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

Consumer Health Resources... Recommended Health Web Sites for NC LIVE.

Masterfile Premier... Covers a wide variety of topics from about 3,100 magazines and journals from 1984 to present.

NetLibrary... Provides easy access to the full text of more than 10,000 reference, scholarly,and professional books.

MAS Ultra- School Edition... A comprehensive general reference database designed for high school and junior college libraries. Includes reports and special issues from over 460 of the most wanted K-12 magazines, Essential Documents in American History, over 3,000 charts, tables and graphs, coverage of the CIA World Factbook, Magill's Book Reviews, and searchable full text for 145 Macmillan Books. Total coverage includes over 1 million articles.

Middle Search Plus... Designed to assist middle and junior high school students in learning how to research current events and information on a wide range of general topics. Also includes the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of Animals,Essential Documents in American History, and coverage of the CIA World Factbook. Total coverage includes nearly 400,000 articles.

"Taking practice examinations that could help you reach your school and career goals used to be expensive and inconvenient. But now, it's free and accessible through LearningExpressLibrary's 'Learn-a-Test' and the SCPL website."

Patrons can access ACT, ASVAB, Civil Service, GED, SAT, GRE, EMS, Firefigher, Law Enforcement, cosmetology, U.S. Citizenship and more! from either a library or personal PC. You'll find literally hundreds of practice tests to sharpen your skills and improve your scores -- a valid e-mail address for a userid and Stanly County Public Library card number for a password are all that is required to set up a private test account.

• Please note & remember that to be a valid password, a "22" must precede the card number -- for example, "22************"
  
  
• If you need further information, please call the library's Information Services desk at (704)986-3759.
  
  
• Adult patrons interested in taking the GED exam or in exploring additional opportunities to improve their reading, writing, and/or math skills can contact the Adult Literacy Program at Stanly Community College.

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Founded in 1971 by Michael Hart, and built and maintained by hundreds of volunteers, Project Gutenberg is the longest-running project producing and distributing online books. It's also one of the Net's largest and best-known such projects. Its mission, according to its stated history and philosophy, is to "make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search."

Within the Project website can be found the classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others.

As of October 16, 2003, 10,000 books were available via Project Gutenberg.

The State of North Carolina will welcome you to the main Department of Revenue Website. This home page is designed to help you quickly and easily find the information you need regarding state taxes -- from individual or business tax forms to state tax laws and Department regulations.

If you're an individual looking for specific information on North Carolina taxes, you can find income tax forms, get answers to basic questions about state tax laws and find out more about the Department's internal structure and how it operates in this section designed with the typical taxpayer in mind...

... and if you own and operate a business here in the Old North State, this section will help you find the specific corporate tax information you need.

If you're looking for tax information for states other than North Carolina, this site will get you started.

The United States Department of the Treasury similarly offers comprehensive information and resources for individuals, businesses, and charities & non-profits through the main website of the Internal Revenue Service.

If you're ready to get to work, you can go directly to the index of federal tax forms, instructions, and publications.

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