LIBRARY DATABASES Check out the Library's large selection of databases! Search for information in an encyclopedia, investigate your family history, or find some exciting new reading!
Heritage Quest Online Search Census records, family and local histories, the PERSI genealogy index, Freedmans Bank records, and Revolutionary War records. You need your Nevada County Library Card number to log in. Ancestry.com is available at the Doris Foley Library and other branches upon request.
Gale Virtual Reference Library Homework Help! Search e-reference sources including
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia,
American Decades,
Countries and Their Cultures,
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations and
the States.
ChiltonLibrary.comChiltonLibrary.com represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models. ChiltonLibrary.com gives you the confidence to service or repair virtually any system on your vehicle.
COIN Career Library
CCL is a great resource for job seekers, with databases and career self-evaluation questionnaires.
Tumblebooks e-books for e-kids. Listen to talking books online!
The Grass Valley Daily Union, 1865-1885 Click here to view online holdings The Grass Valley Daily Union (which eventually became The Union) for the years 1865-1885 is available online to anyone with Internet access. Now getting a sense of life in Nevada County in the mid to late 1800s is only a few clicks away! You can search across all years of the collection by news headline (e.g., "empire mine," "chinese") or category (e.g., "announcements," "legal notices," "local intelligence") that have been extracted from the daily publications or you can browse through the newspaper by year, month, and/or day. As the newspaper is stored as image files converted to PDF, the actual text is not searchable.
Periodicals List A list of the newspapers and magazines carried in each of the Nevada County libraries is right here on our site.
Ask a Librarian! Go ahead, ask us anything! We'll research it and get back to you.
Library Online Catalog.
Look for a new book, check your account and renew items.
REGIONAL LIBRARIES online MELVYL Search - The union catalog for the University of California system.Mountain Valley Library System - You can extend your search to dozens of nothern California libraries using the Mountain Valley Library System. Bear River High School Library - A powerful search engine for the BRHS library collection.
