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Online access to a variety of reference works from Salem Press. These are essentially the website versions of the same Salem Press volumes we have in the library. Topics include history, science, health, and careers. A good starting point for elementary and high school research projects.

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Online Genealogy Resources

This list of recommended online genealogy resources is a great place to begin your research. For more genealogy resources, read about genealogy research at Forbes Library….This list of recommended online genealogy resources is a great place to begin your research. For more genealogy resources, read about genealogy research at Forbes Library….

Online Learning

Access these online programs and databases to explore scientific wonders, learn languages, and more!…Access these online programs and databases to explore scientific wonders, learn languages, and more!…

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Offering a unique, interdisciplinary approach to U.S. and Global history and culture, Sharpe Online Reference (SOLR) explores the broad range of events, people, movements, and political, social, economic, and cultural issues that have shaped the nation and the world from earliest times to the present day.

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Online Local History Research

This page lists online resources for your local history research. For assistance with local history or genealogy research: visit the Hampshire Room for Local History call 413-587-1014 email us at archives@forbeslibrary.org For…This page lists online resources for your local history research. For assistance with local history or genealogy research: visit the Hampshire Room for Local History call 413-587-1014 email us at archives@forbeslibrary.org For more information on local history resources at Forbes Library see our Local History page. Northampton Area Statewide and Regional Resources…

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Welcome to the online special collections of Forbes Library, including the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum and the Hampshire Room for Local History and Special Collections. We invite you to explore the collection for both pleasure and research.

This database contains only our digital archival and Special Collections materials. Additional special collections that have not yet been digitized can be seen in the library by appointment.

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Online Genealogy Resources

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The Merck Manual has been a standard medical reference source for more than 100 years. Although discontinued in print, the online version is kept up to date, and includes both advanced content for doctors and medical students, as well as easy to understand content for patients, parents and caregivers.

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Behavior Policy

The Forbes Library is a tax-supported community agency which is available to all. Everyone using this facility will receive impartial, helpful, and friendly customer service. The library maintains a safe…operty, or library materials is punishable by law.2 Dangerous weapons are not allowed on library property. Approved by Board of Trustees 1/17/2005. Last updated 10/24/2019   1. Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 266, § 99A; https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter266/Section99A 2. Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 266, § 100; https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartIV/TitleI/Chapter266/Section100…

Come with or without glasses to the Eclipse Viewing Party

August 17, 2017 — Forbes Library has a limited number of eclipse viewing glasses set aside for families that have pre-registered for the Scientific Kids Club on Monday, August 21 at 2:00 PM. A…n hand to answer questions and help people to make simple pinhole viewing projectors, which are another way to safely enjoy the eclipse. For more information about pinhole projectors visit https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/how-make-pinhole-projector-view-solar-eclipse. https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/safety has more information about safe viewing….

New Morning

The late 1960’s early/ 70’s happens to be a great period for Bob Dylan, thank you for asking. Nashville Skyline, the Basement Tapes, Self Portrait (though many have said I’m…the song. Dylan’s voice and delivery began to shift around 1968. He lost a bit of the raspy quality that his earlier recordings possessed and started leaning a bit on the softer side in his vocals. This is not to say he’s taking a casual approach to his singing; Dylan is most noticeably passionate on the title track, “Day of the Locusts” and “the Man in Me” (featured in the soundtrack of the Big Lebowski). New Morning is just another one of those…

Krazy Kat: the Comic Art of George Herriman

Krazy Kat was a remarkable and hugely influential daily comic. Found in newspapers around the country for over 30 years, from 1913 and 1944, it would influence comics greats such…y Kat creator George Herriman, and includes a large collection of beautifully reproduced daily and Sunday Krazy Kat strips. Herriman’s astonishing Sunday Krazy Kats are reason to pick up this book alone. Giant, free form, brightly colored affairs, unconstrained by the rigid panels of today’s strips, it is the surreal landscapes and innovative design of the Sunday strips for which Herriman is best know, and with good reason. (Fans of Calvin and Hob…

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