Research Tools
Fairview Public Library, in cooperation with the Four County Library System, provides access to a collection of high-quality, accurate, electronic resources. Some of these databases are made possible through NOVELny, the New York Online Virtual Library, a public information network for New Yorkers. Others are provided by through the cooperative buying power of the libraries of the Four County Library System.
Some resources may require you to enter the number on your library card.
Business and Finance
Business Insights: Essentials: Company profiles, industry reports, and finance reports, plus more than 3900 business magazines and newspapers.
*Weiss Financial Ratings Series Online: Powered by Weiss Ratings and Grey House Publishing, this website gives you powerful new tools to protect your finances, invest wisely, grow your wealth, and learn more about your finances.
Health and Wellness
Consumer Health Complete Consumer oriented health information designed to support the health needs of our patrons. Information covers all areas of health and wellness, including mainstream, holistic, and integrated treatments.
Health Reference Center Academic – A medical database with journal articles, reference books, pamphlets, and online videos covering medicine, health, and nursing topics.
Merck Manuals –Merck Manuals are one of the world’s most widely used medical information resources. The Manuals have committed to making the best current medical information accessible by up to 3 billion health care professionals and patients on every continent by 2020.
Encyclopedias
Britannica Academic: Includes Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools.
Britannica Escolar: Accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students and students learning Spanish. Available at two levels—primary and secondary.
Britannica School: A source for all grades (Pre-K-12) and all reading abilities. Available at three levels–elementary, middle, and high.
Kids InfoBits – Contains over 100 age-appropriate magazines for grades K-5. Also includes Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary, maps, flags, seals, charts, and graphs.
Research in Context: Contains magazines, newspapers, primary sources and videos for students in grades 6 to 8.
Computer Software
Excel Easy: Fully illustrated Excel tutorial with more than 300 examples, for beginners and advanced users.
Languages
Transparent Languages Online – Transparent Language Online offers the most comprehensive language-learning solution for libraries. With this flexible program, you can quickly and easily learn new languages using our wide variety of courses and activities.
Literature
Literary Reference Center – Full-text reference works, books, and literary journals on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and time frames.
General Periodicals
Academic One File -Multimedia research information, with an emphasis on the hard sciences, engineering, and business, as well as agriculture, criminal justice, environmental studies, pop culture, psychology, war, and terrorism.
Digital Library of America – A portal to digital information from libraries, archives, and museums, with access by timeline, format, map, and topic.
First Search Base Package from OCLC – A portal with access to WorldCat for 179+ million library records, ArticleFirst for the table of contents to more than 16 thousand journals, Proceedings, WorldCat Dissertations, and the Union List of Serials as well as citation indexes from ERIC, GPO, OIAster, and MEDLINE. Provided by 4CLS.
Gale Databases – Comprehensive suite of electronic resource provided by NOVELny covering diverse subjects such as science, engineering, business, agriculture, criminal justice, environmental studies, pop culture, psychology, war, history and terrorism.
General One File – A comprehensive general-interest database with journal articles, as well as travel guides, transcripts from National Public Radio, and television video files.
Newspapers
InfoTrac Newsstand – Full-text newspapers, including the New York Times from 1995- and more than 1000 major US regional, national, and local newspapers (33 from New York State).
National Newspaper Index – Contains indexing of The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post.
NYS Historic Newspapers – This state wide project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York’s unique history.
New York Times – Provides national and international news, opinion and commentary; published in a national and a New York metropolitan edition. January 1965 to current edition.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context -More than 13,000 pro/con viewpoints on current issues.
- U. S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present – Search America’s historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
Catskill Mountain News Archives
The Catskill Mountain News was the weekly newspaper which covered the Town of Middletown, Delaware County, New York from 1902 until its closure in 2020.
In 1894, the Margaretville Messenger was founded and John Grant was hired as its editor. It continued to 1902, when it was sold to W. H. Eells, who renamed it the Catskill Mountain News. When Eells died suddenly, just two years later, Clarke Sanford, approached his widow about the paper. Eells’s widow offered to let Sanford run it on credit. If he were to make a profit, he would pay her the purchase price; if not, she would reclaim the paper. Sanford agreed to the terms and after a tough initial few years made good on the loan.
Sanford would run the paper for over 60 years. In 1918, he purchased the Utilitarian, altering the News’s numbering to date back to that paper’s 1863 founding. He also invested in updated Linotype printing, and changed locations as the paper grew.
The paper would be passed on to Clarke’s son Roswell, on his death in 1964. In turn it was passed to Roswell’s son Richard D. Sanford in 1985. In 2017, the paper was sold to Joan Lawrence-Bauer. Unfortunately, the paper ceased publication in January of 2020.
1902-1985
Digital editions of the Catskill Mountain News from 1902-1973 may be found on the NYS Historic Newspapers website.
Link: https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83031247/
1986-2018
Physical copies of the Catskill Mountain News from 1974 through 2018 are available at the Fairview Public Library for in-house review. Please ask a library clerk to retrieve the editions you would like to examine.
Research: Library staff are unable to do in-depth research. If you know the date of a specific article that you would like a copy of, we may be able to help. Call the library at 845-586-3791 to discuss your needs with the library staff.
Local History
To order NYS vital records, please visit the NYS Department of Health.
You can also search the Four County Library System catalog.
For local history books held by any of the 43 member libraries. At the top of the page, you can search by subject matter. Consider using search terms such as Delaware County, Margaretville, or Middletown.
Homework Help
FCLS Provided Databases
Includes Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools. Available in both English and Spanish.
Kids InfoBits
Contains over 100 age-appropriate magazines for grades K-5. Also includes Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary, maps, flags, seals, charts, and graphs.
Research in Context
Contains magazines, newspapers, primary sources and videos for students in grades 6 to 8.
Transparent Languages Online
Transparent Language Online offers the most comprehensive language-learning solution for libraries. With this flexible program, you can quickly and easily learn new languages using our wide variety of courses and activities.
Digital Library of America
A portal to digital information from libraries, archives, and museums, with access by timeline, format, map, and topic.
Academic One File
Multimedia research information, with an emphasis on the hard sciences, engineering, and business, as well as agriculture, criminal justice, environmental studies, pop culture, psychology, war, and terrorism.
Free Educational Sites
PBS LearningMedia offers FREE educational resources for PreK–12 educators and students including standards-aligned videos and interactives.
TeacherTube
And education video collection with resources for elementary, middle and high school.
Khan Academy
Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more for every course level from elementary to college.
Wolfram MathWorld
MathWorld is the web’s most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world’s mathematics and internet communities as part of Wolfram Research’s commitment to education and educational outreach.
Common Core Sheets
Review sheets and flash cards aligned to the Common Core Standards.