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Reference Services Welcome! The Reference Department is staffed during all hours of operation by professional librarians with master's degrees in library science. Our friendly personal will make every effort to help you find the materials or information you need. We can assist you in learning how to use the library and get you books, articles, and microforms from outside the library. We also offer introductory classes for the Internet to Hackensack Library card holders. Questions about us please contact our Supervising Librarian, Val Clark at (201)343-4169 x20. Questions for us? Hackensack residents may submit reference questions via e-mail. Using the BCCLS system at home or at the library you may look for books, videos, CD's, audiocassettes or CD-ROM's available through the catalogs of BCCLS, BELS (Bergen Schools), MAIN (Morris County) and PALS Plus (Passiac County) libraries. Items may be reserved and sent to your local library. Full text magazine articles may also be accessed. The (Bergen) Record newspaper, full-text is available back to mid 1984 by subscription. On-line Reference links The BCCLS page contains comprehensive, frequently updated and annotates Reference links. Morris County Library. This regions Reference center has many additional links Infotrac guide to searching the Internet Electronic databases at the library CD-ROM's - We have more than 20 CD-ROM's on such subject as Government, business, telephone directories, health, poetry, and literature. Also available through the OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs) in the library is a magazine index which has full text of articles, the fulltext of the (Bergen) Record newspaper from mid 1984 to the present. There is also a national newspaper index, a Consumer Health index with abstracts and full text articles, and the ERIC educational index. Available online at the library is: World Book Encyclopedia
Alternative Health Watch - Alternative health full text articles
Poem Finder - Index to poetry, with many full text poems
NoveList- Readers advisory
Electric Library - Full text magazines, newspapers, wire services,
transcripts, pictures, and maps
Lexis-Nexis (Staff search only)
SearchBank - Includes 3 databases: Business, magazine, and health
full text articles
Informe - Spanish edition of SearchBank
ProQuest Direct - Full text articles
Got an after hours reference question? Call the New Jersey Nightline at: 1-800-922-2233 Monday - Thursday 9:00pm to Midnight Friday - Sunday 5:00pm to Midnight Johnson Public Library 274 Main Street Hackensack, NJ 07601 (201) 343-4169 |
