Local and Regional -- see also Local Libraries link on the LRC homepage

• Chicago Public Library ~ See "Kids and Teens" then "Good Reads and Great Books" for some great reading ideas.
• Niles Public Library
• North Suburban Library System ~ NSLS is a consortium of over 650 academic, public, school, and special libraries in north suburban Cook, Kane, Lake and McHenry counties. Public services include: What's New in Libraries? and MyWebLibrarian.com (a live, online help service).
• Park Ridge Public Library ~ Use your library card to reserve materials online and use databases.

State

• The Illinois State Library ~ "The State Library has become a computer-age doorway to worldwide information, providing patrons with an electronic bridge to the collections of universities, public and corporate libraries, and new information systems."

National

• The Library of Congress ~ The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 130 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 58 million manuscripts.
• The National Archives ~ Documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government.
• National Library of Medicine ~ The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.

N. Mellendorf, Librarian. Last update:04/07/08