Resources

Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals with full-text information dating as far back as 1975.

Explore digitized images, documents, oral histories, videos, and more.  Featured collections include The Mary Wheeler Collection, Paducah postcards, and newspapers and documents from area schools.

A monthly sneak peek of new titles coming soon to McCracken County Public Library. You can get this delivered to your e-mail inbox each month!

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).

MyHeritage is the leading global platform for discovering family history.

Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

Newspaper database providing access to the Paducah Sun and affiliated newspapers spanning the years 1896–2023.

Niche Academy provides video tutorials covering a variety of information literacy topics that can help in conducting research and navigating the Library's electronic resources.

NoveList, the complete readers’ advisory solution, empowers librarians, engages readers and connects communities.

A fiction database designed with a bright, appealing layout, designed especially for elementary and middle schools.

This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications.

This resource offers a wide variety of information on small business and entrepreneurial subject areas, common business types, a help and advice section, and provides information on how to create business plans that lead to successful funding.

This database provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles.

Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

TeachingBooks offers resources on children's and young adult books, featuring author interviews, video trailers, audio readings, discussion guides, and more, provided by the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.

TeenBookCloud is an online database of YA/Teen eBooks.TeenBookCloud offers a robust selection of Graphic Novels, Enhanced Novels, eBooks, classic literature, videos, educator resources, and audiobooks.The collection is available online 24/7.

Contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO’s collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.