DIGITAL RESOURCES
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The following types of materials can be checked out and downloaded from this website:
WMA Audiobooks in the OverDrive Media Console™ format & MP3 Audiobooks in the OverDrive Media Console™ format
Please note that digital downloads can be enjoyed at home, at work, or when you travel, but are generally not for use on the computers in the library.
To access digital materials at Audio On-the-Go, you will need:
A valid library card
Access to the Internet
Free software for the computer and/or device on which you wish to use the material you download from this site.
To use the Texas State Library databases, you must have a Burleson or Fort Worth library card. For log on instructions, call (817) 426-9207. Please have your library card number ready. Log on is case sensitive.
Online access to Great Lives from History, an informative reference set from Salem History. Great Lives is a far-reaching view of history, offering worldwide coverage of important men and women in all areas of achievement. Log in with your Burleson library card number to access this resource.
Mango is designed to equip you with conversational abilities from the very start. Whether you're learning how to order a pizza or ask when the game starts, Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in 12 different language courses. Log in with your Burleson library card number and get started today!
Free Reference Websites:
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project: Lincoln/Net Full-text access to over 3500 historical documents from Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-61), including writings and speeches, this collaborative project based at Northern Illinois University is one of the richest online resources about our 16th president. Here you can read or listen to his biography and view vignettes of his life through test, images, and videos.
CareerOneStop Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, "your pathway to career success" assists in exploring careers, writing resumes, interviewing, and locating jobs.
The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online This site assembles all of Darwin's published and unpublished writings. The result is the largest Darwin resource ever created, with 75,914 pages of searchable text and 184-561 images.
Documenting the American South This collection of primary resources about the culture, literature, and history of the American South was created by and primarily from the holdings of the University Libraries of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Read first-person narratives of women, slaves, and soldiers; discover Southern literary works dating from the Colonial period; and listen to interviews on topics such as civil rights and politics.
Earth Portal A global resource for science-based information about the environment, Earth Portal is governed by the Environmental Information Coalition and consists of three components: The Encyclopedia of Earth (with over 3,500 articles), Earth Forum (commentary and discussions with the public), and Earth News (news stories on environmental issues).
Economic Indicators This data is released by the U.S. Census Bureau. This site has info on current indicators and historic time series.
Economic News Releases This data is also released by the U.S. Census Bureau and contains employment and earnings data and price indexes.
Google Books Magazine Search Put in "magazine" as one of your search terms and see scans (including ads) from issues of numerous popular periodicals printed in the past few decades.
Google News Timeline Generates a timeline of news stories--going back to the 1400s--sorted according to day, week, month, year or decade.
Google Patent Search Search the full text of 7 million patent applications from the USPTO from the 1790s to the present day.
MRQE: Movie Review Query Engine MRQE is the ultimate place "where people talk about movies." Re-launched with expanded content, it's the largest online database of movie reviews, partering with leading movie blogs to collect and make searchable their content.
Poetry Foundation The publisher of Poetry magazine has developed a web site that exists to share the discovery and celebration of poetry. The full text of Poetry from 1998 is available, as is a historical index that dates to its 1912 origin. Use the Poetry Tool to search for information about poets or for poems by title, author, first line, or occasion.
UNdata "A world of information" is at your fingertips by browsing data series or searching by keyword more than 55 million records from the databases of the UN on employment, education, energy, environment, health, population, refugees, and much more.