DATABASES AVAILABLE FROM HOME OR IN THE LIBRARY

iCONN, the Connecticut Digital Library, offers access to full-text articles from magazines, journals, newswire services, and newspapers; health and business information; resources in history, biography, genealogy, education, law, and science; the Associated Press Archive of photographs, and much more.  reQuest searches over 400 Connecticut library catalogs.  The interface allows you to search both iCONN and reQuest at the same time, and find the same topic in many resources.

Cheshire-area Newspaper Archives
The Newsbank database provides full-text articles from the electronic editions in one easy-to-search database, offering access to coverage of local and regional news.
Meriden Record-Journal 12/7/1997 - current
New Haven Register 1/1/1988 - current (11/23/2003-12/2/2004 unavailable)

ReferenceUSA Business
A directory of over 12 million businesses that can be sorted by type, size and geography. Find businesses based on employee size, sales volume, type of business, and location. Find news articles, company descriptions, and executive biographies. Select a location and do a radius search to find similar business in the area.

ReferenceUSA Residential White Pages
Use this database of 135 Million U.S. Households to conduct market research, and locate friends and relatives. Search by name, address, median home value, median home income, and more.

Accessed through iCONN, the Connecticut Digital Library, Heritage Quest offers over 22,000 titles of local and family history books, and an index of over 2 million articles on genealogy and local history. Search the complete set of U.S. Federal Census images from 1790 to 1930. Search Revolutionary War records and the Freedman's Bank records. 

NoveList will help fiction readers find authors, titles, award winners, and author biographies for over 73,000 titles.

DATABASES AVAILABLE ONLY IN THE LIBRARY

AncestryLibrary provides access to more than one billion names, 3,000+ databases, federal, state and city censuses, and primary-source documents for the genealogy researcher.

New England Historic Genealogical Society - Over 90 million names in 2,000 databases, covering New England and regions of New York and Eastern Canada.