The databases of the New England Historic Genealogical Society with over 110 million names.

Search for your ancestors, check U.S. Census Records, Birth/Marriage/Death records, and more. Ancestry Library is the largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records, family tree services and genealogy learning materials.

Provides biographical information on more than 700,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines.

FamilySearch.org offers access to genealogical records from over 110 countries, including over 2.4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records; 742,000 microfiche; 310,000 books, serials, and other formats. FamilySearch.org also contains the catalog of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Research help is available through the Family History Research Wiki, discussion forums, and online free family history courses through the Learning Center. FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries have privileges to some limited-access FamilySearch databases and records.  The Affiliate Library collection is only available on-site and do not have all the privileges of a Family History Center.  A free individual account is required to use the FamilySearch.org platform.  FamilySearch is the largest collection of genealogical and historical records in the world and is the genealogical branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, informally known as the Mormon Church or the LDS Church. For more information, contact rdesk@mhl.org

Fold3 provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.

Census data, family records, local histories, tax lists, city directories, land and probate records, birth, marriage and death records, etc.

All documents include original page images.

Newspapers.com Library Edition is an extensive database that provides online access to 10,000+ (and growing!) historical newspapers from nearly 60 locations in the US and worldwide.  Numbering over 100 million pages, the World Collection is a prime resource for genealogy and historical content.

Dating from the late 1600s into the 2010s, Newspapers.com Library Edition contains full and partial runs of regional, state, and local titles from the United States and other countries.

Local school and educational publisher American Graphics Institute provides area libraries with access to their books and curriculum for self-paced learning. The books teach many popular technology topics ranging from digital design software applications, digital video editing tools, web design and coding skills, and office applications.  The collection serves as self-paced training resources and also include training videos created by the authors as well as lesson files.

Find your next great read with this interactive magazine for booklovers. 

BookBrowse offers:

• Reviews, excerpts, recommendations and excerpts.
• Browsing by genre, time period, geographical setting and theme.
• Handpicked "If you like this, try these" recommendations for thousands of authors and books.
• Resources for book clubs including recommended reads by theme, reading guides & online book club discussions.
• One-click links to the catalog to check if the book is available.

Build a love of reading and learning with paired fiction and nonfiction. For grades preK-3. Scholastic BookFlix delivers high-interest, interactive content to engage young readers:

• 80 fiction-nonfiction pairs build background knowledge and introduce content-area learning.
• Spanish language versions of 20 pairs offer first language support.
• Read-along option for both fiction and nonfiction develops listening and reading comprehension.
• Interactive educational games assess learning.
• Author biographies introduce children to favorite writers.
• Educator resources, including lesson plans and activities, support teachers, librarians, and parents.

Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

The optional MLA International Bibliography module adds citations for hundreds of thousands of books, articles and dissertations from 1926 to the present, linked to full text where available.

A fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles.

Includes pre-made reader advisory lists divided into several categories, "read-alike" lists, prepared book discussion guides, and teaching materials for educators. Searchable by title, author, keyword, plot description and series name. Search results can be limited by reading and age level.

OCLC WorldCat is a free catalog that shows the holdings of more than 72,000 libraries worldwide. 

Safari Tech Books Online is an on-demand, digital library that provides access to thousands of technology books by major publishers.

This subscription gives access to titles published during the last two full calendar years, plus titles that are published during the current calendar year. Publishers include:

• Addison-Wesley Professional
• Adobe Press
• Cisco Press
• IBM Redbooks
• Microsoft Press
• New Riders
• Peachpit Press
• Prentice Hall PTR
• Project Management Institute
• Que
• Sams

TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love.

AtoZdatabases includes 30 million business profiles and contact information for 220 million residents. It also includes a component for job searching. This database can be used to find businesses based on employee size, sales volume, type of business and location.

Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.

This database was formerly known as Small Business Resource Center.

Thousands of official, state specific, federal, business, personal, real estate and general forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues.

Morningstar Online provides information on more than 30,000 stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. Memorial Hall Library's subscription provides for two simultaneous users.

Current and historical reviews, price and earnings projections, and analyst commentaries on approximately 3.500 of the most actively traded stocks, in over 90 industries.

Available at home to Andover cardholders only.

Boston Consumers' Checkbook lists ratings of local businesses including auto repair shops, doctors and dentists, plumbers, contractors and dog care facilities.

ChiltonLibrary provides exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks in one easy-to-use web site supplies a solution for the "do-it-yourselfer" that is easy to use no matter the skill level. Repair, maintenance and specification tables provide critical data on thousands of domestic and imported models of cars and light trucks from 1940 onward.

1,000+ Ratings, reviews, expert buying advice, product comparisons, consumer user reviews, and product video clips from ConsumerReports.org.

Thousands of official, state specific, federal, business, personal, real estate and general forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues.

Morningstar Online provides information on more than 30,000 stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. Memorial Hall Library's subscription provides for two simultaneous users.

Actually two online books -- one covering the Colonial Era to the Civil War, the other from 1860 to the present -- The Value of a Dollar gives the costs of thousands of items at various points in history as well as how much money people had to buy them at the time. Each section contains currency conversion tables. Both volumes are available in print at the library.

Current and historical reviews, price and earnings projections, and analyst commentaries on approximately 3.500 of the most actively traded stocks, in over 90 industries.

Available at home to Andover cardholders only.

ABCmouse.com's curriculum is designed to help young children (ages 2–7+) build a strong foundation for academic success. ABCmouse.com is 100% educational, with more than 4,000 learning activities across all major subject areas-reading, math, science, social studies, art, and music. 

Creativebug has more than 1,000 award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists. Single and multi-part classes for all ages and skill levels are available in the following areas:

• art & design
• sewing
• quilting
• paper
• knitting
• crochet
• food & home
• jewelry
• holiday & party
• kids

MHL card holders have unlimited access to the classes. Once you've logged in with your MHL card number and PIN, you will be prompted to create a Creativebug account by entering an email address and password. Once you've created an account, you can log in by visiting Creativebug's main website (https://www.creativebug.com/) or by revisiting this page and entering your library card number and PIN again, after which you'll be logged in automatically.

Over 300 full-text journals for educators, administrators and librarians. Content included in the database is almost entirely full-text, with the majority of the titles also covered in the ERIC database.

This database covers education topics such as:

• multiple levels from preschool to college
• technology
• bilingual education
• health education
• testing
• administration
• funding
• policy

Practice tests and tutorial courses designed to help students and adult learners succeed on academic or licensing tests.

Includes SAT, ACT, GRE, GED, GMAT, Military, Civil Service, School Skills, TOEFL, Citizenship, Job/Career Skills, and more. 

Free online help from expert tutors for students of all levels. Live assistance available daily 3-10 pm. Also available: resume, GED, and citizenship assistance for adults.

Includes the full text and images of forty nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.

This database was formerly known as Health Reference Center Academic.

Magill's Medical Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders. This is the online version of the five-volume print set, which can be found in the library.

Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile) provides access to academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. The database offers current and authoritative content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

AtoZdatabases includes 30 million business profiles and contact information for 220 million residents. It also includes a component for job searching. This database can be used to find businesses based on employee size, sales volume, type of business and location.

A comprehensive career resource that allows you to search for and track jobs, create targeted resumes and cover letters, practice and master interview techniques, explore and identify career paths according to your interests, experience and what's in demand, and find schools and education/training programs.

Career Transitions is your one-stop-shop for finding a new job/career or for finding expert tips on how to set yourself apart in an increasingly competitive job market.

Effortlessly create professional resumes in minutes.

Resumes need to grab the attention of an employer almost immediately in order to have the best chance of making it through the weeding process. Cypress Resume's gigantic library of tens of thousands of professional statements is designed to do exactly that.

Free online help from expert tutors for students of all levels. Live assistance available daily 3-10 pm. Also available: resume, GED, and citizenship assistance for adults.

A collection of career guides and highly specialized industry journals

MUZZY Club offers interactive learning games and vocabulary lessons for children interested in learning any of the following languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Mandarin Chinese, Korean and Italian.

Note: To access MUZZY from a mobile device, do the following:

1. Download and install the free Puffin Academy Browser app from either the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
2. Launch the Puffin Acadamy Browser app.
3. Search for Muzzy BBC Languages, then choose to install it. Once installed, you'll be able to select BBC Muzzy Languages from within the Puffin Academy Browser app.
4. Select BBC Muzzy Languages.
5. On the next screen, choose the option labeled "I am a Muzzy fan" and log in with the following username and password:
   Username: MemorialMA
   Password: muzzy2017

Pronunciator helps you learn any of 100 languages using your computer or mobile device. Features include:

• self-paced exercises in vocabulary, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, spelling, writing, pronunciation and virtual conversation
• learning through movie scenes and song lyrics
• culture and business insights as well as workplace-specific exercises
• offline learning through downloadable audio lessons and phrasebooks
• ESL instruction for speakers of 50 non-English languages
• free app you can download to your smartphone/tablet

Contains the Charter and related legislation and the general and permanent By-Laws of the Town of Andover, Massachusetts.

Thousands of official, state specific, federal, business, personal, real estate and general forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues.

This article database includes full-text and abstracts of scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals covering topics in the areas of current events, general sciences and technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

The professional journals of the American Physical Society embody the mission of the society "to advance and diffuse the knowledge of Physics." This collection includes the following:

Physical Review Letters (PRL) (brief important papers, all topics in physics)
Physical Review A (atomic, molecular, and optical physics)
Physical Review B (condensed matter and materials physics)
Physical Review C (nuclear physics)
Physical Review D (particles, fields, gravitation and cosmology)
Physical Review E (statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics)
Physical Review X (open access articles, all topics of physics)
Physical Review Applied (applied physics)
Reviews of Modern Physics (in-depth articles, all topics in physics)
Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research
The APS Journal Archive (back to 1893)

Full-text content from the Andover Townsman newspaper and website since April 2007. 

Find your next great read with this interactive magazine for booklovers. 

BookBrowse offers:

• Reviews, excerpts, recommendations and excerpts.
• Browsing by genre, time period, geographical setting and theme.
• Handpicked "If you like this, try these" recommendations for thousands of authors and books.
• Resources for book clubs including recommended reads by theme, reading guides & online book club discussions.
• One-click links to the catalog to check if the book is available.

Complete full-text content of local, regional, national and international developments. Coverage of community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, people in the community, and much more. Paid advertisements, syndicated columns excluded. 

Articles and transcripts from more than 200 news sources covering the Greater Boston area, updated daily. Newspapers include the Boston Herald, Metro Boston, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Lowell Sun, Andover Townsman, Eagle-Tribune, Tewksbury Advocate, Wilmington Advocate, North Andover Citizen and many more.

1,000+ Ratings, reviews, expert buying advice, product comparisons, consumer user reviews, and product video clips from ConsumerReports.org.

Full-text content from the Eagle-Tribune newspaper and website since 2008. 

Over 300 full-text journals for educators, administrators and librarians. Content included in the database is almost entirely full-text, with the majority of the titles also covered in the ERIC database.

This database covers education topics such as:

• multiple levels from preschool to college
• technology
• bilingual education
• health education
• testing
• administration
• funding
• policy

General OneFile (Gale) is a one-stop source for news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text, General OneFile serves a wide audience of readers.

Full text articles focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment.

Includes the full text and images of forty nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.

This database was formerly known as Health Reference Center Academic.

Mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for grades 9–12 covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.  Please see Middle School (Gale In Context) for a similar database for middle school students.

This database was formerly known as InfoTrac Student.

Covering 75 full-text curriculum-related magazines and 7 reference books, InfoBits targets the research needs of K- 5 students. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface and a subject-based topic tree search.  Please see Middle School (Gale In Context) for a similar database for middle school students.

Created specifically for middle-schoolers, Gale In Context: Middle School combines reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and more. The material covers core subjects including literature, science, social studies and history.

Search the full text of The New York Times (starting in 1985)

Direct Digital Access to The New York Times includes the following:

• NYT articles published between 1851-1922 and 1981-current
• full access to the International, Chinese and Spanish editions of the NYT
• customizable news alerts
• real-time market data and company research pages covering 11,000+ public and private companies

To access New York Times [Direct Digital Access]:

1. Click the "New York Times [Direct Digital Access]" link or logo above.
2. If you are inside the library, you will be taken directly to the NYT website. If you are outside the library, you will be taken to a webpage that asks for your Memorial Hall Library card number, then taken to a page containing a Redeem button. Click the button, and you will be taken to the NYT website. If you want to use one of the NYT mobile apps, you will need to redeem a digital access code by visiting this page.
3. Once you are on the NYT website, you should log in with a New York Times account. If you do not have one, you can create one. If you arrived at the NYT website from outside the library and clicked the Redeem button, you will have open access for 24 hours. To continue after 24 hours, simply revisit this page and restart the process.

News (Gale OneFile) provides access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields. The database offers a one-stop source for current news and searchable archives.

This database was formerly known as InfoTrac Newsstand.

Newspapers.com Library Edition is an extensive database that provides online access to 10,000+ (and growing!) historical newspapers from nearly 60 locations in the US and worldwide.  Numbering over 100 million pages, the World Collection is a prime resource for genealogy and historical content.

Dating from the late 1600s into the 2010s, Newspapers.com Library Edition contains full and partial runs of regional, state, and local titles from the United States and other countries.

Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile) provides access to academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. The database offers current and authoritative content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

Gale in Context (Science) is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics.

The resource merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Foundation Directory Online Professional helps grantseekers find the right match for their organization’s mission. Get access to more than 140,000 expanded profiles on foundations and corporate donors, information on more than 7 million grants, and more than half a million key decision makers and leaders. 990 and 990-PF forms are keyword searchable.

Find information about 10,000 foundation profiles at your fingertips, including foundation and public charity programs that have funded individual grantseekers for everything from scholarship opportunities to research needs. Updated weekly.

Foundation Maps Professional is the easiest way to see who is funding what and where around the world. With millions of grants from 2006 to the present, innovative ways to visualize funding data, and the flexibility and precision to tailor research, Foundation Maps Professional helps funders and nonprofits access the knowledge they need to make strategic decisions and strengthen their impact.

Thousands of official, state specific, federal, business, personal, real estate and general forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues.

This article database includes full-text and abstracts of scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals covering topics in the areas of current events, general sciences and technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

AtoZdatabases includes 30 million business profiles and contact information for 220 million residents. It also includes a component for job searching. This database can be used to find businesses based on employee size, sales volume, type of business and location.

BNA Online provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA and Canada. Specific topics covered include: distribution, migration, habitat, breeding, conservation and management. Also included in the species account are photos, sounds and in most cases, videos displaying some type of behavior.

A comprehensive reference resource with components for students and adults. A dictionary, a thesaurus, multimedia, and primary source materials are included.

This online book contains over 8000 entries that record first happenings, discoveries, and inventions in American history. Best used with the keyword search function or by following links within its expanded contents. A print edition can be found at the library.

Mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for grades 9–12 covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.  Please see Middle School (Gale In Context) for a similar database for middle school students.

This database was formerly known as InfoTrac Student.

Covering 75 full-text curriculum-related magazines and 7 reference books, InfoBits targets the research needs of K- 5 students. It features a developmentally appropriate and visual graphic interface and a subject-based topic tree search.  Please see Middle School (Gale In Context) for a similar database for middle school students.

Thousands of official, state specific, federal, business, personal, real estate and general forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues.

Magill's Medical Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders. This is the online version of the five-volume print set, which can be found in the library.

Created specifically for middle-schoolers, Gale In Context: Middle School combines reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and more. The material covers core subjects including literature, science, social studies and history.

Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile) provides access to academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. The database offers current and authoritative content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.

MHL is evaluating this service on a trial basis. If you use it an like it, let us know!

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 600,000 words, past and present, from across the English-speaking world.

As a historical dictionary, the OED focuses not only on the meanings of the word, but also on the history of the word, and how its meaning has changed over time. The OED traces the history of the English language through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals, to films scripts and cookery books. Updates revise and extend the OED at regular intervals, each time subtly adjusting our image of the English language.

Gale in Context (Science) is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics.

The resource merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Actually two online books -- one covering the Colonial Era to the Civil War, the other from 1860 to the present -- The Value of a Dollar gives the costs of thousands of items at various points in history as well as how much money people had to buy them at the time. Each section contains currency conversion tables. Both volumes are available in print at the library.

Local school and educational publisher American Graphics Institute provides area libraries with access to their books and curriculum for self-paced learning. The books teach many popular technology topics ranging from digital design software applications, digital video editing tools, web design and coding skills, and office applications.  The collection serves as self-paced training resources and also include training videos created by the authors as well as lesson files.

The professional journals of the American Physical Society embody the mission of the society "to advance and diffuse the knowledge of Physics." This collection includes the following:

Physical Review Letters (PRL) (brief important papers, all topics in physics)
Physical Review A (atomic, molecular, and optical physics)
Physical Review B (condensed matter and materials physics)
Physical Review C (nuclear physics)
Physical Review D (particles, fields, gravitation and cosmology)
Physical Review E (statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics)
Physical Review X (open access articles, all topics of physics)
Physical Review Applied (applied physics)
Reviews of Modern Physics (in-depth articles, all topics in physics)
Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams
Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research
The APS Journal Archive (back to 1893)

Safari Tech Books Online is an on-demand, digital library that provides access to thousands of technology books by major publishers.

This subscription gives access to titles published during the last two full calendar years, plus titles that are published during the current calendar year. Publishers include:

• Addison-Wesley Professional
• Adobe Press
• Cisco Press
• IBM Redbooks
• Microsoft Press
• New Riders
• Peachpit Press
• Prentice Hall PTR
• Project Management Institute
• Que
• Sams

Gale in Context (Science) is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics.

The resource merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Practice tests and tutorial courses designed to help students and adult learners succeed on academic or licensing tests.

Includes SAT, ACT, GRE, GED, GMAT, Military, Civil Service, School Skills, TOEFL, Citizenship, Job/Career Skills, and more. 

Driver's permit practice tests and manuals, presented in partnership with Driving-Tests.org. Includes:

• 11 car practice tests
• 9 motorcycle practice tests
• 27 CDL (commercial driver’s license) practice tests
• 3 online driver’s manuals (car, motorcycle, CDL)
• a FAQ  section with detailed answers to over 100 RMV-related questions

Please Note: Driving-Tests.org is not affiliated with or evaluated by the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. The official RMV Driver’s Manual is available on their website, along with additional driver’s education information.

Free online help from expert tutors for students of all levels. Live assistance available daily 3-10 pm. Also available: resume, GED, and citizenship assistance for adults.