Addresses & Telephone numbers
ANYWHO.COM (website, not a database)
Search for residential and commercial addresses and phone numbers.
REFERENCE USA - Access from home
Search for residential and commercial telephone numbers and addresses; new movers; historical business records; healthcare providers; jobs and more.
Auto Repair
CHILTON LIBRARY - Access from home
Repair and maintenance information for automobiles from 1940 - present.
Biographies
BIOGRAPHY REFERENCE BANK - Access from home
Books / Literature / Literary Criticism
ABOUT: BOOKS - Access from home
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH FULL-TEXT LITERATURE - Access from home
A collection of electronic books of American and English literature - poetry, drama, fiction and the Bible.
LITERARY REFERENCE CENTER (EBSCOHost) - Access from home
NOVELIST PLUS (EBSCOHost) - Access from home
Find books by your favorite authors, read alikes, book discussion guides and more.
NOVELIST PLUS K-8 (EBSCOHost) - Access from home
Find books by your children's favorite authors, read alikes, book discussion guides and more.
WORLDCAT (Website, not a database)
The world's largest library catalog. Search the collections and services of over 10,000 libraries worldwide.
Business & Finance
ANYWHO.COM (website, not a database)
Search for residential and commercial addresses and phone numbers.
BUSINESS SOURCE PREMIER (EBSCOHost) - Access from home
MORNINGSTAR INVESTMENT RESEARCH CENTER - Access from home
Stock and mutual fund information. Find current and historical quotes; in-depth analysis; company and industry information; and financial education tutorials.
REFERENCEUSA - Access from home
Search for residential and commercial telephone numbers and addresses; new movers; historical business records; healthcare providers; jobs and more.
SMALL BUSINESS REFERENCE CENTER(EBSCOhost) - Access from home
Consumer Information
CONSUMER REPORTS - Access from home
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION - REPORT FRAUD (website, not a database)
A new website that makes it easy for people to report fraud, scams, and bad business practices.
ESPANOL REPORTE FRAUDE (website, not a database)
Controversial Issues
POINTS OF VIEW (EBSCOHost) - Access from home
Dictionary
MERRIAM WEBSTER - Website
In print since 1828. A trusted online dictionary for English word definitions, meanings, and pronunciation.
Includes Thesaurus, Word of the Day and more.
Driver's Education
OHIO DRIVER'S EDUCATION - Access from home
Ohio BMV Handbooks and practice tests for: Cars, Motorcycles and CDL.
Education & Job / Career
ANYWHO.COM (website, not a database)
Search for residential and commercial addresses and phone numbers.
GALE COURSES - Access from home (Morley Library Cardholders)
Gale Courses offers a wide range of highly interactive, instructor led courses that you can take entirely online.
Courses run for six weeks and new sessions begin every month.
These courses are available at no cost for Morley Library Card holders.
Lynda.com - Access from home (Morley Library Cardholders)
If you have a card from another Ohio public library, then you must log in to Lynda.com through that library's website.
Online instructor led video courses.
These courses are available at no cost for Morley Library Card holders
LAKE COUNTY, OHIO OHIO MEANS JOBS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING - (website, not a database)
OHIO MEANS JOBS - PRACTICE TESTS AND TUTORIALS - (website, not a database)
Education and job skills.
REFERENCEUSA - Access from home
Search for residential and commercial telephone numbers and addresses; new movers; historical business records; healthcare providers; jobs and more.
TUTOR.COM
The expert tutors at Tutor.com can help you work through a tough homework problem, improve your writing skills, study for a test, review a difficult concept, and so much more with free, on-demand tutoring! You can also prepare for the college entrance exams like the ACT® or SAT® with a self-paced, personalized course created by a team of test-prep experts to help you reach your target score. Most services are available 24/7!
Encyclopedias
OXFORD RESEARCH ENCYCLOPEDIAS - Access from home
VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS (Oxford Press) - Access from home
WORLD BOOK - Access from home
A great place to visit for an introduction to a topic of interest or reliable facts for a report.
Español
WORLD BOOK SPANISH - Access from home
A great place to visit for an introduction to a topic of interest or reliable facts for a report.
Genealogy
AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE - Access from home (Images might not load in Google Chrome browser)
ANCESTRY - LIBRARY EDITION - Access from home (Available for use from home thru MARCH 31)
Formed through a partnership between Proquest and MyFamily.com, this collection of 4,000 individual databases includes the U. S. Federal Census images and indexes from 1790 to 1930.
CLEVELAND NECROLOGY FILE (Cleveland Public Library Website)
An index to obituaries the appeared in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Cleveland Herald and The Cleveland Press.
This does not provide full text access to the obituaries. The link doe include information about how to get a copy of an obituary.
CLEVELAND NEWS INDEX (Cleveland Public Library Website)
An index to local news stories, feature articles and reviews from the following sources: The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland Magazine, Northern Ohio Live, Ohio Magazine.
This does not provide full text access to the articles. The link does include information about how to get copies of an article.
FAMILY SEARCH - (In-Library Use Only)
To access create your free account: username and password.
As Morley Library is a FamilySearch Affiliate Library, using FamilySearch from within the library provides access to 350+ million images not available when accessing the FamilySearch website from outside of an affiliate library.
FOLD3 -Access from home
Military Records
HERITAGE QUEST ONLINE - Access from home (might not work with Google Chrome)
SANBORN FIRE INSURANCE MAPS- Access from home
Geography
SANBORN FIRE INSURANCE MAPS - Access from home
Government
CONGRESS.GOV - (website, not a database)
From the library of Congress, this is the official website for U. S. Federal Legislative information: such as, how to contact a Representative or Congressmen; voting records; current and past bills: how the legislative process works and more.
OHIO.GOV - (Website, not a database)
The official website for the State of Ohio. Find the government information and services you need to live, work, travel, and do business in the state.
OHIO LEGISLATURE (Website, not a database)
Information about Ohio House and Senate, legislation and more.
OHIO MEANS JOBS (Website, not a database)
State website for searching for: educational scholarships; online training; employment programs; occupations; and jobs.
OHIO REVISED CODE (Website, not a database)
The general laws of the State of Ohio.
OHIO SUPREME COURT (Website, not a database)
Information about the Ohio Supreme Court and the Ohio Judicial System.
Domestic and Juvenile standardized forms.
Grants
The Foundation Center / Candid - FOUNDATION DIRECTORY ONLINE ESSENTIAL
(In-Library Use Only Currently available from home) - Access from home
From The Foundation Center, now known as Candid, a unique database of 80,000 grant makers, half a million grants, and 250,000 searchable 990s.
The Foundation Center / Candid - FOUNDATION GRANTS FOR INDIVIDUALS - (In-Library Use Only)
From The Foundation Center, now known as Candid, an online database of more than 6,200 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grant seekers.
Health
CONSUMER HEALTH COMPLETE (EBSCOHost) - Access from home
LAKE COUNTY GENERAL HEALTH DISTRICT (website, not a database)
MEDLINE PLUS (website, not a database)
A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine / National Institutes of Health.
MOTIVATE LAKE COUNTY (website, not a database)
For all who live, work, and play in Lake County, Motivate Lake County is the home for all things health and wellness, providing: local education, information, and resources; weekly and monthly challenges; programming and events; and personal health data tracking and assessments. Residents have a dedicated platform they can trust, and businesses have a reliable outlet to share their unique services to all across the county.
WE THRIVE TOGETHER (website, not a database)
Your neighbors started We Thrive Together to increase socialization and reduce social isolation and loneliness in our community. We invite you to take advantage of our FREE events and activities available online and at the senior centers, libraries, and other various local venues.
History
DAILY LIFE THROUGH HISTORY - (In Library Use Only)
From Greenwood Electronic Media, Daily Life Through History is an online sourcebook series providing a detailed portrayal of what life was like for ordinary people in different cultures throughout history. Includes images, maps and illustrations.
SLAVERY IN AMERICA AND THE WORLD: HISTORY, CULTURE AND LAW - (In library use only)
This HeinOnline collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. Including every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery; and, every federal statute dealing with slavery and slave recovery; every English-language legal commentary on slavery published before 1920, including many essays and articles in obscure, hard-to-find journals in the United States and elsewhere modern law review articles on the subject.
In addition to legal documents this collection includes, many modern histories of slavery and more than a thousand pamphlets and books on slavery from the 19th century.
This library will continue to grow, not only from new scholarship but also from historical material that we continue to locate and add to the collection.
Hobbies & Crafts
HOBBIES & CRAFTS REFERENCE CENTER (EBSCOhost) - Access from home
Home Improvement
HOME IMPROVEMENT REFERENCE CENTER (EBSCOhost) - Access from home
Kids
EXPLORA PRIMARY (EBSCOHost) - Access from home
KIDS INFOBITS (Gale Cengage) - Access from home
NOVELIST K-8 (EBSCOHost) - Access from home
WORLD BOOK EARLY WORLD OF LEARNING - Access from home
WORLD BOOK KIDS - Access from home
Lake County Services
211 LAKE COUNTY LifeLine (Website)
Language
ROSETTA STONE - Access from home (Morley Library Cardholders)
To use with the Rosetta Stone Languages app on a smartphone or tablet:
You must use your web browser (and the "access from home" link above) to log in.
Once you click "Launch Rosetta Stone® Language Lessons Version 3," it will launch using the app.
TRANSPARENT LANGUAGES - Access from home
Legal forms
GALE LEGAL FORMS - Access from home
LAKE COUNTY OHIO - Clerk of Courts legal forms (website, not a database)
LEGAL AID'S COMMUMITY TOOLKIT (Website, not a database)
OHIO LEGAL HELP (website, not a database)
"Ohio Legal Help is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 2018 to help all Ohioans access the civil justice system. We provide plain language legal help information, interactive self-help tools and connections to local legal and community resources that can help people resolve their legal issues.
Our legal help information is written by our content team and reviewed by expert private and legal aid lawyers. This ensures that Ohio Legal Help users have information that is easy to understand, action-oriented and accurate." --Ohio Legal Help
This website adjusts in size for easy reading on a computer, a laptop, a tablet or a phone.
OHIO REVISED CODE (website, not a database)
The general laws of the State of Ohio.
OHIO SUPREME COURT - Domestic Relations forms (website, not a database)
Magazine & Journal articles
EBSCOHOST - Access from home
Choose MasterFILE Premier if you need magazine articles.
Academic Search Premier may be a good place to start a search for journal articles.
Newspapers
HISTORIC OHIO NEWSPAPERS (Website, not a database)
The Ohio History Connection provides free access to over 1,000,000 full-text searchable pages of historic Ohio newspapers through Ohio Memory and the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America.
CHRONICLING AMERICA (Website, not a database)
Historic American Newspapers
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
Research
EBSCOHOST - Access from home
Magazine and journal articles.
EXPLORA SECONDARY (EBSCOHost) - Access from home
Science
SCIENCE REFERENCE CENTER (EBSCOHost) - Access from home
Ohio Web Library
OHIO WEB LIBRARY - Access from home
Provided to Ohio libraries by OPLIN, the Ohio Public Library Information Network, this database Includes:
encyclopedias; dictionaries; magazine, journal and newspaper articles; information about Ohio and more.