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Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center includes leading full-text hobby and craft magazines, hobby profiles, recipes, and videos all in a unique, dedicated user interface with easy-to-browse categories. 

Home Improvement Reference Center offers full-text content from leading home improvement magazines and reference books, plus a collection of images not found anywhere else online. You can quickly find the information they need by conducting keyword searches or browsing projects by category.

This resource is for parents and educators of children age three through 12th grade. INFOhio encourages adults to use the digital resources included for ages 3-5 to prepare Ohio’s early learners for school and their future. Its portals for elementary, middle, and high school students are designed to provide resources to help them understand the curriculum and find articles for research assignments.

Combining information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals and original content from EBSCO, Literary Reference Center features an expansive collection of classic and contemporary full-text poems, short stories, and novels.

MAS Ultra – School Edition provides full text for top high-school magazines. All full-text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). It also includes full-text biographies, primary source documents, reference books, and an image collection of more than 2 million photos, maps, flags and color PDFs.

Full text articles from nearly 1,800 business, health, news, and hobby magazines, including Consumer Reports, Health, Time, and many more. It also offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,700 periodicals. Full text files go as far back as January of 1990, while indexing and abstracts go as far back as January of 1984. Updated daily. 

MEDLINE brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in a way that is easy to understand. Learn about the latest treatments, look up information on a drug or supplement, find out the meanings of words, or view medical videos or illustrations.

Have a favorite author? Have 20? It's tough to keep track of which author has books coming out soon, so let us do it for you! Subscribe via email if you would like to get notified when a new book by your favorite authors arrives at Lima Public Library.

Have a favorite type of book? Get notified once per month with the new titles that Lima Public Library Added to that category. Whether it's teen fiction, mystery thrillers, or crafts you'll get the first look at our newest additions.

Middle Search Plus offers ongoing full text for the most popular magazines for middle schools, including: Cobblestone, Discover, Faces, Newsweek, Ranger Rick, Scholastic Science World, Science News, Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated Kids, TIME, TIME for Kids, U.S. News & World Report.