Online Resources

Comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, convenient research guides, interactive census maps, and more.

Explore a custom collection of news articles of the Historical Kansas City Star dating from 1880-2002.

Explore a custom collection of news articles of the Historical Kansas City Times dating from 1872-1990.

Comprehensive history reference database offering full text from more than 1,600 reference books, encyclopedias, non-fiction books, and leading history periodicals.

Helps students and researchers understand today’s crucial issues by exploring hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture.

Provides resources for job-seekers in all stages of the career exploration and job-application process.

Full-text of Kansas and Missouri specific local and regional newspapers.

Access to the online current and historical version of the Kansas City Star newspaper.

Digitized scans of donated local yearbooks from the library’s Kansas collection.

The Kansas Digital Newspapers (KDN) program seeks to digitize and make available on the Internet digital editions of historic Kansas newspapers.

Provides access to a wide variety of documents on Kansas state history such as: personal narratives and memoirs, pamphlets and political speeches, sermons and songs, legal treatises and children's books.

The forms are available for free to assist attorneys, judges, and individuals without an attorney. Some categories of forms include basic instructions, but the forms are not intended as a substitute for obtaining advice from an attorney.

Comprehensive test preparation, skills improvement resources, and career guidance for elementary students to adult learners.

Provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, and the environment.

This research database provides indexing and abstracting for key library and information science journals, books, research reports and more.

Includes thousands of plot summaries, synopses, and work overviews; articles of literary criticism; author biographies; literary journals; book reviews; classic and contemporary poems and short stories.

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Full-text magazine articles covering general interest topics.