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DDL Purchased Databases

The following Databases are commercial database subscriptions paid for by the Dexter District Library. Access is free-of-charge to Dexter District Library cardholders and visitors to the Dexter District Library.

Dexter District Library cardholders, use your library card number to enjoy remote access to the majority of our subscription databases - anytime, from anywhere - simply by clicking on the name of the database and entering your library card number.

Those databases which do not allow remote access are highlighted in orange.

All databases are available in the library for public use.

New NoveList
Recommended  for: Readers of fiction (all ages), librarians, and teachers. Helps to  find the next best fiction book to read. Search by author, title,  series, plots, or even books like the one you just finished.

To access from home, call the library and ask to speak with the adult reference desk to receive your username and password.

Ancestry.com

Ancestry Library Edition brings the world’s most popular consumer online genealogy resource to your library. It’s an unprecedented online collection of over 4 billion individuals from North America, Europe, Australia, and more.

Answers await everyone—whether professional or hobbyist, expert or novice, genealogist, or historian—inside the more than 4,000 available databases. Here, you can unlock the story of you with sources like censuses, vital records, immigration records, family histories, military records, court and legal documents, directories, photos, maps, and more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

The Gale Virtual Reference Library provides respected authoritative essays on varied topics from numerous subject areas, all in eBook format. Includes encyclopedias, alamanacs, trusted reference series and more. This is a MeL database. When accessing this database from home, use your Dexter Library card to log in for remote access

Mango Languages Database

Mango Languages is an online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages. Their online learning system is so easy to use, you'll see incredible results after just one lesson!

It's the easiest way to learn a foreign language!

Mango uses real-life situations and actual conversations to more effectively teach a new language. By listening to and repeating after material designed from native conversations, you'll not only learn the individual words and phrases, you'll know how they're used in practical situations and conversations. You'll learn more than grammar, vocabulary and conjugation, you'll learn how to communicate