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Facts on File World News Digest - An up-to-date news resource at your fingertips. If prompted, please use username as stoughtonpl and the password as 21646000. The Reference Department of the Stoughton
Public Library, headed by Reference and Adult Services Librarian Josh
Olshin, provides a full service information resource for all patrons.
For business information, our Business Reference Collection includes mutual
fund information via Morningstar, stock information via Value Line, corporate
information via Mergent Services and the Thomas Register as well as access to
business related information found in magazines and newspapers online at our
Public Access Catalogs, and through business sites via the Internet.
For parents, we have reference books on home-schooling, child
care and family issues. To assist their children with homework, many
resources are available including a large collection of books on countries,
biographical dictionaries, and science reference, as well as sites on the
internet.
For children and teens, there are adult reference materials which can be
used in addition to the reference materials in the Juvenile and Young Adult
Departments.
Health related information can be found in several medical reference books in
the regular Reference Area and in the Reference Locked Case. Online access to
health information databases which include scientific journal, magazine and
newspaper articles, is available on all library Public Access Catalogs (PACs)
as well as through Internet health sites. Public Access Catalogs (PACs) can also be accesses through your home
computer at www.ocln.org and using your library card number as ID.
For all patrons, the Reference Librarian is always ready to give
personal help. Just ask for the Reference Librarian at the main
desk.
Stoughton Collection for History and
Genealogy
If in your searches for books and
information you come across the letters SC in the Call No., you
should know that it stands for the Stoughton Public Library's Stoughton
Collection. This consists of books, manuscripts, microfiche, articles,
and even some "realia" (real items, such as a set of buttons
commemorating an historical event) dealing not only with Stoughton, but other
cities and towns in Massachusetts and New England. This material is kept for
its historical and research value and also includes vital statistics, town
histories, photographs, military records, and newspapers. There are
also historical maps in the map drawer underneath the stairs.
Whenever anyone is doing genealogical
research: that is, trying to trace back a family's historical roots, our Stoughton
Collection is the source to use. We have two printed lists patrons may
use and take to check our holdings in the
The materials in the Stoughton Collection
(SC) do not circulate, but are available for use in the library
with a form of identification for staff to hold at the main desk.
The Stoughton Collection is filed in our Periodical Room,
and patrons request items from it which Library Staff will obtain.
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