Resources

Information on buying and selling cars, new car prices and reviews, used car values, insurance quotes and comparisons, loan calculators and recall reports.

Review a Wisconsin business or charity. Complaints can be filed against companies, and companies can respond to complaints.

For homework and after-hours reference work. By establishing an account, the user can create a bookshelf, bookmarks and notes.

Comprehensive full text coverage for more than 80 regional business publications covering U.S. metro and rural areas.

Connects job seekers and employers in Wisconsin.

Statistical overview of the socio-economic life of Fond du Lac County.

Product testing and consumer advisory. Products tested range from major purchases (automobiles and appliances) to everyday items (food and cleaning products). Search issues from January 1999 to the present.

Review a Wisconsin business or charity. Complaints can be filed against companies, and companies can respond to complaints.

Publications on child safety (toys, furniture), carbon monoxide, household products, poisons and electrical safety.

Higher education financial aid guide from the U.S. government.

Access to information resources, newspapers and magazines for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state's public, school, academic and special libraries and internet service providers. A project of the Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction, Division for Libraries, Technology and Community Learning.

Encyclopedias and related materials (dictionaries, thesauri, illustrations, maps, biographies). Includes educational activities, exercises and study guides.

Grade-level-appropriate reference articles, journals and magazines, best websites, multimedia and curriculum content.

Topics cover all levels of education and educational specialties. Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 journals, full text for more than 1,000 journals and full text for more than 100 books, monographs and conference papers.

Guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750, including the history of European exploration and portrayals of Native Americans. Covers range of subjects, from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

LearningExpress Library is an EBSCO resource provided by BadgerLink to all Wisconsin residents. The Career Center includes information, e-books, tests and tutorials on over 20 career fields and occupational exams. LearningExpress Library includes seven different centers, providing different types of content to different user groups:

• Adult Learning Center
• Career Center
• College Center
• College Preparation Center
• High School Equivalency Center
• Recursos para Hispanohablantes (Resources for Spanish Speakers)
• School Center

Full text for more than 140 popular middle school magazines. Articles assigned reading levels. Also 84,000-plus biographies, 100,000-plus primary source documents and more than 440,000 photos, maps and flags.

Free online courses from the world's leading universities. Yale, MIT, Stanford, Harvard and many others are sharing lectures and videos with lifelong learners from all around.

The most comprehensive collection of full text education journals includes more than 500 quality education journals, 300-plus peer-reviewed titles and 200-plus educational reports.

Biographies and photos of Wisconsin legislators, the state Constitution, information about the different branches of government and state statistics and symbols.

Full text on all areas of health and wellness – from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine – covering topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs and alcohol, fitness, nutrition and dietetics, men’s and women's health and children's health.

Nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines.

Extensive site providing medical information.

Information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences and more from the National Library of Medicine.

Health information for consumers and professionals from a leading medical research center.

NOTE: During the library's new carpet installation, microfilm readers will not be available from Feb. 8, 2018, to March 5, 2018. For questions, contact the Reference Desk at (920) 322-3930 or [email protected].

On the 2nd floor of the FDL Public Library, this collection of more than 2,600 items is composed of materials related to the history of the City of Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County and nearby areas.

Dedicated to preserving our history for future generations.

Full text for about 1,700 general reference publications dating as far back as 1975, covering virtually every subject area of general interest. Also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 150,000-plus primary source documents, as well as 400,000-plus photos, maps and flags.

More than 78,000 historically important cultural places, including almost 3,000 National Historical Landmarks.

American social and cultural history, online photography exhibit and current museum exhibits.



Full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world.

Find new fiction authors and suggested titles. Browse theme-oriented book lists and awards lists. With links to related sites.

NOTE: During the library's new carpet installation, microfilm readers will not be available from Feb. 8, 2018, to March 5, 2018. For questions, contact the Reference Desk at (920) 322-3930 or [email protected].

On the 2nd floor of the FDL Public Library, this collection of more than 2,600 items is composed of materials related to the history of the City of Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County and nearby areas.

Links to each of the Area Research Centers in Wisconsin and their holdings.

Nearly 300,000 links related to genealogy, organized by category. Continually updated and expanded.

Comprehensive genealogy resource from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Full-text index for the Fond du Lac Reporter

Numerous resources, including the Wisconsin Name Index, Pre-1907 Vital Records Index and Wisconsin Local History and Biography articles.

U.S. Census information, family and place histories, Revolutionary War information and Periodical Source Index. Available for use inside the Fond du Lac Public Library and remotely to FDLPL  cardholders.

Directory of genealogy links for the United States and a worldwide surname index.

Links to death indexes, searchable by state and county.

Now supported by Ancestry.com, this free genealogy resource includes search engines, databases, family trees, mailing lists and message boards. The site also hosts other volunteer projects.

A book of historical essays written by students at Marian College under the supervision of Clarence B. Davis. This book is reproduced with the permission of the editor.

Links to state genealogy websites and helpful information for researchers such as caring for, repairing and preserving old documents, books and photographs.

Wisconsin history, current museum exhibits and historic Wisconsin places

Full-text index for the Fond du Lac Reporter

Full-text index for the Fond du Lac Reporter

Royalty-free music and sound effects for K-12 school use.

This website (WCCA) provides access to certain public records of the circuit courts of Wisconsin. The information displayed is an exact copy of the case information entered into the Consolidated Court Automation Programs (CCAP) case management system by court staff in the counties where the case files are located. The court record summaries viewed here are all public records under Wisconsin open records law.