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.

Connects job seekers and employers in Wisconsin.

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.

ConsumerSearch product-review editors pick the best electronics, appliances and services by comparing professional product reviews with consumer reviews.

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.

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.

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.

Full text from more than 2,500 reference books, encyclopedias, nonfiction books and nearly 170 leading history periodicals. With hundreds of thousands of historical documents, biographies, photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

Full text of some historic newspapers worldwide. Includes selective coverage of Fond du Lac newspapers from 1846 to 1977.

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.

Poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays from nearly a million full-text documents, literary excerpts and citations.

Fiction database for K-8. Enhanced subject access for more than 60,000 age-appropriate fiction books. Full-text reviews from sources such as School Library Journal and Booklist.

U.S. Census information, passenger lists, birth, death, marriage and military records, family and local history collections and more. Available for use only inside the Fond du Lac Public Library.

Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System National Park Service’s database of more than six million Civil War soldiers and sailors.

Early Fond du Lac People and Places is a collection of 13 Fond du Lac historical books that have been digitized and made available online. This project was made possible by Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grants.

Information about "Where everybody who was anybody is buried." Searchable by name, location, birth dates/death dates and "claim to fame." Includes photos.

Indexed citations of many of the obituaries, funeral notices, marriages and milestone anniversaries published in the Fond du Lac newspapers.

More than two million images of land patent records from 1820-1908.

A collection of historical essays written by students at Marian College under the supervision of Clarence B. Davis. Reproduced with the permission of the editor.

A vital records index for genealogists.

Resources about past Ripon residents.

Database from FamilySearch.org a name index to deaths recorded by the Social Security Administration beginning in 1962.

Resources for the genealogist from U.S. National Archives, which oversees the management of all federal records.

How to obtain birth, death, marriage and divorce records from each state.

Full-text index for the Fond du Lac Reporter

Full text of some historic newspapers worldwide. Includes selective coverage of Fond du Lac newspapers from 1846 to 1977.

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.