Library Services
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Beyond Books: Our Public Library Services
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The Marshall County Memorial Library goes beyond just books! While we offer a vast collection of reading materials, we also provide a wealth of resources and services to enrich your life.
Need to get online but lack internet access? The library offers free Wi-Fi and public computers. Do you have a community group meeting or event to plan? We have free meeting spaces available. There are also copy, print, and fax services available for a minimal fee.
Looking for digital entertainment? Your library card is your ticket to a world of possibilities! Through the TN R.E.A.D.S program, you can borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and stream movies and music – all from the comfort of your home. The library also has a physical collection of DVDs, CDs, and videos to choose from.
The library is a hub for family fun and learning. We offer year-round programs and events, including a summer reading program to keep kids engaged during the break. If you can’t find what you’re looking for in our collection, we can even borrow materials from other libraries for you. Additionally, we provide access to online databases and research tools, including Ancestry.com, to help you delve deeper into any topic.
Need to get online but lack internet access? The library offers free Wi-Fi and public computers. Do you have a community group meeting or event to plan? We have free meeting spaces available. There are also copy, print, and fax services available for a minimal fee.
Looking for digital entertainment? Your library card is your ticket to a world of possibilities! Through the TN R.E.A.D.S program, you can borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and stream movies and music – all from the comfort of your home. The library also has a physical collection of DVDs, CDs, and videos to choose from.
The library is a hub for family fun and learning. We offer year-round programs and events, including a summer reading program to keep kids engaged during the break. If you can’t find what you’re looking for in our collection, we can even borrow materials from other libraries for you. Additionally, we provide access to online databases and research tools, including Ancestry.com, to help you delve deeper into any topic.
Popular Online Databases
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Heritage Quest
HeritageQuest® Online is a comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Heritage quest is a great tool for finding family information while conducting genealogy research.
MedlinePlus Health
Health & Wellness Resource Center is a comprehensive resource for libraries, schools, research institutions and hospitals that provide integrated access to medical, statistical, health, and related information.
Scirus Science Database
Scirus Science Database is the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 410 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists’ homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, periodicals, scientific journals, patents and institutional repository and website information.
Tennessee Electronic Library
The Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) is a virtual library that you can access from your home pc, your school library computer lab, or your iPhone – anywhere with an internet connection. No username or password needed.
World Book
The World Book Web is a suite of online research tools that includes encyclopedia articles, primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video, complemented by current periodicals and related Web sites.
Genealogy Services
The Marshall County Memorial Library has a long history of providing outstanding genealogy resources. We house a uniquely expansive research collection including microfilm records: Marshall County Gazette (1859-2005), Lewisburg Tribune (1846-2017), state periodicals, city and state records, census information, deeds, wills, family tree information, assorted historical maps, and much more.
Our Genealogy Room contains valuable, irreplaceable information so you will not be allowed to remove any of the materials from the building. Library staff members will be happy to assist with your needs. There are inquiry forms located in the genealogy room that you may fill out and leave with any library staff member.
Our Genealogy Room contains valuable, irreplaceable information so you will not be allowed to remove any of the materials from the building. Library staff members will be happy to assist with your needs. There are inquiry forms located in the genealogy room that you may fill out and leave with any library staff member.
Research Assistance
Every third Thursday of each month a member of the local chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) will be here from 5:00 to 7:00 pm to assist you with your research. The Marshall County Historical Society may also be able to assist you. Please call them for an appointment: Lynda Potts: 931.359.4489
• ProQuest’s HeritageQuest Online
A resource for genealogy and family history research. Includes digitized copies of federal census records, full-text family and local history books, Freedman’s Bank records and more!
• Tennessee Death Records
Death Certificates for 1908-1951 are now available online through a partnership with Ancestry.com. Other Ancestry.com resources require a subscription.
• Tennessee State Library & Archives
TSLA has several resources available for those researching their Tennessee roots.
• ProQuest’s HeritageQuest Online
A resource for genealogy and family history research. Includes digitized copies of federal census records, full-text family and local history books, Freedman’s Bank records and more!
• Tennessee Death Records
Death Certificates for 1908-1951 are now available online through a partnership with Ancestry.com. Other Ancestry.com resources require a subscription.
• Tennessee State Library & Archives
TSLA has several resources available for those researching their Tennessee roots.
Free Online Resources
• Academic OneFile
• Agriculture Collection
• Books and Authors
• Business, Economics, and Theory Collection
• Career Center – serves the people of Giles, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall, Maury, Perry and Wayne counties by collaborating with job seekers, employers, training providers and workforce development partners etc.
• Career One Stop – A suite of tools to help job seekers explore careers, investigate salary and benefit information etc.
• Chattanooga Times-Free Press
• Code Red Weather Warning Sign-Up
• College For Tennessee – An online tool that provides four areas of resources: Career Planning, Off to Work, College Planning and Financial Aid Planning.
• Commercial Appeal newspaper
• Communications and Mass Media Collection
• Computer Database
• Criminal Justice Collection
• Culinary Arts Collection
• Educator’s Reference Complete
• Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• Gale Database Selection
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Agriculture Collection
• Books and Authors
• Business, Economics, and Theory Collection
• Career Center – serves the people of Giles, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall, Maury, Perry and Wayne counties by collaborating with job seekers, employers, training providers and workforce development partners etc.
• Career One Stop – A suite of tools to help job seekers explore careers, investigate salary and benefit information etc.
• Chattanooga Times-Free Press
• Code Red Weather Warning Sign-Up
• College For Tennessee – An online tool that provides four areas of resources: Career Planning, Off to Work, College Planning and Financial Aid Planning.
• Commercial Appeal newspaper
• Communications and Mass Media Collection
• Computer Database
• Criminal Justice Collection
• Culinary Arts Collection
• Educator’s Reference Complete
• Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• Gale Database Selection
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection
• General Business File ASAP
• General OneFile
• General Reference Center Gold
• Health and Wellness Resource Center
• Health Reference Center Academic
• HeritageQuest Online
• Home Improvement Collection
• Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Collection
• Immigration Law Help
• Indeed – Local job search engine.
• Informe!
• InfoTrac NewsStand
• Jobs4TN – A virtual recruiter, automatically notifying job seekers when jobs they may qualify for are posted and notifying employers when candidates who fit their needs register.
• Junior Edition
• Junior Edition – K12
• Kids Central Tennessee
• Kids InfoBits
• Kids Page
• Knoxville News Sentinel Newspaper
• Legal Information For Tennesseans
• Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
• Literature Resource Center
• Military Legal Help for members, their families, and veterans
• General Business File ASAP
• General OneFile
• General Reference Center Gold
• Health and Wellness Resource Center
• Health Reference Center Academic
• HeritageQuest Online
• Home Improvement Collection
• Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Collection
• Immigration Law Help
• Indeed – Local job search engine.
• Informe!
• InfoTrac NewsStand
• Jobs4TN – A virtual recruiter, automatically notifying job seekers when jobs they may qualify for are posted and notifying employers when candidates who fit their needs register.
• Junior Edition
• Junior Edition – K12
• Kids Central Tennessee
• Kids InfoBits
• Kids Page
• Knoxville News Sentinel Newspaper
• Legal Information For Tennesseans
• Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
• Literature Resource Center
• Military Legal Help for members, their families, and veterans
• My Next Move – A tool that gives individuals three main ways to explore careers.
• My Skills My Future – An on-line skills transferability tool that allows job seekers and staff intermediaries to match a worker’s occupational skills and experiences with the skills needed in other occupations, in order to facilitate upward mobility.
• My Tennessee Public Schools – a collection of resources and need-to-know information to help your child succeed in public school.
• National Domestic Violence
• National Newspaper Index
• Nursing and Allied Health Collection
• Online Tennessee Justice: Free Legal Advice and Counsel
• Popular Magazines
• PowerSearch
• Psychology Collection
• Read Kiddo Read
• Scribners & Twayne
• Scribner’s Writers Online
• Southern Life
• Student Edition
• Student Edition – K12
• Supreme Court’s Access To Justice Initiative
• Tennessee Death Records
• Tennessee History For Kids Geography
• Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA)
• My Skills My Future – An on-line skills transferability tool that allows job seekers and staff intermediaries to match a worker’s occupational skills and experiences with the skills needed in other occupations, in order to facilitate upward mobility.
• My Tennessee Public Schools – a collection of resources and need-to-know information to help your child succeed in public school.
• National Domestic Violence
• National Newspaper Index
• Nursing and Allied Health Collection
• Online Tennessee Justice: Free Legal Advice and Counsel
• Popular Magazines
• PowerSearch
• Psychology Collection
• Read Kiddo Read
• Scribners & Twayne
• Scribner’s Writers Online
• Southern Life
• Student Edition
• Student Edition – K12
• Supreme Court’s Access To Justice Initiative
• Tennessee Death Records
• Tennessee History For Kids Geography
• Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA)
• Tennessee’s Landmark Documents
• Tennessee Legal Aid
• Tennessee State Library and Archives
• Tennessean
• Twayne’s Authors Online
• Veterans Reemployment – an on-line skills transferability tool that allows veterans to match military experience to civilian careers,training and financial assistance.
• Volunteer Voices
• We Give Books
• Workers Reemployment – one-stop site for employment, training
and financial assistance after a layoff.
• World Book Encyclopedia
• Tennessee Legal Aid
• Tennessee State Library and Archives
• Tennessean
• Twayne’s Authors Online
• Veterans Reemployment – an on-line skills transferability tool that allows veterans to match military experience to civilian careers,training and financial assistance.
• Volunteer Voices
• We Give Books
• Workers Reemployment – one-stop site for employment, training
and financial assistance after a layoff.
• World Book Encyclopedia
