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Research starts here: Library unveils RandQuest.org

Do you have a school report due? Need to study for the GED, ASVAB or a professional certification test? Looking for a long-lost ancestor? Is your car making a funny noise? Are you learning a language or writing a resumé?

Start your research at RandQuest.org, the Randolph County Public Library’s one-stop location all its online resources. RandQuest.org collects the library’s rich trove of research databases in one place, and makes them easily accessible via login by library card number.

The site includes direct access to all the resources offered by NC LIVE, the state’s online library, without the need for a password.

RandQuest.org databases provide full text magazine and journal articles going back decades, and in-depth information on everything from auto repair to standardized test preparation — even access to hundreds of PBS programs such as The Civil War and The American Experience. Randquest.org also provides complete access to the library’s online catalog, including best seller lists and lists of books, DVDs and audiobooks that have entered the library’s collection, updated each week.

Research resources for every need — literature, science, history, current issues, business, genealogy, languages and more — can be found at RandQuest.org, along with age-appropriate research tools for children and middle-schoolers.

Among the information resources at Randquest.org:

• Auto Repair Reference Center, which includes detailed repair and maintenance information, including wiring diagrams, for most cars 1945-persent;
• Resmue Maker, a comprehensive resume-building website;
• Mango Languages, online language-learning software that teaches the user how to have a basic conversation in six languages, including Spanish, English as a Second Language for Spanish-speakers, French, German, Italian and Mandarin Chinese;
• Bloom’s Literary Reference Online, analysis and criticism of literary works and authors;
• Heritage Quest, a genealogical research database;
• Learning Express Library, an interactive online source for practice tests and tutorials;
• Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, which provides detailed information about more than 3,300 jobs in 94 industries;
• EBSCO Host, which provides access to articles in thousands of magazines and scholarly journals from 1984 to the present;
• Issues and Controversies, a collection of articles and reports on topics in the news;
• Today’s Science, science news written especially for students;
• The North Carolina Media Collection via NC LIVE, which presents some 250 PBS television programs viewable right on your computer, including American Experience, American Masters, Liberty’s Kids, Scientific American Frontiers, Frontline and Ken Burns documentaries.

Randquest.org also includes a menu of handy links to publicly-available Internet resources, such as job-hunting sites, government resources, tax forms and information, area news and weather, and resources for readers.

Using RandQuest.org databases requires a (free) Randolph County Public Library card, available at any of the seven libraries.

Marshland on the library lawn

The Asheboro library is a stop on the Downtown Sculpture Exhibition organized by the Asheboro/Randolph Chamber of Commerce Downtown Redevelopment Committee and the City of Asheboro in cooperation with the Randolph Arts Guild.

The sculpture placed on our lawn near the Cox Street/Worth Street corner is Marshland (stainless steel and bronze) by Hanna Jubran, a professor of sculpture at East Carolina University.