To access the library's online databases, click the log in button on any http://www.fenn.org web page and enter your user name and password.
In the left hand navigation column click "Online Databases" and follow the directions for each individual database.

Alta Vista: "AltaVista, which means "a view from above," was inspired by the creation of big ideas from a team of experts with a fascination for keeping track of information. During the spring of 1995, scientists at Digital Equipment Corporation's Research lab in Palo Alto, CA, devised a way to store every word of every HTML page on the Internet in a fast, searchable index. This led to AltaVista's development of the first searchable, full-text database on the World Wide Web. Other notable AltaVista inventions include the first-ever multi-lingual search capability on the Internet and the first search technology to support Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. We are proud of Babel Fish, the Web's first Internet machine translation service that can translate words, phrases or entire Web sites to and from English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Russian."

Google: "Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web."

Kids Click!: To read more about this user friendly childrens' search engine go to:
http://www.kidsclick.org/clickback.html

Yahooligans!: Yahoo's child friendly search engine
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/

Meta Search Engines:

Ixquick: To read about this innovative meta search engine go to:
http://ixquick.com/eng/aboutixquick/

Dogpile: "Dogpile uses innovative metasearch technology to search the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, FindWhat, LookSmart, and many more. With one single click, Dogpile fetches the best results from the combined pool of the best search engines -- instead of results from just one single search engine. And Dogpile makes it easy to refine your search so you can find the most meaningful results right away. No wonder it's the "Top Dog" of the search industry. "

Vivisimo
"Vivísimo provides unique enterprise software that searches, integrates, and categorizes textual information on the fly into crisp, meaningful, hierarchical folders."