Research and Resources

Looking for reliable, detailed, and accurate repair information about your car, truck, van or SUV? Chilton is used by professional technicians with library access for you too. Chilton includes vehicle specific step-by-step procedures, diagrams, photographs, and illustrations for maintenance in addition to a labor estimating tool.

Colorado Grants Guide is the essential tool for new and established nonprofit and community-based organizations. This comprehensive, searchable, online database contains profiles of local foundations and trusts, corporations, national funders, government agencies and religious organizations that support Colorado nonprofit organizations.

A service of the Colorado State Library, the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently includes more than 1.97 million digitized pages, representing more than 493 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado from 1859 up to 2020.

Offering intuitive searching of full-text journals, magazines, health reference books, and evidence-based health reports, Consumer Health Complete is your health information resource for information about: addiction, aging, anxiety, cancer, diabetes, fitness, menopause, nutrition, relationships, and more. From CDC, FDA, and NIH health pamphlets, to images, animations, and built in Merriam-Webster Medical Desk Dictionary help.

ConsumerReports.org offers articles, blogs, forums, and videos to enable consumers to make better purchasing decisions on products from dishwashers to digital cameras to infant car seats, to save money on home improvement plans, to shore up personal finances, improve their health, and more.

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