Research
All BadgerLink Resources
BadgerLink is Wisconsin’s Online Library, providing Wisconsin residents with licensed trustworthy resources.
Automotive
ChiltonLibrary
OEM repair, maintenance, and service information on most cars, trucks, vans, and SUVs. Provides step-by-step procedures, diagnostic and troubleshooting help, and a video library.
Consumer Reports
Make better purchasing decisions using product reviews, ratings, news, and comparisons from Consumer Reports online with your CAFÉ Library card.
Small Engine Repair Source
Detailed, user-friendly repair guides for all manner of small engines
- More than 450 full-text reference books with original photos and illustrations
- Information on more than 25 years of engine models
- Coverage of more than 90,000 repairs
- A full collection of Clymer repair manuals, with new and updated content added regularly
- A unique, user-friendly interface
Business and Finance and Legal Resources
Business Library Research Guides
University of Wisconsin-Madison Business Library Research Guides: Detailed guides on a variety of business related topics.
Business Source Premier
Business research database with full-text journals, profiles, reports, and related news. For college-level and adult researchers.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Access tools, worksheets, handouts, and audio recordings by topic and audience.
LawDepot
LawDepot via Libby is the leading publisher of do-it-yourself legal documents, forms, and contracts that cover a wide range of legal needs.
Morningstar
Morningstar: Find quality investment information on stocks or mutual funds, and research current or prospective holdings.
Consumer Resources
Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit member organization that works side by side with consumers for truth, transparency, and fairness in the marketplace.
IdentityTheft.gov
IdentityTheft.gov is the federal government’s one-stop resource for identity theft victims. The site provides streamlined checklists and sample letters to guide you through the recovery process.
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer Product Safety Commission: Federal Agency dealing with consumer product recalls, reports, and alerts.
Employment Resources
Cypress Resume
Cypress Resume is an online resume builder that lets you create professional-quality resumes in three quick and simple steps.
Jobs in the Area
Indeed.com provides a current list of job opportunities within 35 miles of Fort Atkinson, WI.
Jefferson County Workforce Development
Jefferson County Workforce Development offers job service assistance, resumes, cover letters, job application, and unemployment benefits.
Genealogy
Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com (In-Library Use Only): A family tree takes you back generations—the world’s largest collection of online family history records makes it possible.
Heritage Quest
Comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources
- Collection of genealogical and historical sources
- Unique primary sources, local, and family histories
- U.S. Federal Censuses, books, cemetery records, city directories, military records and more
Wisconsin Vital Records
The Wisconsin Vital Records Office is responsible for filing, preserving, protecting, changing, and issuing copies of birth certificates, death certificates, marriage certificates, divorce certificates, and records of declaration of domestic partnership and termination of domestic partnership for events that occur in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Historical Society
Search over 3,000,000 records including: birth, death and marriage record indexes; newspaper clippings; photographs and other visual materials; and property records from National Register and State Register of Historic Places and the Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory (AHI).
Health and Wellness
Consumer Health Complete
Consumer-oriented health content, from mainstream to holistic medicine
- Full-Text Database
- 480 full-text magazines and journals
- 640 full-text health reference books, e-books, and encyclopedias
- Consumer health pamphlets and leaflets from the CDC, FDA, NIH and others
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Provides resources for a wide variety of diseases and conditions, information on drugs and supplements, tests and procedures, and an interactive symptom checker.
Medline Plus
MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.
NutritionFacts.org
NutritionFacts.org provides free updates on the latest in nutrition research via bite-sized videos.
Homework Help
BadgerLink: All resources
BadgerLink Research Guide: Step-by-step guide to learn about the research process.
Britannica School: Encyclopedia articles with images, maps, games, and other learning materials for elementary school students and educators.
EBSCO: Access point for all BadgerLink EBSCO databases, interfaces, and specialized profiles
- Additional EBSCO subscriptions and profiles based upon account affiliation
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Access point to EBSCOhost databases
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Links to specialized groupings of databases by subject, i.e. Business or Health databases
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Direct access interfaces, i.e. History Reference Center, NoveList, Explora for Everyone, etc.
Newspapers
Please be aware that online access to the following newspapers is available to Wisconsin residents ONLY.
Current Jefferson County Union
The Daily Jefferson County Union is available and searchable here (BadgerLink). The current list includes 2005 to the present with a 90 day delay. To search ONLY the Daily Jefferson County Union from this database click on Uncheck All below the list of newspapers on the right. Then scroll through the newspaper list to Fort Atkinson. Select the Daily Jefferson County Union there.
Historical Jefferson County Union
Click the link below to access the newspapers before 2005. It will take you to the Wisconsin Newspaper Archive. Click on Search Historical Newspapers in the red box. To search ONLY the Daily Jefferson County Union from this database click on Uncheck All below the list of newspapers on the right. Then scroll through the newspaper list to Fort Atkinson. Select the Daily Jefferson County Union there.
Search the Jefferson County Union and Hoard’s Dairyman: 1870 through 2005. At this time the newspapers from the just the month of April 1945 to 1985 are not available.
Initial funding to scan the entire collection of the Jefferson County Union and the Daily Jefferson County Union was provided by the Friends of the Library, Fort Atkinson Community Foundation, and the Daily Jefferson County Union. Additional funding was provided by a 2016 LSTA grant and the Bridges Library System.
Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA) and the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium work together to add historical newspapers to the Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers, freely available to Wisconsin residents through BadgerLink. Access is supported in part by funding from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, which distributes federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). To explore the full collection, visit the Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers.