Jacobs Library

PrairieCat allows you to search for books in public and school libraries in our area. IVCC library staff will request any books you need through PrairieCat. Search PrairieCat

Browse popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and a vast image collection.  Designed for elementary school libraries.  Search Primary Search

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600 – 2000 is an online journal that contains 108 document projects, almost 2,700 publications with full-text primary sources, a dictionary of social movements and organizations, and a chronology of U.S. Women's History.  You can search the database or take advantage of one of the browse options.  For example the Browse People section listed 21 documents by Jane Addams and 38 documents about her.  The best way to appreciate the content of this database is to spend time searching or drilling down the browse lists to uncover what it has to offer!  Search Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000

Discover engineering failures and successes as recorded in documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world.  Search Engineering Case Studies Online

Explore digital versions of works of fine and decorative art from leading museums around the world. Content ranges from 3000 BC to the present, represents premiere examples of Asian, African, Latin American and Western art, and includes high-resolution images of photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry and costumes, textiles, books, installations, and architecture, plus audio-video and mixed media.  All content is rights-cleared for educational use.  Search CAMIO