TCCL Featured Services

TCCL has a great tool for looking up biographical information on celebrities and historical figures called the Biography Resource Center. To find it on our site, go to the Research tab, select Find Articles & Databases, click on Alphabetical List of Databases, and you’ll find it under the Bs. Incredibly user-friendly, the Biography Resource Center allows multiple ways to search., including name, biographical facts, category, and an advanced search. If you search “Michael Phelps” in the name search, you will find there is an biophysicist by that name as well as the swimmer. When you select the athlete’s page, you’ll also find tabs at the top leading you to magazine and newspaper articles, as well as his official website.

The library’s Tulsa Organizations and Services (or TOS) database provides great information on local agencies that recycle a wide variety of materials from paper, plastic and glass to computers, yard brush, and florescent light bulbs.

To see what agencies offer recycling services, select the Research tab at the top of the library’s homepage and click Tulsa Organizations and Services. Do a Subject search of Recycling and you’ll get a short list of subcategories. The top category, Recycling Waste Etc, provides a list of 13 area organizations.

Topics covered include Curbside Recycling (Tulsa City Hall), Recyclables drop off locations (Metropolitan Environmental Trust Recycling Centers), Household Pollutant collection (Earth Day), Abitibi Paper Retriever (Recycling), and many others.

TCCL offers Chilton’s manuals via the Automotive Repair Reference Center database. To pull up this database, click the Research tab on the library’s homepage, select Find Articles and Databases in the top left column, and then click Alphabetical list of all databases. The Automotive Repair Reference Center is the last entry in the A section. Here you’ll find repair and maintenance instructions as well as diagrams from 1945 to current vehicles.

To get to the repair information, follow the prompts by selecting your vehicle’s year, make and model. It may also ask you for a submodel to narrow down further (in the case of the 1974 Camaro, it asks whether the engine is a V8 or L6).

All-Data and Mitchell’s Wiring Diagrams are additional auto repair databases and are offered at the Central Library only, but you can call the Askus Hotline at 596-7977 for further searching of those resources.

The library’s Government Documents Blog, News and Hot Topics, has information about current events and issues from federal, state and local government agencies. Some recent posts discuss the price of gasoline and utility bills.

To access the blog, click the Research tab on the library homepage, and go to Government Documents. The News and Hot Topics blog is at the top of the page, and displays the three most current posts. To view previous entries, click Blogging Documents. There you will find a July 11 post titled I feel my temperature rising’… about the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, and another from June 16, Gas crunch, about fueleconomy.gov, which presents information about gas prices, driving tips, and vehicle data regarding fuel efficiency.

Full text of The Oklahoman (the daily newspaper of Oklahoma City) is available from TCCL’s Web site back to 1982.

Full text of the Tulsa World is available back to 1989.

Both newspapers can be searched simultaneously via the database America’s Newspapers at home with a TCCL library card or at any Tulsa City-County Library.

To access these newspapers, go to www.tulsalibrary.org
Click Research
Click Find Articles
Click Alphabetical List of Databases
Click on the letter of the newspaper to jump down the list or scroll through the page.