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21st Century Explorer (To access from home click HERE)
This database contains all of the resources that students need including encyclopedias, atlases, historic timelines, dictionaries, news sources, and other essential learning tools. Teachers will benefit from the ‘Teachers’ Resources’ tab containing curriculum standards, online training sessions, and ideas for fun interactive learning activities.

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A-to-Z
This database provides patrons with a single, comprehensive list of periodical titles and in which databases they may be accessed from. Patrons can quickly locate and link to journals of interest, searching by keyword or by browsing an alphabetical list by title or subject.

ABI/INFORM Dateline (To access from home click HERE)
Search a unique resource focusing on hard-to-find local and regional business publications covering large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. This database provides access to business information not typically found in national news sources and contains news and analysis, information on local markets, and more gathered from major business tabloids, magazines, daily newspapers, wire services, and city, state, and regional business publications.

ABI/INFORM Select (To access from home click HERE)
Search for essential information from over 500 core business magazines and journals including Forbes, Journal of Advertising, Broadcasting & Cable, and Industry Week. This database provides information on advertising, economics, human resources, finance, marketing, computers, business tactics, market strategies, and more.

ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry (To access from home click HERE)
Search more than 1,200 business periodicals with a trade or industry focus. ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, and construction.

Academic OneFile New Database !
This database provides peer-reviewed, full text articles from the world’s leading journals and reference sources covering a wide range of topics including the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature.

Access Science (To access from home click HERE)
Search the updated McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology as well as their Yearbooks of Science & Technology and Dictionary of Science & Technical Terms to obtain media-rich content, terms, images, and videos of all major areas of science and technology.

The African American Experience
The African American Experience is the widest-ranging and easiest-to-use online collection of information about African American life ever assembled and is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture. 

Agriculture Collection New Database!
Covering agriculture and its related fields, this database provides access to a comprehensive view of this growing body of knowledge including practical aspects of farming to cutting edge scientific research in horticulture.

America the Beautiful (To access from home click HERE)
America the Beautiful is an interactive database for state-by-state history and current events for elementary and middle school students.  This database also includes timelines, profiles, games, and almanacs.

Ancestry.com Library Edition (In Library Use Only)
Allows the user to trace their family genealogy by searching original images of immigration, U.S. Census, and military records as well as the Social Security Death Index. 

Annals of American History (To access from home click HERE)
From Britannica.  Explore the rich and varied history of the United States through speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images, and multimedia. 

AP Image (To access from home click HERE)
The AP Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing the Associated Press' current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library dating from the 1840s.

Associations Unlimited
Use this database to locate approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. This database allows the user to monitor association trends and identify related associations.

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Biography Resource Center
Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor---based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender.

Black Newspapers (To access from home click HERE)
A collection of significant Black newspapers from throughout the United States including the Afro-American Red Star, Call & Post, Houston Post, and the New Amsterdam News.

Books and Authors
Available through December 31, 2010. Looking for a new book to read? Search by author, title, or genre.

Business and Company ASAP
This database provides researchers with information on companies, markets, and industries including market trends, mergers and acquisitions, current management theory, and company overviews via business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles.  This database includes full-text and images.

Business and Company Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource of company and industry news and information bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies, and periodicals.

Business Economics and Theory New Database!
This database provides access to more than 150 full-text academic journals and magazines focusing on topics in economics.

BYKI Online (To access from home click HERE) New Database !
An acronym for Before You Know It, this online foreign language learning database allows users to learn a language by collecting words and phrases in their memory as they progress through the lessons. Available languages include: Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, and dozens more.

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Career Cruising
Career Cruising is an interactive reference guide which provides in-depth profiles of hundreds of different careers. In addition to job profiles, users will find multimedia interviews with real people in each career, search tools which can link the user's interest with a career, and a comprehensive database of colleges and universities which specialize in educating students interested each career.

Communications and Mass Media Collection New Database!
From marketing professionals to students studying for advanced degrees in linguistic theory, this collection provides current and accurate information from more than 100 journals focused on all aspects of the communications field including advertising and public relations, literature and writing, and linguistics.

Computer Database New Database!
Use this database to find computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications, and the application of technology.

Computing Journals (To access from home click HERE)
Use this database to search top computing journals in full-text for information on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.

Criminal Justice Collection New Database!
This database providing access to more than 150 journals, allows patrons to explore the field of criminal justice.

Culinary Arts Collection New Database !
This database provides access to 150 of the top cooking and nutrition magazines and includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.

Custom Newspapers
Search a collection of 500 newspapers, both national and international.

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Daily Life in America
Daily Life America provides a vibrant glimpse into the things big and small that make up the day-to-day lives of normal folk throughout the history and pre-history of America.

Daily Life Online
Daily Life Online provides a vibrant glimpse into the things big and small that make up the day-to-day lives of people throughout the history and pre-history of the world.

Discovering Collection
Discovering Collection offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards and covers core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies. This database also includes a selection of primary sources, creative works, and multimedia as well as an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

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Education Periodicals (To access from home click HERE)
Search professional magazines and periodicals related to all aspects of education and education-related issues including Education Week, Gifted Child Today, and many more.

Encyclopedia Americana (To access from home click HERE)
This is the electronic version of Encyclopedia Americana.  Database articles include maps, flags, tables, and online links.

Encyclopedia Britannica (To access from home click HERE)
The complete encyclopedia online.

Encyclopedia Britannica for Kids (To access from home click HERE)
An encyclopedia and dictionary especially for young children. This database also includes educational games, videos, images, and guidelines for writing reports, science experiments, and research papers.

Environmental Studies and Policy Collection New Database!
Gain instant access to the field of environmental issues and policy and discover how the scientific community, governmental policy makers, and corporate interests play a role in this volatile field of study.

Expanded Academic ASAP New Database!
Patrons may use this database to access full-text articles and images from scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers on subjects including the arts, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.

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The Financial Times (To access from home click HERE)
European financial newspaper known for its in-depth reporting on European company and economic news, as well as its European perspective on global business.  Coverage: 1985-current.

Fine Arts and Music Collection New Database!
This database provides access to over 100 full-text magazines and journals in the arts including drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources covering a wide range of topics including the arts, business, education, history, law, literature, medicine, religion, science, and social science.

Gardening, Landscape, and Horticulture Collection New Database!
This database houses a collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture and includes content relating to both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of horticulture studies.

General Business File ASAP
Analyze company performance and activity, industry events and trends as well as the latest in management, economics, and politics. This database provides access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals, and company directory listings.  Full-text article and images are available via this database.

General OneFile
A one stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics including business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, and technology.  Many articles include images.

Global Reference Center (To access from home click HERE)
The Global Reference Center possesses a comprehensive online encyclopedia in a variety of global languages. These extensive and thorough databases are intuitive and fast, delivering trustworthy information from around the globe.

GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia (To access from home click HERE)
Aimed at junior high and high school students, this encyclopedia includes articles, images, sounds, and movies about numerous subjects. Also included are quizzes and games, time lines, and research ideas.

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Health & Wellness Resource Center
Health & Wellness Resource Center provides instant access to carefully compiled and trusted medical reference materials. This database includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos, and articles from 2,200 general interest publications.

Health Management Journals (To access from home click HERE)
Find complete, full-text information from leading publications covering all aspects of health administration, including public health and safety, hospitals, finance, personnel management, insurance, population studies, labor relations, and law.

Health Reference Center
Health Reference Center provides comprehensive information on body systems, diseases and disorders, drug abuse and addiction, mental health and development, and nutrition and wellness through the use of videos, color illustrations, and regularly updated news articles relating to health issues.

Health Reference Center Academic New Database !
This database provides full text access to nursing and allied health journals.

HeritageQuest Online (To access from home click HERE)
Allows the user to trace their family genealogy through the search of U.S. Census records, the Revolutionary War Era Pension & Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, and the Freedman's Bank (1865-1874).

Home Improvement Collection New Database!
Even the smallest home improvement project can be daunting, but with this database, hobbyists and professional carpenters alike will immediately put their projects on a more solid foundation. Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, and zoning requirements.

Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Collection Coming Soon !
With content from over 500 industry journals, this database provides coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field, while also allowing for focused study of specialized aspects of the industry—including cultural aspects of travel, leisure activities, and economic aspects of tourism.

Hoover's Company Records (To access from home click HERE)
Find up to date proprietary editorial content covering more than 40,000 public and non-public companies and 225,000 key executives.  The database includes in depth industry analyses, information on a company's location, summary financials, top competitors, and top officers.

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Informe
Informe provides the user with full-text articles as well as indexes and images from popular Hispanic magazines. Articles are in both Spanish and English (where available). Also included in this database is a Spanish language thesaurus.

Infotrac Junior Edition: K-12
This periodical database is designed for students in junior high and middle school and provides access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers, and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

Infotrac Newsstand
Infotrac Newsstand is a full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or newspaper section. This database provides access to articles from more than 1,000 newspapers. Coverage: 1980-present.

Issues & Controversies New Database!
Explore more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.

Issues & Controversies in American History New Database !
Build a deeper understanding of how historical events have shaped our nation by exploring the key players and the battles they fought.

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Kids Infobits
This is a database developed especially for beginning researchers in K-5th grade.  The curriculum-related, age appropriate, full-text content is from the best elementary reference sources and magazines available.  This database covers geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, and sports.

Kids Search
This database meets the research needs of students in K-8th grade containing articles on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, and sports.  This database also includes an encyclopedia and dictionary.

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Lands and People (To access from home click HERE)
Through the use of maps, images, and links, this database serves as a principal resource on countries, cultures, and current events for the classroom and for the library.

The Latino American Experience
Comprehensive, informative, and easy to use, the Latino American Experience marks the first-ever database dedicated to the history and culture of Latinos.

LearningExpress Library
This database offers the practice tests, exercises, and skill-building courses needed to achieve the results needed for school, work, and life. Receive extra help in elementary, middle, and high school subject matters (including SAT and AP subject tests). Learn how to use computer programs (Adobe and Microsoft) and brush up on important workplace skills (resumes and business writing). Prepare for the GED, US Citizenship Test, and other licensing, certification, and aptitude tests for a wide range of occupations. Use the Job & Career Accelerator to conduct a successful job search from helpful occupation suggestions to up to the minute job postings.

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts indexes core journals, books, research reports, and proceedings in the field of library and information science. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management.

Literature Resource Center
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Litfinder
Provides the opportunity for complete appreciation and study of great literary works by offering access to more than 135,000 full-text poems, stories, and plays in addition to other information sources such as biographies, essays, and explanations of the author and his/her work.

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Modern World History New Database!
This database covers the people, places, and events from the mid 15th century to the present.

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Nassau Digital Doorway
Download free audio- (sound) and e- (text) books to your computer then transfer them to your iPod, MP3 Player, or other compatible reader (click here to see a complete list of compatible devices). These audio- and e-books will remain on your portable device until you chose to delete them. Audio-book files downloaded to your computer return themselves after 7 days while e-books delete themselves after 14 days. Available 24/7.

National Newspaper Index
National Newspaper Index provides quick access to the indexing of America's top five newspapers in one seamless search: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.

National Newspaper Premier (To access from home click HERE)
National Newspapers Premier includes a balance of national and regional newspapers chosen for their journalistic excellence and regional representation. All titles are available in full-text. National Newspaper Premier includes national titles such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post along with a selection of titles from across the U.S. such as the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Denver Post, and The Sacramento Bee.

NetLibrary
NetLibrary provides full-text access to several thousand reference, scholarly, and professional books.  Patrons must set up an account for this database at the library reference desk before accessing it at home.

New Book of Popular Science (To access from home click HERE)
Science encyclopedia for middle and high school students. 

New York Newspapers
Search within this database for 15 newspapers published in the state of New York including The New York Times and The New York Post.

New York Times Historical (To access from home click HERE)
This database provides searchable full page and article images of full-text articles dating back to the newspaper's first issue.  Coverage: September 1851-December 2005. 

Newsday  (To access from home click HERE)
Newspaper reporting on news and events in the New York City area.  Coverage:  1985-current. 

NextReads
Receive a monthly e-mail with suggestions for books to read based on your favorite fiction genre.

NoveList Plus
NoveList Plus is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interests to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.

NoveList Plus K-8
NoveList Plus K-8 is a database of young adult, children's, and easy titles designed for children in pre-K, elementary, and middle schools utilizing the same search techniques and content of interests as the adult version.

La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre (To access from home click HERE)
A complete full-text Encyclopedia for Spanish speakers and students.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection New Database !
All aspects of the Nursing profession—from direct patient care to health care administration—are covered in this database which includes access to nearly 400 authoritative titles.

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Opposing Viewpoints
Opposing Viewpoints is a one-stop source for information on today’s hottest social issues and features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary sources documents, statistics, images and links to websites.

Oxford Art Online
The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts--painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography--from prehistory to the present day.

Oxford Music Online
This database, which includes full-text sources from The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, allows the user to search for up-to-date music information, sounds, and illustrations about popular music, opera, and jazz styles and musicians.

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p4a Antique Reference (To access from home click HERE)
p4a Antique Reference is a searchable database of information about antiques, including pictures of individual items and their latest auction prices, drawn from about fifty leading regional auction houses located throughout the United States in addition to other selected specialist auctions.

Pop Culture Universe
Pop Culture Universe is an authoritative, yet irresistible, digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present.

Popular Magazines New Database!
This full-text database provides access to 1000 of the most searched magazines including Consumer Reports (1 year delay on new material), Time, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, US News and World Report, Vogue, Fortune, Business Week, National Review, Cosmopolitan, NPR, and Oprah.

Primary Search
This database contains full-text articles from more than 60 elementary school magazines as well as indexes and abstracts for nearly 100 additional magazines.  Also included in this database are images such as photos, maps and flags.

PROMT
This database allows the user to search companies, the products and technologies they produce, and the markets in which they compete.  It includes material from nearly 1,000 business and trade journals, industry newsletters, newspapers, market research studies, new releases, and investment and brokerage firm reports.

ProQuest (To access from home click HERE)
This database provides access to all ProQuest databases.  ProQuest offers access to thousands of newspapers (including international), periodicals, and academic journals including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Barron's, and The Los Angeles Times.

Psychology Collection New Database!
This collection allows researchers to gain a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops and diminishes over time through the use of nearly 500 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.

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Reference USA
This database contains detailed information on more than 14 million US businesses, 210 million US residents, 855,000 US health care providers, 1.5 million Canadian businesses, and 12 million Canadian households.  Information is compiled from business and residential telephone directories, annual reports, 10-Ks and other SEC information as well as continuing Medical Education (CME) directories, federal, state, provincial, and municipal government data, Chamber of Commerce Information, leading business magazines, trade publications, newsletters, major newspapers, industry and specialty directories, and postal service information.

Research Library (To access from home click HERE)
This database allows the user to research full-text and scholarly articles encompassing a broad range of subjects including the arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

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Science Online  
This database allows the user to search a wide variety of science disciplines including chemistry, earth science, forensic science, and mathematics for articles, biographies, images, videos and timelines. A wide selection of science fair projects are also available via Science Online.

Scribner Writer Series
This database provides critical essays on the works of noted world authors as well as biographies and research topics.  Information is drawn from the acclaimed Scribner print series.

Searchasaurus
Searchasaurus is a kid-friendly database which allows the user to search for magazine articles as well as pamphlets, photos, maps, and flags. Also available: craft ideas and exciting educational activities suitable for young children.

Spanish Reference Center (To access from home click HERE)
This online Spanish encyclopedia, associated with Encyclopedia Britannica, provides comprehensive articles for high school (Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol) and elementary (Enciclopedia Juvenil) students.

Student Resource Center--Bronze
The Student Resource Center Bronze acts as a general reference database for students in middle and high school and offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas including history, literature, science, and social studies, this database provides a premium selection of full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia including video and audio clips.

Student Resource Center--Health Module
Student Resource Center - Health Module is a curriculum-oriented database that includes essays on medical and health-related topics, including diseases, treatments, and major historical figures in the fields of medicine, chemistry, biology, and related areas. The database also includes full-text articles, photographs, and diagrams.

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Tell Me More
Tell Me More is a language learning tool which gives you the skills you need to learn a language: reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, vocabulary, and culture. Languages offered: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, and English (English as a Second Language).

Testing and Education Reference Center
This database helps users prepare for higher education and the working world by delivering downloadable practice tests for high school, college and graduate schools, as well as civil service, certification, professional license exams and study guides. It also provides information on private high schools, undergraduate and graduate programs, vocational schools, and executive programs, searchable by location, major, tuition, sports, and more.

Today's Science New Database!
This database bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.

TumbleBook Library
TumbleBook Library is an online collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) which teaches kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music, and narration to produce an electronic picture book which they can read or have read to them. Children can also play interactive games based on the animated books.

TumbleReadables New Database!
This database provides an online collection of read-along titles for elementary, middle school, and high school students. Great for emergent, struggling, and reluctant readers, this database features adjustable online text, complete audio narration, sentences that are highlighted as they are read, and pages that turn automatically. Chapter books, early readers, YA novels, high interest/low level books for middle and high school students, and classic American and English literature are available.

TumbleTalkingBooks New Database!
TumbleTalkingBooks is a database of online audio book available from any computer with an Internet connection at any time. Listeners are not restricted to a check out period—books are always available and can be bookmarked by the listener and returned to at a later date. This database includes unabridged audio versions of classic American and world literature, non-fiction, fiction, YA, and children’s books.

Twayne Authors Series
Comprises of over 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, including Twayne World, U.S. Authors, and English Authors.

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Webster's Dictionary Online (To access from home click HERE)
From Britannica, Webster's Dictionary Online provides word definitions as well as crossword puzzle help and word origin information.

World Book
The World Book is a premier online reference source containing every article from the 22-volume print set plus primary documents and images from many major subject areas.  A wide selection of games, activities, and crafts (available in Word Book for Kids) provide highly entertaining and educational learning experiences for children. Also included in this database is Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos —a Spanish language encyclopedia for elementary and middle school students.

World Data Analyst (To access from home click HERE)
Use this database to compare the economies, populations, education, and social protection of nations throughout the world using generated charts and tables.

World News Digest
This database brings together and enhances nearly seven decades of news from the renowned Facts On File World News Digest in print.

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