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This database highlights the Latino/Latina experience in the United States, emphasizing the rich history and culture of the community. It includes important movements such as the United Farm Workers, the Chicano Movement (El Movimiento), and land reclamation. Documents related to key leaders such as Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, and other leaders are included. The database also includes digitized archival material from the Denver Public Library's Special Collections and Archives.
 

• Federal government & Congress: Find Department & agency leadership, CIOs, purchasing contacts, career and non-career SES appointees, advisors, program managers, policy-makers, deputies, directors, and assistants.
   
• Congress: Find members of Congress and its staff (including district/state staff), leadership organizations, committee and subcommittees offices, support agencies, congressional caucuses, task forces, boards, and staff associations. Research congressional legislation, linked to the offices of the sponsors and co-sponsors of the bills.   
   
• State & Local government: Find detailed profiles of elected officials, chiefs of staff, city managers, CFOs, IT decision makers, appointees, attorneys general, police chiefs, state legislators and city council members, department heads, and many more.
   
• Find leaders in News Media Organizations, Law & Lobbying  Firms, Companies (Fortune 1000), Nonprofits & Associations, and Courts.  

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GED tests and practice tests and courses for all ages, from school age help for tests and skills, to high school equivalency, college prep and college skills, to career skills, computer skills, citizenship and recursos en español. Create a free account to get started and track your progress.

• Career Preparation
• College Admission Test Preparation
• Computer Skills Center
• High School Equivalency
• Recursos Para Hispanohablantes

This resource offers a wide range of sample legal forms, many available in Spanish. Forms with identification numbers beginning with CO- are specific to Colorado. The site also features legal definitions, legal Q&A, and helpful topic guides. 

Users can access a training video to learn how to navigate the platform, an article focused on locating deed forms, and a video tutorial on searching for Spanish-language legal forms.

Full-text ebooks on popular consumer legal topics, many published by Nolo. Subjects include intellectual property, small business, wills and estate planning, and real estate.

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Index to articles—many available in full text—from major law reviews and journals, legal newspapers, and federal and state cases, laws, and regulations.

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The experience and impact of LGBTQ+ Americans as recorded by the news media

• Comprehensive coverage of the LGBTQ+ experience in America from 1705 today
• Sourced from more than 16,000 American and global news sources, including more than 22 million primary documents
• Fully searchable, updated daily

Our largest collection of digital magazines.

Search current and historical periodicals relevant to library and information trends and topics, including AI Magazine, American Libraries, Computers in Libraries, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly.

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Explore America's past and present as recorded by the news media through a wide and diverse lens. Fully searchable digital resources reveal United States history through the experiences, contributions, values, beliefs, and perspectives of a variety of American ethnicities and cultures. Suggested Searches are built into each Life in America resource to help connect to content organized by historical eras, themes, topical areas, and events.

• Asian Life in America
• Black Life in America
• Hispanic Life in America
• Indigenous Life in America
• LGBTQ Life in America

A multidisciplinary collection of audiovisual content and music that touches on the curriculum needs of virtually every department.  Listening allows students and researchers alike to analyze unique and valuable content from over 500 producers and distributors around the world.

Gale Literary Index is a master index to the major literature products published by Gale. It combines and cross-references author names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for titles of works into one source.

Full-text database for literature research covering all genres and time periods. Includes access to synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals, and author biographies, plus searchable full-text classic novels, short stories, and poems.

Find comprehensive and up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on 300,000+ writers from all eras, and around the world. Research literary figures, themes, and topics in genres such as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. Many Topic Pages offer a link to a full text of the work. Includes content from the Dictionary of Literary Biography and Contemporary Literary Criticism. 

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