Prince William Public Libraries’ Digital Library features virtually 100 diverse databases, electronic platforms and streaming providers, providing a large assortment of items and solutions for an equally wide selection of passions.
Car fanatics and automotive mechanics alike have relied on their regional community library to deliver reference performs on restoring and routine maintenance of cars, vans and motorcycles. In the previous, the cabinets of reference sections bulged with diagram-and-logistics crammed manuals. For fashionable library customers needing to alter a established of spark plugs or a thing far more hard, your library has a pair of on the internet assets to satisfy your requirements.
The on-line ChiltonLibrary is readily available from any computer system with your library card. Chilton guides supply repair, routine maintenance and diagnostic info on hundreds of vehicles.
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For a long time, Chilton guides have been a staple for car fans and mechanics, and libraries frequently carried them.
Chilton no for a longer time publishes those guides, but for several years they have presented the info in their “ChiltonLibrary” membership database, available on our Electronic Library.
ChiltonLibrary presents fix, servicing and diagnostic info on hundreds of autos by make, model, yr, motor measurement and other variables. For each and every car or truck, the database delivers tables for maintenance schedules, as effectively as requirements for pieces. The manuals are searchable, and diagrams can be printed.
The databases also involves a movie library with speedy tutorials on essential vehicle maintenance jobs, a VIN decoder to check out numbers and a library of examination prep quizzes for aspiring mechanics for the ASE Specialists Check.
Finally, an “Ask an Expert” element enables patrons to post queries to on-contact employees technicians, either via e-mail submission or a phone simply call.
The library also provides the “ProDemand” from Mitchell 1, a different longtime vehicle manual publisher. ProDemand is geared towards vehicle retailers and experts, which indicates that the facts is a lot more in-depth, and there are extra charts and diagrams for many tends to make and styles.
The databases was also developed for solitary use by a shop, so, however, the subscriptions are not available on line, only onsite at any of our 12 branches.
You can entry the database at any general public entry personal computer, called PACs, in the library. Simply click “Log In” to get instantaneous entry no username or password is wanted.
While ChiltonLibrary is in some strategies more user-pleasant and has extra attributes for really serious auto people today accomplishing major function, ProDemand is worth the more problems.
If you are an skilled “gearhead” tackling a significant repair or merely a driver who would like to save a handful of pounds and have a very little far more regulate about keeping your car or truck on the highway, your neighborhood library has the electronic support you will need. Get began at pwcva.gov/digitallibrary.
Kirk Johnson is a manager in the Prince William Public Libraries’ materials providers division.