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Resources and Databases

Barr Memorial Library offers access to over 60 virtual resources. These are offered through the Department of Defense MWR Libraries and the Kentucky Virtual Library. These websites require specific log-in information; please contact the Library for further details. We also offer these additional resources to assist you with your information needs.

We also offer these additional resources to assist you with your information needs.

Academic Research and Homework Help


National Academies Press allows you to download all PDF versions of their published books for FREE. This includes their current catalog of more than 4,000 books plus future reports published by the NAP.

Kentucky Digital Library contains millions of primary source historical information about Kentucky - in the form of newspapers, images, manuscripts, audio recordings, and more.

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, the Internet Archive provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

Tutor.com is the world's largest online tutoring service. Online homework help and career assistance is available at all military installation libraries and from any computer with internet access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Authorized users must follow instruction on the website for password and login information.

Military Resources


Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) collects and analyzes data from a variety of current and historical sources, including Army operations and training events, and produces lessons for military commanders, staff, and students. CALL disseminates these lessons and other related research materials through a variety of print and electronic media, including this web site. CALL is the Army's principal electronic archive for the operational records of the combat training centers, selected training exercises and contingency operations since 1973.

Combined Arms Research Library (CARL) Digital Library is largely composed of digital versions of paper documents from the Combined Arms Research Library collections and student papers produced at the US Army Command and General Staff College.

National Defense University educates joint warfighters and other national security leaders in critical thinking and the creative application of military power to inform national strategy and globally integrated operations, under conditions of disruptive change, in order to prevail in war, peace, and competition.

National Resource Directory provides wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans, their families, families of the fallen and those who support them with a web-based directory of valuable resources. It delivers information on, and access to, the full range of medical and non-medical services and resources needed to achieve their personal and professional goals across the transitions from recovery to rehabilitation to community reintegration.