Now that the weather is nicer, it might be time to pull your car out of the garage and do some much-needed maintenance on it.

Or you might have noticed your car is making that squeaking noise again, and you just are not sure what to do about it.

If you are a do-it-yourselfer, the library offers a great auto-repair resource that contains guides, diagrams and more for your next project. The Auto Repair Reference Center is accessible remotely, and all you need is your library-card number to access the database.

Once you log onto the site, there the homepage is laid out for you to select the year, make and model of your vehicle. This repair info has content that has been created by technicians certified by the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence, or ASE.

There is information for each major manufacturer of domestic and imported vehicles.

Not only does this database contain instructions, there also are drawings and step-by-step photographs for the more than 37,000 vehicles in the database.

For those of you who are like me and are not do-it-yourself car fixers, there is a section about maintenance schedules. This contains info on maintenance information ranging from oil changes to when it is time to get your spark plugs changed.

There is an option to download the PDF version of the page you are looking at so you can print it out and have it with you as a point of reference while you are in the garage working on your next fix.

Those auto-repair manuals are nice; however, they can get costly and do not contain the most up-to-date information. The Auto Repair Reference Center adds updates for different vehicles to the materials.

Pam Calfo is the technology and marketing librarian at the Baldwin Borough Public Library. Follow the library on Twitter @BBPL; on Facebook, Like the Baldwin Borough Public Library; and you can email Pam at calfop@einetwork.net.

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