- Click on the icons below to access the resources from school or home.
- Contact your librarian for a handout containing logins and passwords for home use. Contact Deborah Hall for home access information or training on using these resources
provides resources for research in American History, World Geography, and World History including articles, primary resources, and maps, all correlated with the curriculum. For online training, click here.
New for 2008-2009! Includes 3 encyclopedias: Britannica Elementary, Compton's, and Encyclopaedia Britannica. In addition to encyclopedias Britannica also provides Enciclopedia Juvenil, Enciclopedia Universal en Español, Global Reference Center, Annal of American History, World Data Analyst, and Webster's Third International Dictionary, unabridged. For training materials, click here.
This comprehensive on-line EBSCO package provides students and educators access to multiple databases simultaneously though five interfaces: Searchasaurus, Kids Search, Student Research Center, EBSCO Host and though the new Grokker visual search tool.
For online training, click here. New for 2008-2009 are Novelist and Science Resource Center added!
is an educational portal providing access to information from many electronic sources. This online suite consists of seven databases, with the foundation being three of the best-known encyclopedias:
- The New Book of Knowledge®: Reference and current events for elementary readers and up
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia™: Quick reference for middle school and high school
- Encyclopedia Americana®: In-depth research and worldwide current events for middle school, high school, and college students
- La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre: Complete encyclopedia for Spanish speakers and Spanish-language students
For online training, click
here . Then
either choose the tutorial on the left-hand side of the screen or help on
the right-hand side.
organizes web sites around the K–12 curricula. All sites are evaluated for academic integrity and age appropriateness before they are considered. Users can search by grade level, subject directory, keyword, famous person, etc. Nettrekker categorizes web sites by type: lesson plans, images, learning exercises, games, pictures, or maps and charts. Special content is provided for ELL learners. Resources are aligned with the state standards. For online training, click here.
provides access to 4 products: E-Curriculum Library, History Study Center, Proquest:Literature, and Historical Newspapers. E-Curriculum Library provides answers from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts-plus thousands of pictures, maps, educator-approved websites, and audio/video content. For online training on E-Curriculum Library, click here. Historical Newspapers offers a unique collection of primary source historical documents featuring back issues of the New York Times. For online training on Historical Newspapers, click here.
makes available original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature. For online training, click here.
Thompson Gale
provides access to 3 products:
Literature Resource Center, Student Resource Center Gold and Testing and Education Reference Center.
Literature Resource Center provides students with access to traditional literary reference works, critical
information on authors and their works, and current journal articles.
For online training, click
here. Student
Reference Center Gold provides biographies,
essays, full-text magazines, glossaries, historical overviews, photographs,
audio files to answer research needs.
For online training, click
here. Testing &
Education Reference Center helps users
prepare for higher education and the working world by providing access to
information on colleges and universities, majors, careers, and testing. It
also features interactive online practice tests for preparatory examinations
including entrance exams and certification and licensing tests. For online
training, click
here.
provides services for High School teachers concerned with academic integrity of student work. The primary focus of this service is to prevent plagiarism. This online service allows teacher to check to see that students are writing their own assignments. To obtain School ID#, password, and usage information, contact Deborah Hall. For online training, click here.
is a digital video-based learning resource from Discovery Education. Educators gain on-demand access to 50,000 content-specific segments from 5,000 full-length educational videos- including more than 1,000 new videos in subject areas including foreign language, secondary math, science, and language arts. This resource requires a unique login for each user. You may obtain a login kit from your librarian or your tech coordinator.
provides professional journals and entire articles on many subjects related to education. For online training, click here.