The School Library/Media Center promotes a love of reading and supports students in their personal & academic reading needs.
The School Library/Media Center promotes a love of reading and supports students in their personal & academic reading needs.
Digital Magazines
Flipster
Access our magazines from anywhere! Cross platform – download Flipster smart phone App or use desktop browser.
Title List: Ask, Brain Space, Cicada, Cobblestone, Click, Discover, Faces, Girls Life, How it Works, J-14, MacWorld, National Geographic, National Geographic History, National Geographic Kids, PC World, Popular Science, Readers Digest, Sports Illustrated Kids, and The Week
Databases
Credo - SOURCE
Source is a one-stop research platform combining citable reference content with instructional videos and tutorials, as well as access to your other subscription databases. Source is a great
starting point for research.
ABC-CLIO Databases Home Page - Access to all databases.
ABC-CLIO is an award-winning publisher with a fifty-year tradition of quality and integrity. All content in their online resources is reviewed and approved by subject experts, scholars and elite educators.
Access to individual databases:
In Daily Life through History discover details about past eras that make historical accounts relevant and meaningful from their modern-day perspectives. A truly unique reference resource, DLtH explores ordinary life through time and across the globe, bringing the past to life through details and insights that turn flat descriptions of historical characters into real, "just like me" human beings. Supports American history classes and literature as well as cross-disciplinary resources for examining historical topics like food and cooking, celebrations, clothes, romance, work, religion, housing, language and social customs.
World History: Ancient and Medieval
World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras explores ancient civilizations, dynasties, and empires and profiles city-states, countries, and regions of the ancient and medieval world. It encompasses intellectual developments, wars, religion, cultural practices, and more from prehistory through to the beginning of the Renaissance.
This resource will cover a broad range of topics in depth - the evolution of modern Europe since the Renaissance; concurrent developments in Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; the global impact of the Industrial Revolution; and the last 100 years of conflicts and international cooperation.
Britannica School is the go-to site for learning more about any subject-for all grades and all reading abilities-offering thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Web sites, and three separate databases-Elementary, Middle, or High.
Gain access to Journals, Magazine, Newspapers, Encyclopedias, General Reference, Novel List, Literary Reference Center, Points of View, Salud en Espanol and Non-Fiction collection.
Available Databases: American History Online, American Women's History Online, African-American History Online, American Indian History Online, Modern World History Online, Ancient and Medieval History Online, World Atlas, Science Online, Health Reference Center, Curriculum Resource Center, Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition, Literary Reference Online, Ferguson's Career Guidance Center, Personal & Business Forms Online, High School / Middle School ebook collection, and Issues and Controversies
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7.
World History Encyclopedia
A non-profit educational company that publishes and maintains articles, images, videos, podcasts and interactive educational tools related to history. Curated resource on history, with short, user-friendly articles on a vast array of topics.
Tools
Noodle Tools provides innovative software that teaches students and supports teachers and librarians throughout the entire research process.
Search intelligently
Assess the quality of results
Record, organize and synthesize information using online notecards
Format your bibliography in MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian style
Almanacs
CIA World Fact Book Information about countries of the world. Geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, transnational issues, and maps.
Information Please Almanac "All the information you need." Contains daily & interactive almanacs, world and US history & government, biography, sports, arts & entertainment, business & finance, society & culture, health & science, weather & climate, and more.
Today in History Archive of the Library of Congress American Memory Collection. Search full text, day, or month, 365 days of what happened on a particular day in history.
Old Farmer's Almanac Today in History, weather, astronomy, astrology, and the best fishing days, among many other diversions."
Dictionaries & Thesauri
AllWords.com
English Dictionary with multi-lingual search.
Internet Thesaurus
Look up synonyms, antonyms, writing resources, translator, and more.
Translation with Babel Fish
Alta Vista's text and web page translator. Includes many languages.
WordReference.com
Free online translation dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia.com Search The Columbia Encyclopedia 6th Edition and much much more
Encyclopedia Britannica
Official site of the Encyclopedia Britannica, one of the world's best-known reference books. Find short encyclopedia entries and definitions, or register for complete access.
Infoplease
Online encyclopedia entries, dictionary definitions, and thesaurus help from Infoplease, covering topics from astrophysics to Zimbabwe.
Answers.com
Get answers from a variety of encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries, and atlases with Answers.com, an online reference source.
Wikipedia is a free, open content, community-built encyclopedia with thousands of articles on topics from A to Z. Available in dozens of languages. Be sure to check facts!!
Find an online encyclopedia, quotations, and other fact-finding tools at Yahoo! Reference. Search for dictionary definitions, spelling help, thesaurus synonyms, maps, flags, and other answers
Libraries, Virtual Libraries & General Subject Sites
Multnomah County Library Homework Help
Useful index to hundreds of sites categorized by subject. Includes Spanish resources.
New York Public Library
Check out TeenLink and On-Lionfor Kids for many sites for fun and for completing your homework.
Refdesk.com
This reference site has everything – essential reference tools,almanacs, moon phases, Gallup polls, USA and world newspapers, health and news sites, and much more.
ReferenceDesk.org
“The Internet's Best Reference Source!"
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
"Galaxy of knowledge: Books, images, and more." Includes American Discovery, Mosaic of Science, Art & Design, Industry & Technology collections.
Virtual Middle School Library
“Open 24 hours a day." Find web sites for students, resources for teachers and parents, a virtual wall calendar, daily newspapers and magazines,resources for school librarians and more.
Maps
Hyper History Online
Find historical Maps and locations
Map Blast
Directions and maps to specified places
MapQuest
Find a U.S. map and driving directions
One-Stop Research from National Geographic
Map, fact, and photo finder
Miscellaneous Reference
A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms
Learn sign language online
ASL Pro Dictionaries
Type in the words you want spell and the website will illustrate how to finger spell those words.
Cliché Finder
Over 3,300 clichés indexed