Reference Sites

These reference links  may require a username/password to access outside of school. See your friendly librarian for the passwords.

• World Book Encyclopedia Online  Designed to make online information easy for students to access and for teachers to integrate into lesson planning—boasts more than 40,000 encyclopedia articles, learning resources, and research tools.

• World Book Kids  A general reference website developed especially for young students. The site offers image-based navigation, easy‐to‐read articles, thousands of illustrations, and a wealth of engaging games, science projects, and activities. 

• Art Encyclopedia  The Artcyclopedia is an index of online museums and image archives: find where the works of over 8000 different fine artists can be viewed online. 

• Lexipedia – where words have meaning   Lexipedia is a Dictionary and a Thesaurus in one. It provides users with all the parts of speech a word can be, all available definitions. 

• State Library of NSW  The State Library of New South Wales is a large reference and research library open to the public. It is the oldest library in Australia . See one of the library staff to help get you signed up.

• ANZ Reference Centre  Collection of full text leading Australia/New Zealand magazines, newspapers, newswires, biographies and reference books.