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InfoCentre – Library
holdings (books, audiovisual) including websites.
-Informational
Databases-
American Heritage - provides access
to text only from the American Heritage
periodical. Your LMS Library has
an almost complete collection from 1955-present. Please see your library staff for complete
articles from the print edition. Also
includes links to American history websites.
American Memory Project – is a project of
the Library of Congress and indexes spoken words, sound recordings, still and
moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American
experience.
Encyclopedia
Americana - has a more advanced reading level and contains 45,000
articles, prescreened websites, tables, fact boxes, maps, flags, photographs,
illustrations, thousands of full-text periodical articles, and many other
features. It has broad coverage in the arts, science, geography,
history, philosophy, religion, sports, and technology. The "American
Journal" section links to many worldwide
current event stories.
Marshall Cavendish Digital
Reference Center - Reference databases for a variety of topics. They are Life Sciences, International Wildlife , Exploring Life Science, Wildlife and Plants,
Inventors and Inventions, Drugs, The Old West, Supreme Court Milestones,
Exploring American History, and Gods, Goddesses and Mythology.
New
Book of Knowledge - contains
9,000 articles written at an easy-to-read grade level. It
includes prescreened weblinks, photographs,
illustrations, maps, flags, bibliographies, article-to-article links, and
literary selections-including stories, poems and excerpts.
Thinkfinity – Although
primarily directed to teachers, this free resource provides homework help,
online learning games, student resources, learning activities and more than
55,000 educational resources to teachers, students and parents. “A resource worth exploring!”
-Indexes-
American
History – is an index to American Heritage magazine. There is not text and you must contact the
library staff for your article. Your
library has a complete set from 1966-present.
National
Geographic - is an index to the National
Geographic magazine. The library
has an almost complete collection in print format from 1945-present and in
digital format from 1888-1998.
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