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American Education Week (Nov. 15-21, 2009) provides an opportunity to recognize the men and women who have chosen the education of our children as their passion and profession. Read More

 
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Databases

Usernames and passwords REQUIRED. See LRC staff.

Career Cruising - create your own portfolio and search colleges and careers that interest you.
EBSCO Host - articles from hundreds of magazines and newspapers.
NoveList - book descriptions and reviews
OCLC FirstSearch - full text research databases including WilsonSelectPlus (science, humanities, education, business), ABI Inform (business and management)and MEDLINE (medicine, dentistry, nursing)
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - social issues database
Student Resource Center - primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses
United Streaming - full length videos or video clips (a.k.a. Discovery Education streaming)
World Book Online - a Spanish encyclopedia, current and ongoing events, features of the month, a dictionary, an atlas, and more!

 

Online Resources  ***DO NOT USE WIKIPEDIA***

CIA -- The World Factbook Institution of Government and Public Affairs (Illinois)
Internet Public Library
Find-It! Illinois Library Spot - research information
Firstgov.gov Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
High School Ace U.S. Department of State Background Notes
FreePlayMusic  
 

Popular Search Engines

Search Engines are good places to visit in order to get ideas for topics, but please use the Databases listed at the top for quality research and faster searching.

About.com LII - Librarians' Internet Index
Beaucoup MetaCrawler.com - Metasearch
Dogpile.com - Metasearch Refdesk
Google Switchboard.com - White and Yellow Pages
Infomine - Scholarly Resource Collection Vivisimo
KartOO - Metasearch with Visual Display WebCrawler.com

Publications

The Beacon News  
The Ledger Sentinel  
The Chicago Sun-times  
The Chicago Tribune  
Newspaper Archive  
   

Daily Features

Fact Monster's Analogy of the Day Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
AP Today in History The College Board's SAT Question of the Day
Cool Quiz Fact/Quote/Word/History of the Day Space.com's Space Image of the Day
Dictionary.com's Word of the Day Fact Monster's Today's Birthdays
dMarie Time Capsule Wordsmith Word.A.Day
The History Net Today in History  
 
 
 
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