ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Encyclopedias are great for finding fast facts and background information..
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Grolier Online
A complete reference library: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, The New Book of Popular Science, Lands and Peoples, America the Beautiful and Amazing Animals of the World.
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SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES

Visual Thesaurus
Try this amazing interactive dictionary and thesaurus that creates word maps exploring the meaning and relationship of words.
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WEB SITES

IPL2: Information You Can Trust
The Internet Public Library finds, evaluates, selects, organizes, describes and creates quality information resources. Try it!

• IPL2 for Teens
• IPL2 for Kids

Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Look up word definitions in English, French and Spanish. You can also find meanings of idioms. (An idiom is a group of words used together with a meaning that you cannot guess from the meanings of the separate words. For instance, "to lend someone a hand" means to help someone.)

Dictionary
The Merriam-Webster Online dictionary and thesaurus.

Dewey Browse
A catalog of Web sites for K-12 students arranged by Dewey Decimal number. (Don't be frightened--this is cool!)

Search the Web
All search engines are NOT created equal.

Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Links to information on a very wide range of topics.

Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
All the information contained in the book (REF 317.3 STA in the Fay Library) of the same name. This is the standard summary of social, political and economic statistics of the nation.

World Almanac for Kids Online
Facts and information about almost everything.

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updated 07/26/2010