Monticello CUSD #25

Media Center Aide - Charlene Wolter-Harris

Media Center Aide - Angie Jarvis 

 ONLINE DATABASES & SEARCH TOOLS

	EBSCO Publishing Service Selection Page
	FirstSearch Statewide Illinois Library Catalog (Authorization ID & Password available in the Media Center)
	Begin Your Search Here:
	Purdue Online Writing Lab

ONLINE NEWSPAPERS

• The News-Gazette - Your Source for News and Advertising in East Central Illinois
• Monticello Daily - An online news source dedicated to providing you the latest information regarding Monticello's local community, news, and businesses.

GENERAL SEARCH ENGINES

• Google - Simple, powerful and straightforward, Google provides relevant hits. Easy to use buttons allow you to search for images, newsgroups, or to use Google as a directory!
• Ask - Ask lets you search the web by typing a simple question in plain English
• Yahoo! - Entries are selected by people and arranged by subjects.  It is a good place to start a search.

 META-SEARCH ENGINES

• Clusty - Brainstorm topic ideas using result clusters.  Uncover buried sites by choosing a related cluster.  Drill down into a cluster of results.
• Dogpile - Dogpile allows you to see each search engine's results separately in a useful list for comparison. Click the search engine icons by "Best of Breed."
• Surfwax - For SERIOUS deep digging.

The lists in these tables are by no means exhaustive.  They do represent a general consensus on what the helpful search tools are.  If you are interested in finding out more about Internet search tools, check out the following links:

• UC Berkeley Library's Top Recommended Search Tools (Be sure to scroll to the bottom of its page for links to their tables of recommended engines and directories), 
• The Internet Public Library's Web Searching Page  
• Linda Bertland's Guide to Search Tools

RECOMMENDED INTERNET REFERENCE SITES

Sometimes you need a map, a biography, a definition or a quick fact on a particular topic.  You can begin your search by trying any one of these recommended reference sites.

• Purdue University Library Reference Page
• Internet Public Library Ready Reference
• High School Ace (scroll down the page for its "Reference Resources & Tools")
• Refdesk
• Virtual Reference Desk
• University of Illinois Library Online Reference Page

Want more?  Click on this link to the Librarian's Index to the Internet page on reference resources for a descriptive listing of other great sites.

ONLINE MINI-LIBRARY

• 000-GENERALITIES

  • Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th Ed.
  • xrefer.com - Searchable texts in many subjects
  • Guinness Book of World Records

• 100-PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOLOGY

  • EServer - Core philosophy texts from The English Server

  • Allpsych.com - Psychology Texts

• 200-RELIGION

  • The Unbound Bible - Various online versions of the Bible.

• 300-SOCIAL SCIENCES

  • Statistical Abstract of the United States

• 400-LANGUAGE

  • Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus
  • yourDictionary.com - Multiple language and subject dictionaries at one site.

• 500-NATURAL SCIENCES & MATH

  • BioTech's Life Science Dictionary
  • Audubon Field Guides

• 600-TECHNOLOGY (APPLIED SCIENCES)

  • The Merck Manual of Medical Information
  • ADAM Health Encyclopedia
  • MEDLINEplus Health Information
  • U.S. Agriculture Statisitics

• 700-THE ARTS--FINE & DECORATIVE

• 800-LITERATURE & RHETORIC

  • Project Gutenberg - Fine literature--full texts.
  • Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th Ed.
  • Bibliomania - Literature and Study Guides
  • EServer - Fiction, classic texts, philosophy, etc. from the English Server at the University of Washington

• 900-GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY

  • The Holocaust Chronicle
  • Country Studies from the Library of Congress
  • Country Studies from the US State Department
  • World Fact Book/Country Studies from the CIA

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  • World Flags

INTERESTING SITES

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