Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Re: on-line encyclopedia subscription

We subscribe to several for K-8:=20
NoodleBib
World Book and World Book Kids
Grolier products (Americana, New Bk of Popular Science, Grolier
Multimedia =20
Ency, Amazing Animals, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples)
Facts on File (History, Science, Atlas)
EBSCO (Student Research Center and Searchasaurus, Newspapers, Novelist
Plus)
Encyclopedia Britannica (ency, dictionary, We the People Annals... for=20
Primary Documents)
ProQuest CultureGrams
WilsonWeb Current Biography Illustrated
Greenwood Daily Life American History
TeachingBooks.net
NetTrekker
Newsbank

Some of these we get as part of packages that have several things we
want, so we get these too - like Newsbank, New Book of Knowledge Ency,
...

It is a long list, but we use most of them oretty well with guidance in
projects.

Dorcas Hand
Annunciation Orthodox School
Houston TX

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Subject: on-line encyclopedia subscription

We subscribe to:
Facts.com - includes World News Digest, World Almanac, Issues and
Controversies, Issues in American History and Today's Science.
History Reference Center from Facts on File - American History, World
History, American Women's History, Ancient History
Culturegrams
LifFinder
World Book
Encyclopedia Britannica
NetTrekker (we exclude Wikipedia from it).

Michelle

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Michelle S. Ohnstad, MLIS
michelle.ohnstad@gmail.com
Head Librarian
La Jolla Country Day School
La Jolla, CA
Web: http://www.ljcds.org


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