Lindbergh
Library Catalog

Almanacs
Atlases
Citing Sources
Databases
Dictionaries and Thesauri and More
Encyclopedias
Libraries
Miscellaneous
Search Engines
Teacher Resources

Lindbergh Computer Software Copyright Policy

Almanacs

  • CIA World Factbook The World Factbook is a comprehensive resource of facts and statistics on more than 250 countries and other entities.
  • FactMonster A kids-version of InfoPlease (see below.)
  • Information Please Almanac Infoplease is a comprehensive reference source that combines the contents of an encyclopedia , a dictionary , an atlas , and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records.
  • Farmer's Almanac An internet version of the famous publication. The 2002 Farmers' Almanac remains filled with entertaining short stories, good cooking, fun, facts, forecasts, timely household tips, calendars for fishing, and of course gardening.

  Atlases

  • 50states.com - a resource with maps and other state facts.
  • CIA Maps - The Central Intelligence Agency's "Maps and Publications Released to the Public" is a listing of all unclassified maps and publications available to the public for purchase from GPO and/or NTIS.
  • Maps@National Geographic.com
  • National Atlas of the United States  - The updated National Atlas is designed to provide a reliable summary of national-scale geographical information. Though it cannot provide detailed map information, the Atlas directs users to other sources for this information.

Citing Sources & Research Writing Help

  For Lindbergh citations - use MLA style - 7th edition.  

Databases

Accessible from home and school- passwords in Lindbergh school libraries

  • Biography Resource Center -  is a comprehensive database of biographical information on over 380,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Subscription service for Sperreng only.
  • CQ Researcher - is a subscription service for High School use only. Research on current issues from CQ Press.
  • Culture Grams - provides current information on over 200 counties. Information includes country statistics, maps, and cultural information. Database also includes information on each US state and all 13 Canadian provinces and territories. High School use only.
  • Gale Net  - For Sperreng and all elementary schools.  Contains a large variety of databases covering many research topics and grade levels from elementary to college.  Scroll all the way down and don't miss any.
  • Gale Resources- For Lindbergh High School use only. Includes Gale Student Resource Center Gold & Gale Virtual Reference Library ebooks, plus other Gale databases.
  • Grolier Online -  This subscription service offers outstanding information and resources for research. It contains age-appropriate, curriculum-based databases at each school as follows:  LHS - Encyclopedia Americana and The New Book of Popular Science; Sperreng - Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and America the Beautiful; All Elementary Schools - The New Book of Knowledge and America the Beautiful. Additional features are: prescreened web links, full-text periodical articles, dictionaries, thesauri, an interactive atlas, photos, panoramas, multimedia, current events, homework help, research starters, science projects, and more.  
  • Grove Music Online - This is a subscription service for LHS use only. Includes a music dictionary, encyclopedia, musician biographies and more music-related research.
  • NewsBank - (in school use only)  provides the full text of news features, special interest stories, editorials, daily columns, letters to the editor, sports reports, death notices, obituaries and more from The Kansas City Star and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and assorted news magazines. All schools.

Dictionaries and Thesauri and More  

Encyclopedias

  • Encyclopedia Smithsonian Encyclopedia Smithsonian features answers to frequently asked questions about the Smithsonian and links to Smithsonian resources on subjects from Art to Zoology.
  • How Stuff Works HowStuffWorks is a media company that is internationally recognized as the leading provider of information on how things work. HowStuffWorks offers in-depth articles that explain the world from the inside out.
  • How Things Work Think of this site as a radio call-in program that's being held on the WWW instead of the radio. If you ask how something works, using the button on the main page, they will try to provide an explanation.

Libraries  

    Lindbergh Libraries

  Miscellaneous

  Search Engines

  • AltaVista AltaVista offers a fast, comprehensive search service, performing 50 million search queries each day in over 25 languages. Other services at the site include translation and currency conversion programs.
  • Ask   A nswers all your questions asked in plain English. If Ask doesn't understand your question, it gives you the top-results from other search engines.
  • DogPile A popular metasearch engine, Dogpile utilizes the Web's best search engines simultaneously, returning the most comprehensive search results from across the internet.
  • Google! Lists the results in the order of popularity, determined by the number of links from other sites. Frequently gives you right results first. All pages in the Google index are cached, and you can search for pages related to a specific page. 
  • KidsClick! A child-friendly search engine, KidsClick! was created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System, as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.
  • MetaCrawler Metasearch engines, like InfoSpace's MetaCrawler, leverage the strength of the Web's best search engines to search, on average, more than twice as much of the Internet as a single search engine.
  • WebCrawler Search engine and web directory. Displays matching categories first, then results from the WebCrawler spider, without descriptions.
  • Vivisimo Vivi­simo wants to change the way search results are displayed on computer screens everywhere. Organized search results with document clustering.
  • Yahoo! Kids   

Teacher Resources

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