Electronic Reference Books
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| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
Full text of over 400 reference books covering a variety of subjects including the arts, education, history, literature, science, social science, and others
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| Encyclopedia Americana Online |
General encyclopedia
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General encyclopedia
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Very basic, general encyclopedia
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| World Book Encyclopedia |
GBN Librarians' TOP CHOICE general encyclopedia
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Specialized Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, & Atlases
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Includes hour by hour weather, weather history backfile 10 years, over 20 different satellites, many maps (wind, jet stream, uv, ice, and more); no access from home
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| Almanac of American Politics 2008 |
Provides results from special and interim elections, important committee changes, election forecasts, primary results and more; requires password
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Lengthy biographies of over 19, 000 significant persons in American culture and history who are no longer living
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Associated Press collection of 3.6 million news photographs from 1840s-present, 100,000 graphics, and 4,500 hours of audio from 1920s-present
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| Grove Dictionary of Art |
Comprehensive reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present
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| Grove Dictionary of Music |
Includes The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
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| HRW World Atlas |
Contains continents/world regions and ocean floor maps
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| International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences |
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| Lands and Peoples |
"Accessible, easy-to-understand articles on countries, cultures, and current events"
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| Merriam-Webster OnLine Dictionary and Thesaurus |
Enables user to search either the "Collegiate Dictionary" or the "Collegiate Thesaurus"
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| OneLook Dictionary |
Searches for definitions in multiple dictionaries; also includes translations and acronyms
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| Online Dictionaries and Thesauri |
Links to several sources, including rhyming, acronym, and other dictionaries
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| Oxford English Dictionary |
Guide to meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million English words of the last millennium
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| Oxford Reference Online |
Over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press; Oxford Companions; Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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Visual Thesaurus
click HERE from home
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Interactive dictionary and thesaurus that creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. |