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Go Beyond
Google is a
great online search tool that we use every day. However, it
can be overwhelming with the time it takes to go through the
thousands (sometimes millions) of results it gives. It also
can be difficult to know which information is reliable.
The Wauconda Area Library to the rescue!
The library has paid for subscriptions to many
different
online databases. Each result has been reviewed for
reliability, and the number of results is manageable.
Best of all, you can search these databases anytime,
anywhere with your Wauconda Area Library card.
Now, the library never closes!
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Search through thousands of magazines and newspapers,
e-reference books, dissertations, video clips,
photographs, and podcasts to name a few, for
general interest information by using the
General Reference Center Gold, the e-book reference
library,
Gale Virtual Reference Center and the
Daily Herald Online.
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Search for colleges,
scholarships, graduate programs, distance
learning programs, and specialty career information
with the
Testing and Education Reference Center.
Take practice tests for the
ACT, SAT, CLEP, TOEFL, TOEIC, GMAT, GRE, as well as
civil service exams for firefighters, postal
workers, law enforcement, and citizenship.
Military aptitude practice tests are also available.
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Search for family history
using
HeritageQuest. This database includes U.S.
federal census information as far back as 1790,
over 20,000 books, 1.9 million articles, special
Revolutionary War records and Freedman's Bank, which
serves African Americans.
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Use
ReferenceUSA
to search for residential and business
addresses and phone numbers. You can do
reverse searches by phone number only.
Generate mailing lists for a neighborhood, industry,
home-based businesses, sales volume and more.
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Got homework?! The
library is your one-stop shop to get it done.
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Tutor.com - Live homework help for students in
4th - 12th grade. Available from 2 p.m. to 10
p.m., 7 days a week.
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Infotrac Student Resource Center - Get
information from reference books, magazines and
newspapers, photographs, podcasts and more.
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SIRS Researcher - If you need to research a
controversial topic, or a current hot topic in the
news, this is the place to start.
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BrainPop - This is a great resource for topic
overviews for students in kindergarten through 8th
grade with video clips, interactive quizzes and
experiments.
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Rebecca
Caudill