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New Search Engine for Students and Teachers: netTrekker

Opens external link in new windownetTrekker is an educational search engine and is a great place to start when researching online in grades 5-12. Students can register for free; just click register at the top right of the page and create your account.


Lower School Library Links


Lausanne On-line Catalog

Kid's Infobits  


Junior Edition K12


For off campus access:

  1. Click on this link
  2. Answer the four questions and submit.
  3. Patrons 13 and younger may need to wait for parental notification.

 

Please see the Mrs. Berry or a teacher for a current list of quizzes.

 

 

Classroom Connect Calendar


See a teacher or librarian for
login and password information!

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KidsClick!

 

 

 


Facts and Fun-Homework Center, Reference Desk, Current Events, Games, and Quizzes. 

For remote access please see a librarian for login and password information.


Middle & Upper School Library Links

Lausanne On-line Catalog:

Contains an index of all the books available through the MAISLIC school libraries including the Lausanne library. Make sure that you have Lausanne Collegiate School selected on the right to view our holdings.

 

Tennessee Electronic Library:

Standard Interface - A collection of magazine, periodical, and newspaper databases, critical essays, guide to recommended titles, selected reference sources, and more. A variety of resource levels from elementary to college are offered. Please ask a librarian about password information. The collection will open a new browser window.

 

Grolier Online Encyclopedia:

1.  If you are on the Lausanne campus, just click on the link above to access the database.

 

If you are off campus, you will need to follow the instructions below for remote access:

  1. Click on this link: http://auth.grolier.com/login/login-bin/send_signup_form
  2. Answer the four questions and submit.
  3. Patrons 13 and younger may need to wait for parental notification but patrons 14 and older get a one time username and password delivered to their e-mail box immediately (with further instructions and tips for fool proof access).

 

Tips and Tricks

Our username and password need only be used once because a cookie will be placed on the hard drive - make sure that cookies are enabled.

 

Encyclopedia Britannica and Compton's by Brittanica:

Encyclopedia Britannica for Upper School students and Compton’s by Britannica for Middle School students are additional general encyclopedia resources.  Many articles in the encyclopedia have associated journal articles, images, and websites.  The publishers have provided citing information for each encyclopedia article in both MLA and APA styles. Please ask a librarian about username and password information.

 


Access Newspaper Archive


Reference Links

Almanacs

Information Please Almanac

RefDesk Daily Almanac

Biographies

A&E Biographies with 25,000 entries

Lives, the Biography Resource

Current Events

Yahoo current events by subject

MSNBC

CNN

Commercial Appeal

Dictionaries

American Heritage Dictionary

Merriam Webster Online

Spanish Dictionary

French Dictionary

Encyclopedias

Columbia Encyclopedia at Bartleby.com

Encyclopedia Brittanica

Encyclopedia Smithsonian - A very visual encyclopedia with a variety of resources for entries

Encarta from Microsoft

Grammar

Interactive Guide to Grammar

Online English Grammar

Literary Criticism

Internet Public Library’s Literary Criticism Page

Literary Resources on the Web - Searchable criticism site arranged chronologically or by subject

Maps

Current Maps

Map Library Site

Google Maps

Statistics

Statistics on the Web

Statistcs.com - Links to statistical analysis tools as well as links to data by subject

Thesauri

Roget's Thesaurus

Roget’s II from Bartelby

 


Citation Links

Landmarks Citation Machine provides an easy way to generate a citation in either MLA or APA format.  The student puts in the information, and it is formatted automatically.  Please doublecheck more complicated citations against the appropriate style reference.

 

dianahacker.com provides information on and examples of MLA, Turabian (Chicago Manual of Style), and APA bibliography styles.

 

MLA StyleGuide at the University of Southern Mississippi provides examples for all types of resources

Turabian Style Guide at the University of Southern Mississippi provides examples for all types of resources

Citation Style Guides for Internet and Electronic Sources emphasizes APA and Turabian /Chicago Manual of Style.

Purdue’s Online Writing Lab Resources for Documenting Electronic Sources emphasizes APA and MLA, but there are links to citing guides for other styles.

Concordia Libraries Style Guide gives examples of APA, MLA, Turabian /Chicago Manual of Style as well as links to other websites by style.

American University Library Citation Style Guides provide links for APA, MLA and Turabian/Chicago Manual of Style.

 


 
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