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=Rockville High School Library Wikispaces Home ORIGINAL => NEWER PAGE =  Note: If you are asked for a Barcode or ID for any ICONN or Catalog or E-Books, and you are in School, wait a minute to see if it loads on it's own once it recognized the Vernon Public School Network, if you are logging in from OUTSIDE of RHS you will need to enter the Barcode on the back of your PUBLIC LIBRARY CARD. TRY SOME OF THESE SEARCH TOOLS that are available on the WWW:
 * [|RHS LIBRARY ONLINE CARD CATALOG]from outside RHS ||  || [|RHS LIBRARY CARD CATALOG "InfoCentre"] from Inside RHS ||   ||

media type="custom" key="7797791" SWEET SEARCH: [] (designed for schools and students...interesting links to research adn why not to

SORT FIX: [] (Gives visual boxes to help you sort your search by terms, etc.) GOOFRAM: [|www.goofram.com] (a combination of Google search combines with WOLFRAM) MASHPEDIA: [] ("Mashpedia is a web encyclopedia featuring real-time data and rich media content from a wide breadth of sources including the social web.") Or useful IMAGE or Photograph Sites such as: [] NachoFoto is a real time picture search engine that can help you find the most up-to-date images of anything that is happening around the world.

OTHER INTERESTING SITES OF NOTE:

[|Opposing Viewpoints] media type="custom" key="12467284"

**OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS:** [|Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center] NOV, 2008 Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards. __ [] **UCONN WEBSITES:** UCONN HOME PAGE: [|www.uconn.edu] Library Page: www.lib.uconn.edu [|**Class Guides**:]http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu
 * [[image:rhslmc2008/iconn_icon32x32.gif]][|CT DIGITAL LIBRARY- Access to Research Resources, Magazines and Authoritative References] || [|reQuest Statewide Library Catalog - Use this website to find out what libraries in CT have a book or to request a book through Inter-Library Loan] || [|JOURNAL INQUIRER(regional /hometown newspaper)Http://journalinquirer.com] || LINK TO CITATION CITING information: [] ||
 * [[image:http://www.proquestk12.com/picons/db-sirssks.gif caption="Social Issues Resource Series " link="http://portal.bigchalk.com/portalweb/leap.do?sku=DB-SIRSSKS&ut=&ee=00174261"]]|| [|POETRY INDEX] [[image:http://www.columbiagrangers.org/images/grangers_banner.gif width="164" height="30" caption="The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry" link="http://www.columbiagrangers.org/"]]|| || [|Historical Hartford Courant (1764-1922)] || [|Biography Resource Center] || [|AP Photo Archives] || [|Health & Wellness Resource Center] || || [|Hartford Courant (1992-current)] || [|History Reference Center] || [|MAGAZINES] || [|RHS Access to "reQuest] " || **Some of these require ID and PASSWORDs, These are available from the RHS Library Media Center, Librarian (Mrs. Fitzgerald at email: joy.fitzgerald@vernonct.org)//** || [|GROLIER DATABASES] || [|STUDENT RESOURCE CENTER GOLD] || [|POETRY INDEX] [[image:http://www.columbiagrangers.org/images/grangers_banner.gif width="164" height="30" caption="The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry" link="http://www.columbiagrangers.org/"]]|| [|Tumble][|TumbleBook Readables Online Library][|Book Readables Online Library] [[image:rhslmc2008/TRlogo.gif width="147" height="80" link="http://www.tumblebooks.com/tumblereadable/auto_login.asp?u=rockville2&p=login"]]|| || || [|E-Books] || [|Blackbirch Kid’s Visual Reference of the United States, 2003] || [|Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security, 2004] || [|Encyclopedia of Population (Macmillan), 2003] || || [|Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations and Footwear through the Ages, 2004] || [|St James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, 2000] || [|Renaissance: an Encyclopedia for Students, 2004] || || [|Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, 2005] || [|Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, 2006] || [|Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, 2005] || || [|Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 2006] || [|Beacham’s Guide to the Endangered Species of North America, 2000] || [|Biology (Macmillan), 2002]|| || [|Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, 1999] || [|Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, 2000] ||  || || [|U*X*L Encyclopedia of Landforms and Other Geological Features, 2004] || [|World of Earth Science, 2003] || media type="custom" key="3795747"OTHER SEARCH ENGINE ALTERNATIVES TO GOOGLE: [|www.viewzi.com] (Great View of visual views of search results) [|www.Mahalo.com] (Web Directory/Search Engine) [|www.ChaCha.com] (use with mobile phone searches) [|www.Powerset.com] ("Natural Language" searching of topics) [|www.Dogpile.com] (accesses 6 search engines) [|www.Cuil.com] (calls itself teh "world's biggest search engine" / does not collect your data) || || || [|Additional Research Resources] || [|Citing Sources] || [|What Do I Read Next?] || || || [|RHS LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER WEBSITE] || [|Vernon Public Schools Website] || [|RHS Website] || || || PATHFINDERS or Resources || NEW BOOKS || AUDIOBOOKS available on Request || Submit Requests for Authors, Books or Resources ||=

media type="custom" key="7403185" POWER SEARCH: ** http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?userGroupName=s1461&authCount=1&u=s1461 ** media type="custom" key="7831631"

[] For more on the President's Anti-bullying Campaign... "It Gets Better" Campaign... growing in support



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(You DID know that November was **Na**tional **No**vel **Wri**ting **Mo**nth, right?—get it … NaNoWriMo?)
 * RESEARCH LINKS**: (Provided by CT State Library, CT State Dept. of Ed. & some purchased by RHS Library for our students and staff)