Online Databases
McGee's Subscriptions to Databases |
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| Grolier
On-Line |
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, and Lands and People. (Please see Ms. Averill for the user name for McGee and the password for Grolier resources.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marshall Cavendish Digital |
All four resources are at middle-school reading levels and are rich in visual as well as printed information. (Please see Ms. Averill for the user name for McGee and the password for MC Digital resources.) |
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| Noodle Tools | Noodle Tool's online MLA
or APA Works Cited generator (Please see Ms. Averill for the user name for McGee and the password for Noodle services.) |
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| Videos-on-Demand | Video and video clips from United Streaming to jazz up your presentations and to help you understand concepts visually. Ask Ms. Averill, Mrs. Mortensen, or Mrs. Sencio for the username for a McGee student and the password for a student. Faculty and staff may set up an individual accounts with a pass code that is available from the lmc staff. The videos play best with Quick Time or the free VLC Media Player unless you download the Windows Media Player patch from United Streaming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accelerated Reader Program
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Find out what titles
are included in this program that
rewards you for being the good readers that you are. Read a book that
is on the title list or in the database base, schedule and pass a story-fact
test, earn points that you can use to buy prizes.
After students have been registered in the AR Program, they may take tests on any computer on the McGee Computer Network. |
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Berlin-Peck Public Library Subscriptions to DatabasesAvailable to holders of valid cards for Berlin Public Libraries. |
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Issues and Controversies is available to Berlin cardholders who need to know the facts. |
This database describes currently important issues often providing the pro's and con's of controversial issues. The reading level is geared toward high school students and above. |
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| Berlin Citizen | The Berlin Citizen is a weekly newspaper mailed free to all residents and businesses in Berlin, East Berlin and Kensington, CT. Date Range Available: (2/14/2001-12/29/2005) For the most recent issue you may register with your e-mail address to read it at http://www.theberlincitizen.com/site/news.asp?brd=2755&nav_sec=78212 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Contemporary Authors | This offers current biographical and bibliographical data on more than 120,000 modern authors. It is easy to search for an author by name, title of work, subject/genre, nationality, date and place of birth, honors, awards and much more. Look for recent information on J.K. Rowling, Isaac Asimov, Isabel Allende, Michael Crichton, and many many others. To access the database you will need your Berlin-Peck library card. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classical Music Library | Alexander Street Press provides an extensive collection recordings of classical music that can be listened to an home. Click on the database from the Berlin-Peck Database list. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Smithsonian Global Sound | Recordings of music and spoken word from the United States and around the world. The emphasis is on materials important to the folk culture of the peoples of the countries. Click on the database from the Berlin-Peck Database list. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Theatre in Video | More than 200 hours of filmed performances, including the entire BBC Shakespeare Collection, are in the Alexander Street’s Theatre in Video. View the best actors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries- including Meryl Streep, Richard Dreyfuss, Kevin Kline, and Kenneth Brannagh. The videos are streamed in user-friendly Flash format that works on both Macs and PCs. All you need is your Berlin Library card. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Library Connection Downloadable Audio Book Catalog | Downloadable audio books for children and young adults. Your public library card number is your password. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| PrepMe | Online SAT and PSAT preparation from PrepMe offers 40+ hours of instructional content, practice quizzes, and full length tests. It automatically identifies your strengths and weaknesses and creates a customized week-by-week schedule for you to help you raise your score. Your public library card number is your password. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Automotive Repair Reference Center | This contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945. New repair procedures and updates will also be added continuously. All of the content in Auto Repair Reference Center has been created by ASE certified technicians. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
The Connecticut Digital Library General Portal: www.iCONN.orgResources for Schools |
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| Discovering
Collection and Magazine Databases
Although these databases are free to CT residents through iCONN access, to access them from school please ask Ms. Averill for the password. |
Kids InfoBits for grades K- 5 |
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| InfoTrac Junior Edition for grades 5 - 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| InfoTrac Student Edition for grades 9-12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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For each range of grades, collections of articles in an encyclopedia, magazines, and newspapers about
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National News current issues |
Includes articles in the
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Hartford Courant 1763-1922 |
Historical issues of one of Connecticut's major newspapers from 1763 to 1922 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Health and Wellness Resource Center | Looking for information about health, here is a place to find information about staying healthy and diseases in medical dictionaries and articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Biography Resource Center NEW | Biographies and pictures of people in the news or with historical importance | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Associated
Press Photo Archive |
Newspaper photographs from yesterday's edition to images in early newspapers | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| What Do I Read Next? | Never be without advice on what to read next when you search lists of award-winning titles and thousands of summaries of books. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Student Research Center | Middle-school reading level and up, as a student-friendly version of the History and Science Reference Centers, it provides the same high quality content. Choose content sources (Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video), browse by topic headings, use an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore top searches of the day, and even limit searches according to reading levels. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Science Reference Center |
High-school reading level and up Provides articles from scientific reference books, magazines, journals, biographies and images. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, physics, technology, and wildlife. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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History Reference Center |
At high-school reading level and up, provides articles from magazines, journals, reference and non-fiction books; biographies, documents and speeches; maps and photographs. Also includes film and video clips of social, political and cultural historical events of the 20th Century from 1893 to 1985. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Updated 8 January 2008 L. Averill
