Media Center Resources

    Encyclopedias

     Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol
    Britannica's Spanish language encyclopedia

    Encyclopedia Britannica
    On-line Britannica encyclopedia for high school students, plus an Internet guide, dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, and videos. In addition to Britannica, two other encyclopedias are included.

    • Britannica for elementary school students
    • Britannica for middle school students

     

    Encyclopedia Britannica Global Reference Center  

    Libraries

      Internet Public Library
    The Internet Public Library offers teachers and students a wealth of free resources from Literacy Criticism to Math and Science lessons. There is a great Teen Space section which offers help on homework as well as answers to frequently asked embarrassing questions.

    Library of Congress  Library of Congress  

      Montgomery College Library
    Use the catalog and the online resources

      Montgomery County Public Library
    Use the catalog and the online resources

      MCPS Professional Library
    Use the catalog and the online resources

    NYPL Gallery  NYPL Digital Library
    The New York Public Library has a free, searchable database of 275,000 photographs and manuscripts from its collection.

    Sailor Maryland´s Public Information Network  

      University of Maryland
    Use the catalog before a trip to their libraries.

    News Sources

      CNN.com 

      Gazette 

      Montgomery Journal 

      MSNBC 

      Natl. Public Radio 

      New York Times 

      USA Today News 

      Washington Times 

      Washington Post 

    Photos/Graphics

      Ditto.com
    Choose photographs from a directory of subjects.

      DK Clip Art
    This mini site will help support class and homework activities with downloads of DK's famous photographs that can be included in your school projects.

      Google Image Search
    At school you may need to hold down the Ctrl key to open this site, or click on images from the Google search screen.

      Grove Art
    Use this database in your social studies classes as well as art classes. It includes 2 art encyclopedias with more than 45,000 articles, 3,000 thumbnail art images and line drawings as well as links to 40,000 art images on museum quality web sites.

      Microsoft Gallery
    Microsoft provides clipart for use with its products.

      New York Times Images
    The images that were "fit to print" from the New York Times in a searchable database.

      NYPL Digital Library
    The New York Public Library has a free, searchable database of 275,000 photographs and manuscripts from its collection.

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