General Resources
The Marlborough School Library has a growing collection of more than 22,000 volumes; this does not include single maps, atlases and other multimedia material which make an important part of our academic resources. Through the AP High School Borrowing Program, qualified students are eligible for borrowing privileges at UCLA's College Library. Here is a map of campus libraries as well as hours of service.
Furthermore, the Library subscribes to online databases such as Proquest, Encyclopedi.a Britannica, Oxford English Dictionary, Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, INFOTRAC, Natural Medicines, CQ Researcher, CultureGrams, and others. Other resources are local and worldwide online library catalogs, including our very own web-based catalog ATHENA [from Greek mythology] -- the goddess of wisdom, weaving, and crafts, Union Catalog of independent school library holdings in Southern California, UCLA's Orion® and USC's HOMER online library catalogs, as well as Harvard's Hollis©, Library of Congress, Internet Public Library, U.S. digital maps, National Bibliography of Spain, College Board, and many others. In addition, we subscribe to about 50 magazine titles such as National Geographic Magazine, American Scientist, Science, Science News, and Scientific American. To read, hear, and see Darwin's writings, correspondence, and drawings, go to the Darwin Project that is expertly put together by the Cambridge University Library.
There is also wikipedia that we discuss in our classesas well as Nobel laureates.
Yale University Library has put together an excellent collection of research guides on just about any topic. This is a good starting point for many research projects you are currently exploring.
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED PICTURING AMERICA Award! It tells the story of America through its art.
Explore POETRY and POETS as well as the Library of Congress page; for primary sources visit the National Archives Experience.
This month, the Library of Congress celebrates WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH. A conversation with Betty Friedan (3/10/05) is presented here (running time: 50 minutes). LC's webcasts, including "Celebrating American Theater Architecture" and other popular webcasts are all here. The Library of Congress' poetry page is available as well. Tour the teen program at Guggenheim Museum.
ENJOY:-)
General Statistical Resources
A wealth of great statistical resources is collected by federal, state, and municipal governmental agencies. Some of these resources are listed under the headings of Health, Energy, and Occupational sources below. These links can be used in math, history, global studies, science classes, current events, and so on. Example include:
Federal Statistics (topics A to Z; MapStats, Kids' Pages)
Public Agenda (The numbers game, foreign policy index, issue guides, etc.)
National Science Foundation (Division of Science Resources Statistics in Education, Industry, R & D, Workforce, etc.)
Education Statistics (on the condition of elementary and secondary schools in the United States)
Health Statistics (related to various health conditions)
Statistical Resources (from Agriculture to Environment and Weather) -- comp. by University of Michigan Library
More resources will be added!
Energy Resources
For the energy project, check the following first best sources:
See your handout and follow the sequence of sources suggested in your packet. You may also go to the link under TEACHERS and then science for other good sources.
Among the general energy web pages, visit Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, clean energy for biofuel, biopower, geothermal, solar, and wind energies, as well as renewable energy. We will add more, so visit us regularly! Learn all about COAL (how coal was formed, how we get it, types of coal, its many uses, and coal and the environment). Visit wind and hydropower right here. For the White House National Energy Policy information, go to Energy for America's Future.
Visit the ExplOratorium science museum, which actually exists in San Francisco. While there, hear seismic podcasts, live Eye on the Earth, experience an earthshakiing April at Faultline. It is all here.
More engineering related resources will be added here. We start with some that will be useful for RESEARCH HONOR projects. IEEE abstracts to publications that are indexed by the IEEE organization: IEEEXplore gives technical documents that are peer reviewed, college level and contain information in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.
Please email me your favorite energy web sources and we will add them.
JUST REMEMBER, THIS IS YOUR STARTER ENERGY STEP
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Health Resources
Not all health resources are of equally high quality. Here are some that we have found especially valuable: Medlineplus (http://medlineplus.gov), TOXNET, as well as National Center for Biotechnology Information are services of the U.S. National Library of Medicine ("anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies"). The National Library of Medicine is the world's largest medical library. Browse health topics, encyclopdias, dictionaries, directories, the Visible Human Project, and other pages such as Tox Town, Haz-Map, KidsHealth, food safety, as well as yuckykids pages. Great Health and Wellness information answers some of the questions such as "Is your home a healthy home," chemicals in everyday toxins, facts on figures about women, beauty of a woman, and more. Did you know that "there are 3 billion women who don't look like supermodels and only eight who do?"
Toxicology and Environmental Health Information Program (TEHIP), created in 1967, allows you to browse and learn specialized information services from the National Library of Medicine; that includes HIV / AIDS resources, outreach activities, health hotlines, directories, TOXMAP, WISER, and more. Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NIOSH, NPG) includes permissible exposure limits, personal protectio, information on hazards, and more.
An annotated list of chemistry-related online databases is put out by the Chemical Informatics & Cyberinfrastructure Collaboratory, Indiana University, Indiana.
For informaiton on eating disorders, go to ANRED resources.
From the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) come Health, Nutrition, and Diet suggestions on which foods to eat, which to avoid, how to get involved, and more. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, have developed a host of useful sites: Resources Library, education portal, Body and Mind, and more.
Occupational Sources
~ UCLA's School of Management CAREERS -- a
comprehensive site in different academic, industrial, and
other sectors
Enjoy your journey as you explore your opportunities
we will add more resources, so check this page frequently :)
Emerging Government Information
Congressional resources via THOMAS
Government Printing Office (GPO) and contents such as Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, and General Accounting Office
We have introduced a new column, CURRENT RESOURCES, organized under broad topics, such as HISTORY, LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE & MATH, FINE ARTS and MUSIC. Also check Drum & Dance Events.
Enjoy!
We recommend the following search engines for a beginner Web surfer.
HOW TO EVALUATE WEB RESOURCES?
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type in your question using words and phrases. |
fast, precise, easy to use, has improved over time; offers more than Web pages, such as Google Scholar, images, video, news, books, video, definitions, Google maps and Earth, patent search, and more. Special features: Google "resurrects" older pages due to its capability to cache links. Google offers different search modes, spell checks, translations, and the help page. |
Yahoo Search allows you to search for Web documents similarly to Google's engine; Yahoo's Web directory classes Web documents into subjects. Checkout their new feature, Yahoo Pipes |
excellent tool that searches many different search engines. |
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collection of favorite music, articles, videos... |
Invisible Web burries massive teradata, about 500 times larger than the surface Web (in billions of pages), that search engines don't capture. Here are just some of the tools you can use to mine these online storehouses of information: Google Scholar is a collection of citations with links to sources where you may access publications full text; it is a small subset of online full text materials; search ProQuest, JSTOR and other online databases to access scholarly publications (by subscription only). |
web documents are selected for kids and classed into broad topics; excellent for middle school students. |
is a meta-search tool and earches Google, Yahoo, LookSmart, Ask, and MSN search engines. You can see each search engine's results separately, good for comparison. |
To learn about Web2.0, visit EXPO 2007 and read about The Machine IS Us/ing Us. Also check SecondLife first generation blog.
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