Resources for students, teachers & parents provided by your
Whiteoak/Bright Library Media Centers
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(some resources may require a username/password, please visit the
Whiteoak or Bright Elementary library to obtain)
GVRL is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference eBooks for
you to access from the library or remotely 24/7.
Ohio Librarians/educator-selected,
age-appropriate websites which are now searchable!
Elementary Resources (K-5)
Middle School Resources (6-8)
High School Resources (9-12)
Three encyclopedias (100,000+ articles), atlas, dictionary, images and
video clips, reviewed Web sites, magazine articles and more.
Complete online solution for early-childhood learning in reading,
numbers, time, sounds, geography, and more.
Periodicals
Periodicals are published at regular intervals
(daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually)
Whiteoak
Library
BELOW is INFOhio's Core Collection:
INFOhio provides resources free to all Ohio K-12 students and
educators for the 2011-12 school year. A username and password are required for
home access; see your school library media specialist.
Science Online.
Thousands of essays on major topics and issues in science, math and
technology, along with illustrations, experiments, activities and
biographies.
More than 100 programs to learn, practice and prepare for tests on a
variety of subjects in elementary, middle and high school.
Get help writing an essay or report, creating a PowerPoint®
presentation or producing a video. Provide a starting and due date for
the project and the Calculator will help organize the assignment
step by step, along with helpful process suggestions.
Biography Reference Bank. Articles about more than a
half-million people, most in full text, from around the world, both
living and dead.
EBSCOhost.
Articles from more than 6,000 magazines and newspapers are indexed, most
in full text, from children's magazines to professional research.
Searchasaurus, (Grades K-2),
Kids Search (Grades 3-5),
Middle Search (Grades 6-8),
Secondary Search (Grades 9-12),
Professional Search (Teachers & Administrators),
EBSCO
Academic Search Premier,
EBSCO Animals,
EBSCO Images,
All Database Search
NewsBank Newspapers. A collection of full-text newspapers
available online. More than 15 titles are Ohio publications.
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection.
More than 175 complete reference titles, fully indexed and
cross-searchable, from a wide range of disciplines.
World Book Web.
Encyclopedias with four interfaces:
World Book Kids (K-5),
World Book Student (6-8),
and
World Book Advanced
(HS and college).
The ART
Collection. Online image collection of paintings,
sculptures, drawings, photographs, textiles, costumes, jewelry and more,
from earliest times to the present.
The Ohio Area Instructional Media Centers
Digital Video Collection includes hundreds of digital videos
that have been made available at no cost to Ohio K-12 districts.
Literature Online From Chadwyck-Healey.
Full-text, searchable works available online to supplement your
library's print collections. Poetry, drama and fiction are included.
World Book Hispánica Saber.
Comprehensive Spanish-language encyclopedia.
Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos.
Online Spanish language encyclopedia that is appropriate for younger
Spanish-speaking students and students just learning the Spanish
language.
L'Encyclopédie Découverte.
Online French language encyclopedia that is appropriate for younger
French-speaking students and students just learning the French language.
ProQuest Ancestry Library Edition. Billions of records in census data, vital records, directories, photos and more. Home access is NOT available.
Mango Languages. Learn practical conversation and cultural awareness for the world’s most popular languages. ESL packages for foreign language speakers.
World Book Early World of Learning. Resources to help preschoolers and children in the early grades grasp critical early childhood themes while developing reading and oral language skills.
BELOW is INFOhio's Other Online Resources:
These resources are free to anyone, and INFOhio feels they are
important for your needs. They do not require a username and password
to access.
A.D.A.M. Health Illustrated Encyclopedia. In-depth
information, color illustrations and animations on over 1,500 media
topics; provided by NetWellness.
American Memory. Primary source materials for U.S.
history and culture from the Library of Congress.
FirstGov.
A search engine for millions of U.S. Government Web pages.
FirstGov for Kids.
A search engine for U.S. Government Web pages for children and links to
other sites.
Great
Web Sites for Kids. Selected by the Great Web Sites
Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a
division of the American Library Association.
ipl2.
Index to more than 10,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by
librarians.
ipl2 For
Kids at the Internet Public Library has lots of information to
help with school assignments and projects. Lots of Fun Stuff,
too!
ipl2 For Teens
in the Internet Public Library pulls together "information to help you
with life, school, friends and work." Also, Web links and Ask a
Question service.
KnowItNow24x7. Free, statewide online reference service,
available 24 hours a day, every day. Same service as previously
available with HomeworkNow.
Landsat 7 Satellite Images. Satellite views of Ohio updated
regularly; part of OhioLINK's Digital Media Center.
MEDLINEplus.
Health information from the National Library of Medicine.
National First Ladies' Library, Canton. Biographies, lesson
plans for teachers, a timeline and a bibliography for every First Lady
since Martha Washington.
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati. Lessons and learnings about the legacy of courage, cooperation and freedom embodied in the story of the Underground Railroad and the lives of historic and contemporary Freedom Heroes.
NetWellness. Health information from Ohio's major medical centers and much more.
Ohio Historical Society. Information about Ohio's past and many of the sites important to our state's history.
Ohio
Historical Society's Ohio Kids! An online encyclopedia of
Ohio history, Bicentennial stuff, and more.
Ohio Memory.
Ohio historical treasures in an online scrapbook of primary sources.
State of Ohio.
Information about Ohio's executive, judicial, and legislative branches.
Sanborn
Fire Insurance Maps. More than 40,000 maps (1847-1970) of
Ohio towns and cities. Provided by OPLIN as part of OhioLINK's Digital
Media Center.
Resources provided by your Local Public Libraries
(some resources may require a library card number from the Highland
County District Library or the Brown County Public Library, please visit
the library to obtain a card number)
Explore Ohio
This site has just about anything you want to know about Ohio -- for
homework, personal research, or just for fun!
What Tree Is It?
Helps to identify just about any tree that is native to Ohio.
What's That Snake?
Helps to identify the 30 kinds of snakes found in Ohio, both poisonous
and nonpoisonous.
What's the Point?
Use this site to help identify flint artifacts produced by Ohio's
prehistoric peoples.
Ohio Death Certificate Index (1913-1944) - Database containing death certificates of persons that died in Ohio from 1913-1944.
Ohio History Central || Online Encyclopedia - An evolving, dynamic online encyclopedia from the Ohio Historical Society.
American and English full text literature collections - Electronic books of American and English literature - poetry, drama, fiction, and the Bible - originally published in print – produced by ProQuest / Chadwyck-Healey.
NoveList - Resource that provides reviews, annotations, subject heading access, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles – updated monthly.
NoveList K-8 - Resource that provides reviews, annotations, subject heading access, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles – updated monthly. Especially designed for school libraries.
Ohioline - Online database of publications from Ohio State University Extension Office; the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences; The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center; and the Agricultural Technical Institute.
(a Highland Country District Library
Card is required to access these databases)
Auto Repair Reference Center | EBSCOhost - Automotive diagnostic and repair information from the former Chilton publisher.
eLibrary - Magazine articles, books, newspapers, photos, maps, radio transcripts and encyclopedias.
HeritageQuest | ProQuest - Census records, Family and Local Histories, PERSI genealogy and local history articles, Revolutionary War records and Freedman's Bank records from 1865-1874.
Resources provided by your Ohio Academic Libraries
(some resources may require a library card number from the Southern
State Community College Learning Resources Center or any
College/University in Ohio, please visit the library to obtain a card
number)
Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
Recorded Bird Songs
Approximately 4,000 audio recordings of birds, primarily warblers, can
be heard with
RealPlayer. And more are coming soon. Founded by the
late Dr. Donald Borror, Professor of Entomology and Zoology at
The Ohio State University, the
Borror Laboratory is one of the largest collections of recorded
animal sounds in the world.
Foreign Language Database
Ohio Five ViewPoints Project videos
Hundreds of
QuickTime video clips of native speakers in several languages. The
speakers talk about a variety of topics relating to their culture,
family, daily life, and more. Each clip has a description and
grammar/vocabulary notes.
85th Flight of the Wright 1904 Flyer
Courtyard of the Birds,
Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico
Historic & Archival Collections
More than 3,000 images are currently available from the
National Underground Freedom Center,
Ohio State University Department of Archives and Special Collections,
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center,
University of Akron Libraries, and
Wright State University Libraries. Other images include more than
500 images of Mayan archaeology from
Oberlin College and hundreds of paper impressions of Greek and Latin
inscriptions contributed by the
Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at
The Ohio State University.
Classical music library is a classical music service that enables
listening and learning at library and home computers. It includes around
30,000 recordings, along with program notes, composer biographies, and
images cross-referenced to the recordings.
Streaming video collections offer
curriculum-focused content for every department
on campus. Faculty and students can have 24/7 instant access to
over 7,500 full-length programs and 82,000 video segments grouped into
prearranged subject specific categories: • Humanities & Social
Sciences • Business & Economics • Science & Mathematics
• Health & Medicine • Archival Films & Newsreels • Technical
Education • Family & Consumer Sciences • Careers & Job
Search • Guidance & Counseling. Benefits include:
• Unlimited, concurrent, 24/7 access, in-class or off-site
• High-resolution Flash® playback for full-screen viewing and
presentations • Links for use with learning management systems and
catalogs • Closed-captioning on hundreds of titles •
Instructor’s Guides on many titles • Citations in Chicago or MLA,
7th edition styles
Provides access to various databases, including current news, business
information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations,
legal cases, etc.
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical
music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and
Da Capo catalogues of over 75,000 tracks, including Classical music,
Historical recordings, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. While
listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as
biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive
database.
Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collections of
jazz music available online. It offers close to 24,000 tracks of jazz
from over 2500 albums. Over 600 jazz artists are represented.
A general reference database of selected full-text articles, documents
and graphics in all subject areas.
Volcano, Java, Indonesia
Science Database
Historic and recent images
Images currently available include nearly 600 environmental geology
images from
Oberlin College and 4000 forestry images from
The Ohio State University and more.