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Media Center hours:
Monday - Friday
7:40 am to 3:30 pm

Mrs. Gibbs
Media Specialist
548-0727 ext. 1217
gibbsm@salemhigh.com

Mrs. Dawson
Media Center Clerk
548-0727 ext. 1215

Online Reference Collections

	Internet Public Library Online reference resources
	Purdue University Virtual Reference
	refdesk.com
	Libraryspot.com
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Citations

MLA Format Guides

1. Print and Electronic Resources: MLA examples
2. OWL Purdue University Guide
3. Bedford/St Martins Guide

Citation Tools

	Landmark "Son of Citation Machine" citationmachine.net
MLA:	Easybib Noodletools

Reference Sites

ALA Best Free Reference web sites

Newspapers	National and International www.newspapers.com/ Google News Archive search	See also under Current Events
Articles	Findarticles.com for Magazine articles	Illinois Periodicals Online
Art	Artcyclopedia 7500 artists, titles and museums www.artcyclopedia.com World Art Treasures www.bergerfoundation.ch/ WebMuseum www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/	Web Gallery of Art, 1100 images of European art www.wga.hu/ Artchive.com www.artchive.com
Auto	Kelly Blue Book: Auto Values
Biography	Biography.com 300 Women Who Changed the World
Businesses	Thomas Register of American Manufacters	Hoovers Business Directory ($)
Careers	Occupational Outlook Handbook Dictionary of Occupations	Could Be your Life Career Game
Colleges	US News &World Report: College Rankings	Peterson's College Planner
Consumer Awareness	State of IL Women's Financial Resource Guide	Investopedia
Current Events	Newsweek - current issue Time - current issue U.S. News & World Report - current issue Headlinespot.com Canadian Broadcastwww.newsworld.cbc.ca/ www.latimes.com http://news.bbc.co.uk USA Today Associated Press www.upi.com/ www.reuters.com	Salem Times Commoner WJBD Centralia Morning Sentinel St. Louis Post-Dispatch NewsLink: Illinois newspapers ABC News PBS Newshour CNN News CSPAN
Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and more	Bartleby including Columbia Encyclopedia, Quotations & more Top 100 Misspelled Words	Infoplease Merriam Webster Dictionary/Thesaurus M-W.com
Fashion	Fashion History	What is Fashion? pbs.org
Geography & Maps	CIA World Factbook Getting Around Illinois Portals to the World-Libr of Congress	National Geographic Map Machine US Geological Survey maps database: Atlapedia Online
Government	Thomas Legislative information Firstgov Illinois.gov Fed World Find your IL legislators	Illinois Government Information (IGI) http://findit.lis.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/search.cgi
Health	Medline Plus Center for Disease Control	WebMd's Medscape www.medscape.com/px/urlinfo
History	American Memory: National Digital Library at the Library of Congress History Channel Discovery Channel	Decades: LPHS-E Time Warp Year-by-year 1960s Google Dir. Historical Costs: How Much is That? What is a dollar worth?
Holidays	Worldwide Holidays
Law	Findlaw.com American Bar Association http://www.law.cornell.edu	US Courts Illinois Courts
Literature	Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism (site being rebuilt) Lit Links Sparknotes.com	Project Gutenberg free ebooks Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts in the Public Domain www.classicreader.com AesopFables.com Mark Twain
Maps	www.gettingaroundillinois.com/
Math	High School Math http://www.etap.org www.math.com/	SOS Math www.sosmath.com/index.html www.calculushelp.com
Movies	Internet Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/
Music	Rolling Stone Artists A to Z www.rollingstone.com
Poetry	Poetry180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools www.loc.gov/poetry/180 www.loc.gov/poetry/	American Verse Project American poetry prior to 1920 IPL Teenspace
Shakespeare	Educating Shakespeare: a day at school in 1571	-absoluteshakespeare.com -Bantam Shakespeare -Shakespeare Study: Britannica
Social Issues	Multnomah County Library Homework Center
Science	Audubon Society’s eNature: field guides www.enature.com The PLANTS Database http://plants.usda.gov	Chemical Elements SciLinks www.scilinks.org Science News www.scicentral.com Encyclopedia of Earth
Statistics	-U.S. Census Bureau Statistical Abstract -U.S. Census Fact Finder -Census Bureau State and County Quickfacts -Consumer Price Index -Bureau of Labor -FedStats: from over 100 Federal agencies	-Illinois Blue Book -Illinois Statistical Abstract -Illinois Dpt of Employment Security -Statistical Resources on the Web: U of Mich
Technology	Webopedia	Information Today Technology Rights
Writing	Teenink.com	Merlyn's Pen www.merlynspen.org/

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Last modified

12 April 2010

Salem Community High School Media Center

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