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1   Link   Prairie Skies Public Library District
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2   Link   Ask Away Illinois
Ask?Away is a consortium of Illinois and Wisconsin libraries and is funded by the Illinois State Library/Secretary of State Jesse White with a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). 		4121
3   Link   eLibrary!
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4   Link   OCLC FirstSearch
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5   Link   Ask.com
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6   Link   RSA Cat
RSA provides computerized library automation support to over 198 libraries and library branches in central and west central Illinois. 		3291
7   Link   Awesome Stories
Awesome Stories is a new primary-source database, with on-site search, is now available for schools, libraries, educators and students. Its features include 15,000 images plus documents, narrations, video/audio clips and organized slide shows. Incorporated into the text are also secondary sources, such as links to Google Books. 		2824
8   Link   Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research. 		2574
9   Link   Google Books
In one way tracing back to 1996, but as an official Google project since 2002, Google Books allows one to search the full text of real books just like web search. If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given Google permission, one can see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, one is free to download a PDF copy. There are reference pages for every book so one can quickly find all kinds of relevant information: book reviews, web references, maps and more. Google is currently connecting readers with books in two ways: the Partner Program and the Library Project. 		1439
10   Link   AR Widget
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11   Link   Refdesk
Since 1995, Refdesk is a free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources. 		1655
12   Link   2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schools
This 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words).
Wikipedia is the free encyclopaedia anyone can edit, and develops accurate content but suffers vandalism. Wikipedia is not necessarily a childsafe environment and has "adult" content. This selection of topics have been carefully chosen, tidied up, and checked for vandalism and suitability (by SOS Children volunteers, whom we gratefully acknowledge). We also gratefully acknowledge the Wikimedia Foundation for their support and their agreement to our use of the Wikipedia logo, and tens of thousands of contributors to Wikipedia who have written and researched the content in the first place, including this year adding content where gaps in the school curriculum were not covered. 		1804
13   Link   SIRS Discoverer
Great News the Regional Media Center has subscribed to a research website for our four county Elementary Schools! This is a safe website for students in K-9 grades. You will find articles, books, biographies, stories, games, activities, colorful pictures and maps. Students and parents are also welcome to use the passwords and logins, making it a great homework tool! 		1215
 

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