LMC Database Descriptions

• WVHS Book Catalog
  Index to all the materials in the Waubonsie Valley High School Library Media Center (LMC).
• ACT Discover*
  Comprehensive career and guidance planning resource.
• American Journey Primary Sources
  Excellent primary source documents and pictures. Titles include:
  • The African-American Experience
  • The American Revolution
  • The Asian-American Experience
  • The Civil War
  • Women in America
  • The Cold War
  • Constitution and Supreme Court
  • The Great Depression
  • Viet Name Era
  • Women in America
  • >World War I and the Jazz Age
• American National Biography
  18,000 biographical entries about deceased Americans from 1400 to the present. http://www.anb.org/articles/index.html
• FACTS.com*
  Brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest since 1950 and selected content from six other core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, science, statistics and people of the last 50+ years. Home access available: http://www.2facts.com
• Facts on File Science*
  A comprehensive look at general sciences through thousands of diagrams, definitions, and essays. Biographies and timelines are also features. Home access available: http://www.fofweb.com
• Famous American Speeches-1850 to the Present
  Multimedia database offering full text of 300 speeches delivered by influential people.
• Grove Dictionary of Art
  Covers every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present, over 30,000 links to color images, over 100,000 images from the Bridgeman Art Library, and over 21,000 biographies including artists, architects.
• Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  The best authority on all aspects of music. (Check your student planner for user name and password.)
• Horizons Internet CIS Career & College
  Career and College information system.  Occupations, schools, military, industries, financial aid.  Visit the LMC for user name and password for home access.
• NoveList
  An electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles: http://search.epnet.com/login.asp
• ProQuest Direct Online*
  Access to text and back files of 1000 magazines, 75 newspapers and World Book. Home access available – passwords and logins available at Circulation Desk. http://www.umi.com/proquest
• Scribner Writers Series
  Bio-critical essays on 810 most studied American & British authors across time.
• Science Online
  Diagrams, definitions, biographies, and essays are arranged by scientific topic and contain thousands of hyperlinks.
• SIRS (Social Issues Resource Series) Government Reporter Online and SIRS Researcher Online* – A wide range of information published by departments of the U.S. government (Government Reporter) and 1500 sources gleaned for articles on social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues ((Researcher). Home access available: http://sks.sirs.com
• Suburban Chicago Newspapers
• Twayne’s U.S. Authors
  Literary criticisms of lives, works, movements and genres of American literature.
• Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus
  Includes word origins.
• World Book Online Reference Center*
  Online version of the print encyclopedia. Full text searching of encyclopedia articles.
• World Geography
  A source for interactive, interlinked information on all the countries of the world.  (Check your student planner for user name and password.)
• World History
  covers historic events that shaped today’s society from the 1500s to the present. (Check your student planner for user name and password.)
• World’s Best Poetry
  Contains 85,000 full-text poems and 1,000 poem explanations. Search by title, author or subject. Includes the year's best poetry, biographies, essays, pictures and a glossary. (Check your student planner for user name and password.)