Education

Start with these databases:

• Curriculum Resource Center
Student-oriented database, including historical timelines, 400 maps, science and anatomy diagrams, science experiments, mathematics exercises, and physical education and health topics.
• ERIC
Contains annotated references to education related articles from 1966 to the present
• Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center
Information on more than 3,300 jobs in 94 industries. Includes sample resumes and cover letters, and tips on interviewing. Also includes 48,000 scholarships and internships.
• Learning Express Library
Provides interactive practice tests, including the SAT, ACT, GED, civil service, military, real estate, teacher certification, and more. Also includes computer skills training.
• Optimal Resume
Create resumes, cover letters, online portfolios and career documents. Practice interviewing skills and even create a video resume. (Tutorial)

Additional databases to search:

• ArticleFirst
Articles from scholarly journals covering a wide variety of topics including business, humanities, science, and technology.
• CQ Researcher
Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, including overviews, statistics and pro/con reporting.
• Daily Life Online
Explore how others lived and live their lives, and how their lives shaped ours. Content is enhanced with new books, articles, images, maps, primary documents, and more.
• Electronic Collections Online
Abstracts and selected full text of scholarly journals from 1995 to present, covering subjects such as business, education, geography and law.
• Elibrary Plus
Find complete text of newspaper and newswire stories, magazine articles, reference books, pictures, maps and radio/TV transcripts on current topics. Use the natural language or advanced search feature.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
Contains the full text of hundreds of reference books on a wide variety of subjects, including history, business, medicine, science and humanities. Includes tables of content, indexes and illustrations. (Guided Tour)
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Coverage back to the mid-1960s makes this the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
• Live Homework Help
Free online help from tutors for students, as well as resume, GED, and citizenship assistance for adults.
Tutor de la lengua Española está disponible en persona de Domingo a Jueves de 2pm a 9pm.
• Points of View Reference Center
Two hundred topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument).
• Teacher Reference Center (TRC)
Journal Information for K-12 Teachers & Librarians
Indexes over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books.
• Wilson SelectPlus
Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business from professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines.
• WorldCat
Locate books, periodicals, computer programs, films, maps, sound recordings, videotapes and other formats in thousands of libraries worldwide.
• WorldCat Dissertations & Thesis
Scholarly dissertations, theses and published material based on theses, including all subjects, and updated daily.  After you locate the material you would like, request it via Interlibrary Loan.