Reference Books Online (Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Thesauri, and Quotations)

• Bartleby.com: Great Books online. www.bartleby.com

  Named "Best Literary Site for 2002," Bartleybay.com is collections of reference books featuring the Columbia Encyclopedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, Columbia World of Quotations, Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, King James Bible, The Oxford Shakespeare, Gary's Anatomy, The World Factbook, and The Columbia Gazetteer. The entire text of these books is searchable.

Biography

The Biographical Dictionary. http://www.s9.com/biography

• Contains short biographies of more that 28,000 individuals from ancient history to the present.

A&E Biography. www.biography.com

• Over 25,000 biographies available.

Calendars

The 10,000 Year Calendar. www.calendarhome.com/tyc

• Use this site to get a calendar for any month in history and future.

This Day in History. www.historychannel.com/thisday

• Find out what happened on any day in history.

The Worldwide Holiday and Festival Site. www.holidayfestival.com

• Find out dates of any holiday around the world. Information is organized by religious and national holidays.

College

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center. www.fofweb.com

• User ID: region11 | Password:Please see librarian.

Dictionaries

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. www.bartleby.com/61

Acronym Finder. http://www.acronymfinder.com

• Find out what those letters stand for!

Dictionary.com. www.dictionary.com

• Contains both a dictionary and a thesaurus

Encyclopedias

Columbia Encyclopedia. 6TH Edition. www.bartleby.com/65

• Search through more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th Edition.

Encyclopedia Smithsonian. www.si.edu/resource/faq

• Find answers to questions about the Smithsonian and links to resources on many subjects.

Newspapers

Ft. Worth Star Telegram. www.dfw.com/mld/dfw

Dallas Morning News. www.dallasnews.com

Proquest Gold. www.bigchalk.com

• Username: 31-29618 Password: see librarian for password. Choose Proquest Gold. On search screen, choose ProQuest newspapers from database drop down menu.
• Subscription online database that indexes 40 full text regional, national and international newspapers.

USA Today. www.usatoday.com

InfoTrac Custom Newspaper Database. http://access.gale.com/tlc

• Enter 'Carroll', choose 'CSH', choose 'High School', and then choose 'InfoTrac Newspaper Database'
• Subscription online database. Contains text and citations for more than 40 national and international newspapers.

Quotations

Quoteland.com. www.quoteland.com

• Searchable database of quotations organized by topic, literary quotations, humorous quotations, and random quotations. Audio clips from speeches, commercials, movies, and music are available.

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations. www.bartleby.com/63

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. www.bartleby.com/100

Writing and Research Guides

Quick MLA Style Guide. http://www.wssu.edu/library/guides/mla.asp

• This site, from Winston Salem State University, gives examples of how to use MLA style when writing papers

Term Paper Guide: Choosing a Topic, Developing a Thesis, Outlining, Revising & Documenting Sources. http://www.wssu.edu/library/guides/tpg.asp

• Another site from Winston Salem State University; this one guides you through the steps of writing a paper.