General Reference Web Sites


Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL) is free for all residents of the 
state of Tennessee.  TEL contains great research material and contains full 
text documents.  Kids InfoBits is a great way to start your research.  The 
password for our TEL site is "elvis" and will also work with the Dickson 
County Public Library and Lifelong Learning Center's TEL connection.  Please 
use TEL as your first stop in the research process.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/tel_k_sbes?db=ITKE

What Do I Read Next? gives you many options to look up books in a 
genre you 
like, certain authors you like, or to find books similar to a favorite 
author or book.  It is provided free of charge on our TEL site.  Remember 
the password is "elvis".
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/tel_k_sbes?db=WDIRN

Fun activities - by girls....for girls.
http://www.missoandfriends.com/

The Interactive Museum of News-look up famous news items.
http://www.newseum.org/

Radio Days Archive-Want to hear the newscast of the Hindenburg crash 
or 
other famous radio broadcasts?  Look it up here.
http://www.otr.com/index.shtml

Library of Congress Documenting America-Photos and collections of 
materials 
important to the American past.  Find Woody Guthrie, the California migrant 
workers strikes, and the shirtwaist factory strikes among other items.
http://rs6.loc.gov/fsowhome.html

America's Story from America's Library-Kid friendly site.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi




Kids Space @ the Internet Public Library.  Good reference site for research 
and finding interesting information.
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/

Factmonster from InfoPlease.
http://www.factmonster.com/

Learn to Draw with Gary Harbo-cartoons.
http://www.garyharbo.com/activity.html

Web search for kids by librarians-KidsClick!
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/

How Stuff Works!
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Clusty-The Clustering Engine-Good for researching a topic.
http://clusty.com


Google