Home Reference Resources

These are password protected sites. If you experience any difficulty accessing them,
please contact the librarian at
ltrellue@fisdk12.net.

eLibrary Offers more than 1,500 full-text sources, with improved functionality, and a fun and easy-to-use search interface. Includes magazines, newspapers, books, television/radio transcripts, maps, pictures, and audio/video clips.
eLibrary Elementary The young learner-tested design makes research a blast! Stocked with age-appropriate articles, videos, sounds, pictures, and much more.
ProQuest Career & Technical Education Offers targeted coverage from more than 400 publications for vocational and technical study.
ProQuest Professional Education A comprehensive reference collection for K-12 professional development and continuing education.
ProQuest Gold Delivers full-text and image coverage from more than 500 magazines and journals, plus more than 40 full-text regional, national, and international newspapers, and the World Book Encyclopedia.
ProQuest Learning Literature A comprehensive resource including 3,000+ author biographies; 40 searchable full-text literature journals; full-text literary works; and other key criticism and reference sources.
ProQuest Online ProQuest reference databases offer comprehensive publication collections, in both full-text and full page image, that meets a wide range of research demands.

Click icon for ProQuest resources.

 

Click icon for SIRS resources.

SIRS Researcher® General Reference, Social Issues, Health, Science, and Business
SIRS Government Reporter® Historic and Government Documents, Directories and Almanacs
SIRS Renaissance® Current Perspectives on the Arts & Humanities
SKS WebSelectTM Selected Web Sites for General Reference
Link to SIRS Discoverer® General Reference Database Designed for Young Researchers.

  • Encyclopedia Americana
  • Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
  • New Book of Knowledge
  • Lands and Peoples
  • Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en linea
  • The New Book of Popular Science
  • America the Beautiful
  • Encyclopedia of American Studies
  • an atlas
  • a dictionary

Click icon for Grolier Online resources.

Click icon for Facts on File.

Includes information on:

  • People in History
  • Events in History
  • Countries and States
  • Timelines
  • Science Diagrams
  • Science Projects
  • Career Ideas


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