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About the Kent Library

Who's who and what's what

Library Databases

Search for books and use these high-quality online research tools.

• Kent Library Alexandria Online Catalog
• ed1stop login
  Access to Grolier, Ebsco, Bartleby and Webster's Dictionary and other research tools
• Thomson-Gale Student Resource Center
  More than 340 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia.
• ABC-CLIO social studies databases
  American Government, American History and Ancient History
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  Searchable reference eBooks: history, religion, science
• Thomson-Gale Litfinder
  Searchable poems, stories, essays, plays and speeches
• Marin County Public Library catalog
• Online book catalogs from other libraries
  Links to Marin County Libraries, San Francisco Public Library and the Library of Congress

Online_Books

Searchable eBooks from Thomson-Gale's Virtual Reference Library

Works Cited Format

• How to cite sources for bibliographies

Information Literacy

• Information Literacy - A Guide for Parents
• District Information Literacy Activities
• Benchmarks Grades 5-8

Best Search Tools Chart from InfoPeople

Direct links to the best directories, search engines and metasearch engines

Resource Pathfinders

Recommended resources from the Kent Library and on the web for use with assigned classroom projects

Research Sites

Gateways to Important Internet Resources: The best, most reliable websites on the Internet by subject

Book Lists

From Character Education to Summer Reading, a bunch of homegrown Kent lists of recommended reading for middle schoolers

Public Domain Resources

Where to find audio and image clips that you can freely use in your research papers and presentations.

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