1	At Your Fingertips Using iBistro and RMLonline.org to help with homework
2	World of Reference from Your Computer Magazine articles for elementary through college homework Full-text with graphics encylopedia Science, History and Literature Reference books Practice tests and review courses for elementary through high school
3	Start at RMLonline.org On the right side of the page is a shortcut to our magazine and reference books that are online. All you need is a SAILS library card and your pin number to get in to these.
4	Other resources You will find a link to our homework page. A list of the resources that only work for North Attleboro patrons (ones whose library cards start with 2146.)
5	Start at World Book for an overview Click on World Book and then type in your library card number in the space provided. There are primary documents available through the World Book Advanced tab in the upper right hand corner.
6	Help for State Reports World Book has up-to-date information that your child will need, including history, state statistics, famous people, geography, maps and more.
7	Endangered Species The Kids Zone of World Book includes features such as useful websites. Note there is a place to click to print. Further down the page it tells you how to cite (add to your bibliography) the information on this website.
8	For older students Reading an encyclopedia article may help isolate key vocabulary terms. Here’s something on the Great Depression: The phrases “hobo jungles” and “Hoovervilles” may help in other website searches.
9	Literary Reference Center This is primarily for English papers for college and high school students.
10	Searching for Moll Flanders If you needed literary criticism sources on Moll Flanders, for example, here are some of the results: You could limit your choices by clicking on the Literary Criticism tab.
11	Don’t forget to get the citation When you go to print – or email – the article, you can choose how you want the citation or bibliography information formatted. North Attleboro High School uses the MLA format.
12	Look up literary terms, as well.
13	McGraw-Hill AccessScience For High School Science Projects, the library provides McGraw-Hill’s AccessScience. This database offers biographies, AP Study Guides, suggestions for research projects, and the McGraw-Hill Science and Technology Encyclopedia. It is not easy to search because the subject terms are real science terms. For example, if one wanted to find out about how plants absorb water, the initial search doesn’t come up with what you want. Clicking on Search Options, search by topic is effective.
14	Sample Search
15	Learning Express Library: Test Preparation and more Learning Express Library provides practice tests online for a wide variety of subjects. For elementary students there are tests on math and reading. For middle school there is math, reading, and writing tests as well as practice with the Catholic School Entrance Exam. High School students can practice for SATs, and Advance Placement exams as well as practice skills in writing, grammar, math, spelling, vocabulary, and reading. There is another section to practice specific kinds of math. There is also Reading Comprehension practice in Spanish!
16	Just choose the area you want:
17	There are courses for review as well.
18	iBistro Magazine, Newspapers and Reference Books iBistro, the SAILS catalog, also offers searchable magazine, newspapers and reference articles. This acts like the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature, but has access to full text of the articles and often the pictures.
19	Elementary Students Biography Resource Center (#3) Elibrary (#14) Beacham’s Guide to the endangered species (#2) These supposedly are for students but the information is less easy to find than in World Book: Infotrac Student Edition (#32) Kids Infobits (#34)
20	Science and Science Fair Projects Biology (#4) Gale Encyclopedias of Cancer (#20), Genetic Disorders (#21) and Medicine (#22)
21	Literature Literary Criticism (on RMLonline page) Contemporary Literary Criticism (#10) Contemporary Novelists (#11) Contemporary Poets (#12)
22	History and Social Studies Academic OneFile (#1) Biography Resource Center (#3) Elibrary (#14) Gale Virtual Reference (#26) includes all of these: Encyclopedia of Population (#16), Fashion, Costume and Culture (#18), Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (#23), Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History (#25), Renaissance (#38), St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (#40) and others.
23	Enter your search term and click more search options to limit to full text.
24	eLibrary Colonial America Search A recent 7th grade homework assignment was on the 13 colonies. Using eLibrary, I searched for colonial Virginia. Within the search I could click on the topics to limit my search.
25	The ever-popular Biography Assignment
26	Gale Virtual Reference Gale Virtual Reference searches a large number of specialized databases. This makes it useful for broad topics such as the reports on the decades. Just typing in the decade you want results in a number of articles.
27	Still Stuck? Come to the library Email Reference at illna@sailsinc.org Call us at 508-699-0122 and ask for Reference (7^th-12^th grade) or Children’s (K-6)