Monday, October 1, 2007

World Book Online

Did you know that you can now access World Book Online through the OCPL website? This fabulous, fully searchable, electronic version of the World Book Encyclopedia is an awesome resource for kids' research assignments. It's got well written articles on every possible topic, as well as pictures and video for putting together multimedia presentations. Everything is true and fact-checked by World Book's editors, so you know everything is reliable and up to date.

To access this resource, go to the OCPL website and click on "Research and Resources." At the top of the center column, you'll see a link to "World Book Online." If you're trying to get to this from home, just enter your library card number without any spaces. If there's a "D" in your library card number, replace that with a "2." The default page is World Book Advanced, intended for high school students, but in the bottom right hand corner there's a link that says, "Switch to another World Book site." Click that and then select "World Book Kids," which is a more kid-friendly site intended for the youngest little researchers.

If you have any questions about it, don't forget to call the library! Enjoy and good luck with those school projects.

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