BHS Library Resources http:wwwbhs1.bham.wednet.edulibrarylibrary.htm

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BHS Library Resources (http//wwwbhs1.bham.wednet.
edu/library/library.htm)

• Check out the library for both online and print
  resources!
• Bellingham School District publishing
  guidelines

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Subscription Databases

• ProQuest
• Digital Learning Commons SIRS, Facts on File,
  Corbis images.
• Net Trekker
• Opposing Viewpoints Online
• BHS Library Catalog
• World Geography Online
• World Book Encyclopedia Online

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Print Resources

• An extensive and growing reference section
• Excellent non-fiction resources
• High interest, high quality fiction
• An extensive periodical collection
• Newspaper subscriptions

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DLC Resources (http//www.learningcommons.org/)

• netTrekker links to educator-evaluated websites
• SIRS is a collection of online databases that
  specialize in social issues
• Facts on File News Service is a news digest
• Corbis Images for Education collects over 400,000
  digital images from art, graphic design, and
  historical collections
• Grolier Online houses encyclopedias that you can
  "check out" of the library

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Google (http//www.google.com/)

• Google is good for
• Finding sources that you know exist
• Starting out and finding ideas
• Google can be problematic because
• There are sometimes inaccurate or just plain
  wrong links
• Website designers have ways of manipulating
  people to their pages
• Accurate links are sometimes buried under a
  mountain of links

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Additional Resources

• Internet Public Library (http//www.ipl.org/) has
  a great number of useful resources that are
  available just as they would be in any public
  library
• Librarian's Index to the Internet
  (http//lii.org/) Information professionals
  peruse these trustworthy sites
• Bellingham Public Library (http//www.bellinghampu
  bliclibrary.org/)

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Use the Advanced Search Techniques

• Boolean Terms
• Nesting
• Phrase Searching
• Proximity Terms

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More Search Strategy Sources

• Internet Public Library Web Searching
• http//www.ipl.org/div/websearching/
• UC Berkeley Search Strategy
• http//www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Int
  ernet/Strategies.html
• SUNY Library Choosing a Search Engine
• http//library.albany.edu/internet/choose.html

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Research Resources and the Research Cycle

• Duke University provides a great Guide to Library
  Research (http//www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/home.ht
  m) 
• The Research Cycle (http//questioning.org/rcycle.
  html), by Jamie McKenzie, is the district
  standard for how we conduct research at BSD
  (http//www.bham.wednet.edu/studentgal/onlineresea
  rch/newonline/online.htm)