Find Information From Home
Making homework convenient, fast, and painless!
Jumpstart your paper! Type in your topic to get background information quickly from one of these online encyclopedias.
- Britannica School
- Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
- Britannica Online (Spanish)
Click here for the library catalog. You can request books from home with your password. To get a password, visit the Circulation Desk next time you’re at the library.
Magazine and newspaper articles give you a lot of information in just a few paragraphs. These links will connect you to articles about your homework topics and just about other thing that interests you. Just click on the link, type in a topic, and find an article.
You may want to find a website on your topic. The site below organizes websites by subject to make looking for information easy.
For Young Adults
- Homework Spot — Homework help for middle and high schoolers
- Factmonster — Online dictionary, encyclopedia, almanac, games and quizzes, and much more.
- Webster’s Dictionary — Webster’s Dictionary online.
- Thesaurus.com — Thesaurus online.
- From Revolution to Reconstruction — From Revolution to Reconstruction is a site where you’ll find information on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times.
- National Geographic Homework — National Geographic Kids has an entire homework help site.
- US Info — More information about the U.S. and its political and economic systems.
