e-Media Center
Welcome to the e-Media Center at the Collinsville Community Unit School District No. 10!
In the e-Media Center you will find links to online resources, including district subscription services
as well as free Internet resources.

District Library Media Center Web Sites
Collinsville High School
Collinsville Middle School
Online Encyclopedias

Online Subscriptions

Biography.com
Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th Edition
Electric Library Encyclopedia
Encarta Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Grolier Online

eLibrary
EBSCO
First Search
GaleNet
Lightspan
MarcoPolo

Collinsville Public Library Subscription Databases

General Reference
American Heritage Dictionary
Awesome Library
Barlett's Familiar Quotations
Biographical Dictionary
Collinsville Public Library
Emily Post Etiquette
Encarta Dictionary
Library of Congress
Merriam Webster Dictionary
Quoteland

Refdesk.com
Roget's II:  The New Thesaurus
Robert's Rules of Order
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
Smithsonian Institution
Webster's Dictionary

Subject-Specific Search Engines

Fact Monster
InfoPlease
Net Trekker

Subject-Specific Resources

Art

Arts Resources (Architecture, History, Photography, Music)
Incredible Art Department, The

Foreign Language

Foreign Lanuage Resources (Culture, Speaking)
Language Dictionaries (including translation)

Language Arts

Age of Fable, The (Mythology)
American Heritage Book of English Usage
American Novel, The - Carl Van Doren
Biography Maker - help with writing biographies 
Cambridge History of English and American Literature, The
Citation Machine - MLA Bibliographic Format - template for citations allowing you to copy & paste
Citation Style Guides
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Elements of Argument

Evaluating Print and Electronic Sources
English Pages, The (Composition, Literature, Developmental, Technical Writing and Online Citation Guides)
Guide to Grammar & Writing
Internet Detective (interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of Internet resources
Language Arts Resources (History, literature, reading and composition)
King James Bible

Norton Websource to American Literature
Outline of American Literature
Oxford Shakespeare
Research and Writing Process
Resources on Fiction
Resources on Nonfiction
Resources on Poetry and Verse
Resources on U.S. Literature
Strunk's Elements of Style
Writing Research Papers (MLA Standards)
Writing Handbook

Math

Calculators
Excellent math site for K-12 math problems!
Excellent Mathematics Resource Listing
More Calculators

Physical Education

Physical Education Resources

Science

Encyclopedia of Botany
Gray's Anatomy
How Stuff Works
More Science Links
Sciences Resource Listing (Biological and life sciences; Earth science; Ecology; Geology; History; Oceanography; Paleontology; Pharmacology; Space sciences)

Social Studies

20th Century Chronology
Biography of America, A
Encarta Atlas
Famous Americans
Gettysburg: The Soldiers' Battle
History on the Web
Inaugural Addresses of the U.S. Presidents
InfoPlease Atlas
Social Studies for Teachers & Students
Social Studies Resource Listing (Anthropology; Careers; Civics; Comparative political systems; Criminology; Current events/issues; Economics; Geography; History; Human relations; State history; Technology; U.S. Constitution; U.S. Government, U.S. History, Urban studies; World history)
U.S. Census Bureau
World Factbook, The

Technology

An Internet Encyclopedia

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