Information Resources: Encyclopedias



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Subscription Encyclopedias

These resources are available only to Library patrons, in one of the following ways: From any computer in either Branch of the Library, or by dialing in to our modem pool using your subscription Metro Net Account, or from any web browser / internet service provider, by entering either your FCL Library Card barcode number and the last 4 digits of your phone number, or your Metro Net user name and password when prompted.

Grolier Online Encyclopedias

The main menu at Grolier.com offers direct access to six important online encyclopedic resources:.

  • America the Beautiful
  • Grolier Encyclopedia Americana
  • Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
  • Lands & Peoples
  • New Book of Knowledge
  • New Book of Popular Science

 World Book Encyclopedia

Highlights of World Book Online include:

  • Accurate, authoritative, easy to read articles from The World Book Encyclopedia.
  • Related articles from major newspapers and magazines.
  • Extensive graphic and multimedia enhancements, including photographs, maps, illustrations, tables, animations, and audio/video clips.
  • Special Reports that broaden and deepen coverage for selected topics.
  • Back in Time, a captivating, you-are-there chronicle of events from the World Book Year Book that begins in 1922 and unfolds in the distinctive voice and perspective of each successive year.
  • Links to external Web sites specially selected by World Book editors.
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Free Encyclopedias

Sixth Edition, 2001
Free Online Encyclopedia from Microsoft®.
A "living digital Encyclopedia".
Answers to frequently asked questions and links to Smithsonian resources.
Drawn from information on the Internet.
A Kidopedia is an encyclopedia written by children. Schools across the world are making their own Kidopedia's, and the best articles from each are collected here, at the "Best of Kidopedia".
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