Find It—In Encyclopedias

• Subscription Encyclopedias

• Free Encyclopedias

Subscription Encyclopedias

These resources are paid for by your tax dollars, and are available only to our patrons. If you are not using a computer in the Library, or dialing in via our modem pool, you can still access most of these databases: you will be prompted to enter either (your choice) your Metro Net username and password or your library card barcode number and the last 4 digits of your phone number.

Grolier Online Encyclopedias

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

1. Grolier Encyclopedia Americana
2. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
3. New Book of Knowledge

4. New Book of Popular Science
5. Lands & Peoples
6. America the Beautiful

 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.

Free Encyclopedias

• Columbia Encyclopedia

Sixth Edition, 2001

• Encarta®

Free Online Encyclopedia from Microsoft®

• Encyberpedia

A "living digital Encyclopedia"

• Encyclopedia Smithsonian

Answers to frequently asked questions and links to Smithsonian resources

• Free Internet Encyclopedia

Drawn from information on the Internet

• Kidopedia

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"