• Allen W. Roberts Elementary School
    Library/Media Resource Center
     
    books
     
    Mrs. Brandee Conover
    Library Media Specialist
    908-464-4707 ext. 7171
     
      
    ONLINE CATALOGS:
     
    AWR School Library Online Catalog
     Click 'Preferences' to select the school database you wish to search. 
     
    Public library catalog and databases.
     
     
    RESEARCH ENCYCLOPEDIAS:
     
    New Book of Knowledge
    Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
    Encyclopedia Americana
    New Book Of Popular Science
    Lands and Peoples
    America the Beautiful
    Amazing Animals of the World
    For Educators: Teacher Resources
     
    An online environment for creativity and wonder in learning. World Book Student Discovery Encyclopedia, terrific for younger readers, English-language learners, and reluctant readers.
     
    Student Edition
     
    (for elementary students and up). Britannica Learning Zone Pre K-2 interactive atlas, online art activities, interactive games, audio and videos, vocabulary builders for geography, numbers, time, sounds, and much more.
     
     
    GEOGRAPHY DATABASES - COUNTRY INFORMATION:
     
    Explore the countries of the world and global events. Included in the CountryWatch Youth Edition is a combination of background information on specific countries, current events coverage, flags, maps and colorful international images.
     
    Country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture. In-depth reports covering 200+ countries, the United States, and Canada.
     

    EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE FINDERS: 
     
    Search by subject for links to over 400,000 web sites on school subjects that have been chosen by teachers and librarians.
     
     
     
    PERIODICAL ARTICLES (and other online research databases):
     
     
    Periodicals
    Searchasaurus
    Kids Search
    Novelist K-8
    Biography Collection Complete
     
    More than 2,000 full-text and multimedia sources including newspapers, magazines, books, maps, pictures, audio/visual, and transcripts.
     
     
Last Modified on September 6, 2017