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COLLECTIONS

Westmount Collegiate Institute Library Catalogue
WCI eBook Collections

Infotrac / Gale eBooks password required
or select from below given titles and then go to WITHIN THIS PUBLICATION

CBC News in Review Index
WCI / YRDSB / Ministry Documents & Software
(faculty p/w)

United Streaming Video on Demand  - (click here to see available titles)
Dewey Decimal Classification

Vaughan Public Libraries Catalogue

New Books to the WCI Library Collection

JR ISU Novels - gr 09-10

SR ISU Novels - gr 11-12

Fiction titles  in our collection that have been assigned subject headings and are published by Penguin Books and/or Vintage may be found by using the Global Search to our catalogue and typing:

Sports Novels

Fast Reads (Short Novels)

Graphic Novels

ReadPrint - thousands of free books and author biographies
Bartleby Great Books Online
The Free Online Books Page
Great Books Index

Books - Online Library (Google search)
Tumble Book Library Pictures Books & Games (pls. see Library for login info)

HINTS ON FICTION BOOK SEARCHES


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Internet Sites with Recommended YA Titles:


Authors by Genre (Includes lists of award winners for each category):


Oprah's Book Selections

Penguin (Canada) Books

Books made into Movies
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The Reference Desk: encyclopedias - dictionaries - atlases - quotations - almanacs - consumer reports - metric & currency converters - RxList etc. Magazine / Newspaper / Journal Archives and Indexes: some sources are password protected and require newer browsers 4.0 or higher
The News-Stand Canadian Information Sources
Career Sites Post-Secondary
PRIMARY RESOURCES
Project Gutenberg - Digitally Reproduced Works
REVIEW SOURCES
Ontario Exam Bank
(40 accesses only to be used as practice tests -- once gone, users must purchase their own accounts . Pls. see Library for login information on these 40 initial uses)
Biography Directories: Telephone -  Postal Codes - Time Zones

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  • CITING REFERENCES
    Literacy How To's Page
    (includes how to write bibliographies, embedded references, annotated bibliographies, reviews, abstracts, editorials, news articles, research essays, speeches, creative and journal writing, etc.)
    Easybib.com
    Free Bibliographic Formatting & Alphabetizing

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    last updated 10/14/09

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