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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: fiction and penguin fiction and vintage (unfortunately this does not work for fiction titles without subject headings) 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 Search WCI Catalogue To find novels on specific topics: replace subject space in the below search sample with the desired topic: subject and fiction eg. refugees and fiction To find reviews on any given title: replace title and author spaces in the below search sample with appropriate information: +book +review +"title of book" +author (use "..." quote marks for phrases) eg. +book +review +"what's bred in the bone" +"robertson davies" COLLECTIONS RELATED LINKS Internet Sites with Recommended YA Titles: ALA Best Books for Young Adults SeeMe4Books 2004-05 YA Book of the Year Nominees Recommended YA Novels (Google Search) Authors by Genre (Includes lists of award winners for each category): Literary Fiction Mystery / Detective / Horror Fantasy / Science Fiction Adventure Oprah's Book Selections Penguin (Canada) Books Penguin Group Suggested Reading (go to Browse => Reading Guides => Complete List)
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
GROUP WORK SUGGESTION Use a wiki such as Microsoft Office Live for group work from various remote locations Create and share your work online Edit anytime, from anywhere Pick who can access your documents Share changes in real time Files are stored securely online It's MS Office so files can be resaved to open locally on MS Office (without going through the Web) It's FREE!	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
	Technology How To's ... Google Advanced Image Search YouTube Download / Convert Streaming Videos (Save streamed videos from YouTube, etc. for presenting without access to Internet) Screen Capture (capturing an image that cannot otherwise be save to file) for more complete Tech Help pls see: Technology How To's ...

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last updated 10/14/09

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