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	Title/ Description	Availability
1.	BookFlix Scholastic BookFlix is an online literacy resource that pairs classic video storybooks from Weston Woods with related nonfiction eBooks from Scholastic to build a love of reading and learning. This engaging resource will help early readers develop and practice essential reading skills.
2.	Curriculum Resource Center Maps, charts, pictures, and encyclopedias for teachers and students.
3.	Education/Professional Development Collection Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
4.	ERIC The Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
5.	History Resource Center: US U.S. historical materials from pre-colonial times to the present for students and teachers.
6.	History Resource Center: World World history materials for everyone. Includes timelines, primary documents, reference sources, and periodical articles.
7.	Middle Search Plus Full text for more than 150 popular middle school magazines.
8.	Muzzy Online In Spanish, French, English, German and Italian, MUZZY Online is a comprehensive, interactive and fun way for kids to learn a second language.
9.	New York State Regents Exams A database of NYS Regents Exams in PDF format, some going back as far as 1957.
10.	Novelist K-8 Your solution for integrating fiction across the curriculum: With its fun and intuitive interface, and extensive feature content, NoveList K-8 will be the resource you and your young readers turn to when looking for the next book to read.
11.	Poetry for Students These volumes are designed specifically to meet the curricular needs of high school and undergraduate college students studying poetry. A quick but information-rich reference source, these books provide analysis of 16 poems per volume that teachers and librarians have identified as frequently studied in literature courses.
12.	Points of View Reference Center An interface intended for public, academic, and high school libraries. Points of View is designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. High school and undergraduate students can use Points of View as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills. Each Points of View Essay includes a series of questions and additional material to generate further thought. Also included are thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications.
13.	Professional Development Collection Offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.
14.	Teacher Reference Center Database Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
15.	Twayne’s Author Series The premier literary reference resource series comprising Twayne's U.S. Authors, Twayne's English Authors, and Twayne's World Authors. Each of these individual titles provides literary criticism for approximately 200 authors, bringing the total number of authors covered in the Series to nearly 600. Each author selected for coverage is tied to the high school and college curriculum.
16.	Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including novelists, poets, playwrights and literary theorists, of 1900 to 1999 -- the era most frequently studied in high schools. Each volume presents overviews of four to eight authors with chronologically arranged criticism representing the entire range of response to each author. A typical excerpt is prefaced by an annotation that explains the critic's reputation and critical philosophy and providing a synopsis of the excerpt.

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