Reference Materials

Encyclopedia Brittanica 2007

Compton's Encyclopedia 2007

World Book Encyclopedia

New Catholic Encyclopedia

National Geographic Atlas of the World,
8th Edition.

Hammond World Atlas

Rand McNally Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide

World Almanac 2007

Time Almanac 2007 with Information Please

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Encyclopedia of Associations, 2006

Government Assistance Almanac

Chase's Calendar of Events 2007

Oxford English Dictionary

Webster's 3rd New International Dictionary

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,
4th Edition.

Random House Dictionary of the English Language

Rogets II: The New Thesaurus

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus

Oxford French Dictionary

Oxford German Dictionary

Oxford Italian Dictionary

Oxford Russian Dictionary

Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary,
31st Edition.

 

 

 

 

 

Online Resources

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CountryWatch

CountryWatch provides critical
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through its suite of products to over
4000 clients including public and
private sector organizations with
overseas operations and global interests.

EBSCOHost

EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system.
It offers a variety of proprietary full-text databases
and popular databases from leading
information providers including
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia,
Kidsearch, and Searchosaurus.

NewsBank

NEWSBANK INFOWEB includes Armed
Service and Government News, searchable
databases of hometown newspapers,
over 25 military periodicals from 1998
to the present, coverage from U.S. and
international news magazines and maps.

OverDrive

OVERDRIVE is the Air Force Audio Book Program.
Over 400 audio books may be checked out for
downloading to your home computer, portable device, or CD.
Subjects include biography, business, current events,
foreign language study, history, and more.

SIRS

SIRS KNOWLEDGE SOURCE provides integrated
access to thousands of full-text articles,
documents and graphics. You can retrieve
information quickly for assignments, research,
reference and exploration. The main databases are:
SIRS Researcher
This database contains thousands of full-text
articles from more than 1,500 domestic
and international sources exploring social, scientific,
health, historic, business, economic, political, and global issues.
SIRS Government Reporter
This database brings together a wide range
of information related to our federal government
and includes original source documents.
SIRS Renaissance
This database provides current, dynamic information on architecture,
culture, film, literature, music and more from 700 publications worldwide.

Includes an online Dictionary and Thesaurus.

Tumble Books

TUMBLEBOOKS is an online collection of animated,
talking picture books which teach young children
the joys of reading in a format they'll love.
Puzzles and games, too!

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