On-Line Research Tools

Galenet
With Contemporary Literary Criticism users have the benefits of Internet access to extensive biographical and critical information. CLC encompasses nearly 600 significant authors. Updates occur monthly.

Discovering Collection includes thousands of overview essays, critical analyses, biographies, primary source documents and timelines for history/social studies, literature and science.

Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series.

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.  Known as eBooks these reference materials are accessible online remotely 24/7.

Home access is available to CLC, Discovering Collection, Scribner’s Writers Series and Gale Virtual Reference Library.  Stop in the Library to get the school's user name and password.

Contemporary Authors is now available through POWER Library.

Grolier's Online
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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia offers quick reference articles. In addition to its award-winning encyclopedia, the GME include: Brain Jam, Interactive Atlas, Interactive timelines (4000 BC to the present), Link to the Library of Congress's Today in History Web site, thousands of other Web Links, and Research Starters.

Encyclopedia Americana has over 45,000 articles. It also includes: "The American Journal", an illustrated database of news events, updated weekly / Grolier Internet Index, thousands of links to related, prescreened Web sites / Periodical articles from magazines and journals, including primary documents.

World Book Encyclopedia
World Book Online Reference Center is continually updated. The Reference Center includes all the articles from the World Book Encyclopedia, plus thousands of articles from renowned contributors as well as full-text magazine articles. It also includes the World Book Atlas and the Spanish language encyclopedia Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos. In addition to the Reference Center you also have access to World Book Advanced, which integrates primary and secondary source databases in a single search.

For home access you need the school's username and password which is available in the Library.

POWER Library - Home Access
This link will take you to the Online Resources section of the Lancaster County Library Web site. From there you will need to click on "Database Resources" in the left hand navigation links. You must have a current, fine-free library card to access the database resources.

netTrekker d.i.
Purchased by the Pennsylvania Department of Education for all schools in Pennsylvania netTrekker d.i. is an award-winning search engine just for students, teachers, and parents. It delivers only safe, educator-selected websites every time you use the Internet. Stop in the library to get the shared username and password for Lancaster Catholic High School before visiting www.netTrekker.com.

Questions on any topic:

Click on the image above  Don't search...Find.  Connect online with a real librarian--one-to-one in real-time--for help with any topic or information need.  Ask Here PA is designed to provide fast answers to your questions, using information found on the Internet and in proprietary databases funded by libraries.  In most cases, Ask Here PA Librarians will provide an answer online in 15 minutes or less!  If your question involves lengthy research, we'll get you started and/or provide a referral for you or your question. 

Search Engines

AltaVista AltaVista performs 50 million search queries each day in over 25 languages. These highly targeted topical search indexes deliver one of the most powerful search resources on the Web, allowing users to get very specific with their query along topical lines.

Google Google analyzes all the content on each web page and factors in fonts, subdivisions, and the precise positions of all terms on the page. All of this data enables Google to return results that are more relevant to user queries. As a result, millions of users worldwide look to Google as the fastest, easiest way to find exactly the information they're looking for on the web the first time.

LookSmart LookSmart helps more than 80,000 businesses harness the power of Search Targeted Marketing to generate qualified leads. LookSmart commercial search listings enable businesses to reach 77 percent or nearly four out of five U.S. Internet users.

Netscape Netscape Search provides over 800,000 sites well organized into more than 140,000 categories and reviewed by over 14,000 subject experts. Netscape Search offers global coverage of the Web in 229 countries and 44 languages.