Kid-Friendly Search Engines

Ask Jeeves for Kids

Yahooligans

DibdabdooWeb 


Encyclopedias, Newspapers, and Magazines

America's Newspapers  
Newspaper articles online.  Access the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Herald, and many others.

NEW! World Book Online Kids

NEW! World Book Online Student

NEW! World Book Online Advanced

NEW! World Book Online Spanish


Websites

KidSpace @ The Internet Public Library
The Internet Public Library is a public library for the world wide web.
Students from a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science develop and maintain the IPL.

Wikipedia  
An online encyclopedia of practically everything, particularly pop culture, available in eight languages.

Merriam-Webster  
Merriam-Webster's dictionary and thesaurus online, with pronunciation guide.

NoveList Plus  
A comprehensive online readers’ advisory tool which allows you to search among hundreds of thousands of popular fiction and readable nonfiction titles, and also retrieve author read-alikes, book lists, book discussion guides, and more.

NoveList K-8 Plus  
Offers similar capabilities designed especially for elementary and middle school students with fiction and nonfiction titles chosen specifically to support the school curriculum as well as the pleasure reading needs of students.


Google Features
Google is good for a wealth of things beyond being a simple search engine.  Find out what they're capable of here.

ScienceBob
Get answers to your science questions.

Some of these links will take you outside the confines of the Rolling Meadows Library's Website.
Each site's creator is responsible for the content you will find there. Parents are encouraged to review the sites and their contents.

 

   

Please call the library with any questions and comments.
Rolling Meadows Library
3110 Martin Lane
Rolling Meadows, Illinois 60008
(847) 259-6050

   


Last Modified  07/07/2009

   


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