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About Grolier Online

Find articles and images on a wide variety of subjects. Search or browse encyclopedias including:
  • Encyclopedia Americana
  • Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
  • The New Book of Knowledge
Here is an extended description from Grolier: "Grolier Online is an integrated reference portal with two interfaces: Grolier Online Kids for children in grades 3 to 5, and Grolier Online Passport, for older children and adults.With over 55 million words, 50,000 websites, and several hundred thousand magazine articles, finding authoritative, ageappropriate and subject-specific information is easy. Users have access to award-winning databases, special features, multimedia presentations, an interactive atlas, dictionaries, and much more. Grolier Online provides resources tailored specifically for teachers and students, all contained within a structured and monitored environment."

>> At the library? Please click here to access Grolier Online.
>> Outside of the library? Please click here instead to access the encyclopedia remotely.
Access Options:

This database can be accessed from any of Thrall Library's public Internet or research computers.

Concerning access outside the library:

Members of Middletown Thrall Library may log in to this service using their library barcode.
Some helpful hints:

When you locate an article, to the right side of the article there will be tabs you can click on:
  • Contents - This provides links to major sections within an encyclopedic article
  • Bibliography - Sources of information for the article
  • Further Reading - Other topically related books to consider
  • Periodicals - Find articles in periodicals
  • Web Links - Visit websites related to your search subject(s)
  • Related Articles - Browse subject headings to find related articles.
Also try Grolier's "Advanced Search" to improve the quality of your search results.
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