Monday, August 30, 2010

Finding good websites for school

How's your term going? By now you're probably super busy!

But don't forget the library has lots of things that might help you with your school work, including Oliver (and for you younger students, Olly).

Oliver is the school library catalogue and you can use it from anywhere you can access the internet - just go to the library page on the Harrow Thailand website and click the link.

One thing that's really useful about Oliver, is that we subscribe to a service which lets students and teachers find websites which have been specifically chosen to fit with areas they are studying. You can also do a Google or other kind of search (and I recommend that you do this too if you have time :)) but this is a great way of finding useful sites easily.

So... how do I do it? hmmm?
From Oliver:
1. Open the library catalogue click the OPAC search button (along the left hand side).
2. When this opens up click on the third tab (advanced).
3. Type your topic into the anywords box (eg myths, dogs, Oscar Wilde) and click on the online content button.
4. Press enter or click search.
5. You'll get a list of specially chosen web addresses just for your topic!
6. Click on the links to access the sites.

You'll need to click the back button to get back to your search as the links don't open in a separate window.

Better than Google, cos they're all chosen especially for school students!

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