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Academics
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Academics - Library Lower School Library
Hours: The Woodward Henry Diller Memorial Library is open to Moorestown Friends School students, faculty, and staff for research, pleasure reading, and study. The library is home to the Ruth Sawyer Quaker Studies Center, one of the largest collections of Quaker books and research materials in the area. The Lower School Library offers a dynamic collection of picture books, fiction, nonfiction, biography, reference, and magazines, appropriate for each grade level, as well as professional materials for the faculty and curriculum support. The extensive folktale and fairy tale collections serve classes in Middle and Upper School divisions as well as the Lower School. Access to the collection's library catalog (OPAC) through our Intranet also provides access to preselected and educational web sites, filtered search engines and several subscription databases. Library classes for Lower School students (Preschool through fourth grade) teach literacy and information skills for independent, lifelong learning and reading. Electronic Databases (for Lower School students) Ebscohost*: An extensive magazine and newspaper index with abstracts, thousands of full-text articles, graphs, charts and pictures. Encyclopedia Britannica: Complete text with pictures and web links. Facts on File* and Facts for Learning: A family of databases covering science, history, geography, health, careers, and literature. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia: Complete text with pictures and web links. Includes Amazing Animals of the World, The New Book of Knowledge, Lands & Peoples, and Encyclopedia Americana. Noodlebib: An online citation generator; students can create bibliographies in MLA or APA format, at elementary through high school levels. Novelist*: Looking for something to read? Great booklists, reviews, and a fiction search engine. Oxford English Dictionary: Online version of the most complete and authoritative English language dictionary. Proquest Platinum: Magazine and newspaper index with abstracts, thousands of full-text articles, and pictures (includes current NY Times). Sirs Discoverer: Carefully selected and previewed database of 1,600+ magazine, newspaper, and government document articles, with links for elementary students in grades 1-9. Webfeet: An annotated website search engine that prescreens sites for bias, relevance, reliability, functionality, and accuracy. * Provided by the NJ State Library and the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative.
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