A description of the library's services.
Your gateway to the Worcester Academy Library collection.
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Look inside this folder for links to magazines, journals, and newspapers.
Look inside this folder for links for health, sciences, and mathematics resources.
Look inside this folder for links for history, culture, government and politics, primary resources.
This folder contains onlline resources for research in World History and Social Studies.
Look inside this folder for encyclopedias, dictionaries, magazines, and websites that support World Languages.
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Must be used while on campus.
Focused searches on notable African Americans also found in the comprehensive Biography Resource Center.
The online catalog for the public libraries of Central Massachusetts. Your choice: search them all at once, or search the one most convenient for you.
A comprehensive source for theory and research in interntional affairs.  [Remote use requires our User Name and Password.]
Link to the Holy Cross College library catalog as well as the catalogs of the surrounding colleges and universities.
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eBooks from InfoTrac's Virtual Reference Center
The shortcut to searching the Archives and Historic Documents together. Remote use requires UserName and password.
Full-text comprehensive reports on national concerns dating back to 1923. [Remote use requires our User Name and Password.]
Full-text primary resources documents on national concerns dating back to 1979.  Remote use requires our UserName and Password.
eBooks from InfoTrac's Virtual Reference Center
Full-text coverage since 1851.  [Remote use requires our User Name and Password.]
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14 databases for general interest and academic research, health, business, and biographies. (Note to families: Databases suitable for Kindergarten through Junior High are located here.) This resource is supplied by the Central Mass Regional Library System. [Remote use requires our  Password.]
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CLICK HERE FOR REMOTE ACCESS and use your WA Library Card Number.  Click or scroll down to "SOCIAL SCIENCES" and look for Facts on File: Issues and Controversies.
CLICK HERE FOR REMOTE ACCESS and use your WA Library Card Number.  Click or scroll down to "SOCIAL SCIENCES" and look for Facts on File: Issues and Controversies.  After you have opened Issues and Controversies, click the "ADDITIONAL DATABASES" tab in the top right corner.
An archive database. JSTOR's articles pick up where EBSCO and InfoTrac stop. Remote use requires User Name ans Password.
A collection of high-quality Web resources evaluated by a large team of California-based librarians.
Full-text database of authors and their works.  [Remote use requires our User Name and Password.]
eBooks from InfoTrac's Virtual Reference Center
Periodicals from InfoTrac
Full-text coverage of major Massachusetts newspapers including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Quincy Patriot Ledger and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, plus selected coverage of other regional sources. CLICK HERE FOR REMOTE ACCESS and use your WA Library Card Number.  Click or scroll down to "NEWSPAPERS" and look for Massachusetts Newsstand.
Current through 1995.
Full-text articles in English from nearly 2,000 newspapers from around the world. [Remote use requires our User Name and Password.]
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Full-text articles, thumbnail images and image links.  [Remote use requires our User Name and Password.]
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Search The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.  [Remote use requires our User Name and Password.]
Dictionaries, Thesaurus, Quotations, and more.
Over 100 full-text popular magazine publications from mainland China. Coverage: 2005-present. Make sure that you have selected Chinese/China and/or Chinese in Firefox language selections: Tools>Options>Advanced>Languages. CLICK HERE FOR REMOTE ACCESS and use your WA Library Card Number.  Click or scroll down to "NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE" and look for Qikan Magazine.
Full-text articles from past issues.  [Remote use requires User Name and Password.]
Diagrams, experiments, essays, biographies, definitions, and links appropriate for grades 6-12. This resource is supplied by the Central Mass Regional Library System. CLICK HERE FOR REMOTE ACCESS and use your WA Library Card Number.  Click or scroll down to "SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY" and look for Science Online.
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eBooks from InfoTrac's Virtual Reference Library
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eBooks from InfoTrac's Virtual Reference Center
A meta-search engine that clusters your results.
The meta-search engine that combines Google and Ask.com.
A visual meta-search engine.
A metasearch engine with another way to look at results
The engine to use when searching the web for scientific information
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Email Library Services at libraryservices@worcesteracademy.org

Jacquelyn Shartin
    Library Director
Maria Porcaro
    Day Assistant Librarian
Shirley Balestrier
    Afternoon/Evening Assistant Librarian
Robin Peretzian
    Library Aide
Daytime:
Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Evening study hall:
Sunday - Thursday, 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Non-boarders should inquire before attending the evening hours to verify that the library will be open for study. (Phone 508-754-5302 X193)
LIBRARY DUE DATES:
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