Online reference sites (our Lady's High School LRC)

Library catalogues (for OLHS catalogue click here)	North Lanarkshire Libraries	Strathclyde University	Caledonian University
	Glasgow University	National Library of Scotland	British Library
Dictionaries, Thesaurus and other word sites	Dictionary.com	Very good definitions, plus links to lots of other useful word sites.
	Rhyming dictionary	What rhymes with banana?
	WordCount	Lists the most popular words in the English language.
	Language dictionaries	Dictionaries for almost 300 world languages.
	Take our word for it	Word origins. Type your word into the search box.
Atlases and Country Information	World Atlas	Massive amounts of information and lots of maps!
	BBC country profiles	Choose the country you want from the pull down menus.
Online utilities Sites to help your online life.	Filamentality	Filamentality allows you to gather websites and create hotlists, webquests and treasure hunts
	Landmark project	David Warlick's site is full of useful links, a citation creator for bibliographies and all of his seminar and keynote information.
	Del.icio.us	A place to keep all your favourites so you can get them from any computer.
	Screenonline	Guide to UK film and TV.
	SCRAN	Excellent collection of material for everything to do with Scotland. Access in school only.
	Log in to Learn	This excellent resource provides access to a variety of online databases. You'll only need your public library card to use it.
	Babelfish	Automatically translates between English and eleven other languages. The result WILL NOT be grammatically correct.
	I want to ...	Phil Bradley's list of amazingly amazing useful online tools.
Very useful stuff You never know when you'll need to know these things.	Create a graph	Incredibly simple way to create excellent graphs, pie charts etc. Graphs can be downloaded and printed.
	Count me in	Do you know when Plain English Day is? This is the place to find out. A calendar of events around the world.