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LIBRARY

Career Research
Non-Fiction
College and Career
CC 378.1 LED College majors
CC 378.199 IND Index of majors & college degrees
CC 378.73 HEA Health professions
CC 610.69 KOU Your bright future in healthcare
CC 650 PIN Your bright future in business adminstration
CC 808.02 FIE 100 best careers for writers and artists
Audio/Visual
VID 636.089 Dedicated to service: a career in veterinary medicine
Reference
REF 371.425 ENC Encyclopedia of careers and vocational guidance
Databases
eLibrary
eLibrary Curriculum Edition--the ultimate easy-to-use curriculum and reference resource--delivers one of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries.
http://www.proquestk12.com
Gale Virtual Reference Library
GVRL is a collection of ebooks that cover the following topics; arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multcaultural studies, nation and world, religion, science and social science.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493?db=GVRL-0 
Literature Resources
Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493?db=LitRG 
Websites
Bureau of Labor Statistics - Exploring Career Information
Describes the nature, preparation, and future of various jobs in relation to a school subject.
http://www.bls.gov/k12/
Career Cruising
Career Cruising is an industry-leading online career guidance and planning system. People of all ages use our tools to find the right career, explore education and training options, and build their own portfolio.
http://www.careercruising.com/
Career Explorer
Job descriptions, aptitude tests, self-assessment tools, job training, educational programs that prepare for certain careers
http://www.careerexplorer.net
Career One Stop/America’s Career Info
Occupational requirements, career resources library, and employment trends  
http://www.careeronestop.org
Career Path
CareerPath.com is a career resource center that will assist you in making the right career decisions. Assistance is provided with career tests, advice and resources.
http://www.careerpath.com/
The College Board
If you're thinking about college, it's also time to start thinking about college majors and careers. Here's the place to explore all the possibilities.
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/csearch/majors_careers/index.html
Illinois Career Information System
Career Click - This site provides information on approximately 700 occupations in Illinois. The occupations are divided into sixteen Career Clusters. You'll find descriptions, salaries, Illinois and substate employment levels, employment forecasts, and other information that helps to clarify career choices.
http://www.ides.illinois.gov/page.aspx?module=20&item=1000
My Majors
Presents detailed information on hundreds of college majors and their related careers fields
http://www.mymajors.com
Poet's Corner
A collection of over 6700 poems from poets all over the world.
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/
PoemHunter
A website that allows you to search for poems poets, lyrics, and quotations
www.poemhunter.com
Poets.org
Poets.org is the award-winning website of the Academy of American Poets. Visitors to Poets.org will find thousands of poems as well as hundreds of poet biographies, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings—with new material being added constantly.
www.poets.org
The Princeton Review
This links you directly to the Career Search portion of the Princeton Review site. If you ned other inoformation, click on the Home button at the top of the page.
http://www.princetonreview.com/careers.aspx
Schmoop
Schmoop wants To make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age.
http://www.shmoop.com/poetry/
What Can I Do With A Major In?
Lists careers associated with over 40 different college majors
http://www.uncwil.edu/stuaff/career/Majors/index.htm.
What Can I Do With This Major?
Lists careers, employers, and preparation strategies associated with over 40 college majors
http://www.snc.edu/career/students/majors/index.htm
What Can I Do With This Major?
Lists careers and course work associated with over 40 majors.
http://lifelearning.utexas.edu/
Xap Corporation
Career descriptions, career search, self assessment, and career list by industry. Includes a college search and financial aid search as well as free test preparation for the ACT and SAT
http://www.xap.com
SEARCH ENGINE
Ask.com
Ask.com is a search engine that is a result of the merging of Teoma and Ask Jeeves, resulting in one of the world's most powerful and unique search engines. Ask is still the only, major search technology based upon the clustering concept of subject-specific popularity: ExpertRank. I
www.ask.com
CITATION AIDS
Easybib
The free automatic bibliography composer.
Create MLA-style bibliographies, then save them to Word.
www.easybib.com
Noodle Tools
Individual citations in MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian format
http://www.noodletools.com/noodlebib/citeone_s.php?style=MLA

 

 

 


 
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