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Each month, our SIRS® WebSelect and SIRS® Discoverer (short video introductions) editorial teams scour the open Web for top-quality destinations that help teachers teach and students learn and do their homework.
Although no open Internet source can supplant a quality, vetted online research tool from our ProQuest collection, these reviewed virtual resources offer unique information and interactive content that's sure to be of interest to teachers, librarians, and students.
- Children's Literature, Chiefly from the Nineteenth Century
Organization: University of South Carolina (USC)
This site displays selections from the University of South Carolina's collection of children's literature. View the books that children were reading over one hundred years ago and read about the popular authors of that century.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Organization: The British Library
"Everyone has heard of the Mona Lisa, but less well-known than Leonardo's painting are his notebooks. They show that he was a designer and scientist way beyond his time. He drew his visions of the airplane, the helicopter, the parachute, the submarine and the car. It was more than 300 years before many of his ideas were improved upon." (THE BRITISH LIBRARY) Through his notebooks, this site explores the amazing life and work of Leonardo da Vinci.
- Women of Our Time
Organization: National Portrait Gallery
This site "highlights a variety of American women of the twentieth century. These iconic images include studio portraits, glamorous publicity shots, press photographs, fashion photographs, advertising images, and amateur snapshots." (NPG)
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