Homework Help

Here are some library and Internet resources to assist with school projects:

BOOKS
The link to the catalogue of books held at Lake Macquarie Library is at:
library.lakemac.com.au

This will tell you where our books are located, and whether they are on loan. You can reserve books by entering your library card number. You can join the library for FREE.

We have HSC resources in a special collection at each library branch.

Remember, the library also has music CDs, DVDs, graphic novels, newspapers and magazines.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES
The library holds many popular magazines, but to find magazine articles for projects, try:

ANZ Reference Centre
Available from Home. Enter your Lake Macquarie library card number.

MasterFILE Premier - 500 full text reference books
Available from Home. Enter your Lake Macquarie library card number.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
RECENT NEWS

Google News has more than 4,500 English-language news sources worldwide.
google.com.au/news

HISTORICAL NEWS
Google News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.
google.com.au/archivesearch

PICTURES

You can search for pictures at Google Image Search, or Yahoo Image Search.

Enlarge or reduce images online, to print or save, at shrinkpictures.com, or resizr.com

Find images, similar to a particular image, at similar-images.googlelabs.com

Resize, crop, sharpen, rotate, adjust, make black & white,or add a border at webresizer.com

STUDY TIPS
Here are some useful tip sites:

Study tips for students - Catholic Education Centre

Ten great Study Tips - Kangaruni

Study tips - CPA Careers

OTHER RESOURCES
15 Essential Web Tools for Students