Resources

Marion Public Library
Use your library card to down load and read ebooks, reserve materials, and place holds on books.

Internet Public Library
The Internet Public Library has reliable, useful webpages, reviewed by librarians for accuracy and content.

Library of Congress
The Library of Congress has hundreds of digital images, primary source documents, and information available to you.

American Memory Timeline
American Memory Timeline helps you find primary sources from various times in U.S. history. Find ways to bring history alive for you.

The Ohio State University Marion
Use a college library and become familiar with the many ways a library can help you succeed in college and in life.

Marion Technical College
Learn more about careers and options for training right here in Marion.

Have a research project due and don't know where to start?

Research is a process that includes multiple steps. You have to find and narrow your topic. Then you must decide what information you may need and where to find it. Once you have located information you need to read it, and decide what information to keep and use, what to quote, and what you can ignore. Once you have your notes, it’s time to put it all together in your own words, synthesizing the facts. Finally, you should evaluate the process and the product, to determine if your research needs more work or revision.

Research Project Calculator
Start HERE! Research Project Calculator will walk you through the steps and keep you organized.

Go INFOhio
Go INFOhio helps you plan, conduct, and present research.

Research for Success
Research 4 Success is designed for high school juniors and seniors, to walk you through the research process, and take the worry out of research.

OWL: Purdue Online Writing Lab
This college writing lab will guide you in issues of style, MLA format, and citation of sources.

The OSU Marion Library
The OSU Marion Library has useful resources to help you complete your research.

iSearch
Find research organized by topics, publication types--such as newspapers, magazines, books, even primary source documents. Use this tool to find credible sources and easy citations.

Explora
Learn more about your favorite subject. Read magazines, newspapers, biographies, primary sources, country information. Find images for class projects and learn vocabulary. Translate articles into more than 30 languages.

Son of Citation Machine
Son of Citation Machine is another great "Works cited" resource.

Easy Bib
Easy bib is another place to try your hand at citing sources whenever you use information from a text or webpage.

the Big 6
Still confused? try the Big 6 site, which will break down the research process for you. This is another organizer to keep you on track.

Find new ideas, review standards, keep up with the latest in your field.

Most important:

• Teach your students about the resources available to them for free at Infohio.org.
• Then find webinars and videos for you to earn CEU's to plan innovations to your current curriculum.
• Evaluate students' knowledge of information literacy and much more.

INFOhio
INFOhio for Educators link--this is your shortcut to resources, webinars for PD, and the latest and greatest tools for teaching in Ohio.

INFOhio for Educators
INFOhio for Educators link--this is your shortcut to resources, webinars for PD, and the latest and greatest tools for teaching in Ohio.

Explora for Educators
Explora for Educators is new this year. It provides lesson plans, teaching tools, curriculum and standards, websites for teachers: It is all here for you.

The Internet Public Library
The Internet Public Library provides evaluated websites for patrons, including newspapers and magazines. This site is designed especially for teens, but from there you can access the entire IPL2 as well.

Trails
Trails is an online assessment tool for information literacy, for grade 9 and 12.You can create an account, assess your students' information (research) skills and plan your lessons to help fill in gaps and avoid repetitions.

Read Write Think
Read Write Think is sponsored by The National Council of Teachers of English. You can find lesson plans, student interactive activities, mobile apps and more. There are lessons for every grade level, and interdisciplinary units as well.

The Ohio Resource Center
The Ohio Resource Center is the go-to place for all core subjects, core standards, lesson plans, and information. ORC can keep you on top of any changes that may come along. Teachers from Ohio work on this site and the content, so you know that you are ge

NCTE
National Council of Teachers of English

NCTM
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

NCSS
National Council for Social Studies

NSTA
National Science Teachers Association

International Reading Association
The IRA is an international organization supporting literacy.