Georgetown County Library

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The Georgetown County Library provides access to DISCUS - South Carolina's Virtual Library. DISCUS includes magazine and newspaper articles, reference material, maps, pictures, student and teacher resources and more. It serves the information needs of citizens of all ages. DISCUS is coordinated by the South Carolina State Library.

To use a DISCUS service outside of the library, you will need a username and password. Georgetown County Library card holders may call (843-545-3300) to request the DISCUS username and password.

Database

Content

Of Interest To

McGraw-Hill AccessScience - Gateway to authoritative information in all major areas of science and technology, featuring the online, fully illustrated version of the 10th edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology

Research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology

More than 110,000 definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms

Headline news from Science News Magazine

Biographies of prominent scientiest

Links to evaluated related Web sites

Learning resources and study guides

Updated daily

High School thru Adults

Encyclopedia Americana - In-depth information with links to magazine articles and Web sites; current events, teacher resources, and more.

High School thru Adults

Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - Quick reference information with links to magazine articles and Web sites; current events, teacher resources, student activities, pictures, maps, flags, multimedia.

Middle School thru Adults

The New Book of Knowledge - Articles written for elementary students, periodicals, maps, illustrations, history time line, bibliographies, question of the day, wonder questions, experiments and games for learning.

Elementary and higher

SC Newspapers: Columbia & Greenville - Archive of full-text articles from The State (Columbia), December 1987+ and The Greenville News, January 1999+. Also includes special reports on news topics from a variety of news sources, news headlines with activities, and maps.

All Ages

Age appropriate articles selected from Newspapers, magazines, government documents and reference sources
Pictures, photo essays and images
Maps, activities, biographies, country facts
Current events; World Almanac for Kids
WebFind for Kids: organized links to age appropriate web sites

Students in
grades 1 thru 9
and their
teachers/parents.

Articles from Newspapers, magazines, government documents and more
Primary sources; Supreme Court decisions
Continuously updated news
Images; maps; country profiles

Advanced Middle School
students thru Adults

Magazine, newspaper, and reference sources and more on a wide variety of topics. Databases include:

Depends on database. See database descriptions.

Biography Resource Center
Business and Company Resource Center
Custom Newspapers
Expanded Academic ASAP
General Business File ASAP
General Reference Center
Health & Wellness Resource Center
Health Reference Center Academic
InfoTrac One File
Junior Edition
Kids InfoBits
LegalTrac
Scribner Writers Series
Student Edition
What Do I Read Next?

See the database descriptions for more details.