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=//To Kill a Mockingbird// Pathfinder=

//The following resources will prove useful as you begin your research project.//
 * [|Marriotts Ridge High School Research Handbook]

**Public Access Catalogs**

 * [|Marriotts Ridge High School]
 * [|Howard County Public Schools] (search for items in all schools and request an interlibrary loan)
 * [|Howard County Public Library] (request items to be sent to your local branch)
 * [|Enoch Pratt Free Library] (located in Baltimore)
 * [|Marina] (search for items in libraries across the state)
 * [|WorldCat] (connects you to libraries around the world)

**Online Databases**
//You will need user names and passwords for these sites from home. They can be found on the yellow card you received in English class for school databases. Additional copies are located at the circulation desk. For HCPL's databases you will need your library card number and password.//
 * [|ABC-CLIO American History]
 * [|Student Resource Center] (type your search term into the field below to access this resource)
 * media type="custom" key="4671587"
 * [|Gale Virtual Reference Library] (type your search term into the field below to access this resource)
 * media type="custom" key="4671565"
 * [|Biography Resource Center] (HCPL)
 * [|Historical New York Times](HCPL)
 * [|History Reference Center](HCPL)
 * [|American Periodical Series] (HCPL)
 * [|SIRS Decades] (type your search term into the field below to access this resource)
 * media type="custom" key="4714563"
 * [|State Library Resource Center Databases] (HCPL)


 * Free Web**
 * [|Walter Johnson High School Research Pathfinder] (topic ideas)
 * [|Library of Congress Digital Collections]
 * [|Library of Congress American Memory]
 * [|National Archives Primary Sources for Teachers and Students]
 * [|Enoch Pratt Free Library Digital Collections]

**On Our Shelves**
//This is just a sampling of what is on our shelves. You will want to search your specific person, event or time period in the online catalog to find other books in our collection.//

//You should consult the indexes of the following reference sets to find resources on your topic.//
 * Reference Collection**
 * REF 305.896 CIV The Civil Rights Movement
 * REF 323 CIV Civil Rights in the United States
 * REF 323.1 AME American Civil Rights Almanac, Biographies and Primary Source Documents
 * REF 323.1 GRE The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Civil Rights
 * [|REF 808 NOV Novels for Students] (also available as an eBook//)//
 * REF 809 LIT Literature and Its Times
 * REF 809.3 CRI Critical Survey of Long Fiction
 * REF 810 OXF The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
 * REF 810.9 AME American Women Writers
 * REF 810.9 AME American Writers
 * REF 810.9 MAG Magill's Survey of American Literature
 * REF 973 NEL American Presidents Year By Year
 * REF 973 TIM The Timetables of American History
 * REF 973.91 AME American Decades Primary Sources
 * REF 973.91 BUR The Great Depression
 * REF 973.91 HAN Great Depression and New Deal Primary Sources, Biographies and Almanac
 * REF 973.91 MCE The Depression and New Deal
 * [|REF 973.94 UXL American Decades] (also available as an eBook)
 * REF 973.92 AME American Decades

//You will find various titles in each of the listed decimal ranges.//
 * Main Collection**
 * 305.8 Racism
 * 323 Civil Rights in America
 * 344.73 Brown v. Board of Education
 * 345 Scottsboro Trial
 * 796.357 Jim Crow
 * 813 Literary Criticism on //To Kill and Mockingbird//
 * 973.91 The Great Depression
 * 973.92 The Great Depression and The New Deal