Web Links

Fairfax County Public Library

FCPL Home Page http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/

FCPL Catalog http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/catalog.htm


General Reference 

A+ Research and Writing for high school and college students, from the Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/teen/aplus/

Smithsonian Institution http://www.si.edu/

Statistical Abstract of the U.S.(1999 ed.) http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract- us.html

U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/

Art

National Gallery of Art  http://www.nga.gov

Metropolitan Museum of Art  http://www.metmuseum.org

Art Institute http://www.artic.edu


Foreign Language

FCPS  Foreign Language  Resources  http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/DIS/OHSICS/forlang/index.htm
Click on "Especially for Foreign Language Students"


Government 

U.S. Senate http://www.senate.gov/

U.S. House of Representatives http://www.house.gov/

U.S. Legislative Information http://thomas.loc.gov/

U.S. Supreme Court http://www.lawsonline.com/supreme.htm

White House http://www.whitehouse.gov

Commonwealth of Virginia http://www.state.va.us/

Fairfax County Government http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/


Health 

FCPS  Health Resources for H.S. Students http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/DIS/pe/s-resources/hslinks.htm


History 

CIA World Fact Book http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Library of Congress American Memory Collection: multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, sound, films, and text from the Library's Americana collections. http://memory.loc.gov

Virginia History Day http://www.history.org/other/teaching/vahisday.htm

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum  http://www.ushmm.org


News 

Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/

Fairfax Journal http://www.jrnl.com/

Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/

New York Times http://www.nytimes.com

Newspapers Online http://www.newspapers.com/

CNN http://www.cnn.com

NBC4 Washington, D.C. http://www.nbc4.com/

Latin American Online News http://www.barnews.com/


Science 

Centers for Disease Control http://www.cdc.gov

U.S. Department of Agriculture's Plant Database http://plants.usda.gov/plants/

WebElements: the periodic table on the WWW http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/index.html

The Weather Channel http://www.weather.com/

Windows to the Universe ( NASA) http://www.windows.umich.edu/

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Resources

The following are various resources that we found helpful to our students:


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Claudia Johnston
Head Librarian

Phone: 703-207-4013

Email: Claudia.Johnston@fcps.edu

 
Kristen Zemba
Librarian

Phone: 703-207-4013

Email: Kristen.Zemba@fcps.edu
 

Karen Werner Chonko
Administrative Assistant

Phone: 703-207-4013

Email: Karen.WernerChonko@fcps.edu