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Parkes Shire Library provides book, audio-visual and online resources to help students of all ages with their studies.

Excel Guides: A complete range of Excel HSC resources are held in the Parkes Library Reference collection.

Non-Fiction: Non-ficiton titles for all ages and a wide range of topics is held by all Parkes Shire Library branches.

ANZ Reference Centre - This is a general database of Australian and international content with articles in health, current affairs, science, social science, business and literature.

MasterFILE Premier  - This database provides full text for more than 2,100 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975.

Consumer Health Complete - Contains full text articles covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.

Science Reference Center - Provides easy access to a multitude of full text science oriented content. Contains full text for 640 science encyclopaedias, reference books, periodicals.

Literary Reference Center - Provides full text information on authors and their works from a combination of sources. Includes plot summaries, critical essays, reviews, poems and author biographies.

Belonging - The State Library of NSW has tagged some useful resource lists for the HSC English topic "belonging".

www.e-rudite.net - Offers a range of free online resources for students studying the HSC in Enlgish 2009.

Learning Online History - a major history and reference website containing major titles adapted for online use and extensive searching capability.

Searching for Kids - sites designed specially for kids - AOL at School, AskJeeves for Kids, CyberSleuth Kids, KidsClick!

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