Master: Library & Information Science

World Book Online will allow you to navigate easily to all the World Book encyclopedias included in TEL.

Allows students to discover and map important events in society and culture. Users can browse more than 400 ready-made, interactive timelines covering various periods in history or create their own timeline on any subject.

Covers a broad range of elementary school topics in one accessible resource. It features a modern, graphical interface that improves navigation understanding to offer students an introduction to database searching that is in step with their skill level.

The Tennessee Electronic Library's website for grades Pre-K‐5 provides a safe place for kids to go online for educational and fun websites.

Features narrated stories, "print & do" exercises, videos, interactive games, and a visual online encyclopedia to help make learning fun and engaging for preschoolers and children in the early elementary grades. Lexile® levels.

World Book Kids is a general reference website developed especially for young students. The site offers image-based navigation, easy‐to‐read articles, thousands of illustrations, and a wealth of engaging games, science projects, and activities.

Created specifically for middle school students, Research In Context combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.

The Tennessee Blue Book: A History of Tennessee- Student Edition is written for students in upper elementary and middle school who are studying the history of our great state. The text aligns with the Tennessee social studies curriculum standards and features helpful terms and definitions as well as primary sources that complement the text.

Features more than 40,000 encyclopedia and reference articles, biographies, videos, images, and activities that support middle school research needs.

Covers a broad range of topics, people, places, and events in an engaging online experience to help students with papers, projects, and presentations that reinforce development of academic and 21st-century learning skills like critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity and innovation.

Online encyclopedia, perfect for high school students, that features thousands of reference articles, primary sources, and online books. It also includes up-to-the-minute access to worldwide news publications, government links from numerous countries, and multimedia materials.

The Informant is a student created and run organization designed to inform Tennessee students of the bills being introduced, debated and voted on within the Tennessee state legislature. We at The Infomant research the bills being introduced in both houses of the Tennessee state legislature and report on the most salient bills in an easy-to-read format across multiple platforms and social media.

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present including 125 newspapers from Tennessee.

Digitized pages of The Tennessean (1812-2002) provide unique historical insight into the regional issues and concerns, such as local government, industrialization, prohibition, and racial struggles. This diverse, easily accessible primary source material is an invaluable tool.

Full-text articles from The Tennessean newspaper. Provides Nashville and Middle Tennessee regional coverage. Dates of coverage: Nov. 7, 2002 to present.

The Tennessee Blue Book serves as a manual of useful information on our state and government, both past and present. It contains information on the makeup of Tennessee state government, state history, national and state constitutions, most recent election results, and census data.

Free, comprehensive reference work featuring over 1,500 entries on the Volunteer State. Cosponsored by the University of Tennessee Press and the Tennessee Historical Society.

Tennessee records, including birth, death, and tax lists are available online thru a partnership with Ancestry.com. While other Ancestry.com resources require a subscription; these records are free for Tennesseans.

List of Tennessee State Symbols, State Holidays, State Songs and Flag Status

Volunteer Voices is a state-wide digitization project that will provide access to primary sources that document Tennessee's rich history and culture.
Volunteer Voices combines the collaborative efforts to Tennessee archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, and schools.

Curriculum-aligned lesson plans for Gale databases.

The Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program at Middle Tennessee State University reaches out to all Tennessee educators: K-12 teachers as well as undergraduate and graduate students in education, faculty and administrators of collegiate departments of education, school and institutional librarians and media specialists, and educators at museums and cultural institutions and heritage organizations. TPS-MTSU serves educators across Tennessee by improving the way primary sources are used to promote critical thinking in the classroom and across the curriculum.

The lesson plans were created by Tennessee teachers from across the state utilizing the Tennessee Blue Book, a great resource for information about state government. These lesson plans link with the current Tennessee social studies curriculum standards using the information provided in the Blue Book to utilize in civics and government classes.

Explore primary sources, lesson plans, and other educational tools designed for social studies teachers and students. Content is organized by both historical eras and Tennessee social studies content standards. Educators and students are welcome to utilize our website or visit us in person to access these primary source materials. In addition to primary sources, educators have access to our free and easy-to-download lesson plans. These lesson plans are created by Tennessee teachers utilizing the primary sources available digitally at the Tennessee State Library and Archives website. The activities in the lesson plans correlate to the current Tennessee curriculum standards. New lesson plans and digital collections are added frequently. The Library & Archives hold several teacher workshops throughout the year. More information about current and upcoming workshops is available on our Upcoming Events page.

TEL Link Generator, tech support for ProQuest, and other practical links to help you find the perfect research tool for your questions.

Links to specific database training so you can be informed and help students and faculty use these resources well.

Resources to help you promote TEL in your library and school.

Gale Web and World Book scavenger hunts to familiarize user and to engage students in these resources.

TEL's usage has been historically tracking searches, sessions, and full text retrivals. Although usage reports tell only part of the story of your library, they do provide some insight about what electronic collections are being used by your patrons. Learn how to capture this data.