• OCLC, a global membership association of more than 46,000 academic and national libraries spanning 78 nations, includes NetFirst, unique databases of over 120,000 web sites with high quality academic content and the World Card Catalog, providing bibliographic information about essentially all publications ever housed in the world's libraries and enabling users to locate and obtain these materials via inter-library loan.
   
• H. W. Wilson Co.'s database of full-text articles from over 1400 journals and magazines.
   
• Merriam-Webster's Word Central dictionary for children.
   
• McGraw Hill's Science and Technology Encyclopedia, an authoritative guide written by the worlds' leading scientists and mathematicians.
   
• World Almanac.
   
• Encyclopedia Britannica.

NICI provides a free online forum (virtual-library@nici-mc2.org) which you and your colleagues are welcome to join. This moderated discussion provides one or two messages per week offering recommendations and assistance for using the library's resources to strengthen K-16 instruction, professional development and research.