Homework Help
Tutor.com’s online tutors are available to help you every day (even Sunday!) from 2pm until 10pm. If you are accessing Live Homework Help from school or home, you will need your Sewickley Public Library card number. Don’t necessarily need a tutor, but still need some help? Check out Tutor.com’s SkillsCenter which links to homework, test prep, SAT Test Prep, and study resources, including videos!
New: Free Tutor.com SkillsCenter iPod/iPhone app! Get it here!
Terrified of the SATs? We’ve got help for you.
- Testing & Education Reference Center (TERC) – Get free, online PSAT, SAT, and SAT Subject Test prep.
- Find SAT study guides and practice tests here.
- Cracking the SAT 2011 Edition
- 11 Practice Tests for the SAT & PSAT 2011 Edition – If the book you need is not available at Sewickley you can request it from another library and have it sent here for pick-up!
- Go to Tutor.com’s SkillsCenter for SAT prep materials.
Are you looking for an SAT prep class?
- Search CCAC’s Community Education department for a class
- Take a class at Sewickley Academy
- Take a class at Sewickley’s Laughlin Center
- Visit Revolution Prep and use your zipcode to find a nearby class
- Visit The Princeton Review and use your zipcode to find a nearby class
- Visit Huntington Learning Center and use your zipcode to find the nearest location
Ready to Find a College?
- Do college & scholarship searches through TERC (look for the green TERC logo on the library’s homepage. It’s in the bottom right corner.)
- Or, search for colleges on the College Board website.
- The Big Book of Colleges
- The Best 373 Colleges
Laptop Lending @ SPLDo you need to spread out with your homework? Check out a laptop from the Teen Desk that way you can sit in a comfortable and spacious spot. This service is available to teens in grades 6 through 12 who have a library card from any Allegheny County Library. Read our Laptop Checkout Brochureto learn more about this new service!
General Information
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Internet Public Library When Google doesn’t work
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The Library Catalog of course
Research
- Research Databases – Need help writing a paper about a scientist? A famous author? A current event or social issue? The library’s Research Databases have the information you need!
- Shmoop – Similar to Cliffs Notes but way more fun! Summaries and descriptions for Literature, US History, and poetry. Plus, discussion boards where you can post questions!
- Librarians’ Internet Index – Need websites for an assignment? All the websites on this page have been reviewed by librarians and given the star of approval for accuracy and quality of information. If a librarian says it’s a good resource, your teacher will too!
- Google Books & Google Scholar - Everyone loves google, right? Want to make sure you’re getting quality results when you search?Use Google Books to search the full text of all the books in google’s database. This means that google will search the entire contents of every book it has scanned in order to find your search terms! Then, when it finds what you’re looking for it will show you the pages of the book it came from! You can read the whole page!
- Google Scholar – Lets you search scholarly articles, books, and websites (often ones maintained by universities). Searching Google Scholar should return trustworthy resources!
- Buzztracker – Ever need to find a news article to use for a current events class or presentation? Does that news article ever have to be from a particular place in the world? Buzztracker lets you click on an area of the world and see all the recent news articles from that place!
- Bartleby.com – Free access to over 100 reference materials.
and More!
- GoogleMaps
- Firstgov.gov The US Government’s Information Portal
- Sewickley Public Library homepage Click on the Live Homework Help logo to be connected with a real tutor. They will use a chat window in order to help you with your homework!
- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Homework Page
- Free Online Study Guides Shakespeare, poetry, chemistry and more.
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