RM Living Library (Reference Suite)

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Living Library is an excellent resource for all children to use. It brings together thousands of reference articles, pictures and multimedia clips from the UK's most respected publishers, all within a protected site. This means that you really can let children search for resources, and know that they will find ‘safe’, reliable information.

Furthermore, as the site is designed for children to use, all articles are written in appropriate language. This means children will be able to assimilate and sort knowledge, not merely regurgitate useless facts that they don’t understand!

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Using Living Library Updated

You can find information by using Search, Browse or Explore.

When you have got your results, you will also see a bar graph next to the title indicating the suitability rating of each article. This gives you an idea of the difficulty of the article, or the level of the subject matter.

The more bars filled in, the harder the challenge!

Using Search

You can find information by typing in a key word.

To refine your search, if you are only interested in pictures or text etc, click on Search Option, you can then limit your search by selecting the required result option.

Use Search Click on Search Options to limit your search...	Search Results... These search results are organised by media types ie all weblinks are together, all film clips are together etc	Example of Detailed Resource Page
The same search (Henry VIII) can be used to look for just Pictures...	...or search for relevant Media...	...or look for relevant Web Links on any subject.

Using Browse

Find information using the following options:

Explore

Newspapers Search using keywords and dates to find newspaper articles relating to your topic.	Multimedia You will need to subscribe and pay for this.

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Access to the Service

Access from within school

Schools connected to the Internet through the Hertfordshire Grid for Learning have access to RM Living Library at any time.

Access from home

Access is available to staff in Hertfordshire schools who wish to use Living Library from home - you will require a username and password to do this. If you are in school you can find out your password using the link below.

• Get your Living Library password from this link

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