LibGuides: LRC resources for education and early years: Subject specific databases and websites

British Library Sounds

British Library Sounds
British Library Sounds presents 90,000 unique sound recordings which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds. Students and staff can listen to all recordings online; most recordings can be downloaded for academic use, referencing the title and copyright owner of the material used.

Particular recording of interest is in the ‘Oral History’ section:

Credo Reference
A digital reference library containing 250 dictionaries and encyclopaedias. An ideal starting point for research on any subject.

Access
To access from off campus, enter your college username and password on the Vision West Nottinghamshire College authentication page.

Topic pages

Credo Reference has thousands of subject specific topic pages - a great place to start exploring a topic. Each topic page provides

an encyclopaedia entry or dictionary definition, entries from other books on Credo, YouTube videos, images, links to news articles, and an

interactive mind map of your topic and related topics. Find some example topic pages below:

The Government department website full of useful information on the latest policies, publications, statistics and more.

Examples of some information you can find on the above website:

Scholastic
Scholastic publishers' website. Once you have logged in, hover over the blue Browse button (top left of the page) and click on the 'Scholastic Resource Bank'. You can browse or search within the resource bank to get access to articles from Scholastic's early years and primary publications, activity sheets, lesson plans, teaching ideas, planning and assessment tools and more.

Siren Films
Siren Films is a subscription website containing 100's of child development and observational based videos. You can browse the whole video library, or search by age range or subject area. There are also videos that have been put into different collections, an EYFS section, and even a courses section that has short training sessions you can work through individually. There's also a resources section that includes articles that link to videos too.

To access this resource you will need to login with our specific username and password, which you can request from either your tutor or a member of library staff.