Getting around the Library

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The Library is a big place. With 70 rooms of WorkBooks, and numerous other Rooms, it is important to remember that your destination (to download a WorkBook) is a Title Page. There are about 170 of those -- one for each WorkBook or Microworld.

The Books are organized in Rooms (Subject Rooms and Category Rooms) and each WorkBook resides in several Rooms. If you want an overview of the Rooms (in fact, an overview of the entire Library building) then the Library Directory is a useful map that can show you quickly how the Rooms are named, and where they are. And of course, you can use it to jump into any Room you choose. From a Room, you select a WorkBook Title to get to its Title Page.

In addition, the navigation bars (like the one at the top of this page) can get you quickly to a Room.

 

The main Room of the Library is the Stacks, and if you are looking for a WorkBook, that is the place to go. You will find there a portal to the Library Directory like the button below.

You will also find, at the entrance to the Stacks, the Wizard's Hat

This is the portal to our two Search Engines: The Text Search and the Keyword Search. With the Text Search, you can find a WorkBook by typing the Author's name, the Title of the WorkBook, or any text that may appear in its description. You can further narrow the search to certain levels (High School, Beginning College, and so on), to one of our Categories (Home Schoolers, Games, Laboratories, etc.) or to one of the 64 Subject Rooms.

And with the Keyword Search, you give the Wizard hints about certain keywords that may apply to the WorkBooks you are looking for. This is especially useful if you don't know exactly what you want.

Teachers who would like to make the Library available to their classes may want to visit our Course Resources page. Class and laboratory site licenses are available.
And if you would like to use Mathwright Author or our new Mathwright32 Microworld and Applet Builder to create your own interactive adventures, check out our Library Store. We now accept credit cards . You may also learn more about these programs at the MATH Cafe.


Our 3D Gallery is the beginning of a fourth wing (separate from the Stacks) that is devoted to Three dimensional simulations, games, and explorations. It uses a new 3D Player called PlayScapes, and opens the door to a marvelous virtual world of color and light. At the time of our opening it has an additional 8 WorkBooks.


If you would like a free preview of the way the new Library works, you may visit our Free Stuff Room and download a free Player (or the PlayScapes Demo) and choose a few of our Demonstration WorkBooks on that page to download and view in it.


You might like to read about the New Mathwright Library and Cafe to get a sense of where we are going. Once you download the new Player, feel free to visit the Stacks, the MATH Cafe, or the 3D Gallery to get an overview.

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