The Library is a big place. With 28 rooms of books, and numerous other Rooms, it is important to remember that your destination (to read or download a book) is a Title Page. There are about 250 of those -- one for each WorkBook or Microworld.

Once you have installed MathwrightWeb, then you may "test drive" the Library before you join with any of our 15+ Microworlds at the Visualization Studio of the MATH Cafe. You may read the free Microworlds there in your ActiveX enabled browser. The Introduction to Mathwright32 Microworld is also freely available for Mathwright32 Reader.

The simplest way to find your books is visit our 28 rooms that organize our books by topic and grade, ranging from High School through Graduate level mathematics and science. You may visit these rooms in four ways, depending on whether you want to read them in your browser, read offline with Mathwright32, read offline with our legacy player, Mathwright2000, or see them all lumped together.

Choose a room, and the books in that room will be listed with numbers of first-time visits since January 2002. Your four choices are:

  • Read a Microworld in my Browser to go to the Gallery of Microworlds in the Library Stacks. You read these Microworlds in your browser with MathwrightWeb.
  • Add to my Offline Microworld Collection to go to the Gallery of Microworlds in the Library Stacks. You read these Microworlds offline with Mathwright32 Reader.
  • Add to my Offline WorkBook Collection to go to the Archive of WorkBooks in the Library Stacks. You read these Workbooks offline with our legacy player Mathwright2000. This is our classic 16-bit Player which has been in use at the Library for over 8 years and has, as we might say, withstood the test of time. Since WorkBooks are written largely in C++ and Assembler, they are generally a good bit faster (if not quite as smart) as our Java Microworlds.
  • View the entire collection to see all Microworlds and Workbooks together in our 28 rooms.

Another way to find your titles is to go to our Card Catalog. There you may search for books by topic, title, author, level, or key words.

Yet a nother way is to go directly to the titles in the Stacks. This lists and describes all of the books in the Library. The list is long.

The old main Room of the Library is the Stacks, and if you are looking for a WorkBook or Microworld, that will give you a different view of the Library, albeit, an older one. You will find there a portal to the Library Directory like the button below.

There, the books are organized in 70 different 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.

 

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

This is the portal to two other 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.