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Library Resources
ONLINE CARD CATALOG
Our card catalog is fully automated, and students and faculty
may view it online at school or at home on the World Wide Web. McNicholas
High School is part of a consortium with Moeller, Purcell-Marian, Seton,
Elder, and McAuley. When patrons access the catalog, they see our holdings first, then
those of the other schools. Students and faculty may order books from other
schools by using their library barcode number available from the
librarian. Delivery and return of these books are free.
ONLINE DATABASES
AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
--contains biographies of more than 18,000 Americans no longer living.
--includes more than 2,500 portraits and links to carefully selected external
websites offering archival materials and supplementary information.
AMICO Library
--contains more than 93,000 works of art from over 25 museums in North America.
CAREER GUIDANCE CENTER
-- a comprehensive and up to date database that profiles more than 3.300 of
today's most exciting jobs in more than 94 industries. Each job article features
an in-depth look at a particular career from its history to the working
environment, including salary range, employment prospects, and education or
training required.
EBSCOhosts
--a comprehensive database designed specifically for high schools containing
full text articles from nearly 500 magazines, 88,000 biographies, 60,000 primary
source documents, nearly 150 reference books, and an Image Collection of 91,000
photos, maps and flags.
FACTS.com
--provides 65 years of Facts on File News
Digest, updated every week.
-- includes 600 in-depth investigations of issues from Issues and Controversies on File which provides information
on both sides of controversial issues
--also provides information from six other core reference databases including Reuters News Service and The
World Almanac and Book of Facts.
Literature in Context
--a rich collection of primary source material, collateral readings, and
commentary that helps students understand the social and cultural climate
associated with major works.
--includes the following works:
Hamlet,
Macbeth, The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, Pride and
Prejudice, Huckleberry Finn, Things Fall Apart, Of
Mice and Men, The Red Pony, and The Pearl, Their Eyes Were
Watching God, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Literature Online from Chadwyck-Healey
--A leading online database for English and American literature that puts
rare and previously inaccessible works together with established literature
including 20th Century English, American and African-American poetry, English
and American drama, 18th century fiction, numerous editions and adaptations of
Shakespeare and more.
LitFINDER
-- 10,000 plays, stories, essays and speeches spanning antiquity to the
present day
-- 3,500 poems and stories published in the current year
-- 126,500 full-text poems, constantly updated
-- 865 detailed explanations for poems and short stories
-- 850,000 poem citations and excerpts
-- 850 Spanish language poems with English translations
-- 650 nationalities and ethnicities represented
NewsBank Newsfile Collection
-- a comprehensive full-text resource offering content from authoritative
sources such as U.S. and international newspapers, wire services, broadcast
transcripts, magazines, historical documents, United Nations and U.S. government
publications, science journals and other reference materials.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
--provides a tremendous number of resources allowing students to investigate
all
sides
of the story on any social issue. It provides detailed information for
both
sides of controversial topics.
-- includes the following:
more than 2,500 viewpoint articles
more than 1000 topic overviews
over 3000 statistical
tables/charts/graphs
nearly 600 hand-selected images
24 titles from the Information
Plus Reference Series
more than 320 profiles of federal
agencies and special interest groups
more than 700 court-case overviews
SIRS Knowledge Source (contains
2 databases):
SIRS Researcher
--provides thousands of full-text articles from 1,200 publications,
journals,
government documents, etc., on a wide variety of topics.
SIRS Government Reporter
--offers thousands of full-text documents and graphics from agencies,
departments
and commissions of the U.S. Government
--contains the following databases: U.S. Supreme Court Decisions,
U.S.
Government
Documents, Historic Documents, Congressional Directory,
Congressional Committees and Federal Agency Directory.
Student Resource Center
--fully integrates thousands of primary documents, background and topical
essays, biographies, and critical analyses with articles from hundreds of
current popular periodicals and newspapers
--includes the following:
full-text of 800 magazines
full-text from 35 newspapers
8,200 biographies
3,500 essays on places, cultures, and
events
more than 16,000 timeline events
80 historical era overviews
41,000 primary source documents
full-text of 6 classic encyclopedias
and almanacs
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated
--contains nearly 51,000 biographies and over 25,000 photographs
--has links to more than 4,000 periodicals
--allows searching by name, date of birth, profession, place of origin, gender,
ethnic background, or any combination.
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