Welcome to the Central High School Library, a safe and welcoming place where staff and students are able to access information for educational and personal growth both individually and in a collaborative setting. The library offers a wealth of resources in both print and electronic format and is open Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.Your library is staffed by Library Media Specialist, Mrs. Halter and assistants Mrs. Lanzel and Mrs. Baumler. We are here to serve our students and staff.
Central
High School
High School
1801 Losey Blvd. S | La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 | 608-789-7900 | FAX: 608-789-7931
Library Learning Commons
eBook & Audio
Catalog
Video
Citations
Badgerlink
Public library
Flocabulary
STAR testing
Drivers Ed
Bloom’s Literature
Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference provides Topic Pages, which offer background information on a particular topic that can give you an easy starting point and pathways for further research; Access to hundreds of in-depth subject encyclopedias and handbooks covering every major subject from Accounting to Art History and Shakespeare to Einstein; and Mind Maps that visually show relationships between topics and keywords.
CQ Researcher Plus Archive
A full range of political and social-policy issues extending back to 1923. Each report is footnoted and includes an overview, background section, chronology, bibliography and debate-style pro-con feature, plus tools to study the evolution of the topic over time.
elibrary
Full-text sources, that includes magazines, newspapers, books, television/radio transcripts, maps, pictures, and audio/video clips.
Gale Databases –
Includes many databases: Gale in Context: Biography, eBooks, High School, Opposing Viewpoints, Science, as well as OneFile- High School, Interactive Science, LitFinder.
Salem Press – Health, History, Literature
Reference ebooks – Health: Genetics; History: Decades (from 1920’s to the 2000’s), Milestone Documents, Great Events and Great Lives in History; and Literature: Critical Survey of Graphic Novels.
SIRS
Issues Researcher is a Pro/Con site with hundreds of topics to browse. All results are full-text.
Wisconsin Public Television
Includes PBS Learning Media, Wisconsin Biographies, Wisconsin First Nations, The Ways, Climate Wisconsin.
The World Almanac Online
Offers access to essential statistics on hundreds of topics in a searchable format with a lot of content not available anywhere else.
Young Adult Goodreads recommendations
Rich in Color recommendations
Rich in Color – people who read and review diverse YA books
Recommended sites for finding images
MLA 8 Citation Guide
Primary Sources on the Internet
Reputable sites that link to primary sources.
Digital Public Library of America: explore topics in history, literature, and culture through primary sources. Draws from online materials from libraries, archives, and museums across the United States, the sets use letters, photographs, posters, oral histories, video clips, sheet music, and more. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets
National Archives: U.S. Historical collection of documents, photographs, records and military records http://www.archives.gov/
Library of Congress: Digital Collection – digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, and books.
The Smithsonian: Digital collections page offers a variety of research resources from the Smithsonian.
Battle of the Books
Central Battle of the Books Team will compete at the state level the last week in February. To learn more about Battle of the Books (BOB) click here.
The Outsiders
The chapters each have their own link.
Staff image credit to Troy McDonald.
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Nov 19, 2019
Today is DAY 5 Nov 19, 2019
School Year Calendars
2019-20 Hamilton/Northside Calendar
2019-20 School Year Calendar
2020-21 Hamilton/Northside Calendar
2020-21 School Year Calendar