Central
High School
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1801 Losey Blvd. S | La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 | 608-789-7900 | FAX: 608-789-7931
Library Learning Commons
Bloom’s Literature
Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
CQ Researcher Plus Archive
A database of in-depth, authoritative reports on 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
Offers more than 2,000 full-text sources, with improved functionality, and a fun and easy-to-use search interface. Includes magazines, newspapers, books, television/radio transcripts, maps, pictures, and audio/video clips.
Gale Databases –
Includes eight databases: Student Edition, Student Resources in Context, Biography in Context, Opposing Viewpoints in Context, Science in Context, Gale Interactive: Science, LitFinder as well as GVRL (Gale Virtual Reference Library).
Biography in Context (Gale)
Biography In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world’s most influential people. It merges Gale’s authoritative reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.
GVRL – Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These resources are specifically purchased for La Crosse Central High School.
Gale Interactive: Science (Gale)
Users can manipulate and explore 3D interactive models, allowing students to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth and space science. Reference and periodical content provide additional context for further understanding.
LitFinder (Gale)
LitFinder provides access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes more than 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. The database also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale)
Opposing Viewpoints In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today’s hottest social issues. Drawing on the acclaimed Greenhaven Press series, the solution features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Science in Context (Gale)
Science In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. The solution merges Gale’s authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Student Edition (Gale)
InfoTrac Student Edition provides high school students with access to magazines, newspapers, books, and other reference content. The database offers audience-appropriate information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports, and more.
Student Resources in Context (Gale)
Student Resources In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on a wide array of subjects. The solution merges Gale’s authoritative and continuously updated reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
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
A comprehensive portal offering centralized access to all SIRS products which target the needs of students with best-of content selected to support research, study, and homework in key curricula subjects.
The World Almanac Online
Offers access to essential statistics on hundreds of topics in a searchable format with a wealth of content not available anywhere else.
Additional Links
Recommended Image sites
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.
Young Adult Goodreads recommendations
Battle of the Books
Central Battle of the Books Team will compete at the state level the last week in February.
The Battle of the Books booklist can be found at this site.
2nd place at State Battle of the Books!
The Outsiders
Listening Library audio reading of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton –
The chapters are chunked into short readings.
You need Adobe Flash Player for this to work. Use Firefox as your browser and it should work.
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Staff image credit to Troy McDonald.
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