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Library Learning Commons

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.

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 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)

Information on the world’s most influential people. Easy to use portal with periodicals and multimedia that allows 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

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)

Access to literary works and authors throughout history and includes full-text poems and 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)

Information and opinions on hundreds of today’s hottest social issues. Easy to use portal 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.

Science in Context (Gale)

Information on hundreds of today’s most significant science topics. This easy to use portal includes reference sources with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, experiments, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

Student Edition (Gale)

Provides 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)

Offers contextual information on a wide array of subjects. Has 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.

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.

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

Goodreads – Young Adult Books

Rich in Color recommendations

Rich in Color – people who read and review diverse YA books

Recommended sites for finding images

Pexels

https://www.pexels.com/

Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/search

Pixabay

https://pixabay.com/

MLA 8 Citation Guide

Complete_Guide_to_MLA_8

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.