Library Databases

Posted July 31st, 2008 by mduffy

The Library online databases are listed below. 
From any LAN computer just click for access.
 
For home access to Ebscohost, AP photo archives, Grove's Dictionaries and Litfinder use the Public Library Links below and your library card number.

For home access to other listed databases, please obtain from Mrs Gates, the pamphlet entitled a brief reference guide which will give you access to our subscription databases.

 Ms. Munster's World History Classes

DATABASES
ABC-CLIO Databases:
American Government
American History
World History -- The Modern Era
World History -- The Ancient and Medieval Eras 

These databases cover as their name implies, history.  The World history Modern era database begins with the Renaissance and continues to the Modern day. The Ancient and Medieval start with cavemen and progress through the Middle Ages.

  

This is a union catalog that will provide access to interlibrary loan as well as e-book access and maybe used to find librarian recommended websites on a variety of topics.  If you need to make an ILL (Interlibrary Loan Request) please use this form.

   

Please use thethis Power Library Link, then look for AP IMAGES under the heading        Newspapers / Magazines / Websites on that site. It is the first on the list.

   Carroll Library Catalog
 

Periodicals and reference sources are available here full text

  

A collection of e-books including the Gale Encyclopedia of Science and the Catholic Encyclopedia.  These are full text resources which maybe printed emailed or saved.  You may also use this link to search either the Literature Resource Center or the Science Resource Center

Click here for Great Lives from History and Great Events from History. Click on the Remote Access Login tab and enter the password.
  

This database includes the Encyclopedia Americana and also Lands and People.  Please use this encyclopedia to begin your research.

  

An online encyclopedia with illustrations of artists, movements and paintings.

  

An online encyclopedia of all things musical

  

Brief information on major literary figures and their works.  Full text of some short stories, essays and poems. 

   

In depth information on authors and their works

Noodletools --MLA Bibliographies simplified

Use Noodlebib 6 to do all your bibliographies and parenthetical references without the hassle.  Make sure you that you set up a folder with password and have the building password.

   

Oxford Core Reference
Use these brief reference sources for information about a variety of topics

 

Use this icon to see all of the databases that are provided by Power Library

  

Access to Proquest Platinium

Access to SIRS Decades
 

This online teaching and learning resource features more than 5,000 hand-selected primary and secondary source articleshighlighting key events, movements, people, and places in20th-century America. Coverage includes documents, letters and memos, editorial cartoons, streaming video,websites, photographs, maps, advertisements, and published articles
Platinum provides  coverage from more than 2,000 newspapers, magazines, journals, and reference works.
 

Use this for the Biography Reference source as well as periodical references

 

Use the link below for instant access to Credo Reference.  Credo Reference  is a giant online reference library that provides you with access to a selection of 102 reference books. Credo Reference includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.