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WELCOME TO THE BISHOP GRIMES LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER WEBPAGE

Our mission is to ensure that our students become effective users of information and ideas and develop a love of reading and lifelong learning.

Library Hours: 7:30a.m. - 3:20p.m. Monday - Friday

Library Media Specialist: Cathleen Hendrick

Library Media Center Assistant: Sister Rosemarie

The following resources are available to the students of Bishop Grimes Jr/Sr High School. All of these resources are available to use at home. The library staff can provide you with a list of usernames and passwords. Just ask!

For your convenience you can now access our database usernames and passwords from the link located on the left of this page in Library Links. Use our student login password to access the MS Word document.

Don't know how to use an online catalog? Then use this easy step-by-step guide to learn. Library Catalog Tutorial.

Onondaga County Public Library

O.U.R.S. (OCM School Libraries)

ICEPAC (Oswego & north country libraries)

Mid York Library System (Utica area)

Towpath (CNY Library Catalogs)

FirstSearch (WorldCat)

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NOVELny DATABASES

Gale Student Resource Center-Silver
Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more. Over 860 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips.

Twayne Author Series
Information about the lives and works of different authors.

Custom Newspapers
Search a collection of more than 900 newspapers, both national and international.

New York State Newspapers
Database of 28 major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post.

National Newspaper Index
Search America's top five newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.

Health/Wellness Resource Center
Includes nearly 400 health/medical journals, hundreds of pamphlets, over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc.,  Intended for informational purposes only.

Business & Company Resource*
Company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.

Business & Company ASAP
Information on companies, markets and industries. From market trends, mergers and acquisitions to current management theory and company overviews. Access business and trade journals, newspapers and company directory profiles with full text and images.

ProQuest *New Database Offered Through NOVELny*
ProQuest Platinum offers coverage to meet a wide variety of research needs through a comprehensive collection of titles. The powerful search functions—natural language, Boolean, keyword, publication, topic, and subject—accommodate all levels of users.

ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES

Grolier
An excellent starting place for all kinds of research projects.  Choose from the Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and the New Book of Knowledge.

EBSCO Host
Master File Select, TopicSearch, General Science, ABC-CLIO World History Databases, New World Encyclopedia, & EBSCO Animals.

Wilson Biography Plus
An in-depth full text biographical resource covering 236,000 individuals. The database inludes 36,000 images.

netTrekker
Thinkronize - netTrekker is a database of links to websites on almost any school-related topic.

Newsbank
Contains full-text content of local and regional news from Rochester, Syracuse, and Utica and from 28 news magazine sources. Contains links to current events and special reports.

OCLC First Search Database
ERIC New York state database on topics about the education profession, Articles First, & Wilson Select Plus.

Catholic Encyclopedia
This site offers readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrin.

New American Bible
Books of the bible in alphabetical order. Read specific books, chapters, and verses with a click of the mouse.

BrainPOP
Video lessons on different topics.  Includes online pre-tests and post-tests. As assigned by your teachers.

Teaching Books
Explore your favorite books and authors with short movies, audio-book readings, book discussion guides, and more!

Turnitin
Tunitin is the internet's most widely used and trusted resource for preventing the spread of internet plagiarism. In addition, Turnitin software is a valuable tool that students can use to improve the originality of their writing and the documentation of their sources. It is used at many colleges and universities in assessing student work, therefore, students will benefit from learning how to use Turnitin before entering college.

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Search Tools and Tips
Use this Penn State Boolean Search Tutorial to improve search results.

The Boolean Machine
Try this Boolean Machine to help you understand Boolean Searching.

Evaluating Internet Resources
This resource gives you information on using Internet resources.

MLA List of Works Cited
Citation using MLA style.

Son of Citation Machine
Son of Citation Machine is an interactive Web tool that will assist you in citing your sources. It includes a template to aid in creating both in-text citations and bibliographic citations.

KnightCite Citation Service
KnightCite is an interactive Web tool that is especially helpful in citing your multimedia sources. It does not include a template to aid in creating in-text citations so remember to add these.

What Do I Cite
A resource from Duke University that informs you on what you need to cite.

Avoiding Plagiarism
This guide from Perdue University will help you to avoid plagiarism.

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Portaportal.com
The links to valuable online resources can be found here. Enter through the GUEST ACCESS. Your guest name is COBRAS.

National Science Digital Library

The National Science Digital Library is an excellent resource containing standards based instructional resources, K-12 lesson plans, digital downloads, streaming video, and collaborative Web 2.0 tools for math and science. Students can use this site for research assignments and exploration. Use the link above to search the National Science Digital Library by the following categories: K-12 Teachers, Librarians, and Higher Education. Use the search widget below to search the database directly from the Bishop Grimes Library website.

 

Reading Rave
School Tools, Database Information, Recommended Reading & Cool Links to Teen Sites

Summertime Education
Fourth of July fun from the History Channel
Planet Earth - Discover the characteristics and life forms of all different ecosystems
High School Ace
Education World

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ASCD Educational Collection *New Professional Resource for Educators*
A collection of the best e-books from ASCD's professional collection for educators provided through OCM BOCES Instructional Support Services.

The Learning Page...especially for teachers
Millions of historical documents, photos, maps, etc. as well as lessons, features, tips and tricks.

Thinkfinity
Free educational reources from Verizon Foundation for teachers, students, and parents. Teachers will find lesson plans, teaching strategies, and more.

S.O.S. For Information Literacy
Free standards based lesson plans with supporting resources and web based modules searchable by keyword and grade level.

Haiti Earthquake 2010 - Special Coverage Web Guide *New for Teachers and Students*
Excellent Thrall Library guide providing links to resources for students and teachers about Haiti, earthquakes, news, emergency and charity contact information, and much more.

Kids Can Press
Kids Can Press has realized the dream of becoming Canada’s leading publisher of children’s books.

The Resource Room
User-friendly online library of free educational resources will help make teaching more enjoyable and learning more fun.

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