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WELCOME TO THE BISHOP GRIMES LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER WEBSITE

Mission -- The mission of the Bishop Grimes Library Media Center is to support the school’s curriculum and to foster a love of reading and lifelong learning. The school library media program will strive to ensure that all students become effective users of information and ideas.

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 user names and passwords. Just ask!

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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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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.

Opposing Viewpoints
One-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues.  Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Include some e-books. (Books you can't find in the library may be here online!)

Infotrac Junior Edition K-12
Designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

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

Informe (Written in Spanish)
A collection of Spanish magazines.  Covers business, health, technology, culture, current events and other subjects.

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 Reference Center
Access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources.  Intended for informational purposes only.

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 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.

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

CQ Researcher
In-depth, unbiases coverage of social issues.  Includes overviews, pro/con statements, and timelines.

Facts On File News
Includes Issues and Controversies, World News Digest, and Today's Science.

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, World History Collection, New World Encyclopedia, & EBSCO Animals.

C.E.R.F.
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. Contains links to current events and special report.

OCLC First Search Database
ERIC New York state database on topics about the eductaion 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!

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Search Tools and Tips
Use these search tools and tips to improve search results.

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

MLA List of Works Cited
Citation using MLA style.

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

Avoiding Plagiarism
This guide will help you 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.

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

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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