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Catalogs
This is the place to find the all the good stuff you need to finish that assignment! To find out what we have available in the library, please check out MaST's on-line catalog. If we don't have a title that you want, check out Access PA for a state-wide listing of the holdings from all the libraries in the state of Pennsylvania.
"Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out." - Tom Masson
Databases
What are databases?
Databases are a collection of fully researched articles that have been published either in encyclopedias, books, magazines, journals or dictionaries. These resources are dependable for accurate and true information. Many of these subscriptions are available to you at home through password access. Please ask Ms. Korn for passwords.
If your teacher wants you to use scholarly articles, consult this explanation. NOTE: EBSCOhost allows you to filter for scholarly materials.How are databases different than websites?
Although you access our databases through the internet, they are much different than simply searching the internet for information. Databases contain information that has been researched and published by trustworthy sources. Websites, on the other hand, can be created and maintained by anyone, and can not be counted on to have accurate or true information.
Click on the links below to connect to the MaST Library's databases.
A collection of databases including the Student Resource Center - Gold, Health Module, and Opposing Viewpoints. These databases contains thousands of primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analysis, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines and newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Also included is a dynamic online library of current event topics: the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors. This database's unique features include Viewpoint articles — frameworks that allow students to explore each topic's many facets — and exclusive electronic access to Thomson Gale's Information Plus series featuring statistics and government data placed in context.
Grolier Online is an educational portal providing access to information from many sources, both print and electronic. This online suite consists of three databases:
The New Book of Knowledge®: Reference and current events for elementary readers and up.
The New Book of Popular Science: In-depth science, plus science in the news for middle and high school students.
Lands and Peoples: Up-to-date information for country and state reports, plus Mexican states in Spanish, for middle and high school students.
Using Grolier Online is easy! You can search it just as you search the Web, but there is a difference. Your search leads you to relevant articles from Grolier Online's encyclopedias, which point you to a rich variety of other resources, both within Grolier Online and on the World Wide Web.
SIRS Discoverer is an award-winning, general reference resource for young researchers that develop their research, writing, language and computer skills. The database includes carefully selected full-text articles and images from more than 1,600 domestic and international newspapers, magazines and government documents.
This is a comprehensive subject guide to the best free resources available on the Internet. It is not a search engine, but collections of pre-selected, annotated, and cataloged Web sites reviewed by librarians, subject experts, educators, and editors.
This is a collection of many valuable databases. If you are in the library you can access POWER Library directly from our website. If you are at home, POWER Library can be accessed from your local public library's website using your public library card's barcode. Click on your public library's webpage below:
Free Library of Philadelphia http://www.library.phila.gov
Bucks County Libraries http://www.buckslib.org/
Montgomery County Libraries http://www.mclinc.org/
Delaware County Libraries http://www.delcolibraries.org
"My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating."
Ashley Brilliant
(Submitted by M.J.B. of Brazil)
