Willows High School

• California State Library Catalog Search
• Library of Congress
• WWW Virtual Library
• ProCon.org - 31 topics by an idependent, non-partisan organization
• "I debate"-- International Debate Ed. Assoc.  home page and 100 Top Debates and Debatabase
• Room for Debate--New York Times
• Debate Topics--U.S. News & World Report 
• Balanced politics.org
• PublicAgenda.org - Solution Guides
• Social Issues - Multnomah Public Library
• www.studyblue.com

NEW MLA FORMAT - 7th Edition via Chico High School Library Webpage

• MLA formating using WORD 2010 or 2007
• MLA Works Cited page, 7th ed. (Document in MicroSoft Word)
• Example of an MLA formatted paper with formatting instructions.
• EXAMPLE: CHS guidelines and expectations for written work.

Citing Sources with MLA via Chico High School Library Webpage

• Works Cited information for Chico High School
• How do I document from the Web using MLA?
• A Guide to Writing Research Papers based on MLA
• Works Cited information from Oregon School Library Information System (OSLIS)
• Citation Links from OSLIS
• MLA Guide from Purdue Online Writing Lab

Example of BAD MLA

• MLA bad example

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  CultureGrams™      (Grades 3-12)
  

  Culturegrams™ is an online resource of reports on 209 countries, each U.S. state, and all 13 Canadian provinces and territories. Reports contain information on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people, as well as audio, video, images, maps, infographics, and classroom exercises. The content is written at a range of reading levels to support a variety of users.

  • Access Culturegrams
  • CultureGrams (guide)
  • Culturegrams video (4 minutes)

  • CultureGrams Presentation

  Recorded Webinars

  • Culturegrams training from August 21, 2018 (54 min)

  SIRS® Discoverer     (Grades 3-9)
  SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database providing safe, reliable, curriculum-aligned content and features for use by students and educators in the Primary and early Secondary school market segment. It is the only resource for materials targeted to student research. All content is hand selected and indexed from over 2,100+ reliable high-quality sources. SIRS Discoverer is created with special care to provide for differentiated instruction and information literacy requirements. High interest, relevant non-fiction newspaper and magazine articles, as well as graphs, tables and political cartoons are all easily accessible through easy-to-follow search and browse options.

  • Access SIRS Discoverer
  • SIRS Discoverer (guide)
  • ProQuest SIRS Discoverer Training video

    Note: This video was recorded for TexQuest, but it is the same product, so please feel free to use this!

  • SIRS Discoverer Presentation

  Content highlighting specific features in this product

  • SIRS Discoverer Demo (15 minutes)
  • SIRS Discoverer Google Drive Integration (3 minutes)
  • SIRS Discoverer Pro-Con Leading Issues (3 min 15 sec)

  Recorded Webinars

  • SIRS Discoverer training from August 7, 2018 (52 min)
  • SIRS Discoverer training from August 21, 2018 (54 min)

  SIRS® Issues Researcher      (Grades 6+ )
  SIRS Issues Researcher delivers the pros and cons on today’s complex social issues with relevant, credible information that tells the whole story on the major questions of the day. Go in depth into any one of 345+ critical, current, and enduring social issues. Analysis and opinions hand selected from thousands of national and international sources such as newspaper & magazine articles, websites, videos, multimedia graphics, charts, maps, statistics, primary sources and government documents.

  • Access SIRS Issues Researcher
  • SIRS Issues Researcher (guide)

    See our guide for information about the product and how it works.
  • SIRS Issues Researcher training (1 hour)

  • SIRS Issues Researcher Presentation

  Recorded Webinars

  • SIRS Issues Researcher training from August 2, 2018 (53 min)
  • SIRS Issues Researcher training from August 21, 2018 (47 min)

  eLibrary®      (Grades 6+ )
  eLibrary delivers one of the largest general reference collections of periodical and digital media content designed to support every range of users, including middle and high school students, college-prep and college-level researchers, and professional educators. Educators can search for resources that correlate to state and national standards, including Common Core State Standards. eLibrary’s updated interface and features make research easy. Researchers will find the answers they need from more than 1,700 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcript titles, plus a collection of over 7 million maps, pictures, weblinks, and audio/video files.

  • eLibrary Presentation

  There are two versions of eLibrary, the Guided Research Edition, and the Database Edition.  See resources for each below.

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    Access eLibrary (Guided Research edition)
  • eLibrary (Guided Research edition) guide

    See our guide for information about the product and how it works.
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    Access eLibrary (ProQuest Database edition)
  • eLibrary (Database) guide

    See our guide for information about the product and how it works.

  Recorded Webinars

  • eLibrary training from August 21, 2018 (57 min)

  ProQuest Central Student      (Grades 9+, IB, AP, College Prep)
  ProQuest Central Student is designed to bring instant results to users across thousands of journals, magazines, newspapers, videos, reports, and other types of content. This multidisciplinary resource brings together some of ProQuest’s most used databases in education, humanities, psychology, science, social sciences, and news.

  • Access ProQuest Central Student
  • ProQuest Central Student (guide)

    See our guide for information about the product and how it works.

  • ProQuest Central Student Presentation

  Recorded Webinars

  • ProQuest Central Student training from August 21, 2018 (54 min)

  Schools and Educators Complete      (Grades 9+, possibly some content for Middle School, also includes professional development content for faculty)
  
  Schools and Educators Complete™ includes ebooks from publishers such as ALA Editions, ASCD, Classroom Complete, and the National Science Teacher Association. The collection now includes a growing selection of over 12,000 titles with unlimited, multi-user access and a wealth of information in professional development and training resources. Almost 4,500 titles in the database have relevance to state, national or provincial curriculum standards, with coverage of all Common Core subjects.

  Product Access:  Each district has their own URL for log in.  Please check with your school library/media contact for access.

  • School and Educators Complete through Ebook Central (guide)

    See our guide for information about how Ebook Central works to access your content.
  • Ebook Central Playlist

    5 videos, approx 15 minutes playtime

  • Schools and Educators Complete Presentation

  Recorded Webinars

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    Recorded Webinar: Schools and Educators Complete (22 min)

    21 minutes
  • Schools and Educators Complete training from August 22, 2018 (55 min)

   

   
• Encyclopedia Britannica:  Schools and libraries can get started by visiting these Web sites: