ROSA SCOTT LIBRARY

Welcome to the Rosa Scott Library webpage!

Our mission is to encourage lifelong information literacy and learning through reading and inquiry. We hope this is a welcoming and inviting space where you can access, evaluate, research and find information. We have high-quality resources and a host of learning activites. You can find out about our librarian on the sidebar.

Our schedule is "Open Access." Students and teachers have access to the school library’s resources and materials at all times.

STUDENT RESOURCES

SEARCH THE CATALOG

Research Resources:

For log-in passwords, please come to the library.

Encyclopedia Britannica

http://online.infobaselearning.com/Default.aspx

THESE LINKS ACCESS DATABASES, RESEARCH TOOLS, CITATION MAKERS, AND OTHER USEFUL SITES TO ASSIST YOUR ACADEMIC NEEDS. MANY OF THESE SITES REQUIRE USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS THAT CAN BE OBTAINED IN THE LIBRARY.

Watch this video to gain access to e-Books.

e-Book tutorial

Go to www.Clever.com/in/MCS or click on the image below. Log in the Active Directory to access e-Books in Follett.

Databases

	Search all print and digital resources of the MC Media Center.		Access World Book Encyclopedia online.
	Provides access to multiple databases		Digital Streaming Service- Educational videos, clips, audiobooks
	Provides access to multiple databases		Search critical and biographical websites about authors and their works.
	Research today’s crucial issues in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture.		Search over 7,000 academic journals, newspapers, manuscripts, eye witness reports, videos and e-Books.

	Videos, slideshows, primary sources, maps/graphs and timelines dating prehistory through the mid-1500s.
	Compilation of industries/careers fields and professions.		Online dictionary and thesaurus

e-Books:

	MC eBooks
	Public domain ebooks	LibriVox	Free audio books

Citations and Style:

	MLA 8th Edition writing and formatting guidelines.		Citation maker
	MLA 8th Edition writing and formatting guidelines.

PARE

	MAGNOLIA provides a broad range of full text and bibliographic databases designed for research. EBSCOhost Tutorial- Introduction to EBSCOhost EBSCOhost Tutorial- Basic Search EBSCOhost Tutoria l- Advance Search

	Created specifically for high schoolers, Research in Context combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more.
	Issues and Controversies is features timely, in-depth articles covering complex, hot-button issues in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture.
	Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias & specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research (eBooks).
	Bloom's Literary Reference Online is a database with literary criticisms and biographical information.
	World Book Online is a complete reference work along with dictionary, atlas, links, magazines, historical; documents, audio, video, images, and 3D photographs.
	ipl2 Literary Criticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.

Other Helpful Research Websites and Information:

Annotated Bibliography Information and Example

MLA Research Paper Example with Notes

MLA- 8th edition Citation Template

Purdue Online Writing Lab

MLA Powerpoint-8th edition

Website Evaluation Guide (5 W's of using a website)

Citation Helpers:

	OSLIS provides a citation maker and many research tips.
	Citation Machine helps students properly credit the information that they use.
	Easybib provides automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/ Turabian citation styles.

Career Resources:

CareerZone

U.S. Department of Labor

Careers Internet Database

Other Resources:

Cliffs Notes

Provides study guides and test prep.

Librivox

Free audio books