Library/Media Center - Mount Olive High School

Passes/Sign in for Students

If you are signing up for lunch choose "No Teacher, Lunch." For any other block, please choose the correct teacher.

No food is allowed in the library. Please eat in the cafe before coming to the library during unit lunch.

Si se inscribe para el almuerzo, elija "No Teacher, Lunch". Para cualquier otro bloque, elija el profesor correcto.

No se permite comida en la biblioteca. Por favor coma en la cafetería antes de venir a la biblioteca durante el almuerzo.

Library Catalog

Browse the Library's Collectionor

For Comics Plus, click here and sign in with your school google account.

If we don't have something you are looking for, please let us know here.

Want to help? You can donate a book from our wishlist.

If we don't have what you are looking for in our collection, the Mount Olive Public Library might. You can get a card on their website and start checking out books the same day.

Access the Back Office

General

New York Times The first time you use NYTimes, start here. Be sure to use your school email account.

Gale PowerSearch Searches multiple Gale databases

JStor Includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences

ProQuest Platform Cross-search multiple ProQuest Products

Britannica Image Quest Rights-free images

credo source Credo Source is a one-stop research platform combining citable reference content with instructional videos and tutorials, as well as access to your other subscription databases. Credo Source is a great starting point for research.

EBSCOhost EBSCOhost is a research platform that provides access to a variety of databases, including journals, magazines, and eBooks

eBooks

Language Arts

Science & Health

Career

Pro/Con Databases

History

To search all history databases at once click here:

History Research Center

Individual databases:

African-American History American History Online American Indian History Online Ancient & Medieval History Modern World History

New york city civil rights historyFree project inspired by New York City high school student activists who wanted to understand the history of their city and their schools.

Civics and Government ResourcesFree Civics Collection, produced by GBH Education, with contributions from Georgia Public Broadcasting, KET, KQED, PBS, PBS News/News Hour, Rhode Island PBS, TPT, WFYI, WVIZ/Ideastream, and Wyoming PBS, as well as StoryCorps, Retro Report, A Starting Point, iCivics, the Center for Civic Education, the Bill of Rights Institute, the Tax Foundation, and NETA.

International Studies

Legal

For Teachers

Citation Resources

NoodleTools NoodleTools is an award-winning online research management platform that promotes critical thinking and authentic research. All students and teachers must register an individual account. If you have any trouble, please email shannon.venos@motsd.org for help creating an account.

MLA Formatting Guide from the OWL at Purdue Source for MLA formatting information.

APA Formatting Guide from the OWL at Purdue Source for APA formatting information.

Free citation tool: Bibcitation

Research Resources

Policies

Circulation

Students may borrow up to six items at a time.

Items are on loan for four weeks. Patrons may request a renewal if there is no hold on an item.

Patrons may not borrow items if they have overdue items.

Patrons are responsible for replacement costs for damaged and/or lost items.

Library Use

Students must have a call and a pass from their teacher.

Students are responsible for their own time management.

No food or drink is permitted in the Library.

Helpful Links

General Library
Library and Media Center Glossary of Terms
Vocabulary to help you navigate the library. Recommended by Harrison Park Community STEM Club for Girls.

Literature

READWRITETHINK
Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

History

Teaching History Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the National History Education Clearinghouse (NHEC) is designed to help K-12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom.

American Memory Project American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

Coming of the Revolution

The Opper Project, named after Ohioan Frederick Burr Opper, the first great American-born cartoonist, is an on-line collection of historic editorial cartoons. Covering more than one hundred years of American history, the cartoons are organized topically with associated lesson plans.

Science/ Mathematics

Scitable Scitable currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms.

Encyclopedia of Life

Welcome to Trailblazing, an interactive timeline for everybody with an interest in science. Compiled by scientists, science communicators and historians – and co-ordinated by Professor Michael Thompson FRS – it celebrates three and a half centuries of scientific endeavour and has been launched to commemorate the Royal Society's 350th anniversary in 2010.

Discovery Education Video Streaming Please let me know if you need the school pass code.

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