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Establish an inclusive environment that provides students with the skills and resources to become independent and critical readers, thinkers and users of information.

 
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Diane Mustin

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Elizabeth Deming

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Jennifer Scattolino

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Vanessa Rocconi

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REMEMBER YOU NEED TO REVALIDATE YOUR ACCOUNT JUST ONCE AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH SCHOOL YEAR.

If you try to access from home before you revalidated from school, you will need to log in with the school username and password before you can access your individual account. This password can be found at the passwords tab at the top of the library page. You must be logged into your school google email for the passwords to be visible.

You will log on by accessing Google for Education with your school Google Email. You no longer have a separate name and password.

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Book Catalogs

Chester County Library

Find a Book in Any PA Library (Ask staff for assistance to find, order and deliver books to our library for free from any library in PA)

eBooks

EBOOKS AND AUDIO BOOKS on MACKIN platform

Young adult fiction and required curricular books- ebooks and Audiobook formats

You will need the login password- look under Passwords to Databases found in the middle column, Databases Alphabetically.

 

Project Gutenberg Classics

Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.

 

Reference eBooks in our Library Database Collections

Gale Virtual Reference

Reference Shelf/Salem Press

Book Lists

Newspapers

NEW YORK TIMES
To access the New York Times, you will go to www.nytimes.com and then do the following:
  • Click Log In (on top right of page)
  • Choose sign in with google account
  • Allow New York Times to view your e-mail
  • Enter your school google account password if prompted
Then going forward, you will be able to access the New York Times from any device, anywhere in the world, by using your UCFSD google account login.

On the upper right, click Register and create an account with your school email and personal password. You will receive and email with a link to activate. Once activated, go back to the website (NIE.philly.com) and click "log in".

EBSCO NEWSPAPER DATABASE (go to the first icon, EBSCOhost and then choose the Newspaper Source Plus Database- you will need a password from home, listed under the password tab at the top of the library page)

NEWSPAPERS by ANCESTRY (local newspapers from all over the Unites States)

Summer Reading

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Databases Alphabetically

 

Passwords to Databases (only available when logged into school gmail)

ABC-CLIO (Social Studies)

Ancestry(Genealogy-school access only)

Current History (school access only)

Discovery Education (Videos)

EBSCO (Magazines/News, Fiction/Nonfiction eBooks & more)

Encyclopedia Britannica

(Literature, Social Studies, Videos)
 

Gale(Literature, Social Studies, Science, Ebooks all subjects)

J-STOR (Scholarly Journals-school access only)

J-STOR (home access)

ProQuest Knowledge Source(Current Pro/Con Issues)

Reference Shelf & Salem (school access)(Essays/Speeches Current Topics & Historical Biographies)

Reference Shelf & Salem (home access)

Rosen Teen Health & Wellness

(Mental and Physical Health Issues)

ROSEN DIGITAL LITERACY

(Cyber safety, credible vs. fake news, ethics)

POWER LIBRARY E-RESOURCES

(All subjects-school access or from home with your public library card number)


 

Databases by Subject

Best Databases by Subject

Magazines/Newspapers

Ebscohost: MasterFile Premier and Newspaper Source

Newspapers.com from Ancestry (school access only)

Scholarly Journals

JStor (from school) JStor (from home)

Ebscohost: MasterFile Premier (limit in advance search to peer reviewed)

Current/Pro-Con Issues

Gale: Opposing Viewpoints

ABC-Clio: Issues

ProQuest: Sirs Knowledge Source

Rosen: Teen Health and Wellness

Reference Shelf (from school)Reference Shelf (from home)

Literary Criticism (See Research Pathfinder for more detail)

Gale: Artemis ebooks, Literary Sources, Literature Resource Center

Infobase: Bloom's Literature

JStor (from school) JStor (from home)

Science and Health

Gale: Science

Ebscohost: GreenFile, MasterFile Premier, Consumer Heatlh Complete

JStor (from school) JStor (from home)

Rosen: Teen Health and Wellness

Social Studies

ABC-Clio:

World at War,

World History Ancient & Medieval,

World History Modern

American Government

Infobase:

American History

Issues and Controversies in American History,

Modern World History

Ancient and Medieval History

Gale:

US History

World History

Countries/MultiCultural

ABC-Clio: World Geography

Current History (school access only)

Infobase:

Modern World History

World Almanac

Gale: Student Resource Center

Infobase: African American History

Biography

Salem Press(from school)Salem Press (from school)

Gale: Student Resource Center

Videos

Infobase: Classroom Video on Demand

Discovery Education

General/All Subjects

Explora

Gale: Student Resource Center

Encyclopedia Britannica

Geneology

Ancestry (in school access only)

Fold3 from Ancestry (school access only-military records)

How To Research

Proquest Research Companion (steps to research process

Rosen: Digital Literacy

Research Pathfinders

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