At School

New technologies are rapidly changing the ways information may be accessed, communicated and transferred. Telecommunications, electronic information sources, and network services significantly alter the information landscape for today's schools by opening classrooms to a broader array of resources than ever before. To help prepare students, the school's network,EHSNet, offers access to a wide variety of educational software, online resources, and the Internet. Internet access allows students and staff to access and use resources from distant computers at government, university, scientific, commercial and private sites around the world. Students may communicate and collaborate with other individuals and groups worldwide, thus greatly expanding their available information base.

Resources

  • Britannica Online - This renowned encyclopedia is now available online, and provides many special features for student researchers.
  • Destiny OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) - Search for books, audiovisual materials, and more in the Episcopal library.  Search by subject, title, author, call number, series, keyword, or ISBN/LCCN.   Click on DESTINY QUEST to see the Top 10 Books, New Arrivals and other library resources.  Use Destiny as a GUEST by clicking on the link to Bryan Library.   To access your personal account information, click on the link to Bryan Library, then click on the LOGIN button in the upper RIGHT corner of the CATALOG search page.  Use your network login and password to view your library account information.
  • The Complete National Geographic - 112 years of National Geographic on CD-ROM. Articles are fully indexed, and text and photographs may be printed in color. The CD-ROMs are available from the librarian.
  • Computer software - The library's computers currently run Microsoft XP (Windows & Office) applications, including Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Publisher.
  • Country Reports - This site was established in 1997 out of a love for international relations and culture. Entirely web-based, it offers more than 26,000 pages of content covering a wide-range of topics including history, customs and cultures, economy, population, government, current events, US state reports, learning games, and more.
  • Discovering Collection – This site offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering the core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies and more, DC provides a premium selection of reference, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips. New to the database are popular topic pick-lists and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.
  • Infotrac - This selection of online databases provides indexing for or full text of newspapers, journal articles and reference materials as well as many primary source documents. The databases are updated daily, and can be accessed via the link above.
  • Internet browser - Internet Explorer.
  • Lit in Context (on the Select-a-Product drop-down, select literature in Context Original10 subscriber; then put in user and password according to the sheet available in the library) - Provides students with social and cultural background to literary classics. It includes links to many source documents and web-based activities. Selections include The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Crucible, Hamlet, Macbeth, Of Mice & Men, The Red Pony, The Pearl, Pride & Prejudice, The Scarlet Letter, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Things Fall Apart, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
  • NoodleTools - Assistance in the preparation of APA and MLA bibliographies.
  • OCLC First Search - OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) is a system that provides bibliographic citations, and sometimes an abstract, for books and journal articles located in libraries throughout the world. Some journal articles are available online or can be e-mailed to EHS or the student's computer at home. First Search provides access to the Interlibrary Loan System, whereby students can borrow books and receive journal articles from libraries throughout the US.
  • Oldmagazinearticles.com  is a primary source website and is designed to serve as a reference for students, educators, authors, researchers, dabblers, dilettantes, hacks and the merely curious. The old articles, essays, poetry, cartoons and photographs that can be found on the site have all been collected from a number of different libraries, bookshops and yard sales throughout the United States and Europe.
  • Oxford English Dictionary - The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
  • Oxford Reference Online- Premium Collection - The Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up-to-date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language-reference, and subject-reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions series. The Premium Collection brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.
  • Proquest with the New York Times - Provides access to more than 2,000 periodicals and newspapers, most with full-text, full-image coverage. Additional entries include citations and abstracts, all on a variety of subjects. This resource is available for use from home with an ID and password obtained from the librarian.
  • SIRS - SIRS (Social Issues Resources Series) Provides integrated access to thousands of full-text articles, documents and graphics from SIRS reference databases: SIRS Researcher (general reference), SIRS Government Reporter (information by and about the U.S. government), SIRS Renaissance (arts & humanities) and SIRS NetSelect (selected, educational Internet sites).
  • Science Full Text - Includes all the full-text content from Wilson's acclaimed applied science & technology full-text, biological & agricultural index plus, and general science full text, plus additional related full-text science titles indexed by other Wilson databases, including readers' guide full-text and Wilson OmniFile full-text. Covers some 320 journals with full-text articles, indexing and abstracts of 50 to 150 words written by professionals with science backgrounds; lets users know instantly if a cited article is useful.
  • The World and I Online - WorldandISchool.com is an interdisciplinary resource that encompasses a broad range of articles by scholars and experts, all aligned to each state's standards for social studies, language arts, and science. Originally published monthly in print as The World & I, our site includes the complete contents since 1986 and continues to publish a new issue online each month.

For access to online computer research resources from school or home, go to Links by subject or General research links.