1 PLEASE PICK UP YOUR PAPERS FROM THE TABLE IN FRONT OF THE REFERENCE SECTION.

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PLEASE PICK UP YOUR PAPERS FROM THE TABLE IN FRONT OF

THE REFERENCE SECTION.

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1) When you check out a book here at MTHS, when will it be due?

THREE WEEKS

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2) How much is the fine that you will owe during the first two days an item is overdue?

ZERO

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3) ? literacy is a life skill that everyone needs—it’s not just a skill that you use in school and then never need

again. What word belongs in place of the question mark?

INFORMATION

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4) What should you do to communicate to a computer program that you want to keep a phrase together—you want animal rights to be right next to each other instead of just two words appearing anywhere on the page?

Enclose in quotation marks

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5) What program would you use if you wanted to find out whether our library has a copy of the latest book by Cassandra Clare?

DESTINY

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6) MTHS subscribes to an online program that will create source pages for you. You registered and created a new project in that program last week. What is the name of the program?

NOODLETOOLS

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7) What is the information about a source (its research “label”) called?

CITATION

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8) There are various formats that can be used to determine how sources appear on a source page. What format will you be using most of the time at MTHS?

MLA

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9) Where should you look first to find the source information for a print book?

FRONT OF THE TITLE PAGE

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10) If there is more than one city listed for a book, what do you do?

USE THE FIRST ONE LISTED

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Database Intro(1:30)

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THE INTERNET IS . . .

a “global system of interconnected computer networks” that enables you to access information stored in files on computers all around the world.

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The computer network that you are on when you use Google (the

Internet) is the same network you use to access the online

subscription databases that the school provides for you to use for

academic research.

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A database is “a comprehensive collection of data organized for convenient access.” Our online subscription databases provide easy access to collections of reference book articles, newspaper and magazine articles, pictures, and more.

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SUBSCRIPTION DATABASE ARTICLES—ALWAYS BEST?

FREE-WEB SITES FOUND BY USING GOOGLE OR BING—BAD?

ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!BUT . . .

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Educators and serious researchers do consider the articles that can be found in these subscription databases to be more credible and reliable than what can be

found on many free-web sites.

In 2006, Yale University subscribed to over 900 of these databases at a cost

of $5 million per year.

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What Are Databases and Why Do You Need Them(2:34)

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• All of the subscription databases to which MTHS subscribes are accessible anywhere there is Internet access—that includes home.

• Logins and passwords are necessary when accessing the databases outside of school.

• All of our databases allow you to email the articles that you find.

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GALE STUDENT RESOURCES IN CONTEXT

• . . . is a comprehensive database (covering a wide range of topics) that contains reference book articles, newspaper articles, magazine articles, academic journal articles, primary documents, and multimedia files.

• . . . is our largest database with over 16 million articles.

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ABOUT GSRC

• Articles in this database are organized and displayed by type of source—Reference, News, Magazines, Academic Journals, etc.

• Content level icons indicate difficulty level of articles. Green circle—the easiest; yellow square—middle; brown triangle—most difficult .

• A description of the article (interview, biography, book review, etc.) can be found to the right of the article title.