Library
The BHS library strives to offer a dynamic and vibrant space for our community to work, study, read, inquire, and collaborate.
Librarian: Sharon Morgan
Library Assistant: Maura Bussiere
Hours: Monday through Friday 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM
- Book Request Form
- Digital Catalogs
- Reading Resources
- Digital Media
- Academic Databases
- MLA Format
- Information Literacy
Book Request Form
Digital Catalogs
Reading Resources
TeachingBooks
From our exclusive, ever-growing, vetted collection of instructional materials about children's and young adult books and authors; everyone can easily find books to read, enjoy, and access support materials to gain a better understanding of books.
Google Shelves
See what young adult and new adult books I've read and what I thought.
NPR Books
National Public Radio - Latest Young Adult Best Sellers!
Digital Media
BHS Digital Library: Overdrive (SORA)
Overdrive allows you to download mainly high-interest books to your device or to one borrowed from the library.
AVON: Academic Video OnLine
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) makes this database a useful resource for faculty and students alike. Source: AVON
Wall Street Journal - Digital Edition
Login credentials are on the password sheets. This link can be accessed both in school and out of school!
The Nation
The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine and one of the country's definitive political voices.
Academic Databases
Barnstable High School subscribes to the following academic databases. Database access is password protected. Students may obtain the password information at the H. H. Broadbent Library.
ProQuest
The user-friendly general reference tool—delivers one of the largest general reference collections of periodical and digital media content designed to support every range of user, including elementary students, college-prep and college-level researchers, and professional educators. Powered by our MediaSeek knowledge base of educational standards, educators can even search for resources that correlate to state and national standards.
ProQuest STEM Science
The STEM Database delivers a comprehensive collection of more than 500 magazines and journals designed to support studies in science, tech, engineering and math subject areas.
ProQuest: Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
A Selection of Primary Sources
Gale Virtual
With its depth of features and content, Gale Virtual Reference Library is a digital cross-curricular resource that supports information literacy and the development of 21st century skills and reinforcing the critical difference between authoritative resources and consumer-published content on the web.
Infobase eBooks
With thousands of titles and numerous award winners, Infobase provides students, librarians, and educators with authoritative, reliable resources supporting the curriculum across a wide variety of subject areas˜from history, science, and literature to careers, health, and social issues.
Salem Press
Salem provides online access to all of it’s award-winning content in health, history, literature and science.
MLA Format
Plagiarism
- To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as your own
- To use (another’s production) without crediting the source
- To commit literary theft
- To present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.
MLA style comes from the Modern Language Association. All fields of research agree on the need to document scholarly borrowings, but documentation conventions vary because of the different needs of scholarly disciplines. MLA style for documentation is widely used in the humanities, especially in writing on language and literature. Generally simpler and more concise than other styles, MLA style features brief parenthetical citations in the text keyed to an alphabetical list of works cited that appears at the end of the work. Use th guides below to format a paper in Google Docs, see a sample Works Cited Page and instuctions on in-text (parenthetical) citations.
Information Literacy
"Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information"(ALA).
- Determine the extent of information needed
- Access the needed information effectively and efficiently
- Evaluate information and its sources critically
- Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base
- Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose
- Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally