Welcome to the Carolina Day School Library!
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Middle School: MS Required Reading and Writing, with the Group Choice List and Descriptions
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Lower School (rising 3rd through rising 6th grades)
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Click here for the lists. See what's new in the Upper and Middle School libraries in books, maps, and other materials. Reviews or contents are included.
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Library resources for specific class assignments, papers, and projects and a list of general term paper topic ideas. If you received a handout when your class came to the library, you'll find the online version here.
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LexisNexis Scholastic Edition Database
(ask at the library for the user name and password)
News - over 200 US and foreign newspapers, broadcast transcripts, wire service reports, 40+ leading magazines, and foreign news sources in Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Dutch.
Legal Research - U.S. Supreme Court cases (from 1789 to today), State High Court cases and state law digests from all 50 states, law review articles from over 500 publications, all federal laws from 1988 to the present.
Legislation - U.S. and state bill tracking reports, U.S. and state bill texts, profiles of members of Congress and Congressional voting reports, Congressional Record with debates from the House and Senate floors, State legislative calendars.
Statistics - 40,000+ indexed tables drawn from federal, state, private, and international sources, including the Bureau of the Census, Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, the World Bank, the National Science Foundation, and the Small Business Administration.
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition
(ask at the library for the user name and password)
Three encyclopedias for your researching pleasure:
For Upper School: Encyclopedia Britannica
For Middle School: Compton's
For Lower School: Britannica Elementary
Bonus! Selected magazine articles accompany search results!
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(ask at the library for the user name and password)
"Provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts . Offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Has thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more. ."
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(ask at the library for the user name and password)
"A one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints, Opposing Viewpoints features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites."
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(ask at the library for the user name and password)
"Integrates over 400,000 biographies from respected Gale Group sources with related full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals, as well as tens of thousands of images and links to hand-picked web sites. Search for people---both current and historic from all eras and fields of endeavor---based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as keyword and full text. Or, combine search criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search."
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Many databases containing full-text articles from magazines, reference books, and more! Brought to you by your local public library. You must have a public library card and obtain the password from your library. The Asheville-Buncombe County Public Library is now listed as Buncombe County Public.
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An archive of thousands of published articles selected from online journals. You can choose to search only for articles available online with no cost (choose the "free articles only" option by the search box). Currency of information varies. Among the many free publications that are reasonably current and would be helpful with CDS assignments:
Politics, Current Events, History
Arts
Literary
Science & Medicine
African-American Review
African Studies Review
Asian Political News
Arab Studies Quarterly
Journal of Social History
Latin American Politics and Society
Mother Jones
National Review
Pacific Affairs
The Progressive
St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture
Social Research
The Weekly Standard
African Arts
American Drama
Art Journal
American Poetry Review
Comparative Literature
Literary Review
MELUS (Multi-ethnic literature)
Novel: A Forum on Fiction
Papers on Language and Literature
Renascence
AMAA Journal (sports medicine)
American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental History
Natural History
Nutrition Research Newsletter
Oceania
Paleobiology
Population Bulletin
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Indexes selected content from online periodicals. Included are articles from such journals as ARTnews, American History, Aviation History, Mother Jones, Popular Mechanics, Psychology Today, Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian, TimeAsia, and TimeEurope. Search by category or keyword.
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Buncombe County Public Library System
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Member of the Western North Carolina Library Network: search the combined catalogs of University of North Carolina -Asheville, Western Carolina University, and Appalachian State University.
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Mountain College Library Network
Search the MCLN catalog for materials at Mars Hill College, Brevard, Lees-McRae, Lenoir-Rhyne, Montreat, and Warren Wilson College.
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Before you Google , try these fine Internet Directories for reliable, focused, evaluated information!
| The Librarian's Index to the Internet Fabulous! A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 9,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness. |
Indispensable ! " Librarians and educators do the filtering for you, looking for the online resources most valuable to the education community." |
Academic websites intended for high school and college students. Over 25,000 resources listed. |
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Not as scholarly, but big: covers more than 50,000 subjects with over 1 million links. |
Close to 20,000 links to "important university level research and educational tools." |
"over 3.8 million sites - 53,056 editors - over 460,000 categories" |
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"Resources that are informative, of high quality, and contain worthy information from reliable information providers that are not visible to general-purpose search engines." |
Blue Web'n is an online library of 1800 + outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can search by grade level (Refined Search), broad subject area (Content Areas), or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). Each week 5 new sites are added. |
More directories listed, along with an explanation of the differences between directories and search engines. Links to search engines, too. |
Helpsheets with links:
Internet Directories and Search Engines, Evaluating WWW Resources, Citing Online Information in MLA Style
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Primary source material (over 7 million items) relating to the history and culture of the US from the Library of Congress.
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A Chronology of US Historical Documents
Primary documents! Read the Magna Carta, Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, presidential State of the Union and Inaugural Addresses, The Mayflower compact, treaties, declarations of war and surrender documents, and much more! Brought to you by the U of Oklahoma Law College of Law.
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The New York Times Learning Network
A free service for students in grades 3-12 , their teachers and parents. Updated Monday through Friday. Students: read the day's top stories or background on current events , submit a letter to the editor, ask a reporter a question and more. Teachers: access daily lesson plans.
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OWL - Perdue University's Online Writing Lab
MLA citation and formatting examples, writing guides (all types of writing!), grammar and punctuation help, doing research, creating thesis statements and outlines, and more!
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A very colorful guide to MLA (the different parts of the citation are color-coded). Brought to you by librarian Robert Delaney of the Long Island University Library.
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Fill in the blanks and NoodleBib will generate an MLA citation for you.
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Having trouble with citations? Use this site to check your cites! Put your information in and the Machine generates an MLA citation for you. Fabulous for those difficult web site cites!
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Examples and explanations of MLA's parenthetical citation style, brought to you by New York high school librarians .
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(links to statistics, almanacs, lists, and other handy information)
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(search at the same time: an encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, quotation books, English usage, plus links to great books and more)
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(great for statistics--ever wondered how many television sets are in Brazil?)
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Convert speed, distance, volume, temperature, currency and more!
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Poetry and Writing Contests List
Brought to you by Poets and Writers Magazine
Poetry 180: A Poem a Day for American High Schools
Selected by US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Keep up with what's new!
Access to poetry resources, including poems and exhibits that address movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Modernist poets, and the general development of American poetry in the 20th century.
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Wonderful periodic table. Be sure to look at the FAQ so you can make the best use of all the great features.
The same folks also bring you some other really neat pages, such as Lewis Dot Diagrams, Bohr's Model, Triple Beam Balance, an Electron Energy Map, and more. Click here for the main page.
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What's that moving star? It might be the International Space Station, a satellite, a rocket, or who knows what! This site allows you to put in your home town and generates a list of what you can see moving across the night sky, including in which direction it will appear, how many minutes it will take to cross the sky, and how high in the sky to look. All sorts of other astronomical information, too.
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Make your own inexpensive scientific instruments, such as a "one-dollar microscope," a steroscope (see things in 3-D, a telescope, a herbarium, and more!).
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Peep Research: A study of Small Fluffy Creatures and Library Usage
Peeps (yes, the marshmallow ones) visit a university library and have a series of adventures.
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"If you've ever wondered how things are made - products like candy, cars, airplanes, or bottles - or if you've been interested in manufacturing processes, like forging, casting, or injection molding, then you've come to the right place. "
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Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective
Beautiful photographs of Earth from the Landsat 7 satellite. A Library of Congress exhibit.
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Start out in space 10 million light years from the Milky Way Galaxy and zoom in to Earth until you see the inside of a leaf at the sub molecular level.
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All trivia, all the time.
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The Urban Legends Reference Pages
So your friend just sent you an email that sounds like it could be true, but you're not sure. Check it out here at Snopes.com.
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See your house from space!
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Learn how everything works, from cell phones to holidays!
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Teen Reads, IPL TeenSpace: What to Read, Kids' Picks Book Reviews
What Should I Read Next? Reviews of books written by teens.
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