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SLEEPY HOLLOW LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG (OPAC)
Search our Library collections: books, audiobooks, visual
media
ACCESS SCIENCE
Full text of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and
Technology with yearbook updates, additional news articles and
biographies of scientists.
AMERICAN
HISTORY
A survey of American history
from 1350 to the present.
Covers politics, historical events, literature, philosophy, science,
art and economics. Contains feature stories, maps, photos,
timelines, news analysis, biographies and more, organized
chronologically and thematically.
Includes a teacher component with suggested classroom activities and
curricular tie-ins.
AP
PHOTO ARCHIVE
Contains AP's current photos from their 50 million image print and
negative library, as well as charts, graphs, tables, and maps for
the AP's graphic's portfolio.
CAREER
GUIDANCE CENTER
Explore
jobs, industries and career pathways. Learn the skills of getting
and keeping a job. Read more than 51,000 resource entries to help
achieve your career goals.
COUNTRY
WATCH
Covers the demographic, historical, political, economic, business,
environmental background and contemporary issues for each of 191
countries. Also provides country-specific, comprehensive daily
news from 12 international news services with a 12 month archive in
a searchable database containing 180,000 stories. Includes
<CountryWatch@School> which provides lesson plans and course
outlines for using Country Watch in geography and Social Studies
courses.
DAILY
LIFE ONLINE
Explore daily life across
cultures, countries and regions from the dawn of recorded history to
the present day. Includes domestic life, religious customs, economic
and political life, intellectual life, recreational activities and
such details as clothing, diet and holiday celebrations.
EBSCO
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MagillOnLiterature
definitive
online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses and
brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the
history of literature.
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Funk & Wagnalls
New World Encyclopedia a general encyclopedia
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GreenFILE
information on the human impact on the environment
including global warming, sustainability, recycling,
renewable energy, pollution, going green.
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Teacher
Reference Center
indexing and abstracts for popular periodicals for
educators.
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Library, Information Science and
Technology Abstracts
Selective
journals and research reports on many aspects of
information literacy.
GALE
DATABASES
- Biography Resource Center Use
this database to research biographies of famous people.
- Business & Company Resource Center Search this database to find
detailed company and industry news and information - includes co.
profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, co.
histories, and periodicals.
- Twayne Author Series Contains the full-text of 200
frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on World, US, or
English authors. Includes biography and literary criticism.
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Custom Newspapers
Over 300 national and international
newspapers
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New York State Newspapers
covers 10 major New York newspapers
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Business and Company ASAP
Companies, markets and industries with access to trade journals
and company directory profiles, full text and images
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Health and Wellness
Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
medical journals, health videos, general interest publications
and reference works
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National Newspaper Index
Quick access to indexing of nation’s top five newspapers
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Literature Resource Center
Literary criticism and biographical information on 130,000
writers from around the world.
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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
A
comprehensive source of information on contemporary social
issues
GROLIER
ENCYCLOPEDIAS:
Includes Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia
Americana, Nueva
Enciclopedia Cumbre en Linea , The New Book of Popular Science,
and Lands and Peoples.
HISPANICA SABER (WORLD BOOK)
Articles, images, maps, videos, links to websites, designed for
research needs of native Spanish speakers in ESL programs. Content
written from a Latin American perspective.
HOOVERS
PRO
Business and Industry Information.
JSTOR
Full-text academic journals for scholarly research. Collections in
Arts & Sciences, Business, Life Sciences, Language and Literature,
Math & Statistics, Music, Ecology
PROQUEST
Provides indexing and some full-text of over 700 newspapers,
magazines and journals including full indexing and daily editions of
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal
SCIENCE
DIRECT A collection of scientific journals for students
pursuing advanced scientific research. Access available via
assigned password and is limited to students enrolled in the
Advanced Science Research Class
SCIENCE ONLINE
Essays,
images, news items, videos, animations, diagrams, experiments,
biographies and more, searchable by subject area and type of
resource. For teachers: content tied to New York State Standards.
SIRS
DISCOVERER
Appropriate
for grades K - 8 reading levels.
Provides
full-text articles and graphics from newspapers and magazines
related to a variety of social, scientific, health, historic, global
and general interest issues.
SILVERPLATTER
Includes:
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MEDLINE
citations from the National Library of Medicine
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GPOCatalog
monthly catalog of the U.S. Government Printing Office
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ERIC
journal articles for the professional educator
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PETERSON’S GRADLINE
directory of graduate programs at colleges and universities
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PETERSON’S COLLEGES
guide to 3200 U.S. colleges, updated
yearly
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PSYCHINFO
psychology research provided by the American
Psychological Association
WORLD HISTORY: ANCIENT AND
MEDIEVAL ERAS
World history from prehistory through the Renaissance with primary
sources and timelines covering ancient cultures and providing a
worldwide perspective beyond Western civilization.
WORLD
HISTORY: THE MODERN ERA
World history beginning with
the emergence of Europe in 1500 and covering African, Asian and
Middle Eastern empires, the Enlightenment, revolutions, imperialism,
the rise of nationalism, industrialization, the World Wars, the Cold
War and the Global World of today
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