Resources


 * I ****nfoTrac:** Thompson Gale online databases are available at home or school. At school, you probably don’t need a password. These are reference books, magazines, newspapers, and other print resources. Use it at school or at home: h[|ttp://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/albu58506]

For VVHS ONLY---**Gale Virtual Reference Library**: 700 sets of reference books that we have purchased electronically. You may find it helpful to select it for your first search on a topic and then deselect it when you are using the rest of the databases.
 * Expanded Academic ASAP Professional Collection
 * General Reference Center Gold Business and Company Resource Center
 * Discovering Collection Gale’s Opposing Viewpoints Center
 * Informe (Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completes)
 * and MUCH more!

**Professional database:** These books are merged into the Gale Virtual Library collection on the InfoTrac site above, but they can be found in a different format at the site below. The password is the same for both sites. @http://galesites.com/ascd/volcanovistahs

**Learn360** online video database: includes standards and some lesson plans...see Mrs. Horwitz to set up your account.

**Newsbank**: 3 NM newspapers, KOAT TV, and 10 national newsmagazines current with the latest edition. Use it at school or at home  URL: [] username: nmstatelib

**ABC Clio** is an award-winning publisher of educational and academic reference products. We produce history and social studies resources for scholars, students, teachers, and librarians at secondary schools and universities.  [] Username: vvhsstu

**JSTOR** is a not-for-profit organization designed to organize and maintain an archive of hundreds of important scholarly journal articles, and to provide wide access to these journals. The most recent journals in the database are 5 years old, but they go back, in many, cases to the first journals published by the company…over 1100 to choose from Use it at school or at home: http: [|www.jstor.org] Username: volcanovista

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Destiny** is the library operating system. You may log on at school at 172.18.0.42, choose Volcano Vista to find out what books are available. This site also has WebPath Express with links to Internet sites supporting your research. The home page has links to some sites we use regularly. You may log on at home at 209.189.173.18

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Don't forget the **librarian files on the school website**: []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">VVHS class specific projects: I have set up word documents as files with suggestions for sites we have used on research projects classes have done in the library on the school librarian webpage...click on files.