1. The Library is the place to start when guiding students to do research - and most resources can be accessed from home.
The library web page is under Academics on
the home page. Open the HTS Library
page.
The link can be found here.
Information for students and
parents is given as well as links to encyclopedias and databases from
home. Explore, learn and have fun!
We encourage you to take advantage of Britannica
Encyclopedias, Grolier Suite of Encyclopedias, SIRS Discoverer® and NoodleBib
Citation Maker from home. The school
subscribes so our students can find credible information without ads or
popups. Britannica and Groliers have
dictionaries and atlases and give MLA citations. All need to have cookies enabled. To use or sign up go to the Holy Trinity Home Page – HTS Local – HTS Library
Main Page and choose Library
Resources from Home. Follow the
directions .
Click on the Britannica link. The username is: holytrinityes and the password is Ktwelve.
Choose a Level to Explore, Search, and Learn: Pre-K – 2 Learning Zone, Elementary,
Middle or High School or all may be searched.
Image Quest: Access more than
two million rights-cleared images from over 50 of the best collections in the
world.
Click the link that
takes you to the enrollment page.
Answer the four questions and
submit.
Patrons 13 and
younger may need to wait for parental notification but patrons 14 and older get
a username and password delivered to their e-mail box immediately with further
instructions and tips for access.
We subscribe to six: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia,
New Book of Knowledge, New Book of Popular Science, Lands and People, and
America the Beautiful. When Grolier opens you will be in what
they call their Passport section. Grolier
Online for Kids, aimed at younger students, can also be accessed
from here, but all encyclopedias can be accessed from both. A dictionary, atlas and Associated Press
Daily News Section written for kids are also included.
Click on the SIRS link.
The User Name is Titans123 and the Password is 20007. (Think mascot and HTS Zip code.)
Searching for a specific topic is done in a search box or by
clicking on buttons for general information.
Sources returned come from reference materials, periodicals, newspapers,
web sites, Comptons Encyclopedia, World
Almanac for Kids, American Heritage
Dictionary, Roget’s II: New Thesaurus and photographs. When using the citation information choose
MLA format.
Each of our Upper School students should have an account with NoodleTools, which is helps them organize and properly cite their sources.
NoodleTools has a number of online tutorials to help you understand how to best use this website. Some of the tutorials were mentioned in a previous blog entry, which can be found here.
Off campus
a user who enters NoodleBib remotely will be prompted to log in to the
subscription when he/she clicks "Create a Personal ID" on the login
screen. Use the name and password below for access and then create your
Personal ID as above or if you already have one choose login.
Username: citations
Password: titans1112
Or if you have Microsoft Office 2007 on the
References Tab are options for inserting Citations, Endnotes, Footnotes and
creating Bibliographic citations.
Holy Trinity uses
MLA style for citations.
A Few Notes on using Destiny to find books in the HTS Library:
Searching and Researching on the Web - A few go-to resources.
If you would like to brush up on your Internet Searching Skills as you embark on a research project with your somewhat tech-savvy students, some of the best resources come from the website Common Sense Media, and Google Education:
I particularly like the resource to help students figure out how to identify high quality sites:
(click here for link to the handout)
One way to practice your own search strategies is with a Google A Day Challenge:
Go ahead and try it! It's a bit addicting :)
Google has a number of wonderful posters, with simple search tips:
And a few notes on Wikipedia. I covered this topic in a previous blog entry, which can be found here:
Any other questions? We are always here to help...
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