Midwest Central High School
Media Center
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High School Librarian: Dee Hohenshell
To suggest a new book for our library collection, click on the book.
The library at Midwest Central High School serves 365 students and more than 30 staff members with over 7,000 print volumes that are cataloged online through the services of the Resource Sharing Alliance, a part of the Alliance Library System. Also available online to patrons are library catalogs; encyclopedias; databases for magazine, journal, and news resources; and subject-matter resources. All of these databases are accessible throughout the school and several of them permit remote usage, truly providing MCHS a “library without walls.”
The links provided on this page are gateways to the “invisible web”—information on the Internet that is not accessible with a search engine.
Online Catalog
ONLINE CATALOG—an online catalog providing access to the materials in the three Midwest Central libraries, as well as to other libraries in Central Illinois.
Online Encyclopedias
Grolier—an access point for Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and The New Book of Knowledge
Grolier Remote--First-time remote users must establish a user name and password. Click on the Grolier Remote link and follow the instructions on the enrollment page. After receiving the user name and password via email, return to this page and click the GROLIER link above.
Magazine, Journal, and News Resources
EBSCO—several databases containing full-text articles from all kinds of periodicals, health sources and professional education resources (ERIC abstracts available)
· User ID: Midwest
· Password: Search
FIRST SEARCH—databases, including access to an online catalog and journal articles or citations
· User ID: 100108121
· Password: Raider94
Social Issues Resources Series(SIRS)—an online database of information written about controversial issues
To access SIRS from home use
www.sirs.com.
Customer ID: IL0180H (case sensitive)
Password: 61546
Art and History Resources
Grove's Dictionary of Art—A database containing 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day
Proquest's CultureGrams--a great resource for finding information about countries and states
For remote access to CultureGrams, go to http://online.culturegrams.com
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History Study Center--a database of articles relating to history and of primary source documents
For remote access to History Study Center, go to http://www.proquestk12.com
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Career Information
Career Cruising--an interactive site for researching careers, creating resumes, etc.
If you have questions or comments regarding this page, e-mail our librarian deehohen@midwestcentral.org
MCHS Media Center Director
(309) 968-6766
Last Updated September 1, 2009
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