Tuckahoe High School

Library

 

Library Rules:

1. Hours: 7:30 - 3:15 every day (except when meetings are scheduled).
2. Pass required to enter except periods 5, 6 (lunch).

3. Only 4 students per table.

4. Sign in at Circulation Desk immediately upon entering.

5. Quiet talking at reading tables.

6. Please do not move the chairs or tables.

7. No food or beverages.

8. Please do not re-shelve books.

9. Please refrain from speaking loudly.

10. Computers (6)

-Used with staff permission; only school-related purposes allowed.

-Word processing permitted on a limited basis

-Reasonable time limits per student imposed when other

students are waiting to use computers.

11. Circulation:
-Six items per student; two-week borrowing period.

-$.05 fine per day/per item for overdue materials.


-Borrowing periods are renewable and encouraged.

Computer Information:

Library-Information Center features six local area network microcomputers which provides access to a variety of online databases.

Online Catologs:

Tuckahoe Middle/High School Library Mandarin Search
Click the above link to search the school's library card catalog.

WLS (Westchester Library System) http://www.wls.lib.ny.us/ns.html

The union catalog (combined holdings) of all 38 public libraries in Westchester County.

 

WEB PALS http://www.waldo.msus.edu/

The union catalog of all academic and school library collections in Westchester County.

 

Magazines:

American Heritage
Astrology
Sports Illustrated
People Weekly
Automobiles
Seventeen
Boys Life
Ebony
Newsweek
Archaeology
Cable In The Classroom
School Library Journal
Scientific American
US News & World Report
Right On Magazine
DIG
Discover
Entertainment Weekly
Good Ideas Newsletter
Jet
National Geographic
Newsweek
 People In Espanol
PHI Delta Kappan
Time
YM
Popular Science
Consumer Reports

Newspapers:

New York Times
Wall Street Journal
Journal News
Review Press

 

Miscellaneous:

PETERSON'S COLLEGE http://spweb.silverplatter.com/waldo?
Peterson's contains over 3,600 profiles of accredited baccalaureate.

PETERSON'S GRADLINE http://spweb.silverplatter.com/waldo?
Covers all accredited institutions in the U.S. and Canada offering post-baccalaureate degrees.

ERIC http://spweb.silverplatter.com/waldo?
It is a network of 16 subject-specialized clearinghouses.

 

Online Resources:

INFO TRAC HEALTH REFERENCE CENTER ACADEMIC 1980-2002
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/menu
Used to locate articles

INFO TRAC JUNIOR EDITION K-12 http://infotrac.galegroup.com/menu
Designed for students in middle school, junior high school who need magazine information.

MasterFILE PREMIER http://www.wls.lib.ny.us/databases
(Click "Home Login Here" adjacent to EBSCO icon; enter public library card barcode #, click "EBSCOhostWEB")
Provides full-text for more than 1,900 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals.

Encyclopedias:

GROLIER ONLINE http://go.grolier.com
Provides access to three titles: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and the New Book of Knowledge.

FUNK & WAGNALLS NEW WORLD ENCY. http://www.wls.lib.ny.us
(Click "Access Online Resources" from WLS home page, click EBSCO "Home login Click Here", enter public library card barcode #, and then click "EBSCOhostWEB")
 May be searched by subject or keyword.

Updated by Rosemary D. on September 25, 2006