Oct 262011
 

Dual Credit Government Final Assignment Resources

1)     EBSCO  History Research Center : http://search.ebscohost.com (username/password holycross/cross)

Put the case or legislation inside “quote marks“ so the database will look for those terms in that sequence.  You can add other search terms to that, such as “War Powers Act” AND effect.  Use limiters Full Text, and others if necessary.

Friendly suggestionJ – Make an account in EBSCO so you can save the articles that will be useful for your paper.  You can access these at home or school. 

2)      Holy Cross Library Catalog

3)     Annuals of America (in library)

4)     Supreme Court Decisions http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/opinions.html

5)     Supreme Court Decisions 1937-1975 http://www.supcourt.ntis.gov/

6)     Supreme Court Decisions 1992-2000 http://www.fedbbs.access.gpo.gov.court01.html

Oct 242011
 
Don’t miss…
Scary Story Fest
October 31 (of course)
3:15 – 4:30
in the Library

 

 

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Come tell your best scary story…a legend…an original…a true tale!  come listen or tell. 

But leave your FEAR at the door!

Snacks, prizes for the best story and telling and lots of gory, creepy, thrilling fun.

Oct 132011
 

Mr. Forman’s Theology I – Saints and Holy Ones Library Resources

Please keep in mind as you work with information that EVERY source needs citation. (This includes pictures!)

PRINT RESOURCES (books) 

On Reserve for your class:

  • Several collective biographies
  • Butler’s Lives of the Saints (multi-volume set)

New Catholic Encyclopedia (in Reference shelf):

  • Great resource for looking up your saint

Biography section (shelves in corner)

  • Use this to look up individual books about your saint. 

Browse shelf or use Library Catalog -> www.holycross-sa.com -.Academics -> Library Resources -> HC Library Catalog

 ELECTRONIC RESOURCES (databases/websites)

1)     Saint information websites (authoritative):

 2)     Gale Virtual Reference Library  (see below for access)

  • This has an e-version of the Catholic Encyclopedia

Access from www.holycross-sa.com -> Library Resources -> Databases: Gale -> Password: lonestar -> select publication->Religion-> New Catholic Encyclopedia-> Put search term in box on left (use this for further info on saint)

3)  Gale Biography in Context (BEST BET FOR INFO)

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/tlc209050002

Use this link. Password is lonestar.  Scroll down to this database.  It is excellent.  We have it on a trial basis until October 26.  Let me know what you think.  This has good REFERENCE information and IMAGES.

Aug 222011
 

Did you know our library has a wide variety of magazines and publications? There are titles for all interests: Sports Illustrated, Money, Teen Vogue, America (national Catholic weekly), Newsweek, Cheerleader, Smithsonian, Time, Poder (focus on Hispanic leaders), National Catholic Reporter, Skateboarding, BMX, Motor Trend. We also have the daily San Antonio Express News and USA Today as well as the archdiocesan newspaper Today’s Catholic. Except for the latest issues, all of the current year copies are available for checkout.

May 032011
 

Please start at this web site http://sites.google.com/site/wakelandhslibrary/websiteevaluation .

One third of the class will be directed to start at the top of the list, one third at the bottom, and the remaining students will start with Schmoop and work down.  Hopefully, this will result in every web site being evaluated.  Use the Informational Web Page Test sheet as a guide for evaluating each web site.  On a separate sheet of paper list the name of the web site and write down your comments on why you thought the web site was a hoax or real.  Specifically list sites you used to gain further information about the web site being investigated, and what you learned from those web sites.

Links to help you evaluate: 

EasyWhoIs–who publishes the site?

Archive.org–What is the site history? 

Snopes.com—“… the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.”

 Posted by at 2:52 pm
Apr 272011
 

INTERNET

Housed at the Center for Gender Equity at the nonprofit Academy for Educational Development, this site functions as an archive describing the nature of the problems of labor and sexual exploitation of humans, broken out by country. There’s a link to the 10th Annual Trafficking in Persons report released in June 2010 by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with coverage of 177 nations; despite some progress, millions continue to suffer modern forms of slavery while human trafficking remains a foremost concern in many countries.

 Posted by at 1:34 pm
Apr 112011
 

Slavery Resources

Gale Databases – Gale Virtual Reference Library – History – American Civil War Reference Library – search for Slavery

 Gale Databases – Student Resource Center Junior – Slavery (Popular Topics, second column)

 ProQuest – type login, then click on My Products Page – SIRS Discoverer – Search for Slavery

 World Book – World Book Student – Search for Slavery

Africans in America http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr4.html

Slavery in America http://www.history.com/topics/slavery

Digital History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/slav_fact.cfm

Children & Youth in History http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/teaching-modules/141

African tribes and the slave trade http://moderntribalist.blogspot.com/2007/03/african-tribes-and-slave-trade.html

Slavery Africa, Europe, and Jamaica http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/dreadlibrary/mclean.html

The African American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom http://www.cwpost.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaslavry.htm

 Slave Ships South Carolina http://genealogytrails.com/scar/slave_ships.htm

The African Slave Trade in the Atlantic World http://public.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/hist106web/site2/Mainpage.htm

 The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces

 Islam Resources

 Gale Databases – Gale Virtual Reference Library – Religion — World Religions Reference Library – search for Islam

Gale Databases – Gale Virtual Reference Library – Religion — Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices — search for Islam

 ProQuest – type login, then click on My Products Page – SIRS Discoverer – Search for Islam

 World Book – World Book Student – Search for Islam

 Russian Revolution Resources

 Digital Knowledge Central – Encyclopædia Britannica – Search for Russian Revolution, Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin

 ProQuest – type login, then click on My Products Page – SIRS Discoverer – Search for Russian Revolution 1917

 World Book – World Book Student – Search for Russian Revolution of 1917

 Posted by at 1:59 pm
Feb 012011
 

This DVD set can be used by classes other than World History.  Please look at the descriptions and make notes in your scopes and sequences.  For example, Art History would be interested in “Engineering and Empire: Da Vinci’s World” on disc 16.

AV DVD 909 WOR World History: Beginnings to the New World

Disc 1 Beginnings of Civilization

  • Ape Man: The Human Puzzle
  • Digging for the Truth: Kings of the Stone Age
  • In Search of History: The Fate of the Neanderthals
  • Ancient Discoveries: Riots and Revolution

Disc 2 The Chinese Empire

  • Engineering an Empire: China
  • Ancient China: Agriculture
  • Modern marvels: The Great Wall of China
  • Forbidden City: The Dynasty and Destiny

Disc 3 The Eastern World

  • Barbarians: Mongols
  • Ancients Behaving Badly: Genghis Khan

Disc 4 The Eastern World, cont.

  • Ottoman Empire: The War Machine
  • Warrior Empire: The Mughals

Disc 5 Russia/The Middle East

  • Engineering and Empire: Russia
  • In Search of History: The Romanovs
  • Engineering and Empire: Egypt

Disc 6 Russia/The Middle East, cont.

  • Engineering and Empire: The Persians
  • Secrets of the Koran Parts I & II

Disc 7 The Americas

  • Digging for the Truth: Stonehenge of the Americas
  • Engineering an Empire: The Maya: Death Empire
  • In Search of History: The Lost City of the Incas

Disc 8 The Americas, cont.

  • Ancient Mysteries: The Aztec Empire
  • Mexican-American War
  • Panama Canal

Disc 9 Greece

  • Engineering an Empire: Greece
  • The True Story of Hannibal

Disc 10 Greece, cont.

  • Ancient Mysteries: Odyssey of Troy
  • Lost Worlds: Athens: Supercity
  • Ancient Greece: Modern Ship Building
  • Battles BC: Alexander: Lord of War 

Disc 11 Rome

  • Ancient Mysteries: Pompeii: Buried Alive
  • Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire: Julius Caesar
  • The Great Empire Rome:  The Republic of Rome

Disc 12 Rome, cont.

  • Barbarians: The Huns
  • Barbarians: The Goths

Disc 13 The Rise of Christianity

  • The Rise of Christianity
  • The Dark Ages

Disc 14 The Byzantine Empire

  • Engineering an Empire: The Byzantines
  • Cities of the Underworld: Gods of War (Turkey)

Disc 15 The Middle Ages

  • The Crusades: Crescent & the Cross (Part I)
  • The Crusades: Crescent & the Cross (Part II)

Disc 16 The Renaissance

  • Scourge of the Black Death
  • Engineering and Empire: Da Vinci’s World
  • The Medici Assassination
  • Ancient Mysteries: The Borgias

Disc 17 Britain

  • Stonehenge Secrets Revealed
  • The Conquerors: William the Conqueror
  • Engineering an Empire: Britain: Blood and Steel

Disc 18 France

  • Joan of Arc: Virgin Warrior
  • Napoleon Bonaparte: The Glory of France
  • The French Revolution

Disc 19 Africa

  • Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?
  • Skeletons on the Sahara
  • Suez Canal: Then and Now

Disc 20 New World

  • Leif Ericson: Voyages of a Viking
  • Columbus: Explorer of the New World
  • Who Really Discovered America?
 Posted by at 9:02 pm