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CHEEKTOWAGA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER
YOUR 24/7 LIBRARY
"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education."
Harold Howe, Former U.S. Commissioner of Education LOOK AT THE ONLINE CATALOG TO SEE WHAT'S IN YOUR LIBRARY OPAC ONLINE PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOG
CHEEKTOWAGA CENTRAL MS/HS ONLINE DATABASES
Passwords are now located in your Student Agenda, your MLA Booklet, or stop in the Library Media Center and pick up a list. There is also a new link on the left hand side of this page, "Database Passwords". Students may use our favorite password to access this page!
GALE DATABASES Biography Resource Center
Use Biography Resource Center for great Narrative Biographies, Thumbnail Biographies, Periodicals, and Websites. Opposing Viewpoints
Visit Opposing Viewpoints for both sides of controversial issues. Student Resource Center
Student Resource Center is a database containing thousands of curriculum-related primary documents, biographies, essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 450 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. A great source for English Research papers and Social Studies students. Gale Virtual Reference Center - EBOOKS
The link to all of our e-books. Funding for e-books is provided through 21st Century Libraries New York State, Cheektowaga Central District, and Erie 1 BOCES School Library Systems. Topics for these e-books include: Business, Environment, History, Law, Medicine, Multicultural Studies and Nation and World. Novel from New York State Libraries
Students, Faculty, Staff and Parents will find many uses for this source which includes 14 different databases. Look for Health Reference Center, Informe, Custom Newspapers, New York State Newspapers, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Business and Company ASAP, Opposing Viewpoints, Student Resource Center, Biography Resource Center, Business and Company Resource Center, Junior Edition K-12, Twayne Author Series, National Newspaper Index, Health & Wellness Resource Center & Alternative Health Module. CAREERS Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Visit our new career information database. CURRENT ISSUES & EVENTS Accunet/AP Multimedia Archive
Lookin for great photos for your project, this is new this year and will provide great photos for your school projects.Associated Press provides all the photos, audio sound bites, graphics and text for this valuable resource. CQ Researcher
This database provides great information for Government classes on topics of current interest. Opposing Viewpoints
Visit Opposing Viewpoints for both sides of controversial issues. Issues and Controversies
Search Issues and Controversies to learn about all aspects of the problems of our world. SIRS and SIRS Discoverer
Visit this popular database for information in current events and controversial issues. ENCYCLOPEDIAS Grolier Online
Grolier On-line provides students with 3 major encyclopedias: New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia, and Encyclopedia Americana. The database also includes: Book of Popular Science and Lands and Peoples. There is a separate User Name and Password for School and Remote Home Usage World Book Online
Our new database for the 2004-2005 school year contains all of the articles from the 22 volume print set, plus a Spanish Dictionary, an atlas, "Today in History" and "Surf the Ages". Students and staff have remote access with their WB Username and Password. FACTS ON FILE DATABASES Bloom's Literary Reference Online
Bloom's Literary Reference Online features the writings of renowned academic Harold Bloom, as well as many other critics. Hundreds of Professor Bloom's essays are included, examining the lives and works of great writers throughout history and the world, as well as thousands of critical articles published by noted scholars under the Bloom's Literary Criticism imprint. FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND CULTURES CultureGrams
This database not only is useful to our foreign language students but is great for anyone wanting to know about the culture of countries around the world. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe this is the place for information about different cultures. Use our favorite password for this one. HEALTH Teen Health and Wellness
An online resource created specifically for teens with their unique concerns and perspective. Teen Health and Wellness is designed to provide research support and self-help on topics including: diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, life skills, work readiness, mental health, family life, and more. MAGAZINES AND PERIODICALS Cobblestone
Do you like reading about current events or history? Visit this new database and read about many of the topics that you are studying in school. EBSCO
This major database includes a collection of databases to meet all research needs. Students, Faculty, Staff, and Parents may use: Masterfile Select (800 periodicals), Newspaper Source (240 newspapers), Health Source (300 journals), ERIC, Professional Development Collection (500 journals), Professional Development Collection, MagillOnLiterature, Middle Search Plus, EBSCO Animals, Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia, and Primary Search. Please use our favorite user name and password for this one. Proquest
Proquest offers our students access to one of the world's largest collections of periodicals, including summaries of articles from over 8,000 publications, with many in full text, full image format. Requires Account Name and Password. Remote access. Email capability. Public Library Buffalo and Erie County Public Library
Visit your 24/7 Public Library and their valuable online resources. 
 High School Summer Reading
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Find our most popular high school reading on this document. Students may also visit the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Web Site, http://www.buffalolib.org, at the link for Teen Space and Summer Reading Lists, if this file is not available.
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» Middle School Library
» Western New York School Library Systems Online Catalog
Use this site to check the availability of books for Inter-Library Loan throughout Western New York School Libraries.
» Start is Cheektowaga Central's online student life magazine.
Visit Start to learn about what's happening at Central and in our World!
» Teaching Books.net
Teachers may use this resource, made available through Erie 1 BOCES SLS, to supplement the teaching of novels and authors in their classrooms.
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