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Databases
The Library Information Center offers access to a variety of databases available through the school computer network or via home access. For home access, student's can obtain a list of required usernames and passwords from the Library Information Center's Circulation Desk. Click on the links below to go directly to the databases.
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AP Images
Allows students to search photographs, audio, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history.
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Art Museum Image Gallery
This is a digital resource of art images with rights-cleared for educational use.
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Bloom's Literary Reference
Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.
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Bridges
This is an education and career planning program.
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Britannica Encyclopaedia
This database offers extensive high quality encyclopedic information.
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Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
Columbia Granger's offers full text poems & secondary sources for poetry.
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Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select
Contemporary Literary Criticism - Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
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CultureGrams
This database offers a variety of information on the countries of the world, including food recipes, as well as information on each of the 50 States and the District of Columbia.
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Dictionary of American History
This is a comprehensive dictionary on the history of the United States. The database is hidden within the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
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EBSCO Host
EBSCO contains magazine and newspaper articles as well as an image database and the Points of View Reference database.
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Grolier Encyclopedia - 5 Databases
Contains 5 databases in one: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, The New Book of Popular Science, Lands and Peoples, and America the Beautiful.
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Grzimek's Animal Life
Grzimek's offers comprehensive animal information which is separated by scientific classification. The database is hidden within the Gale Virtual Reference Library database.
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Infotrac - 11 Different Databases
NOVEL DATABASES - FREE FROM NEW YORK STATE -Contains links to multiple databases -- Custom Newspapers, New York State Newspapers, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Business & Company ASAP, Erie 1 BOCES e-Books, Business and Company Resource Center, The Twayne Author Series, National Newspaper Index, Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select and LitFinder for Schools.
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Issues and Controversies - 2 Databases
This contains two different databases: Issues & Controversies and Issues & Controversies in American History.
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Litfinder
Offers nearly one million full-text, excerpted and indexed pieces of literature in the genres most demanded by students and teachers.
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Noodle Tools
Compiles your bibliographic citation for MLA and APA styles with auto formatting for works cited lists.
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Points of View
This database provides 250 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument) and Critical Thinking Guide.
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ProQuest
Contains magazine and newspaper articles, many of which are full text / Contains cover to cover, full-text New York Times newspapers from 1851-2002. PLEASE NOTE: the Buffalo News and current New York Times (2002-present) newspapers are unavailable from ProQuest. Please visit the New York State Newspapers sub-database in the INFOTRAC database.
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Teen Health and Wellness
Teen related topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more.
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World Book Encyclopedia
This is the on-line version of World Book Encyclopedia that includes an atlas. The site also offers a full-text Spanish language encyclopedia.
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