Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) provides the following electronic library resources for students and teachers.
Login names and passwords are available from your school librarian.
PAUSD Library Catalog
- This is the catalog of the holdings of the PAUSD Libraries
- Please select a library to search from the next page
- This catalog is for all students and staff
- Remote access is available
Instructional
Materials Center Catalog
- Materials for Classroom use may be searched at this site
- IMC maintains holdings of videos, artifacts, art and study
prints, picture sets, and some hardware for teachers to check
out
- Lists of materials aligned to curriculum can be found on the
tab named "Curriculum Resources"
- Contact Linda Atwood at latwood@pausd.org or call her at 329-3908
- Additional contact - Nancy Pang at npang@pausd.org or 329-3910
World
Book Online
An encyclopedia designed for students grades K-9, includes a dictionary
and Spanish language encyclopedia, Enciclopedia Estudiantil
Hallazgos.
Students can search for articles, or view one of seven special
features from the home page. Special features include Today in
History, Behind the Headlines, Media Showcase, Subscriber News,
Features of the Month, What's New, and What's Happening This Month.
This subscription encyclopedia is for students and staff of all
PAUSD schools.
- Remote access login information for students and staff can
be obtained from your site librarian.
BrainPop
BrainPop is an educational web site with Flash-based movies about mathematics, technology, health, science, social studies, arts& music, and English. Most of the videos feature the site's recurring characters, Tim and Moby.
This resource is for the students and staff of all the elementary schools and middle schools only. The resource can only be accessed from a school site.
EBSCO Host
A general reference database for researchers in grades 1-12 , EBSCO Host includes selected full-text articles and images, reference books,and transcripts from a variety of sources including magazines, encyclopedias, biographies, radio and television, primary source documents, photos, maps, flags, amd more.
EBSCO Host offers students a powerful, advanced tool for targeting the information vital to successful research. Students and staff can
- Find comprehensive coverage of all subjects from more than 2,200 magazines, journals, and newspapers.
- Utilize a variety of search strategies that benefit novice and experienced users alike.
- Use the Advamced Search to easily brainstorm, broaden, or narrow a topic.
- Search primary and secondary source materials.
- Track trends and current events with newspaper searches.
- Find results that are relevant to advanced placement coursework.
- Review essential charts, photos, graphs, and diagrams from the original articles.
- Save searches to specific content for use in developing presentations, subject-specific project pages, and more with My Research Summary.
Remote access login information for the students and staff of all the middle schools and high schools can be obtained from your site librarian.
EBSCO Points of View Reference Center - a database for middle school students
Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database that provides a series of essays that present multiple sides of current issues. Over 225 topics are covered!
- Get an overview with objective backgrounds and descriptions
- find a point (argument) and its counterpoint (opposing argument)
- Covered topics include: cloning, profiling, HIV/AIDS, immigration, standardized testing, stem cell research, and much more
- contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints: over 1,100 main essays, political magazines, primary source documents, reference books
- includes a searchable video encyclopedia
- save searches for later use
Remote access login information for the students and staff of all the middle schools and high schools can be obtained from your site librarian.
If you have questions, contact IMC--Nancy Pang at (650)329-3910
or npang@pausd.org.
Revised October 2009 |
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