TIPS for STUDENTS:
This web site was designed to make your life easier. The idea is to put online resources at your fingertips.
Research Tools and Available Resources: These links help you get the research process going.
Finding what is housed in the library:Finding what is online:
- Dewey by Topic - Provides you with the general Dewey Decimal numbers for any subject so you can search the LMC stacks for books on the topic.
- The Shroder LMC Catalog - Also called the OPAC is an online catalog of all the books in the library. Search by topic, title, author, etc.
Once you have identified information to collect:
- Use the databases of reviewed web sites with an abundance of information.
- InfOHIO
- IPL or Internet Public Library
- LII or Librarian's Index to the Internet
- Connect directly to Google or use another search engine to search the web.
- Note-Taking Bibliography Form - Collect all the bioliographic information and for a resource and then begin taking notes. Use this form provided by downloading a copy for yourself and printing it.
- MLA Style - Provides the correct format for bioliographic information from a variety of different resources
Tools located across the top:
- Easy Bib - Just type the bibliographical information into the format provided and save it. You are able to add to it at anytime and then print out the final copy when you are ready. What could be simpler?
- Homework Help - If you are stuck on a homework question that is non-math in nature, you can ask your question directly to an online librarian who will locate the answer and provide the web site cited.
Other links of interest for students, parents and teachers are found in the lower left column.
Welcome to the 2009-10 School Year
Books, books and more books . . . .
This year, there is more to read due to more titles for our students to select from at the Shroder LMC. Approximately 750 new titles were added to the Shroder LMC in an effort to continuously update the collection. The photo above (by Andrea Goeddes) shows David Ostmann delivering books donated by employees from Fifth Third Bank to our Shroder LMC this summer.
In addition to meeting our objectives as a member of the High Schools that Work consortium and having students read more in each academic area, the Shroder LMC is offering these extra opportunities to for students at Shroder to read.
- This year a Shroder LMC Books Club will meet to read and discuss books twice a month after school.
- There will also be a monthly reading competition among all the grade
- School Wide Seminar will take place each semester.
- "Drop Everything and Read" will be implemented this school year.
- Students will continue to participate in the public library sponsored read and discuss program called
"On the Same Page."
TIPS for TEACHERS: How can you use this web site effectively? Follow these simple hints below.
When getting ready to gather information on a particular topic use the links provided on the left under Available Resources. These are databases of reviewed web sites and therefore contain appropriate information for both students and teachers.
- InfOHIO
- IPL or Internet Public Library
- LII or Librarian's Index to the Internet
The section on the left entitled Teacher Links are web sites specifically useful to educators.
- Academic Content Standards - Link directly to the Ohio Department of Education so you can check standards online.
- ILILE - Find the index of pathfinders already created by educators on a variety of topics. Why reinvent the wheel?
- Rubistar - Allows you to generate rubics on any given topic from a template.
- Tools for Reading, Writing and Thinking - The popular web site that contains scores of graphics organizers you can print out and use.
- Teacher Resources Online - Browse the collection of great web sites, listed by discipline, compiled by your librarian.
- Paideia Seminar Readings - Links you to a list of suggested readings (that are housed in the LMC) specific to topics and grade levels.
Links of interest for Parents, Students and Teachers