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Phone: 757-648-5700
Ms. Ricks: ext. 85719
Mrs. Horan: ext. 85733

DESTINY - Online Catalog (OPAC) - in school access only

On This Page:
Useful Web Links

Meet The Staff

Additional Information

Library Hours
6:50am - 3:30pm Monday

6:50am - 2:50pm T,W, TH, F
Library Media Specialist on Duty:
Mornings: Mrs. Horan
Afternoons: Mrs. Ricks


 

 

Welcome to the Tallwood High School Library Media Center

The Library Media Center serves as a resource to the entire school community. The function of the LMC is to support the school’s goals and objectives through educationally enriched activities related to the gathering of information and the utilization of accessible technology.
At Tallwood High School, planners are an integral part of our students’ lives. Not only does a planner help to keep students organized, it also helps to promote good study skills. Any student that visits the LMC will be required to present their planner at all times. It is our hope that by emphasizing the students’ planners they will not only have their planner but they will also utilize it.
A new school year brings with it many changes. The LMC also has some changes. Students visiting the LMC during lunch may now come directly from their classroom or from the cafeteria using the courtyard entrance. Students using the LMC during lunch are required to remain in the library until the next bell rings. Study block students will be dismissed to the LMC by their study block teacher. Students need a pass from one of their subject teachers. The pass is written on the homework page of the planner along with the signature of both the subject teacher and study block teacher.


Useful Web Links
Use these resources in the Library Media Center or see your Library Media Specialist for home access information.
Grolier Encyclopedia Online Grolier Encyclopedia can now be accessed from home!
To get your password, go to http://www.vbschools.com.
Choose School Curriculum
Scroll down to Student and Staff Resources and click on Grolier Online. Instructions are there to help you get your login and password!
Proquest
A searchable database of newspapers, periodicals, and references.

Ancestry Library

ProQuest Online
Thomson-Gale Online
Gale Group Student Resource Center - Silver 1980 - Present
A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 650 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Now includes American Decades.
SIRS Knowledge Source® provides integrated online access to full-text articles and Internet resources from SIRS reference databases - SIRS Researcher®, SIRS Government Reporter®, SIRS Renaissance®, SIRS WebSelect™ and SIRS Interactive Citizenship™.
SIRS Knowledge Source Online
Citation Machine
This site helps you write correct source citations!

Meet the Staff
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Send Email to Peggy Ricks
Ms. Peggy Ricks,
Library Media Specialist
Department Chairperson

Send Email to Christine Horan
Mrs. Christine Horan
Library Media Specialist

Mrs. Barbara Bankes
Library Media Assistant
LMC Volunteers are Terrific!
Our terrific student volunteers are available daily to assist with circulation.
Additional Information
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Library Policies
*Students may visit the LMC before school, after school, or during lunch without a pass.
*Students coming to the LMC during their study block need a pass issued by a subject teacher and signed by both the subject teacher and study block teacher. *Students may check out up to three books for a period of two weeks.
*Overdue fines are $0.20 per item per day.

There are twenty five computers with internet access for students to use for Tallwood High School research assignments only!
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Some of the Periodicals to enjoy in the
Library Media Center:


American Heritage of Invention and Technology (new)
Cosmo Girl
Dance Spirit (new)
Dramatics Magazine (new)
Ebony
Filipinas (new)
Gentlemen’s Quarterly (GQ)
Golf
Good Housekeeping
Jet
Latina (new)
Lucky
Motocross
National Geographic
New York Times w/Book Review (new)
Newsweek
People
Seventeen
Shape
Smithsonian
Sports Illustrated
Surfer Girl
Teen
Teen People
Time
Transworld Skateboarding
Travel and Leisure
U. S. News and World Report
Vibe
Washington Post (new)
Wrestling
 

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Updated Monday, November 9, 2009