The Mission
At the Battle Ground High School Library, our goal is to ensure that students graduate as competent, critical, and ethical users of information. It is our mission to prepare lifelong learners, "information literate" citizens able to determine their information, solve problems and effectively communicate the results of their research.
Insruction, formal and informal, should provide students with a process tranferable across subject areas and from academic to real life. Most learning is "laboratory style" with students involved in guided, inquiry-driven research using resouces in all formats.
Navigating the LMC for Research
You need:
BGHS ID with Internet permission sticker.
Your ID card must be displayed on the computer monitor, when you are logged onto a school computer. Make sure you have your ID at all times. We will not look you up in our file. You need your ID to check out library materials and textbooks.
FVRL (Battle Ground Library card) very helpful, great databases that we do not have at BGHS.
What the LMC staff will do for you:
If you need help finding materials or doing a search, come and ask for help. We can usually help you find at least some information if you can define your topic. We can’t help you if you don’t ask.
RECOMMENDED SEARCHES:
OPAC is BGHS’s online
public access catalog (computer card catalog). Search using subject and keyword. You may have to broaden a search from ‘school uniforms’ to education.
For Topic ideas, check some of our Series such as Taking Sides; Coping…
Opposing Viewpoints; Reference Shelf.
ENCYCLOPEDIAS: Best source for background information and topic ideas.
We have several sets of encyclopedias in the reference section of the library.
DATABASES: For Magazines use the following.
Magazines: ProQuest is a database of hundreds of magazines, several
newspapers, and other useful information.
ProQuest.
Address: www.proquestk12.com
User ID: battleground
Password: tigers
Click on: My Products Page in the orange bar just below the password line.
Click on: ProQuest Online.
FVRL Fort –Vancouver Regional Library
To Login at FVRL http://www.fvrl.org . Select online
Databases, Select, Go to Databases, Login using your FVRL card. Click on Books in Print: This allows you to select a range of databases.
INTERNET: You are using the World Wide Web; make sure you check the
authority, credibility, and content of all sites you use. All information has a bias;
some Web sites are extremely one sided. Make sure you represent all views.
Search Engines (a few): use several: Google, Yahoo, Altavista
Key Words:
As you select your topic begin to refine your key words. Keep a list of what
works. If you are not finding enough information expand your keywords.
Most important advice: Keep track of all your sources for a Works Cited page or a bibliography.