Library/Media Center

"School libraries: student-centered, information-focused." quote from Joan Gallagher,a former President of MSLMA who died of cancer in March 2003.

Welcome to the Archbishop Williams High School Library web page. The AWHS library is a fully automated library with resources to support the curriculum of the school. Due to the Library membership in the South Eastern Regional Library System (SEMLS) and MASSCAT a resource sharing network with over a hundred member libraries, students and faculty have access to over one million holdings. Online databases are also available to the students through this web page.

Librarian: Mrs. Joanna Sands
Volunteer: Mrs. Anita Daniels

KOHA IS THE ONLINE LIBRARY CATALOG FOR AWHS LIBRARY.
CLICK ON ICON TO ACCESS CATALOG

The KOHA online catalog will become available starting July 1, 2008

How to use KOHA << Click here for Tutorial >>

LOG ONTO TO DATABASES FROM HOME USING THIS LINK http://www.semls.org/home/index.html 

USE YOUR AWHS LIBRARY CARD NUMBER TO LOG IN THEN CLICK GO.  YOUR NUMBER IS 2003800 + STUDENT ID NUMBER EXAMPLE: 20038002011097.  THIS SHOULD BE A 14 DIGIT NUMBER.

LINKS TO OTHER LIBRARIES

Librarian's Suggested Reading List

• THREE CUPS OF TEA -Greg Mortenson
• THE BOOK THIEF -Marcus Zusak 
• SOLD -Patricia McCormick
• WATER FOR ELEPHANTS -Sara Gruen
• THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS -John Boyne
• FEVER 1793 -Laurie Halse Anderson
• CHEATING LESSONS -Nan Willard Cappo
• DARK TIDE -Stephen Puleo
• KIRA-KIRA -Cynthia Kadohata
• SON OF THE MOB -Gordon Korman
• NICKEL AND DIMED -Barbara Ehrenreich
• THE CARBON DIARIES -Saci Lloyd
• THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LANDAU-BANKS -E. Lockhart
• THE HUNGER GAMES -Suzanne Collins
• THE HELP -Kathryn Stockett
• SARAH'S KEY -Tatiana de Rosnay
• THE BOY WHO DARED -Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Teacher Suggested Reading List

Miss Habel

• THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN -Mitch Albom
• IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BIKE -Lance Armstrong
• JOY SCHOOL -Elizabeth Berg GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING - Tracy Chevalier
• SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS - David Guterson
• PLAINSONG -Kent Haurf
• THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME -Mark Haddon
• PROBABLE FUTURE -Alice Hoffman
• THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES -Sue Monk Kidd
• A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANEY -John Irving
• THE BEAN TREES -Barbara Kingsolver
• BLESSINGS -Anna Quindlen
• THE THINGS THEY CARRIED -Tim O'Brien

Useful Links by Subject

ENGLISH

• Litlinks A list of Internet links regarding, authors, their works and literary time periods.
  http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/
• Glossary of literary terms Online dictionary of literary terms.
  http://www.virtualsalt.org/
• Poets.org Resource from the Academy of American Poets.
  http://www.poets.org/
• IPL literary criticism contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, title, nationality or literary period.
  www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

• Currency Converter
  http://www.oanda.com/
• French
  National Library of France
  Bibliotheque Nationale de France
  http://gallica.bnf.f/
• Spanish
  Biblioteca Nacional de Espana
  http://www.bne.es/

MATH

• Calculator: Includes standard and graphing calculators.
  http://www.calculator.com/
• Wall Street Journal Online    http://online.wsj.com/home-page
• Business Week  http://www.businessweek.com/

SCIENCE

• Jstor: This site is accessible through the Boston public Library home page. Click on electronic resources, click on alphabetical listing letter J. Ecard number is found on the homework pages under library.
  http://www.bpl.org/

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Making of America Project: Through the University of Michigan The MoA Project is a digital library of primary sources for American History.
  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/
• New York Public Library’s Digital Library Collection.
  www.nypl.org/digital/
• American Civil War Collection: Through the University of Virginia this collection is a digital library of primary sources from the Civil War including letters diaries and newspapers.
  http://etext.virginia.edu/civilwar/
• Famous Trials: UMKC School of Law.
  http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTRIALS/FTRIALS.HTM
• Massachusetts Historical Society
  http://www.masshist.org/
• Library of Congress
  http://www.loc.gov/

CITING

• Citation Maker
  http://citationmachine.net