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=IMG Pendleton School Library =

Welcome to the IMG Pendleton School Library's wiki page. This page is intended as a one-stop portal for accessing print and electronic resources, including those not listed on the library's official website. If you would like to access the library's official website, please click [|here.] Scroll down to access the library's electronic information databases.

**Announcement:** The library has a new webpage! Please visit [] to view.

=**Library hours and location:** =

The IMG Pendleton School Library is located in the school's main building and is open Monday through Friday, from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. For services outside of these hours, please make an appointment with your Media and Learning Specialist to ensure staff availability. [|Click here to download the IMG Pendleton School Library toolbar], making access to your library's databases and electronic resources only one click away.

=**Library services:** =
 * Provision and guidance in the use of print, media, and electronic resources
 * Circulation of library materials
 * Reference and research assistance
 * Information literacy instruction and activities
 * Faculty research services, bibliographies, and resource lists
 * Readers advisory
 * Academic research consultations

=**Finding Printed Materials and Media** =

Find books, periodicals, and audiovisual media by searching [|Destiny], your school's online public access catalog. Books are searchable by keyword, title, author, subject, or series. Can't find what you need? Contact your school media specialist to suggest a purchase.
 * <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**[|IMG Pendleton School Library Catalog]**



<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Search Destiny**
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Search neighboring Manatee County Public Library System locations for books, sound recordings, videos, music, magazines, and journals. If you do not have a Manatee County Public Library card, please see your school media specialist to get started. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Manatee County Public Library System borrowers in good standing may register for borrowing privileges at Sarasota County Libraries. Search the Sarasota County library catalog to find printed materials, periodicals, and media. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Students with a Manatee County Public Library card may be eligible to obtain limited borrowing privileges at the State College of Florida library. Please see your school media specialist for more information on terms and restrictions or to pick up an application for a special borrower's account.
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Manatee County Library Catalog] **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**[|Sarasota County Library Catalog]**
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|State College of Florida Library Catalog] **

=<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2c2c47; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Finding Electronic Resources** =

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">The IMG Pendleton School has licensed access to valuable research databases for our students and staff. A password is required for access to most of these databases. If you do not have password information, please <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> contact your school library.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This resource functions much like an online encyclopedia, providing country-specific maps, flags, country data, development data, and background information. Users can also access cultural information,including sections on people, customs, lifestyle, and society. Additional content is provided in a variety of formats, including photo and video galleries, slideshows, interviews, listings of famous people, recipes, and more. To enter the database, click on an area of the world map. ||
 * ===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2c2c47; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**PROQUEST K-12 DATABASES** ===
 * media type="custom" key="12277794" align="left" || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**CultureGrams:**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">The contents of this resource include materials in the following subject areas: arts, history, mathematics, reference, science, English language arts, ESL, physical education/sports, and social sciences. To access this database, enter a keyword or subject into the search box. ||
 * media type="custom" key="12278096" align="left" width="140" height="140" || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**eLibrary Curriculum Edition:**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This resource provides access to science-related articles from newspapers, magazines, books, pictures, audio and video recordings, transcripts, websites, and interactive resources in subject areas that include earth sciences, health sciences, scientists, life sciences, experiments and project ideas, and technology. ||
 * [[image:elibrary_science.gif width="180" height="120" link="http://portal.bigchalk.com/portalweb/leap.do?sku=DB-ELCLASS2-SCIENCE&ut=&ee=200008017"]] || **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Elibrary Science: **


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**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">SIRS Knowledge Source: ** <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">This resource is valuable for research in hot topic areas and current events. Searchable information portals include"[|Leading Issues],""[|Natural Disasters],""[|Focus on Terrorism],"[|Today's News]," "[|Maps of the World]," and "[|World Almanac Excerpts]." To enter this database, select one of the top ten leading issues or enter a keyword, phrase, or subject in the search box provided. ||

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This resource contains over one hundred full text literature journals, full text literary works, author biographies, as well as a "reference section" with an online dictionary, thesaurus, and citation guide. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[[image:db-lionschools-k12.gif width="153" height="109" link="http://literature.proquestlearning.com/home.do"]] || <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**[|Proquest Learning - Literature:]**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This reference resource, aimed at students in grades 1-9, provides quick access to articles from newspapers, magazines, reference materials, activities, and more. ||
 * [[image:db-sirsdisco.gif width="156" height="106" link="http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/frontpage"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**[|SIRS Discoverer:]**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Contents of this collection include full text primary and secondary historical documents, articles from scholarly history journals, study units, topic overviews, web resources, videos, images, and maps. ||
 * [[image:db-histonline-k12.gif width="146" height="98" link="http://www.historystudycenter.com/home/home.do"]] || **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|History Study Center:] **


 * ===<span style="color: #2c2c47; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**QUESTIA SCHOOL** ===
 * media type="custom" key="12256646" align="left" width="127" height="127" || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This online database provides access to a variety of electronic books and articles published in journals, newspapers, magazines, and encyclopedias. Questia's "topic finder" allows users to browse through relevant subject areas, while basic and advanced search features allow searching by keyword, subject, author, publisher, contents, and publication year. Students and faculty can access this database by entering their //individual// usernames and passwords. If you do not have a username and password, please contact your school library to obtain one. ||


 * ===<span style="color: #2c2c47; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**EBRARY** ===
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[[image:ebrary033-vert.gif width="136" height="141" link="http://site.ebrary.com/lib/pendleton"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This e-book database provides full text access to books within the following key subject areas: education and professional developmen t, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">history, language and literature, political science, psychology, religion, sciences, social sciences, and study guides/test preparation. Conduct a simple search or an advanced search by keyword, author, publisher, title, subject, and more. No downloads are required. Open a book by clicking on the book's title or jacket. Navigate a book by clicking through pages, entering search terms, or finding areas of interest in the table of contents. Interactive tools allow the user to highlight passages, take notes, create in-text hyperlinks, save research, share materials of interest, and maintain a personalized bookshelf.

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 * ===**<span style="color: #2c2c47; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">JSTOR DATABASES **===
 * media type="custom" key="12503996" || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Search this archive of over 1000 scholarly journals and publications covering a wide variety of subject areas, including language and literature, art and art history, education, biological sciences, business, ecology and botany, area studies, mathematics and statistics, philosophy, political science, health, law, music, and much more. Please note that JSTOR access is only granted to authorized users at the IMG Pendleton School, including students and faculty . <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">If you do not have password or access information for this database, please contact your library.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|JSTOR PLANT SCIENCE]
|| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Your school library's JSTOR subscription also includes access to JSTOR Plant Science, providing access to books, articles, and a variety of primary source materials on plant and botany related subjects. Access points include format, geographic area, collection, and herbarium. ||

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[[image:aluka.gif width="143" height="143" link="http://www.aluka.org/"]]
|| <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Your school library's JSTOR subscription includes access to the Aluka digital library, providing access to scholarly content within the following areas: [|African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes] and [|Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa]. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Materials are relevant to African Studies, Archaeology, Art and Art History, Geography, History, and Labor Studies. ||


 * ===<span style="color: #2c2c47; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">FLORIDA ELECTRONIC LIBRARY [|(CLICK HERE TO ACCESS)] ===
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">media type="custom" key="12282732" width="176" height="116" || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Powered by Gale Cengage Learning, this database provides access to scholarly, peer reviewed, and popular sources. Enter your search terms in the search box provided or click on relevant categories to browse by topic. The "subject guide search" feature is particularly helpful if you are unsure of how to begin formulating search terms. ||


 * ===<span style="color: #2c2c47; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">THE BRADENTON HERALD ===
 * [[image:logo.jpg link="http://enie.bradenton.com/?From=http%3A%2F%2Factivepaper%2Eolivesoftware%2Ecom%2FLogin%2FAPDBradentonHerald%2FLogin%2Easp%3FReader%3D%252FDaily%252Fskins%252FBradentonHerald%252Fnavigator%252Easp%253Fskin%253DBradentonHerald%2526BP%253DOK%2526AW%253D1228854333516"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This resource provides an interactive tool for reading today's paper, along with access to the following programs and supplements:


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">National Geographic Little Kids
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">National Geographic Kids
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">National Geographic Homework Help
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Bill Nye the Science Guy
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">A Plus Math
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Homework Spot
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Fact Monster
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">MSN Encarta

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">To obtain password information for the school's collective account, please contact your school library. Teachers are also eligible to create free accounts for their own classes. ||


 * ===<span style="color: #2c2c47; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">MANATEE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM DATABASES [|(CLICK HERE TO ACCESS)] ===
 * media type="custom" key="12283564" width="70" height="70" || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">In order to access these databases, it is necessary to log in with a 14-digit library account number and 14-digit pin number. The IMG Pendleton School has a collective account that students and faculty may use. Please contact your school library to obtain this access information. Individuals may also sign up for their own library cards by filling out and submitting a library card application to the Manatee County Public Library System. ||


 * ===<span style="color: #2c2c47; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">IPL2: INFORMATION YOU CAN TRUST ===
 * [[image:logo_ipl2a.jpg link="http://www.ipl.org/"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Hosted by the iSchool at Drexel, College of Information and Technology, in partnership with the Florida State University College of Information and a consortium of other partner universities, IPL2 is a searchable directory of authoritative websites and open access newspapers, magazines, and other information sources. Information is also browsable by subject or target audience/age group. Coverage includes the [|arts and humanities], [|business and economics,] [|computers and internet], [|education], [|entertainment and leisure], [|health and medical sciences], [|law, government, and political science], [|reference], [|regional and country information], [|science and technology], [|social sciences], and [|special collections]. ||


 * <span style="color: #2c2c47; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 22.4667px; text-align: left;">**QUESTIONS? CONTACT YOUR LIBRARY**

<span style="color: #800000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> ** E-mail the IMG Pendleton School Library. **

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">**Phone:** (941) 739-3964 ext. 3691

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">**Online messaging and collaboration:** Social networking and information tools provide the 21st century learner with new interactive forums for gathering information and sharing ideas. Students, teachers, and parents can now access library content, obtain research assistance, and get updates on new information sources by joining the library’s [|Edmodo] network. A group code is required to join this private network. Please contact the library to obtain your student, teacher, or parent code. <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">**Text:** To access research help directly from your mobile phone, text @imgresearch to 23559. While this service is free, standard text messaging rates from your mobile carrier apply. || =<span style="color: #2c2c47; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Download your Library's Toolbar =
 * [[image:tn_book3.gif width="104" height="78" link="http://imgpendletonschoollibrary.ourtoolbar.com/?Marketingchannelname=controlpanel_editTB&utm=controlpanel"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">For one-click access to the library's official webpage, online public access catalog, wiki page, and online discussion board from one convenient location on your browser, please [|download and install the IMG Pendleton School Library toolbar.] Download is quick, easy, and secure. ||