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Library Without Walls Goes Mobile
Download "Access My Library School Edition" from the i-phone store or the Droid store now for free login to Santa Susana’s account, and use Santa Susana’s databases on the go!
Destiny Library Catalog Webcast
Do you need help using the Destiny Library Catalog Search? If so then click here to view the Destiny Library Catalog Webcast tutorial.
We have a NEW tutorial on how to use the schools e-books. To watch Part A click here and for Part B click here.
Senior Project Research Lesson
Seniors recently visited the library to learn advanced search skills, to find academic research
and peer-reviewed journal articles for their senior project research papers. Seniors also learned
how to evaluate websites to assure their credibility and authoritativeness. During these lessons,
seniors learned about topics, such as:
- Limiting research by domain and file type
- Using various online resources, such as Google Scholar
- Using the hierarchy of a URL through successive truncations to navigate a site
- Broadening and narrowing a topic and developing ideas to direct the focus of an inquiry
- Using a variety of search engines and licensed and free databases to locate information
appropriate to academic research
- Analyzing media for purpose, message, accuracy, bias, and intended audience
- Determining whether resources are designed to persuade, educate, inform, or sell.
- Demonstrating ethical and safe use of online resources
This lesson was designed to help SSHS seniors research more effectively and be critical users
of information; the ultimately goal of this lesson is to prepare seniors for rigorous, college
research.
This library lesson covers all 4 of the California Model School Library Standards. The lesson
places emphasis on standards 1 & 2:
Standard 1: Students access information
- Recognize the need for information
- Formulate appropriate questions
- Identify and locate a variety of resources online and in other formats using effective
search strategies
- Retrieve information in a timely, safe, and responsible manner
Standard 2: Students evaluate information
- 2.1 - Determine the relevance of the information
- 2.2 - Assess the comprehensiveness, currency, credibility, authority, and accuracy of resources.
- 2.3 - Consider the need for additional information
New Webcast Tutorials
The SSHS Library Media Center now offers 2 new webcast tutorials. These 5-minute lessons demonstrate how to make the most of your database research experience.
Learn how to:
- Effectively use the resources found in the Gale databases
- Limit searches to find the most helpful information for your research
- Conduct a targeted search using Advanced Search features
- Temporarily save articles to help organize your research
- Use the bookmark tool to permanently save articles
- Download, email, and print articles
- Read, share, and translate articles
- Cite articles using MLA formatting
You may access these tutorials by navigating to our "Library Without Walls" page. The 2 webcast links are right next to the Galegroup logo.
Library Mission Statement:
The mission of the Santa Susana High School Library Media Center is to encourage students to become lifelong readers and to assist faculty and students to be effective users of information through the management of print and electronic sources and through the seamless integration of these resources into the curriculum.
"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education."
~ Harold Howe ~
Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former U.S.
Commissioner of Education
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