Friday, December 21, 2012

Season's Greetings

All of us in the Mepham High School Library want to wish you and your family a happy, healthy, and safe holiday recess. We feel very  fortunate that we are part of such a helpful, devoted, and compassionate school community. We will see you in 2013.

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Non-fiction eBooks Have Virtually Arrived!


Non-fiction eBooks
Thanks to two grants, one from the Long Island School Media Association (LISMA) and one from the Bellmore-Merrick CHSD, we were able to purchase the following Gale non-fiction eBooks to support the Common Core. These eBooks can be accessed here: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/bell89784?db=GVRL. See Ms. Stack in the library for the password. You can also access them by going to the Mepham High School Website, clicking Library and then e-Books (non-fiction). Faculty and students have unlimited, simultaneous, no-checkout use of these eReference materials here at school and at home. The Gale Virtual Reference Library includes eBooks on the following subjects: Arts, Biographies, Business, Education, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Nation & World, Religion and Science. The titles are listed below:

  1. All Things Medieval: An Encyclopedia of the Medieval World, 1st Edition (2 Volume Set)
  2. American Decades (10 Volume Set, 1900-2000)
  3. American Decade: 2000-2009
  4. American Law Yearbook, Edition 2011
  5. The Ancient World 1st Edition (5 Volume Set)
  6. CaseBase 2: Case Studies in Global Business
  7. Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd Edition (8 Volume Set)
  8. Encyclopedia of Religion, Edition 2 (15 Volume Set)
  9. Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World 1st Edition
  10. Encyclopedia of World Biography, Edition 2 (17 Volume Set and Supplement, Volumes 18-23)
  11. Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 4th Edition (6 Volume Set)
  12. History Behind the Headlines (6 Volume Set)
  13. Novels For Students (16 Volume Set, 1-16)
  14. New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (6 Volume Set)
  15. Scholarships, Fellowships & Loans, 29th Edition (3 Volume Set)
  16. Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film (4 Volume Set)
  17. UXL Encyclopedia of Alternative Energy (3 Volume Set)
  18. UXL Encyclopedia of Drugs & Addictive Substances (5 Volume Set)
  19. Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, 13th Edition (5 Volume Set)

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

We Met Our Goal!

The Scholastic Book Fair was a success! Thanks to your generosity, the "All for Books" fundraiser will be able to provide the funds needed to supply two Long Island school libraries effected by Hurricane Sandy with a shelf of brand new picture books. Didn't make it to the fair? You can still purchase books by shopping online and help to support our cause. You can browse an expanded book selection and the best part is that all orders ship FREE to the school. You can check out our Book Fair Website here.