GENERAL INFORMATION

The school media center is open from 7:15 am until 2:45 pm daily. A wide variety of books and other materials are available for student and staff use. Check out these sites for useful information.

COSMOS - the La Plata High School library catalog as well as the catalog for other Charles County high schools and Southern Maryland public libraries. Click on COMOS to link to the site.

Digital Library Resources - A comprehensive list of multi-media resources us just a click away. Include are encyclopedias, reference books, graphics, periodicals, primary sources, and digital videos. Ask libarian or a techer for the login and password to access these resources from home.

CITATION FORMATS- an excellent site to use for samples of MLA format biblographic entries. Click on CITATION FORMATS to link to the site.

CITATION MACHINE - provides help with creating proper citation formats for MLA, APA, Chicago and Turabian style.

OSLIS - a guide for middle and high school students on the Research Process, Information Evaluation, Citing Sources and more.

TEEN READ- A cite aimed at celebrating teens and reading.

EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION LINKS

Discovery Channel

Arts and Entertainment Television

The Learning Channel

PBS

CNN Newsroom

OTHER LIBRARY SITES

Library of Congress

Sailor- information on Maryland and links to many other Maryland libraries

American Library Association

TEACHER RESOURCES

Educators Reference Desk
- a wealth of educational resources

ASCD
- The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development has many connections at this site

U.S. Department of Education
- links to many government sources for educators