Overview

Hours: Monday – Friday, 7:00 – 3:30
Library Media Specialist: Lynne Cote
Library Assistant: Kellie Ford

The library objectives support the mission statement of the Newburyport High School, and, in particular, the expectation that students “will develop and demonstrate the ability to recognize and use appropriate learning and information resources.” The NHS library offers a print collection of over 11,000 volumes, AV materials, and computer resources for the use of the NHS community.

Summer Reading

The 2012 summer reading list is available here.

Destiny

Find a book in your library by searching DESTINY, Newburyport High School's Electronic Catalog. You have access to 1,000's of books - biographies, best sellers, history, poetry, and many other non-fiction and reference titles - check what you need online and come to the library to pick it up.

EBSCO

EBSCO online databases offer an excellent range of information drawn from the best reference materials, as well as journal, magazine and newspaper articles, for the use of the NHS community and the Newburyport community at large.

Click here to access EBSCO.

Gale Databases

• Academic OneFile
• Biography Resource Center
• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• General BusinessFile ASAP
• General Reference Center Gold
• Global Issues in Context
• Health Reference Center Academic
• Literature Resources
• LitFinder
• Massachusetts History Online
• New York Times
• Opposing Viewpoints in Context
• U.S. History in Context
• World History in Context
  

Ebooks

• Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Government and Politics
• Other Nonfiction Titles

Create your Bibliography and Citations

• EasyBib: the free automatic bibliography composer
  This free version handles MLA citation style.

• Citation Machine: helps students to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources.

• Owl Purdue Online Writing Lab: MLA Formatting and Style Guide. This guide will help you learn how to cite sources from books, magazines, & electronic sources. It also shows how to format quotations, and in-text citations.