Endangered Species

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Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA

Pathfinders are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety
of media on a topic they are researching. They provide a head start for
students as they begin their research project.

Endangered Species

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop. Try searching for endangered species, endangered animals, or the name of the animal you are researching.

Some titles we have are:

333.95 END	*Endangered Species*. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 2001.
333.72 ENV	The environment. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven, 2006.
333.95 GOO	*Endangered Animals of North America: A Hot Issue*. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2001.
599.5 SIM	Simmonds, Mark P. *Whales & Dolphins of the World*. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.
REF 333.95 NAG	Nagel, Rob. Endangered Species (3 vols.). Detroit, MI: U.X.L., 1998.

SELECTED WEB SITES

	U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - The Endangered Species Program http://www.fws.gov/endangered/
	World Wildlife Fund - Endangered Species http://www.worldwildlife.org/endangered/
	National Wildlife Federation http://www.nwf.org/
	Sierra Club - Endangered Species Map http://www.sierraclub.org/wildlife/species/map/
	National Parks Conservation Association - Park Wildlife http://www.npca.org/wildlife_protection/
	International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources http://www.iucnredlist.org/

Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife - Rare Plants & Animals
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/nhesp/nhrarelinks.htm

ONLINE RESOURCES

Infotrac -- contains databases of magazine articles, a biography resource, and health and business references. Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Biography Resource Center.

bigchalk eLibrary -- online reference center including books, magazines, newspapers, pictures, maps, and TV transcripts.

Massachusetts Newsstand -- newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980 - current), Boston Herald (1991 - current), and ten other Massachusetts newspapers.

Grolier Online -- 2 electronic encyclopedias-- New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Articles in these encyclopedias link you to other articles and also to relevant web sites where you can find more information on your topic.

REMOTE ACCESS

These databases are also available from home. You can gain access to these resources from
home by going to the Answers...To Go! web page made available from the Northeast
Massachusetts Regional Library System:

http://www.nmrls.org/answers/dbmvlc.html

and enter your public library card number (from Methuen or any MVLC member library)
where you are prompted for a patron or user number.

CITING SOURCES

Using MLA Style to Cite and Document Sources
www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html
OWL Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html#Works-Cited
NoodleBib
http://www.noodletools.com/login.php
Online tool to assist you in citing your sources easily and correctly in the MLA style format.

Using these links indicates the user is leaving
the district server and that linked material
is not necessarily approved by the district.

Edited by Media Staff
11/05/04
Date last edited
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