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 PATHFINDERS
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.

WORLD POPULATION GROWTH

To find books in the MHS Media Center, Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop. Type in the topic you want to search, such as population, population density, population forecasting, human ecology, economic forecasting, twenty-first century forecasts, environmentalism, and nature--effect of human beings on.

Some titles we have are:

303.49
MAZ		 Mazarr, Michael J. Global Trends 2005 : An Owner's Manual for the Next Decade. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
303.49
TWE		 21st Century Earth: Opposing Viewpoints. San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, 1996.
304.6
COH		 Cohen, Joel C. How Many People Can the Earth Support? New York: Norton, 1995.
304.6
GAL		 Gallant, Roy A.  The Peopling of Planet Earth: Human Population Growth through the Ages.  New York : Macmillan, 1990.
304.6
KAS		 Kassinger, Ruth. U.S. Census: A Mirror Of America. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2000.
304.6
POP		 Population: Opposing Viewpoints.   San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, 2000.
REF
306.85
ENC
 		 Encyclopedia of Family Life.  (5 vols.) Pasadena, CA : Salem Press, 1999.

SELECTED WEB SITES

Earth Island Institute Project Directory
 http://www.earthisland.org/projectdir/projectdir.html
Links to grassroots projects that promote the conservation, preservation, and restoration of the earth.

Population Reference Bureau
 http://www.prb.org/Content/NavigationMenu/PRB/Educators/Human_Population/Population_Growth/Population_Growth.htm
 Gives information on United States and world population trends, including environment, health, education, economic development, migration, culture, race, and families.

World in the Balance
 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/
A companion site to NOVA's Earth Day special, provides information on growing populations in developing nations, plunging birth rates in industrialized countries, and the impact that these trends have on the global environment. Interactive projects and activities included.
 
 The World Population Clock
http://www.opr.princeton.edu/popclock/
Maintained by the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, links to useful population data sites.

World POPClock Projection
 http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw
Maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau, provides world population data.
World Resources Institute
 http://www.wri.org/
Developed by an independent, non-profit organization, gives information about protecting the earth and its resources and improving lives.


ONLINE RESOURCES (NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES)

 The databases available that contain up-to-the-minute magazine and newspaper articles are:

Infotrac - databases of magazine articles, a biography resource, and health and business references.  
                                                                                                          
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.

REMOTE ACCESS

They 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 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
11/17/08
Date last edited
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