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 PATHFINDERS  top
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.

A PATCH OF BLUE

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop. Type in the topic you want to search, such as: disabilities, racism, interracial relationships, addiction, alcoholism, etc. 

Some titles we have are:

306.7
INT		 Interracial Relationships.  Detroit, MI: Greenhaven, 2007.
323.173
MAL 		Malaspina, Ann.  The Ethnic and Group Identity Movements.  New York: Chelsea House, 2008.
362.4
PEO 		People with Disabilities.  Detroit: Greenhaven, 2008.
362.88
VIO 		Violence Against Women. Detroit, MI: Greenhaven, 2008.
616.86
WYB 		Wyborny, Sheila. Alcoholism.  Detroit, MI: Lucent, 2008.
617.7
MAR 		Marcovitz, Hal. Blindness.  Detroit, MI: Lucent, 2008.
REF
361.973
SOC		 Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia.  Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.
REF
362.76
ABU		 Abuse and Violence Information for Teens. Detroit, MI: Omnigrapgics, 2008.
REF
973.92
FIF		 The Fifties in America. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2005.

SELECTED WEB SITES

Social Issues
 http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html#gen
Multnomah County Library--links to information on various social issues.

American Cultural History: The 20th Century
 http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html
Links to information on life in the 1950s and 1960s.

Disability Resources Monthly
http://www.disabilityresources.org
Links to Web sites and organizations that deal with issues on disability related topics.

Facts about the Americans with Disabilities Act
 http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-ada.html

DisabilityInfo.gov
 http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/digov-public/public/DisplayPage.do?parentFolderId=500
Online resource for Americans with disabilities.



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.
     Globe.

     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 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
11/19/08
Date last edited
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