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Mrs. Despines’ Suggested Selections for Summer Reading 2017 So many books and so few summer vacation days! ❖ In addition to this annotated Summer Reading List, you may want to check out the web sites below for lots of other book suggestions. ❖ If you want summaries of potential summer reads, remember to use the Township Library’s online database Novelist (fiction). See next page for directions. ❖ If books are not available at the USC High School Library or the USC Township Library, you can request them through the EINETWORK CATALOG via the Township Library online card catalog. See next page for directions. Booklists & Book Awards http://booklists.yalsa.net/ Young Adult Library Services Association Wiki http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/Collections_%26_Content_Curation Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults http://booklists.yalsa.net/ Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers http://booklists.yalsa.net/ Teens’ Top Ten http://booklists.yalsa.net Table of Contents Historical Fiction: 18-20 USCHS Library Catalog DESTINY & USC Township Library EINETWORK Catalog: 2-5 Get Cultured: 21-22 USCHS eBooks Mackin Directions: 6 Other Worlds: 22-24 Novelist Plus directions: 7-8 Survival Stories: 24 Sports Stories: 25 YALSA Teen Book Finder App: 8 Mysteries are Everywhere: 26-27 Remarkable Teens: 9-14 Non-fiction: 27-28 Real People/Biography: 14-17 Works Cited: 28 The Natural World: 17 1 Searching for Items in the USCHS Library Catalog (DESTINY) & USC Township Library/Allegheny County Catalog (EINetwork) (REVISED January 2017) How to Search for Books via USC High School Library’s Online Catalog, DESTINY DESTINY is the online catalog here at USCHS. You can access it via the USCHS Library web site, or on STUDENT LINKS or go to https://uscsd.follettdestiny.com/ and choose HIGH SCHOOL. To do a BASIC search, type in your KEYWORDS and click the KEYWORD icon. If you want to do an ADVANCED SEARCH, click the POWER tab. You can change your search in the NARROW YOUR SEARCH TO… area. Result List: On the result screen, you can see where the book is located and if it’s AVAILABLE or not. When you click onto the title, you can see even more information about the book, including PAGE NUMBERS, reviews, and a summary. 2 To search for BIOGRAPHIES or MEMOIRS, simply type in biography (or memoir, or autobiography) and click the SUBJECT icon. This will give you an alphabetical list of all of the biographies (or memoirs, or autobiographies) that we have in the collection. If you are looking for a biography, memoir, or autobiography about a specific person or topic, you can do an advanced search by clicking the POWER tab at the top right of the page. This will enable the ADVANCED SEARCHING feature. Enter your KEYWORD in the first search bar (this can be a person’s name). Change the second one to SUBJECT and type in MEMOIR or BIOGRAPHY or AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Change the MATERIAL TYPE to BOOK (monograph). 3 How to Search for Book via the USC Township Library’s Online Book Catalog (and all of Allegheny County) FOR DETAILED TUTORIALS GO TO http://librarycatalog.einetwork.net/MyResearch/Firsttime To access the USC Township Library Catalog, go to the Township Library’s web page http://www.twpusc.org/library/library-home and scroll down to the search bar. Click CATALOG QUICK SEARCH. Enter your search and search type, click the LIMIT TO AVAILABLE under the search box AND on the left sidebar, click on MORE under LOCATION (see example 1) and then find and click onto Upper St. Clair Library. Click GO. If your book (or similar ones are available), it will tell you in green AVAILABLE AT YOUR PREFERRED LIBRARIES. (If your book title does not appear in the results list, then it is NOT available at the Township Library. Go back to the LOCATION menu and click REMOVE ALL FILTERS---see example 2---and redo your search to see what libraries do have your book so you can “order” it…see next page). EXAMPLE 1 EXAMPLE 2 Once you locate the title in the results list, you can see what libraries have the book. Click AVAILABLE AT OTHER LIBRARIES to see the list. If a library is close (i.e. Bethel Park, Mt. Lebanon, etc.), you can drive to the library to get the book. 4 Otherwise, you can click REQUEST NOW to “order” the book. Fill out your library card number and PIN (last 4 digits of your home phone number). Once the book is in, you will be notified via email and you can pick up your book at the Township Library. 5 Using eBooks from the DESTINY Library Catalog (revised Dec. 2016) The following are directions to access our new collection of eBooks from the PA eBook Consortium (mostly eBooks from Mackin). Since this is a NEW initiative, there may be glitches that we did not anticipate. Please ASK Mrs. Despines or Mrs. Rentschler for help accessing or using eBooks if needed. 1. Go to STUDENT LINKS and click onto the DESTINY link. 2. Type in your search and click the appropriate icon if needed. 3. Your results list will give you print and eBook resources. o Print books will be marked available in the right sidebar. o eBooks will have the OPEN option. If there are eBooks listed on your topic, follow the directions below. Accessing and Reading eBooks To access an eBook, click the OPEN button. You will be directed to the MACKINvia website for the eBook. To login, make sure “Upper St. Clair High School” is showing. If not, type it in. Use YOUR USC credentials. Click LOG IN. You will then see the eBook record. To open the eBook, click OPEN NOW on the right sidebar. (You can click CITE for the citation on the right sidebar. Make sure to pick MLA 7.) When you click, OPEN NOW, you will be directed to the eBook reader. Use the icons in the reader to help you navigate the book. Ask a librarian for help if needed. 6 Accessing & Using Novelist Plus (fiction and nonfiction) from the USC Township Library Website Novelist Plus is a database that can help you find books based on your interests. It provides, author information, book summaries, professional book reviews, first chapters, and related reads. If you like a particular author, Novelist can direct you to other authors with the same style (Author Read-Alikes). Please note: sometimes book reviews will reveal the ending of a book! If you don’t like to know the ending…don’t read the reviews! ✓ Go to the Township Library’s web page http://www.twpusc.org/library/library-home You will need the barcode number from your TOWNSHIP LIBRARY CARD! ✓ Scroll down and click “e-Info: The 24/7 Library” on the left sidebar. ✓ Click “Digital Resources” and then “Books and Reading” on the left sidebar under “subjects.” ✓ Then click NOVELIST PLUS Remote access. ✓ Follow the directions and enter the barcode number on your Township Library card. If you need to use your password, it is the last 4 digits of your phone number. Here is what NOVELIST’s main page looks like. If you need help searching, click the HELP button and look at the left side bar under SEARCHING. Try limiting your search to TEEN on the left sidebar. HELP To check if the USC Township Library has the book you want (or another nearby Allegheny County library), go to the Township Library’s online book catalog, The Catalog. To access The Catalog, go to the Township Library’s web page (http://www.twpusc.org/library/library-home)http://www.twpusc.org/library/index.html and enter your search in the CATALOG QUICK SEARCH AREA. 7 Once you are into The Catalog, you can search within USC Library or any or all EINETWORK libraries. You can do an ADVANCED SEARCH as well. If the library has your title, you will see the record of it. From this screen you can get the call number of the book, its location in the library, and if it’s on the shelf or checked out. If the book has been checked out, you can change the location and see if the book is available Mt. Lebanon or Bethel Park libraries, or any other library that you can physically get to. Or, you can REQUEST the book on the right side bar. You will need your library card barcode number and the last four digits of your phone number (or whatever PIN number you created previously). The library will notify you once the book is ready for you to pick up. If you scroll down, you will see what libraries carry the book, book reviews, and sometimes the first chapter. YALSA's Teen Book Finder App http://booklists.yalsa.net/ Check out the Young Adult Library Services Association’s new app---YALSA's Teen Book Finder at http://www.ala.org/yalsa/products/teenbookfinder YALSA's Teen Book Finder is a free app to help teens, parents, librarians and library staff, educators, and anyone who loves YA literature access to the past three years' of YALSA's awards and lists on their smartphone. App features include: • a homepage featuring three titles from the database, refreshed each day • the ability to search for books by author, title, award/list year, genre, by award, and by booklist • a Find It! button, powered by the OCLC WorldCat Search API, that will show users where to find the book in a nearby library • a Favorites button, to create an individualized booklist • the ability to share books from the Teen Book Finder on Twitter and Facebook 8 Remarkable Teens Anderson, Jodi Lynn.
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