Library Purchases New Tables & Chairs

The Ramón Guiteras Memorial Library recently purchased and installed new tables and chairs for the students in both the Reading Room as well as in the Circulation Area.  They were specially constructed for us by Camilo Office Furniture and are a beautiful addition to the library.

Additional Computers for the Library

The library already has 25 computers available for student use in addition to four dedicated Online Public Access Catalogs (OPAC's).  8 more computers are planned to be added in the near future to the reading room pictured above.

Student Resource Center Gold

Student Resource Center - Gold was just added to the library's list of databases and offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards. Covering all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more, SRC - Gold provides a premium selection of reference material, more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts. Premier reference content includes the American Journey Series, American Decades, Career Information Center and the SRC Health Module. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals, an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards, and popular topic picklists.

Opposing Viewpoints & Opposing Viewpoints - Critical Thinking

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center was also just added to the library's list of databases and is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New to the database are Lexile reading levels for periodicals and an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

Questia

All Belen faculty members and students from grades 9 through 12th grade now have access to Questia, the largest online library with over 60,000 eBooks and more than a million full-text articles. Questia is a research tools that helps the user find the information they need. Questia provides a workspace for researchers to highlight and make notes as they read the material. Questia can also produce citations and bibliographies. 

Students or faculty members who would like to receive training on using this database can see Mrs. Cosculluela or Mr. Ballesteros at the library.

To access Questia, please go to www.Questia.com. You will be prompted for username and password. Students should use their Belen student ID number and the word belenprep in lower case as their password.

Please report any problems with access to Mrs. Cosculluela at the library.