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Virtual Library

Please contact your Library Media Specialist for your campus passwords.

HCISD's 21st Century Research Skills Guide for Students and Teachers Elementary Secondary

eBooks (electronic books)
Campus Access Username and Passwords for Rourke. Personalized Virtual Library Cards for Rourke and OverDrive. Downloadable on many personal devices: smartphones, Nooks, Kindles, Computers, iPads, etc.
			Check your device to see if it has an app for OverDrive Media Console. Need Assistance?http://help.overdrive.com/
Harlingen CISD Information Literacy Centers' OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs)
Click the icon. Select your campus. Select the Catalog button so you can search. Type in a key word, book title, favorite author, etc. Use this to search through all of the books and ebooks your campus has available for checkout.
Resources For All Levels
	Documents, articles, image videos that can be saved or printed for student or teacher use.	Encyclopedias with related Internet links, multimedia collection, dictionary, atlas, bibliographies and annotated timelines.	World's foremost premium research database service.
	Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 students.		An academic search engine.
Resources for Elementary School
	Search Level-Appropriate Reference Articles, Journals and Magazines, the Web's Best Sites, Multimedia, and Curriculum Content. Includes Workspace, Merriam-Webster Dictionary, World Atlas, and Learning Zone.	This site offers resources in Spanish with its own comprehensive encyclopedia for ages 6-12.	Provides educational movies for K-3 students. Includes Homwework Help, leveled quizzes, games, and acitvities for kids.
	A place for the beginning searcher to find magazine articles, newspaper articles, encyclopedia entries and more on a variety of topics.	An interface designed for students in grades K through 5. Kids Search provides elementary school students with an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface they can use to search their EBSCO databases.	Películas animadas - ayuda para niños de primaria y secundaria de forma divertida en temas de ciencia, matemáticas, historia, inglés, español, y tecnología.
	An elementary academic search engine.	Biography Reference Center
Resources for Secondary Schools Supplemental Resources for HHS Supplemental Resources for HHSS
	Search Level-Appropriate Reference Articles, Journals and Magazines, the Web's Best Sites, Multimedia, and Curriculum Content. Includes Workspace, Merriam-Webster Dictionary, and World Atlas.	Search Level-Appropriate Reference Articles, Journals and Magazines, the Web's Best Sites, Multimedia, and Curriculum Content. Includes Workspace, Merriam-Webster Dictionary, and World Atlas.	Biography Reference Center
	Enrich your understanding of the world with country snapshots, current comparisons, chronological comparisons, and ranked statistics.	Explore the rich and varied history of the United States through speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images, and multimedia.	This site offers resources in Spanish for all ages in two unique interfaces, each with its own comprehensive encyclopedia: Enciclopedia Moderna for high school ages and up and Britannica Escolar Online for ages 6-12.
	Access to 100 databases, e-journals and e-commerce book procurement.	An interface designed specifically to help you identify the most appropriate research tools for easily obtaining information.	An index of thousands of best academic information websites that are valid information for school and university academic projects!
Harlingen Public Library - application for HPL Library Card - HPL Children's Department - HPL Teen Blog
	CALENDARS AND REGISTRATION June 2013 Calendar of Events and Registration July 2013 Calendar of Events and Registration Permission for Photo & Video Teen Summer Calendar	CHILDREN Summer Reading Program Summer Reading Challenge Reading Log Summer Reading Club : June & July Books	TEENS Beneath the Surface Program Helpers Talent Show in July Teen Reading Challenge Teen Reading Log Teen Summer Calendar
The RAHC Library - Mario E. Ramirez, M.D. Library M.D. Library
	MedlinePlus MedlinePlus allows health professionals and consumers access to information about specific diseases and conditions, and also has links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, clearinghouses, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials.	Popular Health/Medical Databases

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