Online Catalog & Resources

LGHS Library Catalog
Use Destiny to find books in the library. Logging on allows students to view which textbooks and library books they have and their due dates.
username: The email address used to log on to Aeries
password: School ID number

EBSCO Host (Access through your Google waffle)
EBSCO hosts a multitude of Databases organized in centers that are geared towards a particular type of research. Some are general sets of databases that will help with any research (Student Research Center, Academic Research Center) and others target specific types of search (Points of View center, Science Reference Center, Literary Reference Center, Advanced Placement).

NoodleTools  
NoodleTools gives students a systematic but flexible framework for navigating the tangled web of research. Students develop expert critical-thinking skills, gain confidence, and replace patchwriting and plagiarism with synthesis.

California's K-12 Online Content Project  
Access to online educational content from Britannica, ProQuest, TeachingBooks and Gale

SCCLD - Santa Clara County Library District
The SCCLD provides countless resources to students - e-Books, free access to databases, magazines and newspapers and a tutoring center. Access all the resources by creating an account.

Librarian's Index
Information you can trust.

Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

Britannica Online
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., is a leading provider of learning and knowledge products. They are proud to be one of the world's most trusted sources of information on every topic imaginable - from the origins of the universe to current events and everything in between.

MLK's Catalog - SJ Library
Provide students, instructors and the community access to the information they need for educational and personal growth throughout their lives.

Stanford
Libraries and academic information resources.

Roget's Thesaurus
The largest and most trusted free Thesaurus on the web.

Webster's Dictionary
Merriam-Webster is America's foremost publisher of language-related reference works. The company publishes a diverse array of print and electronic products.

Online Almanac
Since 1792, The Old Farmer's Almanac has spoken to all walks of life: tide tables for those who live near the ocean; sunrise and planting charts for those who live on the farm; recipes for those who live in the kitchen; and forecasts for those who don't like the question of weather left up in the air.

LG Public Library
Town Civic Center • 110 E. Main Street • Los Gatos, CA • 95030

Saratoga Public Library
13650 Saratoga Avenue • Saratoga, California • 95070

West Valley Library
Provides information services and resources to students, community members, staff and faculty, to facilitate successful learning.

DMV Practice Tests
Free practice Tests for Driver's License 

These directories contain scholarly information that has been reviewed and deemed reliable. They are the best place to find academic information on the internet.

Academic Index
Created by the former chair of Texas Association of School Librarians, this meta-search engine only pulls from databases and resources that are approved by librarians and educators.

Academic Info
Gateway to college and research level Internet resources maintained by a volunteer group of subject specialists.

The Internet Public Library
Large, selective collection from the University of Michigan.

The WWW Virtual Library
Highly respected guides to many disciplines sponsored by the W3 Consortium.

American Heritage Magazine
Although not a primary source website per se, American Heritage contains articles written by historians. Use the notes at the end of the articles to find primary sources related to your topic. Search the archives of American Heritage magazine to locate high-quality secondary source material.

The American Presidency Project
The American Presidency Project is sponsored by the UCSB. The archives contain 88,438 documents related to the study of the Presidency.

Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
This Yale Law School website is an excellent resource that contains a vast amount of primary source information in the form of digital documents from ancient history to the 21st century.

Chronicling America
Chronicling America is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.. Currently, the site contains selected newspapers from California (The San Francisco Call, Sacramento Record-Union), District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and Virginia and Washington.

Early Americas Digital Archives
The EADA is a collection of electronic texts and links to texts originally written in or about the Americas from 1492 to approximately 1820. Published by by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.
 

Foreign Relations of the United States
The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. The series is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian and printed volumes and archived at the University of Wisconsin.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Historic Documents Collection
Headquartered at the New York Historical Society, this collection contains more than 60,000 documents detailing the political and social history of the United States. The collection's holdings include manuscript letters, diaries, maps, photographs, printed books and pamphlets ranging from 1493 through modern times.

Making of America
The University of Michigan's digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of: psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science & technology.

Online Archive of California (OAC)
Contains detailed descriptions of primary source collections maintained by more than 150 institutions such as libraries, historical societies, and museums, including collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.

Reconstruction Primary Sources
A list of primary sources from Schmoop.

Teaching American History Document Library
Contains letters, speeches, documents, books, and articles on significant people and events in American political thought and history. Rather than being a comprehensive list of available resources, it is meant to be a list of the best resources available on the given subject.

Worcester Women's History Project
This online historical library of primary source material is published by the Worcester Women's History Project, which was set up to promote research into women's history.

World War I Document Archive
This site includes the full text of dozens of World War One-related documets. These include treaties, speeches and diaries. There are also extensive collections of texts pertaining to the War at Sea and to World War 1 medicine.