AHS Library

For Monday & Tuesday Passes: Pick up in the library on Monday mornings before school.

For Wednesday & Thursday Passes: Pick up in the library on Wednesday mornings before school.
Note: The library is CLOSED for W.I.N due to Advisory on Wednesdays.

For Friday Passes: Pick up in the library on Friday mornings before school.

If you know the title of the book you want, email the librarian, I will help you find it.

If you are looking for a book to read or need a book for a class project, use the Destiny Catalog to search our online database. Learn how to use the Destiny Catalog.

Merrimack Valley Library Consortium OverDrive Digital Library - With your Amesbury Public Library card or a card from any MVLC library, you have access to over 350,000 OverDrive digital audiobooks and eBooks from other Massachusetts libraries and partner libraries.

Another option is to download the Libby app for access to digital audiobooks and eBooks on your Apple or Android devices. Learn more about how to get eBooks and audiobooks.

Don't Have a Library Card?
You can visit the Amesbury Public Library website and fill out an application. 

References

ProQuest SIRS Issues Researcher - Browse all pro/con social issues from A-Z or by subject. See step-by-step instructions in Google Slides. To use this database from home, ask the librarian for the username and password then click here to log in.

Gale Cengage Learning - Gale offers many powerful research platforms that provide easy access to vetted resources. Use this link to see a full list of Gale database resources available to you. See step-by-step tutorial for using the Gale Databases.

Merriam Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus Online - America's leading and most-trusted provider of language information.

Old Farmers Almanac - is your trusted source for long range weather forecasts, moon phases, full moon dates and times, gardening tips, and more.

Rewordify.com - is a powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching.

Weather Channel - provides a national and local weather forecast for cities, as well as weather radar, report and hurricane coverage.

World Factbook - provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

News Platforms

Newsela is an online news platform that features high-interest articles on everything from current events to myths and legends and from literature to science. Log in using your Amesbury High School Google account

ProQuest Boston Globe provides access to the Boston Globe newspaper from 1980 to the present.

NEW CORONIVIRUS DATABASE  
Coronavirus Research

Fact Checkers

Misinformation: MLS Resources (formerly Fake News) - This guide, formerly known as "Fake News", is a collaborative work-in-progress in conjunction with the MA Library System and the MA library community.

AllSides - exposes bias and provides multiple angles on the same story so you can quickly get the full picture, not just one slant.

FactCheck.org - monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.

Media Matters - progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation
in the U.S. media.

Newsbusters - a conservative media research center that is focused on documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.

Open Secrets - a premier website that tracks the influence of money on U.S. politics, and how that money affects policy and citizens' lives.

Politifact - is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

ProPublica - is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force. They dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust.

Snopes.com - the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.

The Sunlight Foundation - is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses civic technologies, open data, policy analysis and journalism to make our government and politics more accountable and transparent to all.

Washington Post Fact Checker - a weekly review of what's true, false or in-between in politics, from The Post's famous fact-checking team.

Useful Links

The Merrimack Valley Library Consortium (MVLC) is a member-driven library network serving 36 public libraries in the Merrimack Valley region of Massachusetts. Use your Amersbury Public Library card to access any of the member libraries.

Register for a free Boston Public Library (BPL) eCard and take advantage of the many resources available through the BPL.

The World Factbook provides current information on all countries of the world including French and Spanish speaking countries. It also provides political information on each country.

MassHire Career Information System (formerly MassCIS) is a free online resource for all Massachusetts residents. MassHire CIS is designed to provide occupational and educational information to help people make better-informed career and school choices.

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

Biblioboard open access - Enjoy digital books, images, videos and more from libraries, artists, authors and others from your community and around the world.

Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg offers over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.

 

If you are a Massachusetts resident and don't already have a Boston Public Library card, you can register for one online.

Register for a Boston Public Library (BPL) eCard in 2 easy steps.

You are ready to search for resources.

See Common Questions about Library Cards for additional information.

1. Go to eCard Registration on the BPL website.
   
   a. Fill out the form with your Massachusetts address and email.
   
   b. When it asks for a PIN number, select a 4-digit number that is easy to remember (i.e. last 4 digits of your phone number.)
    
2. You will receive an email with a eCard number. Save this number along with your 4-digit PIN in a Google Doc titled BPL card number.

Library Expectations

The Amesbury High School Library is a place that belongs to students, teachers, and staff. There are rules about how you act in the library in order to help make it a pleasant and productive place for everyone to visit.

Library Lunch Procedure

The library is for students who wish to have a quiet study/work area during lunch.
Students may sign up to come to the library during his/her lunch:

Students who do not sign up ahead of time, may not come to the library during lunch.

Students who sign up must come to the library or they will lose lunch library privileges for the following day.

Note: AHS students are exempt from the sign up rule and may come to the library during their lunch any day upon the presentation of their AHS cards.

The Library staff has the right to deny library privileges to students who do not comply with the rules of the library.

Acceptable Use of Electronic Devices

The use of electronic media such as computers, the INTERNET, e-mail, etc. is a privilege essential to learning that offers new freedoms, yet demands new responsibilities. The full policy can be found in the Student Handbook.

District Library Policies

The Amesbury Public Schools policies related to the library can be found on the MASC website under Policy Services - Online Manuals. Select Section I - Instruction on the left to locate the following policies:

IIA - Selection & Reconsiderations for APS Libraries
IIAC-E1 - Formal Request for Reconsideration of Library Resources
IIAC-E2 - Library Bill of Rights

• During blocks 1 though 4, students must have a pass to enter the library if not with a class.
• Students using the library must be respectful of other students’ right to work in a quiet and orderly environment.
• Please be respectful of library property and materials.
• Only unflavored water is allowed, food is not allowed.
• Student use of the computers and the Internet has to be school-related and appropriate.  Remember that your computer screen can be viewed at any time by the Librarians.  Don't lose your Internet privileges by accessing inappropriate sites.
• Cell phones may not be used in the Library during the school day as per school policy EGAF Cell Phones & Portable Communication Devices found in the Student Handbook.
• after school the day before OR
• from 7 a.m. to 7:57 a.m. (before first period) on the day