The Bishop Alemany Library Media Center is proud to announce the addition of NewsBank to their list of scholarly databases (http://207.115.163.240/databases.php).
What is NewsBank?
An online research program providing expansive coverage of virtually all curriculum areas from multiple perspectives and diverse primary sources to:
• Capture students’ interests and teach current events
• Develop critical thinking and research skills
• Target state learning standards and improve student achievement
• Save time developing great research projects
The NewsBank program includes:
• A comprehensive research collection of articles, documents and statistics from hundreds of real-world sources updated daily.
• Authoritative, safe, advertising-free web-delivered educational content
• News headlines with daily lesson plans on current events
• Over 800 state and country maps
• A friendly interface that finds relevant information while developing effective research skills
• Lesson plans for research projects
Teachers, students, and even families may access these rich online curriculum resources from school or from home by going to http://www.mynewsbank.com and entering:
User Name: bahsPassword: bahs
The Library Media Center was founded to promote literacy in all its expressions, to encourage life-long learning, to ensure the individual right to freedom of information, and to advance knowledge to an ever-growing body of information both online and in print.
The Library Media Center houses many specialized reference books, recent pamphlets, and magazines.
The Library Media Center seeks to promote and increase student achievement by:
• Providing access to current resources and the latest information technology.
• Enhancing student competency with information skills.
• Introducing students to telecommunications as a means of information retrieval.