Open from 8:00 am to at least 3:30 pm, the SCCHS Library offers students a quiet place to read, study, and do research throughout the school day. Students who wish to visit the library during the school day may do so before homeroom, from study hall, from lunch, and from class (with a pass from their teacher). From 3:00 to 4:15 pm, the Library and Saintly Grounds Cafe offer a relaxed atmosphere where students can chat, read, work online, and partake of home-baked goodies, brewed coffee, and other offerings.
The library collection has around 10,000 volumes, of which about 200 are new each year. Our holdings are included in the BOCES Union Catalog on the web. (Note: Catalog is for all South Central BOCES schools. We can borrow the items with the "BDT" prefix; that is, in Broome-Delaware-Tioga Boces.) Note that the information in the BOCES catalog is not as up-to-date as what we have in our local catalog available at school on the library computers. Our circulation policies are listed on a separate webpage.
We have a small library network (5 user desktops, 10 laptops) which provides access to various research databases (see below), the libary catalog, word processing and other office suite programs, and graphics manipulation tools. Students are able to save work to their "My Documents" space on the school network, and may also read from CDs and save to floppy disks and usb drives.
Please check with librarian for user ids and passwords.
Awesome Stories
"AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose ... is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, and government web sites."
EBSCO
Enter the EBSCO site for MasterFILE Select, Primary Search, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, and TOPICsearch. The interface is also available in Spanish.
EBSCO is supplied through the NY State Library's NOVEL project.
EBSCO is supplied through the NY State Library's NOVEL project.
Greenwood eBooks
Greenwood ebooks supply access to half a dozen reference works on economics (2 bks), American history (2 bks), Catholic literature, and terrorism.
NetLibrary
Thousands of ebooks in a wide variety of topics.
NetLibrary is supplied through the BOCES School Library System.
Newsbank
Full text of 10 NY newspapers & 6 national papers, 5+ yrs to today, plus Special Reports on topics of current interest.
Newsbank is supplied through the South Central Regional Library Council.
OCLC: FirstSearch
Collection of a dozen databases and indexes, searchable either individually or together. Includes ArticleFirst, ECO, ERIC, MEDLINE, and Wilson Select Plus. NOTE: FirstSearch may only be used at school.
FirstSearch is supplied through the BOCES School Library System.
SCOOLS Online Catalog
Find out what is available in other BDT (Broome Delaware Tioga) area schools. Inter-Library Loans may be requested through the school librarian.
The SCOOLS database is supplied through the BOCES School Library System.
World Book
Encyclopedia, atlas, dictionary, New York State information, educator's tools, and a Spanish-language encyclopedia.
Gale Research Databases