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.
Our library computers provide access to various research databases (see below), the libary catalog, word processing and other office suite programs, and graphics manipulation tools, as well as the internet. Students are free to copy their work to/from CDs, DVDs, and usb (flash) drives, and may also use their allocted space on our school network.
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."
NetLibrary is supplied through the BOCES School Library System.
Castle Learning
"Castle Learning Online supports classroom instruction through content-related review assignments, practice sessions and benchmark testing. Includes over 50,000 field-tested questions supported by defined vocabulary, reference tables, hints and reasons for correct answers in math, science, social studies, English and foreign languages."
Castle Learning is supplied by SCC.
EBSCO
EBSCO contains the elementary-level materials Primary Search, EBSCO Animals, and Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia.
EBSCO is supplied through the NY State Library's NOVEL project.
Edline
Edline is an online hosting solution which offers access to a school calendar, class notes, assignments, grades, student schedules, and more. All Seton students and parents are given Edline accounts upon enrolling.
Edline is supplied by SCC.
Gale Infotrac
The Gale Infotrac service include the following databases:
Gale Research 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.
Grolier Online
"Includes eight encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, Amazing Animals and The New Book of Popular Science."
Grolier Online is supplied through the NY State Library's NOVEL project.
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.
PowerMediaPlus
Allows teachers to "set up classes to organize media, lesson plans, assignments, and quizzes and to share learning tools with your students."
PowerMediaPlus is supplied through WSKG-TV.
ProQuest
"ProQuest is a resource of electronic collections containing millions of documents originally published in magazines, newspapers, and journals. You can search these collections for documents on subject that interest you or that will help with your research or school work."
Grolier Online is supplied through the NY State Library's NOVEL project.
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.