WARWICK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY STAFF

The Warwick Valley High School Library Staff may be reached Monday - Friday from 7:15 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. at 987-3050, or you can email each staff member by clicking on their name below:

Jo Ann Cheney, Library Media Specialist

Adele Bobrzynski, Library Assistant

 

INFORMATION LITERACY

What is information literacy? It is the ability to locate, evaluate and use information to become a lifelong learner. This includes tool, resource, research and social literacy to enable skillful consumers and producers of information.

 

ASK FOR HELP

If you can't find what you need, if something doesn't work
(printers, copy machine, computers), please ask for help!

 

LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER ATMOSPHERE? SCHOLARLY.

To prevent damage to all library materials and equipment and maintain a scholarly atmosphere, we require:

* No food or beverages

* No cell phones

* No rude behavior or language

* No book bags

* No students without passes

* No loud audio devices

* No late students

* No innapropriate clothing

 

BOOKS, RESOURCES AND ONLINE INFORMATION

Destiny OPAC is a tool to use when searching, in school or from home, for project and research resources or pleasure reading.

For books for research, projects and reports in WVHS Library Media Center
including ebooks (full-text books online):

Click on Destiny Online Catalog - home page
(click on catalog tab)
Sign out materials at circulation desk.

 

AVOIDING PLAGIARISM

According to Indiana University's Writing Tutorial Services, plagiarism is described as using
others’ ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information -- all
too easy a mistake to make with the wealth of information available on the Internet today.

Don't fall into the plagiarism trap - click on the following links to learn how to avoid plagiarism:

• Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Avoid It (Indiana University)

• Avoiding Plagiarism (Purdue University)

• How to Avoid Plagiarism (Northwestern University)

• Avoiding Plagiarism, Self-Plagiarism, and Other Questionable
Writing Practices: A Guide to Ethical Writing (St. John's University)