Library Resources

Library Hours: M-F 7:20-4:30; Closed during liturgies and faculty staff meetings.
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DATABASE FOR RESEARCH AND LITERATURE SOURCES
Please contact our librarian or your teacher for the user name & password.
How to cite databases at Mitty (Mitty MLA)     How to cite all other sources (MLA)
The Oxford African American Studies Center (AASC) provides students, teachers, librarians and scholars with online access to the finest reference resources in African American studies.
A free, nonpartisan resource for information on pivotal events and issues shaping today’s world of government and politics.
Original comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of contemporary issues. Contains government information and documents.

Historical analysis with timely updates and expert commentary of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of justices, institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution.

Full-text reference books from Thompson Gale. Available any time from anywhere.

The most comprehensive collection of reference material in our library. A group of eleven databases contianing broad cross-curricular content as well as current and archived full-text magazine and newspaper articles. 

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, offers links to nearly 50000 articles, images and sound files from 6000 contributors.

Access to archived, mulit-disciplined, scholarly journals. Offers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.

Catholic documents including encyclicals, speeches and other papal messages, diocesan policy statements, speeches in the news on public policy, social justice, the parish, the family, ministries and much more.

Access to current periodicals, newspapers, multimedia and image collections, out-of-print books, dissertations, and scholarly collections in various formats (and archived for decades).

Reference material provides integrated access to thousands of full-text articles, documents, Internet resources, graphics and easy links to electonic books in the public domain.

A Spanish lanuguage collection of hispanic magazines with full text. Covers business, health, technology, culture, current topics and other subjects.

 

Monarchs on the Hunt

How to Cite Sources (Hacker)
High School Ace

The History Net
Spanish!

Oral Histories of Holocaust Survivors and Liberators
TILT
Musicals

Libraries

Santa Clara County Public Library
San Jose Public
San Francisco Public Library
Internet Public Library
The Library of Congress
NYPL Digital Image Gallery

Periodicals

San Jose Mercury News
San Francisco Examiner
Times World Wide

Religion

SAINTS:
Patron Saints Index
Catholic Online: Saints and Angels
Catholic Information Network

CATHOLIC SITES:
America: The National Catholic Weekly
Catholic Encyclopedia
US Conference of Catholic Bishops

CHURCH HISTORY
Bible Online, The
California State Law

Early Church Fathers
Ecclesiology: A Study in Church History - A Catholic Perspective
Guide to Early Church Documents
Hall of Church History
Internet Theology Resources: Church History
Index Page - Sketches of Church History
US Federal Law

ETHICS
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Ethics Updates, USD

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, SCU
Theology Library (Spring Hill College)
Theology Library (Spring Hill College)

MISCELLANEOUS
Dorothy Stang

Philosophy/Walker (pdf)

Government Sites

Bill Information
Official California Legislative Information
ACLU
Cornell University Law School
Congress Link
Google Uncle Sam
U.S. Statistics


Search Engines

Ask
Vivisimo
AltaVista
Google
Infoseek
Yahoo
MetaCrawler

Dictionaries/Thesauruses

Dictionaries
American Heritage
Cambridge
Merriam-Webster

Oxford English Dictionary

Thesauruses
Thesauras.com
Roget, 1911
Merriam-Webster

Encyclopedias

Catholic Encyclopedia
Britannica

Encyclopedia.com

Quotations

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
13,000 Fabulous Quotations

Jazz

Jazz PBS Companion Site
Thelonias Monk Institute of Jazz
(Click on Jazz Resource Library)
Down Beat

Good Poems

Poetry 180
The Internet Poetry Archive

Modern Language

Learn Spanish: Click on grammar on the left sidebar then choose a topic
description: grammar study sheets and practice.
Modern Language Website
Real Academia Española
: Click on diccionario de la lengua espanola--first one on the left hand sidebar.
WordReference

Spanish I

Spanish II