Information and Media Center

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Director of Information Literacy
Mrs. Marcie Dowling ext. 121 
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Librarian
Ms. Emily Pulsifer ext. 229
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Hours: The Information and Media Center is open during the school day, study hall periods and on Sunday afternoons.

Circulation:  Books are checked out for 3 weeks and may be renewed if not requested by another patron.  Videos and DVDs are checked out for 1 week. Faculty have unlimited borrowing privileges and may put selected books or films on reserve for class use.

Collection: 7,000 books, DVD films, 36 periodical subscriptions (magazines and newspapers), and electronic databases (SIRS, Salem Science, JSTOR and NCLive). Access the databases using the Information and Media Center Catalog.

Computers: 20 computers, printer/photocopier, wireless access for laptops. 

AV Equipment: VCR and DVD player, TV and Smartboard.

Services: Reference help; assistance with citations and bibliographies; software instruction; class sessions on research strategy, plagiarism and source evaluation.

Recent additions to the Media Center collection (November 2012):

NON FICTION

No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden

Steve Jobs

Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street

Homeland Security

Native American Weapons

Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation

The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future

The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis

Understanding Alzheimer’s: An Introduction for Patients and CaregiversImmigration, Assimilation, and Border Security

Combat-Related Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD

Terrorist Attacks on American Soil

One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s

Coming Climate Crisis? Consider the Past, Beware the Big Fix

Global Issues: Food Security, Freshwater Supply, Globalization and Free Trade, Biodiversity,

Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Weapons of Mass Destruction, World Poverty

Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders

Encyclopedia of Infectious Disease

Biomes: Agricultural and Urban Areas, Taiga, Tropical Forests, and Tundra

The New Biology: Cancer, Stem Cell Research, Animal Cloning, and Gene Therapy

The Human Body: Ear, Nose, and Throat, The Endocrine System, The Kidneys and the Renal System, Skin and Connective Tissue

FICTION

The Mark of Athena, Rick Riordan

The Serpent’s Shadow, Rick Riordan

The Red Pyramid, Rick Riordan

The Lost Hero, Rick Riordan

The Cove, Ron Rash

The Kill Order, James Dashner

The Maze Runner, James Dashner

The Scorch Trials, James Dashner

The Death Cure, James Dashner

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs

The Twelve, Justin Cronin

No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy

The Sunset Limited, Cormac McCarthy

DVDs

No Country for Old Men

The Crucible

Henry IV Part I: Shakespeare’s Globe Theater (2011)

The Magnificent Seven/The Alamo Double Feature

Biography – Frederick Douglass

Slavery by Another Name

Underground Railroad

Benedict Arnold: Triumph and Treason

American Experience: Clinton

American Experience: Freedom Riders

Michael Collins

View the memorial tribute to long-time Christ School librarian Mrs. Jane Hyde, 1943-2009. 

Learn more about the Christ School Archives.