Library
Research Links
- District/Walker Library (Insignia) (This only works if you're on a school computer.)
- Oregon School Library Information System (OSLIS) for Middle and High School Students - Research - Contact the library for off site passwords.
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GALE is a good way to find magazine, newspaper articles and Much more.
Worldbook online– Online encyclopedi
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CultureGrams – Country and state information
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Discovery – Educational videos
- Homework Center – Multnomah County Library
- Information Please Almanac
- Librarians' Internet Index
- Oregon Libraries Network (L-net)
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Great Links
- For a great research site dedicated to student use KidsClick
- Another Research site Facthound
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To find current events that relate to homework Time for Kids.
- For exciting information on countries, animals, travel, maps, and more use National Geographic
- Visit the Awesome Links page for even more great links.
Library Basics
• The Walker Library is open to students from 7:40 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., unless there is a meeting that needs to use the area. Students may come to the Library during the Lunch Break, unless a class needs to use the whole room.
• Students may check out four items at a time. These include books, magazines, reference, and graphic novels. This does not include Textbooks, which all students are required to have. They are checked out on a separate program.• All materials check out for three weeks at a time. Due dates are stamped on the back of the item. Throughout the year we will print overdue lists and deliver them to the students.
• Students with one overdue item may check out more items. Students with two or more overdue items, or any charges, will not be able to check out until the items are cleared.• Students are encouraged to learn their I.D. number. It helps with check out. The I.D. number of a student will never change and it will stay with them until they graduate from High School.
• Fiction books start under the windows of the work room follow the outside wall.• Nonfiction books start in the free standing bookcases. They begin at wrap around the shelves, ending at the Reference section.
• Reference books are under the windows on the north wall of the Library. You may check out most, but not all, reference books. Oversized books are at the end of the reference section. Walker currently has a subscription to all of the levels of the Worldbook Online, including a Spanish version.• We have many popular magazines available for check out. Also all of the secondary schools in Oregon have access to magazine articles on line, through OSLIS to be able to do research.
• We have thirty computers for research purposes. They are also available for typing. We allow students to print anything they type. If they copy and paste from other sources, like the Internet, we charge a fee as if a student was using a copy machine.
• The Internet has become an important tool for schoolwork. All Salem-Keizer students may use the Internet, unless a parent or guardian signed an exclusion form. The District has installed a filtering service. If an objectionable site is found, the building staff can get the Technology Department to block the site• Students in the Walker Library must get permission before using the Internet. They have to stop at the counter and show their six-week hall pass, a student body card or a student calendar. We give them an internet tag. Then we know at all times if a student has permission to use the Internet. When they are done, we trade back.
• Students are expected to do their school work during class time. After school they may visit other sites that are school appropriate or send e-mail.