Albemarle High School Library
Create. Discover. Read. Grow.
Albemarle High School Mission:​
We are dedicated to empower students to succeed in the classroom today and to have a positive impact on the world tomorrow.​
Principal: Mr. Jay Thomas
​School Librarians: Ms. Monica Cabarcas and Ms. Erica Thorsen
Library Assistant: Ms. Martha Scyoc
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Hours: Monday – Friday 8:00-4:15
​​2775 Hydraulic Road • Charlottesville, VA 22901 • 434/975-9300 • FAX: 434/974-4335​
School Library Mission:
We want to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information.
Databases
Use the following databases to assist with your discoveries.
Gale provides databases on most subject areas. These databases provides an engaging online experience for those seeking information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. It merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience. Included in here is the GALE Virtual Reference Library, a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Simply click on the tab above and it will take you to the sign-in page. Use the following: password: welcome
Britannica Online School Edition offers encyclopedias and related materials for students of all levels. Users can also take advantage of the Learning Materials, a collection of educational exercises, activities, and study guides.
Simply click on the tab above and it will take you to the sign-in page. Use the following: username: abchs password: ebaccess
Britannica also offers more specific databases such as:
Britannica Annals of American History
Here you can explore the rich and varied history of the United States through speeches, historical accounts, memiors, poems, images and multi-media.
Simply click on the link to the right and it will take you to the sign-in page. http://www.america.eb.com/failedlogin?target=/
Use the following: username: abchs password: ebaccess
Britannica World Data Analyst
Here, World Data Analyst offers quick and easy comparisons of the countries of the world.
Simply click on the link to the right and it will take you to the sign-in page. http://www.world.eb.com/failedlogin?target=/
Use the following: username: abchs password: ebaccess
Britannica Spanish Reference Center
This site offers resources in Spanish for all ages in two unique interfaces, each with its own comprehensive encyclopedia: Enciclopedia Moderna for high school ages and up and Britannica Escolar Online for ages 6-12.
Este portal le ofrece recursos de referencia en español en dos interfaces exclusivas — cada una con una enciclopedia adaptada al lector: Enciclopedia Moderna para adultos y estudiantes y Britannica Escolar Online para estudiantes de 6 a 12 años de edad.
Simply click on the link to the right and it will take you to the sign-in page. http://www.spanish.eb.com/failedlogin?target=/
Use the following: username: abchs password: ebaccess
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World Book offers encyclopedias and related materials for students of all levels. It includes World Book Kids (features content and tools developed especially for young students), Student (the mainstay of any library’s research needs with thousands of articles and extensive multimedia), Advanced (powerful reference tool designed for high school students), and Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos (World Book’s excellent editorial content, rich media, and interactive features in Spanish).
Simply click on the tab above and it will take you to the sign-in page. Use the following: username: albemarle password: albemarle
Encyclopedia Virginia - a publication-in-progress of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, is a dynamic, authoritative, and publicly accessible reference work about Virginia history and culture. You can also follow EV on Twitter to discover what happened on this day in Virginia and you can subscribe to EV's RSS feeds to stay current with content being published in topical categories that interest you.
Simply click on the tab above and it will take you to the web page.
Through eLibrary, users can find images, video, eBooks, and 100% full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals. They can also find maps, transcripts, audio files, graphics, interactives, dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, timelines, slideshows, editorially created research pages, and hand-selected websites. Publications are updated promptly, and thousands of new images are added every day.
Simply click on the tab above and it will take you to the sign-in page. Use the following: username: acpschools password: welcome
*Once logged in, the page will be My Products. Click on eLibrary.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers delivers the complete run of several newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and Los Angeles Times. It offers an unparalleled online resource for the study of historical events, social and consumer history, economics, literature, technology, and more. Every issue is reproduced in cover-to-cover full-page image from news stories and editorials to graphics and advertisements. Our title coverage spans from 1851 to 2001. Students can search using keyword, Boolean, or natural language queries as well as limit searches by date, author, article type, and more.
Simply click on the tab above and it will take you to the sign-in page. Use the following: username: acpschools password: welcome
*Once logged in, the page will be My Products. Click on the ProQuest Historical Newspapers (Graphical).
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Discovery Education offers a breadth and depth of digital media content that is immersive, engaging and brings the world into the classroom to give every student a chance to experience fascinating people, places, and events.
Simply click on the tab above and it will take you to the sign-in page. Use the following: username: ahsmedia password: welcome
JMRL provides access to full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and a wide range of standard library reference sources. You can access all of these databases in the library, and most can be accessed from the comfort of your own home 24/7. All you need is a library card!
Simply click on the tab above and it will take you to the web page.
Merriam-Webster Unabridged is the largest, most comprehensive American dictionary currently available in print or online. It is built from Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged and is the best source of current information about the English language.
Simply click on the tab above and it will take you to the sign-in page. Use the following: username: abchs password: ebaccess
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world. As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from those of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You’ll still find these in the OED, but you’ll also find the history of individual words, and of the language—traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to films scripts and cookery books.
Simply click on the tab above and it will take you to the sign-in page. Use the following: username: ahsmedia password: welcome