The Media Center

Hours: 7am to 3:45pm Monday through Friday

Rosemary E. Murray

phone 317-788-2281

fax 317-788-2281

The Roncalli High School Media Center houses approximately 7,000 titles and 40 periodicals; It has 10 computers with Internet access and a special careers and vocational section. There is a large video and recorded book collection and reference works to enhance research.

In addition, there are special subscriptions to resources on the Internet that are available to Media Center patrons. These include the various databases of Indiana's INSPIRE project and the Indianapolis Marion County Public Library. There has been a concerted effort to choose non-overlapping sources. Click on the icons below to go to those resources.

 

Inspire is Indiana's virtual library. Together with the academic, public, school and special libraries of Indiana, Inspire offers access to a full range of commercial databases and other electronic resources to support the educational, cultural, personal, and economic interests of Hoosiers from their homes, offices, libraries, schools, and businesses.
IMCPL The Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library's home page is THE place to go on the Internet for Marion County residents to find out what the public library owns,  place holds on books, and even renew your books.  Select "Patron Services on the Web" and type in your library card ID number.  To get to the many databases offered by the public library, click on "Magazines, Newspapers, Encyclopedias, and Databases."

 


Roncalli High School also has access to the Marion County Internet Library where libraries from all over Marion County with the support of The Library Fund of The Indianapolis Foundation have come together to offer city residents access to a wide variety of full-text information on the Internet. These databases are listed and linked below.

Electric Library

A database designed for library users of all ages. Electric Library contains the full-text of millions of magazine and newspaper articles, books [including many great literary works], maps, pictures, and broadcast programs from television and radio, and government transcripts.

Discovering Science

Discovering US History
Discovering World History
Dictionary of Literary Biography

The three DISCovering databases provide access to original essays and biographies of prominent figures in each discipline; each database includes extensive timelines, and graphics. The history databases provide primary documents and the scientific one includes several hundred frequently asked questions and answers on scientific subjects.

The Dictionary of Literary Biography, a 180 volume print reference source, outlines the lives and careers of more than 4,000 authors from all eras and genres and summarizes the critical response of scholars and academics to their work.

SIRS Discoverer

SIRS Discoverer, written specifically for Elementary and Middle school students, is an informative database of full-text articles that helps develop research, reading, writing, language and computer skills while making learning fun and intuitive for the young researcher. Also useful for English as a second language students. Includes the popular research tool, The World AlmanacĀ for Kids, and an encyclopedia with 26,000 entries.

SIRS Researcher

This general reference database contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues. Articles are Carefully selected from more than 1,200 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals and U.S. government publications can be accessed instantaneously. Articles are archived from 1988 to present. Many articles are accompanied by graphics, including charts, maps, diagrams and illustrations.

50 Trees of Indiana

Wildflowers of Indiana

Birds of Indiana

These three unique local resources contain original line drawings of trees native to our state and full color paintings of wildflowers and birds of the area. In addition to searching by names, you can search for a tree by looking at a leaf, or for a bird by the shape and color of an egg or the time of year that a species is usually present, or for a wildflower by the location or bloom time.

RHS is part of the HI-NET Project that is sponsored by The Indianapolis Foundation.  Begun in 1995, the consortia includes 13 Marion County high schools and IMCPL.  This unique project provides one seamless type search shared by these schools and the public library as well as a common technology base.  The online catalog, Internet connectivity, electronic databases, and the upgrading of electronic information sources are shared by the 13 media centers and the public library.  This special group is part of Marion County's 31 high school media centers and 3 Marion County colleges called the Eligible Libraries.

Created: 25 January 1999

Updated: 20 April 1999

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