Welcome
to Atlantic Technical Center
and
Technical
High School
Media
Center
This page explains basic information
about the many Media Center resources available to you as a student or staff
member of ATC. If you have questions about how to locate, access, or use any
of these resources, please e-mail the media specialist by clicking on the
e-mail link at the bottom left of the home page or click HERE.
LOOKING FOR A BOOK? TO
ACCESS DESTINY QUEST, CLICK HERE.
CLICK HERE TO
ACCESS OUR E-BOOK COLLECTION AT
See the Media Specialist for login
information.
TO ACCESS ALL ONLINE DATABASES AT
THE HIGH SCHOOL VIRTUAL MEDIA CENTER
PLEASE CLICK
HERE.
Section
I: Library Policies and Procedures
A. Media services and materials are
available at two locations on the ATC campus. Students enrolled in technical
programs may use the Building 10 Learning Center. Students enrolled at
the Magnet High School may use the resources available in the High School
Media Center, located in Building 24, room 2401.
For a complete explanation of all
policies and procedures, please select
Media Center Handbook, available
from the Files,
Forms & Handouts page.
B. Library Hours:
Monday - Friday
Building 10 Learning Center:
7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
High School Media Center: 6:45 a.m. -
2:45 p.m.
Please note: High school students may
visit the appropriate Media Center facility before or after school, or during
class with teacher permission. Please call Room 2401 first, since many times
the media specialist is teaching in high school classrooms.
Section
II: Use of Media Center Materials
A. How to locate books or audiovisual
materials in the Media Center Collection
To find a book, a video, or an
audiobook in the library, use DESTINY QUEST, the Broward County Schools'
online library database. You can find a link to DESTINY QUEST above and at the Online
Databases page of this website.
You may search for materials in the ATC Media Center without logging in. To
check your library record, you will need to log in. Students log in with their
student number and birthdate (00/00/0000); teachers use their personnel ID
number. To search all Broward County schools' libraries, you will need to EXIT
DESTINY QUEST, and do a library
search in DESTINY.
Be sure to change the LOCATION in the drop down box to School Board of
Broward County. To check your library record, click on MY INFO.
To view a video tutorial about using DESTINY
QUEST, click HERE.
Library materials are divided into two
groups: Fiction and Nonfiction. Fiction books are arranged on the shelves in
alphabetical order by the author's last name. Nonfiction books are arranged
according to the Dewey Decimal System.
When using DESTINY QUEST, you can
search by subject, author, or title - just enter the information in the search
box and press "enter." Remember, spelling is important! If our library owns
the item you are searching for, you will need to write down the CALL NUMBER.
For fiction books, this will be the letter "F" followed by the first three
letters of the author's last name.
For example: F
Ste would be the CALL NUMBER for Of Mice and Men, a novel by
John Steinbeck.
The CALL NUMBER of a nonfiction book
will be a number that represents the subject of the book, followed by the
first three letters of the author's last name. You will use this number to
look for the item on our media center shelves.
For example, some science books can be
found in the 500's classification, so the CALL NUMBER for Charles Darwin's The
Origin of Species is 576.82
Dar.
For more information about the Dewey
Decimal System, try this link.
2. If our media center does NOT own an
item you would like to borrow, you can request an interlibrary loan. You may
e-mail the media specialist with your request, submit your request on the
checkout clipboard, OR use the form provided at the FORMS
& HANDOUTS page of this website and drop off the request in Room 2401.
3. To borrow a library item, you will
need your student ID. Library materials may be borrowed for a two week period.
You may renew this loan for another two weeks, if no other student has
requested that item. Although we do not charge fines for late materials, we
ask that you please return library materials to the media center in a timely
fashion.
B. Periodicals (Magazines and
Newspapers)
Both media facilities house a variety
of magazines and newspapers available for student and staff use. Please see
the current list of periodicals at the Forms
& Handouts page of this website.
Section
III: Online Resources
As a student or staff member, you have
access to several online databases. Links to these can be found at the Online
Databases page of this website.
To use these resources from home, you will need passwords, which are available
in the Online Resources Brochure, available in either Media Center
facility and in Room 2401.
A. GALE ONLINE RESOURCES
- GALE ONLINE RESOURCES includes
several general and specialized databases. Each of these includes access to
full-text articles from magazines, newspapers, and reference books; video and
audio files; images; primary sources.
The databases include:
Student Resources in Context, Literature
Resource Center, Opposing Viewpoints, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Health
and Wellness Resource Center, Academic OneFile, General OneFile, Informe
(Spanish language), Books and Authors, Computer Database, Small Business
Database, U.S. History Civil War.
B. WORLDBOOK ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA
- Choose from 3 levels - Kids,
Students, Advanced
- Under Research Tools, access a
dictionary, atlas, as well as newspaper articles from around the world.
- Use the search box to locate articles
from encyclopedias and a variety of other resources that may include videos,
maps, primary sources, etc.
C. SIRS
- Includes access to SIRS Researcher, a
general reference database containing full-text articles from over 1,500
domestic and international publications. Use this database to explore social,
scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues
in magazines and newspapers.
- Special features include: dictionary,
thesaurus, world maps, excerpts from the World Almanac, Today's News,
Leading Issues (in depth study of hot topics from today's news)
- Access to SIRS Government Reporter
- Access to SIRS Renaissance - a
database that focuses on the Arts
- Search by subject, keyword, natural
language, or topic browse.
D.
BEEP - Broward Education Portal
- The "Student Portal" gives you access
to a variety of free student resources including ONLINE TEXTBOOKS.
- Enter your student ID number and
birthdate to access these Online Resources.
- The "Teacher Portal" gives
instructors access to the Learning Village, Virtual Counselor, Atomic
Learning, and Discovery Education United Streaming video database.
- For Atomic Learning videos on how to
use United Streaming (Please note: You must first log in to BEEP with your
personnel ID#):
