Mike Garvey, Librarian. Welcome to the Library Media Center. Please use the links to the right to access Media Center resources. For more information about this department, contact Mr. Garvey.

A library database is an online resource (it is not a website) that we subscribe to/pay for. That contains articles and information from print sources such as magazines, newspapers, journals and reference books. An article database enables you to search through thousands (sometimes millions) of different magazines, journals and newspapers to find articles on a particular topic. Some of the articles you will find are Full Text.

Read our magazines from your mobile device:

1. Download the Flipster app from your mobile device’s app store

2. Select your school: “Worcester Technical High School”

3. Enter our EBSCO user id and password

4. These instructions only need to be done the first time. After that opening the app will bring you to the magazines

Citation Machine
MLA APA Turabian Chicago. Click the citation format you need and then the type of resource you wish to cite.

Discovery Education
Setting up your account: Teacher/staff and student names are already loaded into the database. Teachers/staff access using their phone number and the password "discovery". Student's use their ID number and password "discovery".

Full suite of Gale databases
Designed as an online learning environment, the resources will deliver accurate, authoritative content that builds collaboration from the library to the classroom. Covering science, biography, history, social issues and more, this new way of delivering content - in context, through comprehensive Web-like portal pages - supports the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills while providing the intuitive experience today's users have come to expect from online research. CLICK ON ABOVE LINK TO OPEN UP WHOLE SUITE OF RESOURCES

Rand McNally Online
Here you will find maps, games and activities, teaching resources, and geographic reference information.

• Go to Sora

• You should see the collection called "Always Available Magazines" as the second curation on the Sora Explore page. If you’re not seeing this, it means that you and/or someone has done some custom curations on your page. You can either revert your page back to the shared collection or create your own curation of the magazines.

• Regardless of custom curation status, you can now click on the "Magazines" button toward the top left-hand side of the page to view all titles.

• You can also use Sora Filters > Format > Magazines to view the titles.

• Academic OneFile

• Contemporary Literary Criticism Select

• Educator's Reference Complete

• Expanded Academic ASAP

• Gale Virtual Reference Library

• General BusinessFile ASAP

• General Reference Center Gold

• Health Reference Center Academic

• Full-text magazines, news, encyclopedias, and e-reference books

• InfoTrac K-12 Junior Edition

• InfoTrac K-12 Student Edition

• Info Trac OneFile

• Kids InfoBits

• Massachusetts History Online

• New York Times

• Worcester Public Library

• ALEXANDRIA RESEACHER Automation card catalog

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
Mark Twain