Welcome to the Colonie Central High School library. Below you will find helpful links and resources for students and parents that will help enhance the educational experience of South Colonie students. For further information, please contact your school librarian.

South Colonie Central School District Excellence and Accountability Student Outcome

"All students will demonstrate the skills to acquire, interpret, and transmit information."

Free Reading Resources for Children, Teens and Adults

Read.gov, from the U.S. Library of Congress, is an online portal of free reading resources for children, teens and even adults. It features online versions of out-of-copyright books for children, including “Mother Goose,” “The Arabian Nights,” “The Secret Garden,” “A Christmas Carol,” “The Raven,” and other classics. It also provides webcasts of authors, such as “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer, as well as writing contests, suggested booklists, teaching resources, and more. For more information, click here.

book lovers

Colonie Central High School offers a list of web sites and databases for teen readers including online book clubs, reading lists for college-bound readers, author profiles, book reviews, online magazines and more. To access the Book Lovers page, click here.

citing sources

South Colonie follows the style guidelines of the Modern Language Association. South Colonie's Student Research Guide (pdf) is designed to help students be successful in writing a research paper. Please refer to the Student Research Guide whenever there are questions about the research process. For more on citing sources, click here.

data bases

The South Colonie Central School District subscribes to numerous Internet accessible information databases for all age levels. These are available to all district residents by obtaining a password from the librarian, which will allow you to access the list of all district-funded database passwords. For more on databases, click here.

pathfinders

Pathfinders are guides created by South Colonie librarians intended to help students get started investigating a particular topic. More specifically, Pathfinders are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety of media on a topic they are researching. They provide a head start for students as they begin their research project. For more information on a topic, click on the image titles below.

Local Art Venues	The Alamo	History/Culture of Spain
Immigration	Famous and Infamous	Current Events

Careers	Literary Criticism	Poetry
True Crime	Mulas De Drogas	Social Issues

Biographies	The Decades	Fashion Trends	Folklore/Legends
Psychology	Salem Witch Trials	Teen Issues	Running of Bulls

The Holocaust

Political Cartoons