Library

Our mission is to support each student with their individual growth, exploration, and academic achievement by providing a safe, ever-evolving, resource-filled environment.

Non-Fiction, Fiction & Reference Books

Search the GHS Library Catalog

E-Books, Audio Books & Streaming Videos

SORA Digital Catalog - Discover your next great read — Login = your active directory username
Password = your student/staff ID#

Library Hours

Monday 7:30 - 4:30
Tuesday 7:30 - 4:30
Wednesday 7:30 - 4:30
Thursday 7:30 - 4:30
Friday 7:30 - 3:30

Do you need help with research? Do you have a book request? Do you have any other library-related queries? Please use the Ask a Librarian form.

LIbrary Resources

Non-Fiction, Fiction & Reference Books

Search the GHS Library Catalog

GHS Library Catalog

E-Books, Audio Books & Streaming Videos

Search the SORA Digital Catalog

Getting started with SORA

Free E-Books Online

There are many sources for free e-books on the internet. Here are two recommendations:

Project Gutenburg — Free access to over 40,000 public domain ebooks, including classics by Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry David Thoreau.

Internet Archive — Free ebooks, including fiction, children's literature and scholarly works.

Magazines

Search the SORA Magazine Catalog

The Atlantic

All public school teachers and students now have full access to articles, audio, and games in The Atlantic!

The catch: Access is IP-based, so it will only be accessible at school.
Cool tip: Check out the publication’s digital archive, search for a topic, and find Atlantic articles spanning from 1857 to today!

Newspapers

To activate your account:

Click the NY TIMES logo above.
Select "Create an Account"
Use your Cherry Creek email address to REGISTER
The NY Times will send you an email confirmation. Open that email to "claim access."
Please visit the library for further assistance!

To access this site:

Click the WSJ logo above. It will take you to our database passwords document.
Find "Wall Street Journal" in the list
Take note of the username and password in the middle column
Click on the link to go to the website
Click on "Sign in" in the upper right corner
Enter the username and password
Please visit the library for further assistance!

All students, faculty, and staff have free digital access to the following newspapers.
Username and Password information can be found here.

General Databases

If you don't know where to start, try these first!

A multidisciplinary collection of periodicals and digital media content.

Background information & topic overviews - provides access to encyclopedia articles, multimedia, and primary sources at a variety of reading levels.

Advanced level resources - provides access to academic journal articles, books, and primary sources.

Cross-search a collection of databases for access to academic journal articles, magazine articles, reference and background materials, statistics, multimedia, and more.

Gale in context Biography.

Government Reporter for official U.S. documents and Supreme Court cases
Issues Researcher for pro/con viewpoints on major topics
Renaissance for everything arts and humanities

What are databases and why you need them

Research: A-Z List

ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States

Statistical Abstract of the United States. This databases is the official depository of United States Census data.

A huge, high-quality, comprehensive database.

A multidisciplinary collection of periodicals and digital media content.

Government Reporter for official U.S. documents and Supreme Court cases
Issues Researcher for pro/con viewpoints on major topics
Renaissance for everything arts and humanities

ProQuest Black Freedom Struggle in the United States

Primary sources related to the challenges and triumphs in the pursuit of equality.

Scholarly journals and popular publications in science, technology, engineering, and math.

ABC-Clio - The African America Experience databas

ABC-Clio - The American Indian Experience database

ABC-Clio - The Asian American Experience database

ABC-Clio - Women's History in the US database

ABC-Clio - Daily Life Through History database

ABC-Clio - World History: Ancient and Medieval eras database

ABC-Clio - World History: Modern Era database

Thousands of maps for countries and continents of the world.

Maps and reports of all U.S. states and territories.

Comprehensive country-by-country resource for learning about geography, culture, and customs.

The world's largest and most comprehensive database of food and food culture for 174 countries.

Background information & topic overviews - provides access to encyclopedia articles, multimedia, and primary sources at a variety of reading levels.

¡Brittanica, en Espansol!

Primary source specialty database.

Provides access to electronic reference books, including literary criticism.

Advanced level resources - provides access to academic journal articles, books, and primary sources.

Provides access to electronic reference books, including critical insights on authors, their works, and themes in literature.

Citation Tools

NoodleTools is a citation management system! Use it to help organize your citations and to help format your Works Cited/Bibliography. It has great note taking and outlining features too.

For Access:

Login to my.cherrycreekschools.org
Go to the "My Library" page
Select the "NoodleTools" tile
Follow the prompts to create a new account OR login with CLEVER

OWL is an online resource about citations maintained by the Writing Lab at Purdue University. Use this website to reference rules about formatting papers and citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago Manual of Style.

Here are some quick links:

MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics (OWL, Purdue University)
MLA Sample Works Cited Page (Owl, Purdue University)
MLA8 Formatting Guide (EasyBib)

How to format a works-cited page in Google Docs

Database Passwords

Meet Our Librarians

Holly Hogarth - Teacher Librarian — **Holly Hogarth**
Teacher Librarian

Ryan Whitenack - Teacher Librarian — **Ryan Whiteneck**
Teacher Librarian

Christy Legleiter - Library Assistant — **Christy Legleiter**
Library Assistant

Cynthia Liggins - Library Assistant — **Cynthia Liggins**
Library Assistant

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