"To ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information. The School library media specialist empowers students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information." (AASL, 2009)

Find your next great read!

In a library that serves faculty and students ranging in ages fourteen to adult, a wide variety of materials is needed. What is interesting and appropriate for younger students may not be for older students and adults and vice versa. If you check out a book that makes you or your parents uncomfortable, please return it and choose another book.

The beauty of libraries is that they are all about choice!

Click here for more information and instructions:

https://www.smore.com/fgqd9

MRL Homepage

SAC card informational video.

Link to SAC page Use this number plus your student ID number when a login is required.

7002110_ _ _ _ _ _ _

Students can call (540-434-4475 x 122) or email the Reference Desk(reference@mrlib.org)for a Limited Access card that will be good through the end of January. This will allow you to use additional online resources. You will need to submit the following information: name, address, phone number, email, date of birth, school name and grade level.

The public library will email you the card number.

If you want a regular MRL card, you must go to any branch with a parent.

As a service to our students, faculty, staff, and community, we have created this page to help with research and with reference questions. We hope you will find these links useful.

• Ms. Weaver's research and documentation presentations and handouts
• ​Gale Databases to Google Drive Student's Tip Sheet
• Gale Databases to Google Drive Teacher's Tip Sheet
• Massanutten Regional Library Student Access Cards (MRL SAC)
• Ten Non-Partisan Fact-Checking Websites
• Video on evaluating sources from Library of Virginia
• Web vs. Library Databases - Yale University comparison
• ​Critical Evaluation of Websites (High School Level) - Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - Critical Evaluation of Information
• University of California at Berkeley Library Evaluation Guide (Downloadable .pdf version)

• Discovery Education – Database provides ten of thousands of video clips, as well as thousands of images for use in class and as part of multimedia presentations. Also includes teacher resources.(Login with Google)
• World Book Encyclopedia
• Gale Databases - Virginia Schools: Infopowering the Commonwealth through the Library of Virginia (Click on this link to go to RCPS Gale Databases access page. Click on Turner Ashby. From home, you will need a password. See a librarian for the password. You can also access Gale Databases through FindItVA.)
• FindItVA – Find It Virginia is provided through the Library of Virginia. To access the service from school or from home, you will need a public library card.

Online resources:

• Library of Congress
• Virtual Reference Desk
• Primary Source Sets
• Library of Virginia
• Internet Public Library (ipl2)

Local resources:

• Massanutten Regional Library
• Blue Ridge Community College Library
• Bridgewater College Library
• Eastern Mennonite University Sadie A. Hartzler Library
• James Madison University Libraries

• City of Harrisonburg, Virginia
• Rockingham County, Virginia
• Virginia State Government
• U.S. Congressional Information
• U.S. Supreme Court
  
• The White House

Ms. Weaver's Reading Blog - TAHS Knight Reads
Ms. Weaver's Pinterest Page - Find Teen Books
Rockingham Reads - Book blog by Rockingham County Public Schools staff and students

Goodreads

Rockingham Reads

Reading Rants! Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists!

Library Reads

Series and Sequels

A Book and a Hug

Boys Read

Nerdy Book Club

Books in the Middle

Sleepopolis

Nursery Rhymes and Bedtime Stories for Kids

National Book Award for Young People's Literature Archives
Virginia Reader's Choice
ALA/YALSA Annual Award-Winning Books and Media

• Alex Award
• Edwards Award
• Morris Award
• Odyssey Award
• Nonfiction Award
• Printz Award

​ALA/YALSA Annual Selected Book and Media Lists

• Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults
• Best Fiction for Young Adults
• Great Graphic Novels for Teens
• Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
• Teens' Top Ten
• YALSA's Best of the Best​
  
• Teen Book Finder Database

Teen Book Finder App - Find YALSA's latest award-winning books and media and selected lists wherever you are with this app, funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.