Thursday, August 27, 2015

Public Library Digital Access Cards for All Students


New Hanover County Public Library has provided Digital Access cards to each student at Ashley High School this year.  With the card you may access all of their online resources, such as databases, ebooks, movies and music.  The cards will come in handy when looking for additional resources for research and for entertainment if you want to watch a movie, download some music or read a book online. 

The other important factor about these cards is that they will give you access to Tutor.com.   Tutor.com is a 24/7 available homework help site manned by real people.  You will also have access to Learning Express which provides free practice exams for SAT, ACT and AP courses and the site also has practice tutorials for science, social studies, math and writing.

The digital access cards will go live on Tuesday September 1st.  Keep the cards in your wallet or backpack to use all year.  All resources are available online which means no fines can be accumulated for overdues.

Thursday, August 20, 2015

We Have Our Own App

The Media Center has an app you can download to access all of the resources available online. You will be able to get to the databases, ebooks, libguides and our home page for the media center.  There are also links to Ashley Readers blog and library news.  The app works on iphone and androids.  Follow the link below to get a QR code to access the app.




App Access Link

Saturday, August 15, 2015

New Website for the Media Center

We've changed the platform of our Media Center website to the Libguides format.  Hopefully you will find it beneficial.  Items that were on the old site have been transferred over but there are several new pages that we didn't have before.  Students check out the Driving Safety, Testing Information, Your Digital Footprint and Maker pages.  Teachers check out the Classroom Links and Video pages.  A Parent & Student Resources page has been added to include homework help, career and college information.


As you might remember we started subscribing to Libguides in order for our students to get familiar with the platform.  All community colleges in North Carolina and most colleges and universities are using this platform.